The NEA has recommended reading for members posted on its web site.  NEA Recommended Reading

Several books by Saul Alinsky are on the list.  The methods of Saul Alinsky were important to the rise of the NEA as a powerful labor union and were used in the training of NEA leaders.  As stated on the site:

“NEA recommends the following Saul Alinsky books to those members of our Association who are involved in grassroots organizing, especially Association Representatives (ARs) — also known as building reps or shop stewards — and leaders at local affiliates.

Saul Alinsky is widely recognized as the father of, and pre-imminent expert in, grassroots organizing, which is why we recommend that ARs and local leaders become familiar with his theories & materials.”

As a Christian, do you approve of the tactics recommended for NEA leadership?  Would you teach them to your students?

Excerpts from the book:

• "Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. ... Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.” 
  
• "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
• "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

Click the following link to see other rules of engagement offered in this recommended reading.
 Excerpts from Rules for Radicals

This reading is contradictory to character education training as taught throughout America’s schools