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Show 102 while teachers ought to have the right to hold and express political views, they should organi not be put in the position of having an zational party-line to follow. The News believes blanket endorsements with academic not are compatible paper believes that such public. Jack Olson of the Utah reacted against public" continue to the UEA boasting some time become actively He believes further that the UEA will of its involvement because it is very much like organizations must boast in order to keep 72 In 1951, when J. agingly movement. does not want to be "controlledll by the policies. labor union, and labor members. has also policies of the teacher teachers of the state and will at opposed The may alienate teachers from the Taxpayers Association the endorsement He claims that lithe school policies freedom.71 political Bracken Lee of teacher involvement in was Governor, he spoke dispar pol itics. In a radio address, he said: We have some strange paradoxes in the state today. Last fall during the general election, the slogan used to pro mote a constitutional amendment was that Iwe must take the politics out of education.' The amendment was over whelmingly approved. Today the most powerful political lobby on Capital Hill is organized education. The people, through the democratic process, succeeded in taking politics out of education but they did not succeed in taking education out of politics. It would appear to me that if the intent of the constitutional amendment was to take politics out of it should apply in reverse. It should, but it has not. educatio3 7lllTeachers 7201son 73This in Politics," Deseret News, 26 tay 1976, p. A-5. interview. statement concerning policies in education was a |
