A profession competes in the marketplace for business. The NEA members are overpaid government employees who would be shown the door if true parents had an affective choice in educating their children. Protected monopolies is the only creation of bureaucratic liberal government. Certification is an euphemism for brained washed fidelity screening. Loyalty to an education system who's goal is to produce docile dependent illiterates, is the test that all government teachers must pass before they are given the keys to the classroom.
Respect is gained when it is earned.
When reform becomes the prime mover and replaces retirement benefits and vacation schedulers, the NEA will start to crawl out of the hole where it now resides. Education and learning is a fundamental pursuit. The survival of a society is dependent upon the transfer of its culture to the next generation. When that role is abdicated, by the very government that we parents entrust with the tutelage of our most precious children, it becomes intolerable. But when that deception is by design, it becomes treasonous.