Teachers Need a Real Apology From Secretary of Education

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There is the non-denial denial, in which someone's denial, on close inspection, turns out not to be a denial at all. "There is no sexual relationship" might have been true, but the nation wanted to know if there had been a sexual relationship.

Now, after describing the National Education Association as "a terrorist organization," Secretary of Education Rod Paige has issued a non-apology apology.

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Teachers Need a Real Apology From Secretary of Education

To have thus branded NEA - the nation's largest teachers union - was "a bad joke," Paige said later. It was "an inappropriate choice of words," Paige said. He should have chosen his words better, Paige said. What he was really describing were the "scare tactics" ...

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