NYT On NEA

The NYT ed board takes the NEA to the woodshed over the recent lawsuit:

The teachers’ union tipped its hand when it argued in the lawsuit that its members were being stigmatized when the schools where they worked were found to be performing poorly under federal law. Why does it put so much emphasis on the teachers? What about the children whose lives are cast into permanent shadow when they have to attend dismal, nonperforming schools?