“The ultimate irony of the [National Education Association’s] boycott against Wal-Mart is that the union is asking parents to exercise a choice in their back-to-school shopping. Choice, however, is the one thing the union opposes most when it comes to education policy and the teaching profession. The teachers union aggressively opposes measures and policies that give parents more choices in the education marketplace, such as school vouchers, tuition tax credits, charter schools, and home education. The NEA even criticizes the Walton family, the founders of Wal-Mart, for contributing to ‘anti-public education efforts like private school voucher initiatives and anti-public educations PACs’” — Michael Reitz, director of the Labor Policy Center for the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, writing in the Boston Globe