“This is the real problem. I’m not fond of unions, but they are the one thing that keeps society from just blaming the teachers and keeping up a revolving door of college kids coming in, teaching for 3 years, getting scapegoated, fired, and replaced with newer, even cheaper 22 year olds. Without unions, that’s what you’ll get, because it’s the easiest path. Parents won’t take responsibility. Administrators won’t. Teachers are the easiest target. We’re the soldiers on the frontlines, the most expendable. Cannon fodder.”
The problem is 22 year old’s teaching period, they haven’t even grown up themselves. And let me say heaven forbid that a government employee have to work in the same environment as private employee’s where you actually do get your arse fired for poor performance or simply get laid off when the economy goes south. Under no circumstance should any city, state, or federal employee’s be allowed to unionize. When these unions go to the bargaining table the one person not represented at that table is the person actually footing the bill. In the private sector the owner has a major seat at that table. FDR knew this and is the reason he despised government unions.
Yeah, I know. But here's the problem with comparing education to the private sector: if you run a business, you have choices. If you have a vendor that sells you rotten produce or defective parts, you can stop dealing with that vendor. But with education, the "produce" is children, and we cannot refuse them no matter how damaged, rotten, or defective they may be. (And let me tell you, crackheads and meth moms produce some pretty damaged offspring.)
So imagine running a business where you have to use whatever materials you are sent, no matter what. Now imagine that if your workers cannot magically restore rotten fruit or fix melted electrical parts, you fire them. Okay, go ahead, but it won't matter who you hire, the problem is the material.