> Bottom line, the unions have poisoned the pot <
Let me add a bit more perspective. Again, I know nothing about how the universities operate.
But in the public schools, the unions have absolutely nothing to do with what is being taught there. Trust me on this. When courses of study are drawn up, union input is neither requested nor accepted.
As I noted earlier, in the old days teacher committees would pick curricula. No union officials would be on those committees. Now everything is chosen by idiotic “educational consultants” hired by the school board. Again, no union officials are involved.
I have plenty of beefs with teacher unions. But they are not to blame for the junk that is being taught today.
Now a bit of a side story.
I primarily taught physics. Well, torque is a central topic in physics. But I was not to teach anything about torque! Torque - for some reason - was not in the physics curriculum chosen for us by the “experts”. I taught torque lessons anyway...just when observers were not in the room.
Crazy, huh?
That’s interesting re: torque
it’s almost as though they don’t want the kids to understand how machines work.
They are involved, but it is a circuitous route. The good news is that physics is harder to poison than say history or economics.
It depends on where you are, not ever state teacher’s union is the same. Some toe the complete radical education line others less so. Either way they know one depends on the other. They have a political marriage of convenience together they both get money & power. Split apart they know they would be much less successful.
It depends on where you are, not ever state teacher’s union is the same. Some toe the complete radical education line others less so. Either way they know one depends on the other. They have a political marriage of convenience together they both get money & power. Split apart they know they would be much less successful.
IIRC most textbooks are chosen in some organization down in TX and they allow every special interest group to participate and that tilts it leftist. Kinda like membership stats of the UN
It depends on where you are, not ever state teacher’s union is the same. Some toe the complete radical education line others less so. Either way they know one depends on the other. They have a political marriage of convenience together they both get money & power. Split apart they know they would be much less successful.