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This is just another "accuse the accuser" and "follow the money" situation. It's all about teachers unions and their fear that Bush will try to nullify their influence on education.

In my opinion, Teachers' Unions...or most unions for that matter - foster mediocrity.

Yes, I said mediocrity. I have witnessed the union mentality too often, same pay for everyone, even though the "80/20 rule of probability" kicks in...with 20% doing the actual work, and the other 80% reaping the benefits.

Now, originally unions were useful, back in the days of sweat shops, etc. But, today we have more than enough Federal agencies and laws to protect most workers.

Wondering why most of our manufacturing has moved off shore? Well, unions had a lot to do with it. Insisting a factory pays someone $35 an hour to screw a lugnut on a wheel, when some little guy in China will do the same for $3 a day is why. Of course taxes and overburdening regulations have some effect on it too, but the Unions do their part in soaking employers for all they're worth too.

Any business person knows that "labor" is their biggest expense, but there is something intrinsically wrong when it is cheaper to build a factory in a foreign country, hire the labor, ship in the raw materials, and then ship the product back to America (and still sell it cheaper) rather than making it right here at home.

If there aren't, there should be some panels in place to study and analyze this phenomenon and do something to reverse before Atlas Shrugs, and America collapese financially.

I think teaching should be one of the best paid professions on the planet, but NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR CHILDREN. It was better for the children when the teachers were not paid so well....why, BECAUSE THEY WERE IN IT FOR THE LOVE OF TEACHING...not for tenure, not for prestige...but for the kids.

I think teaching should be one of the best paid professions on the planet

I agree with you on that.

I think you make other valid points as well, especially this downside of unions: same pay for everyone,

In FL there will now be a "career ladder" beginning in August 2004 under a new state law. But, here, the unions are against it. I am very much for it.