LOL...I did not say the union is always right, nor do I know how you concluded that! I was very much a supporter of merit pay until I taught in a classroom where 20% were there illegally because the district admnistrators didn't even know their own school board policy or state law, and did nothing about complying with it. How does a hard working qualified teacher compete on a level playing field when she is teaching a class consisting of students who are not supposed to be there by law? She has to have two spearte classes. And be at least two teachers. Some teachers will leave teaching in those circumstances. It's like being an eye doctor and then being told you will also be doing major surgery each day, because no one at the hospital thought to hire a surgeon.
spearte = separate