Most teachers have very little idea where their union dues go. I know. I was once one of those. However, even if one opts to not join the union, we still have to pay about 80% of the dues. And even then one is “blacklisted.” The school unions are huge and powerful.
There’s a movement, a small one but it’s gaining support, of teachers protesting this - once they learned their union dues were primarily supporting abortion and such.
I don’t know what it’s like in most states, but in PA and NJ, it’s almost impossible to NOT join the Union.
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Hm?....Is anyone holding a gun to the heads of these teachers and ··forcing·· them to work for the government schools?
I don´t think so.
My conclusion:
If a teacher is working for the system, they are part of the system, and entirely responsible for propping up, and breathing life into the government school monster.
The kid told his mother (a very different story from what really happened), the mother complained to the principal (who promptly suspended him) and then she pressed charges with the police. At the trial, there was so little evidence against him, that the judge tossed the case out before it even went to the defense. It doesn't matter, though. My friend's 14 year teaching career is gone.
And what did the union(NEA) do for one their teachers through all this? Absolutely nothing. He became a bargaining chip in the negotiations for a new teachers' contract. The union got some concessions in their contract negotiation in exchange for tossing my friend overboard.
This is what he got in return for paying 14 years of union dues.
Here's the latest on his story.