[Leisler]

Follow the money.

Skools are the best jobs in lost of podunk towns. I don’t know if you have noticed but teachers, cops, firemen form a iron triangle and always support and vote for each others pay raise, palaces, and other interests.

Asking people to think for themselves, is in at least half the cases, impossible. So, the very idea of taking control of ones mental development is unfathomable. They grew up in the public skool box, and can not think outside of it.

Money and habit, vs. risk.

[batter]

Actually, that is a pretty good assessment. The teachers vote as a block. Most unquestioningly trust what the union tells them. I have family members who teach. They bought the union line until I asked them to just look at some of the news analysis on the arguments and look at the pro-voucher side's information (including the bill's text). After about a week they called back and both were pretty angry with the union as it became clear that the union was knowingly misleading them.

The upside, is that it appears (from their statements) that they will not be union members next year. Hopefully, this will serve as an eyeopener to other teachers as well on how the union operates.