[gogeo]

Looked at your entire post and said...true, all of it. Why?

Because schooling is an entitlement.

Those not interested in getting with the program should be booted.

Where do you suppose this entitlement status came from?

Your union, among others.

So, don't b!tch about the state of schools today unless you're willing to b!tch about the role your union played in making it so.

This is just reason #142 why public schools are failures, and will get worse.

[ExSoldier]

I quit the union in protest several years ago. Gave myself an instant $400+ raise. But I was forced to rejoin recently out of a sense of self preservation from a system where liberal principals frequently take conservative teachers under fire in a wide variety of administrative sanctions solely for their political views. I have been victimized several times over the past 20 years. That's okay, even though I can prove it and could do so in court should I care to spend the money doing so. It's not worth it.

The union really hates me, too. But they must protect me and I make them do so. The Republican presence in the Miami Dade County School system is fairly large, perhaps 30% of the 24,000 overall employee numbers. So much so that years ago, a Republican coalition was formed to go and lobby legislators in Tallahassee on educational issues. It was very effective too. Until this bill came up. Then it was rushed through, much like Health Care was rammed down our throats in DC, before anybody could react.