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10 Reasons Public School Teachers and Unions are Failing Children and Bankrupting America
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | Megan Fox

Posted on 03/15/2011 3:57:30 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien

Corruption, greed, incompetence, bureaucratic bungling: Those are the things most likely to be found when the charade of public union outrage is peeled back to reveal the inner workings of collective bargaining. There is no doubt America is engaged in an ideological battle. On one side are the public sector unions and “workers” demanding the taxpayers cough up more to fund their fat paychecks and bloated pensions. On the other side are the majority of Americans who work in the private sector, fund their own retirements and health care, and have no entitlement programs they haven’t designed themselves. The public sector is asking for more blood while the private sector is beaten unconscious and bleeding from every major artery.

The newly elected Republican guard is trying to stop the bleeding, starting with the mess that is the public union. The howling has only just begun (see Wisconsin and Ohio). The Left has used unions and “workers’ rights” throughout history to weave their socialist ideals into the fabric of society. They use words and ideas that sound good in theory like “all children have the right to education! All workers have the right to a fair wage! A chicken on every table! A rice cooker on every counter!” They use these mantras to make anyone who doesn’t think leftist ideas actually help people feel ashamed of themselves. But when you get down to the practical application of their ideas, you find the nice words are covering up a festering, rotting corpse of horror.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the public school system where we are facing record malfeasance and mismanagement of public trust.

10. Grace Currin

No list about government waste would be complete without a visit to one of the best… of the worst in public education...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: wisconsinshowdown

1 posted on 03/15/2011 3:57:35 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
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their goal is tenure,pay, benefits and retirement not teaching.


2 posted on 03/15/2011 4:33:30 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: Michael van der Galien

...Public schools = Government schools

and that’s why home schooling and private schooling is growing in this country.


3 posted on 03/15/2011 4:38:10 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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their goal is tenure,pay, benefits and retirement not teaching.


4 posted on 03/15/2011 4:40:35 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: Michael van der Galien

I’m only halfway through the article and my blood is boiling.


5 posted on 03/15/2011 4:52:55 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (WI Pubs 1 : Fleebaggers ZERO!)
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To: Michael van der Galien
I couldn't get through all ten teacher examples ,disturbing . The unions have negotiated a system that borders on criminal (imo)

Governor Walker understands what is at stake. Interesting how the media is not covering these stories.

6 posted on 03/15/2011 5:11:41 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Michael van der Galien; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; ...
This article is good but it is spread across many pages, I found the print version puts it all in one page.
10 Reasons Public School Teachers and Unions are Failing Children and Bankrupting America(print version)

This gives the examples you wont see on the MSNBC pro-public worker rally shows.

7 posted on 03/15/2011 5:12:19 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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Unions=Corruption

Pray for America


8 posted on 03/15/2011 5:27:06 AM PDT by bray (Hey Country Club, hold your noses this election.)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Bfl.


9 posted on 03/15/2011 5:31:18 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: Michael van der Galien

Greed and mind numbing stupidity.


10 posted on 03/15/2011 6:25:16 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Let the public schools sink of their own weight. Shouldn't be too much longer.

You know, for DECADES now, parents have been going to their kids' teachers and begging them -- "Just teach my kid to read and write and do math..."

But of course the experts know best. "Let's introduce the homosexual agenda into the classroom for kindergartners!!!!"

And then teachers wonder why their schools are sinking like rocks.

The sooner the better -- let 'em die and either homeschool the kids or set up a charter school.

11 posted on 03/15/2011 9:28:13 AM PDT by Jerrybob
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