It was liberal teachers (and few aren’t) who began the wholesale brainwashing of children to literally sing the praises of Teh One, just as the prior generation sang the praises of the Nazi Party.
“It’s always about the money”
this nation is being held hostage by union thugs.
School superintendents are also liberal and National Education Association members along with many elected school board members in the 500 plus school districts we have here in Pennsylvania.
We have union member teachers in school district A getting elected as school board members in districts where they live.
Many of the teachers husbands and wives also serve on elected school boards in Pennsylvania.
The WEA (Washington Education Association) is so highly organized in my state that for the last several years they have selected a school district in which to stage a teacher strike. I do not know what criteria they use for selection, or if it is entirely at random, but the point is that it is not selected by basis of complaint or offense.
Imagine for a moment. You have some communities where their schools are in huge state of disarray (invariably urban districts) and some operating more or less normally.
On the eve of a new school-year one of those normally functioning districts suddenly and without warning announce that they are at impasse and will authorize a strike unless “X” demands (always excessive and/or outrageous) are met.
As often as not the situation degenerates into a strike situation. Union types of every sort mount a huge PR campaign eliciting emotional support for the teachers by using the kids as human shields. Eventually they settle, and the settlement typically results in a net gain for the union.
The gains achieved from the “success” of that operation are then applied in a “Well we deserve the same consideration as they got” at every other districts next negotiation time.
Nice scam, eh?!
Rush nailed it when he challenged the first caller, a conservative, to fight back against the union. It would be much better to destroy the NEA from within. Problem is the liberals in the union are very active, very vocal. Meantime, those who are not comfortable with various aspects of the union are pacifists; they have no inclination to rock the boat.
We really do not need the incredibly expensive k-12 infrastructure that has been developed in this country. With the internet available, there is no reason for any child not to have an inexpensive and excellent education available if their parents want them to have one.
The experiment with highly centralized education, where cohorts of one age are kept together for their first 12 years, is coming to an end. It is a very unusual and unnatural way to educate children. Started by the Bismarkian Germans, this system was seen as a way to mass produce labor. It will be replaced by a highly individualized web based system that depends on testing to determine competency.
Just a little reworded chant from the youth of some of these Madison lefties: "Hey, hey, ho, ho! Ho Chi Minh is gonna win!"
I bet some of them were just swooning with memories of their youth.
There is no such thing as a good education in a public school. Not anymore. It drives me crazy when I hear someone say that THEIR school is somehow different from every other public school. It isn’t. Whatever you pay in property taxes, whatever you think your input is, you are being duped. The curriculum comes from “on high” and it is the SAME failed, left-bending curriculum that every OTHER public school uses.
It isn’t about “education”, the unions aren’t about education, the academic leadership in the teacher’s colleges are not about education, and the DOE, since it’s inception (at Jimmy Carter’s insistence)has NEVER been about education. It IS about socialist dogma, separating children from their parents and their deranged values, and creating good little socialists.
"There is a ready solution for anyone on the public payroll who feels that he is not paid enough: He can resign and work for a living. This applies with equal force to Congressmen, Welfare 'clients', school teachers, generals, garbage collectors, and judges." -- Robert A. Heinlein
The real problem is hat the unions are perpetuating the hopelessly outdated Prussian educational model for their own benefit. In the age of iPads and the Internet, we no longer need hundreds of thousands of classroom teachers standing up before the empty skulls, imparting knowledge from on high like little beige demigods of Marxism.
I read in one of the posts the Democrats in WI left town to give the unions more time to lock in agreements, before the law kicked in. This could only happen if both parties negotiating wanted to dodge the new law.
Almost seems like organized crime. Wonder what they are being enticed with.
This system is also keeping the education sub-par by protecting lousy teachers.
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The majority of teachers are the same as the majority of parents: selfish animals who don’t give a damn about their children
This “home-schooling” nonsense needs to end. Most parents are not fit to home-school because they are just as stupid, demented, and evil as the leftist teachers. At the very most only about a million adults are fit for the task.
The majority of children are totally screwed and it would have been better if they were never conceived.
I have to LOL that they think they could make more in the private sector.. never happen, they have no clue about the “private sector” they have fed too long at the public trough .
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