I personally don’t blame the teachers themselves. I’ve known many who try to buck the system.
The real fault, as it always is, lies with the local pols, especially Democrats, who roll over for the unions, to save their own butts.
Several hundred teachers, voting as a block, can mean a HUGE shift in a local election, and even for state house elections, especially primaries.
And a wanna-be career politician is going to be very wary of getting on their wrong side. so, you buy them off, keep’em happy, and move on to the next level. leaving the problems you created for someone else’s headache.
I tend to agree with you. Some of them are trying and the rest are products of the same system they're in charge of now.
“I personally don’t blame the teachers themselves.”
Well, I do. Only a major character flaw would permit someone to believe they’re entitled to be highly compensated for worse-than-inferior work.
I guess it’s a chicken/egg kind of thing — unions/politicians. Whichever came “first”, they’re both screwing the taxpayers.