My translation:
Wishing those 9, and their Legal Team success.
Unions are the Company Store of Education: buy our overpriced crap or else.
I’ve heard it is more dire there than in any of the other 49 states. Basically, standards are non-existent and if you have a working pulse, you can teach in Cali.
I taught fourth and fifth grade in California for one year at an elementary school next to the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Mendocino County. One of my students, Cody, couldn’t read, so I asked him to stay after school in order to make him literate. About 4:15 p.m., the union guy walks into my room.
“What are you doing here?” he asks. “The contract says you get off at four.”
“I’m teaching Cody to read.”
The union guy stares at me for a second, and repeats, “The contract says you leave at four.”
I was in my third year as a teacher, so I guess I looked a little shocked, and I stammered out, “But he needs to learn how to read.”
The union guy said, “Don’t cause trouble around here.” He turned and walked out the door.
That was one of many reasons I left the place. The union doesn’t represent me. Given a choice, I’d do away with tenure in a cold minute, and I agree with Friedman that we need vouchers. I’d do well, and the slackers would return to delivering pizzas.
They also need to go after incompetent administration who tell the teachers how to teach, what to teach, etc.
“You can find similar articles about New York, in fact, anywhere unions rule.”
I know this is sarcastic, but just where to you find a place in this country where the “education system” isn’t run by a RAT Teacher’s Union?
When one of our children was singled out for outrageous abuse because the we had some differences with her, the best that we could do (at the suggestion of the principal) was to take a pair of scissors and cut out everything this cretin had written in our son’s permanent record. It took the principal two more years to get rid of this teacher, and “getting rid of” consisted of getting her transferred to another school.
There's a problem right there!
Those are not teachers RIGHTS; but mere a PRIVLEDGE the law has given them.
Unions are blunt objects in a refined world. # ‘em.
I have plenty against government teachers!
They willingly train for, seek work in, support, and establish a government single-payer and socialist-entitlement INDOCTRINATION system that HURTS CHILDREN!
They **willingly*** seek work in an institution :
1) That teaches children to think and reason godlessly. The children must just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise.
2) That puts children at risk of learning to be comfortable with single-payer socialism. Gee! If the voting mob can hand out tuition-free schooling why not use the voting mob to get **lots** of “free” stuff? Is a “duh” needed here.
3) That forces citizens ( under the threat of armed police, court, and prison action) to pay for a non-neutral political, cultural, and religious indoctrination of children.
4) That treats children in many way like prisoners of the government and teaches them to be comfortable with government suppression of their , their parents, and the taxpayers’ First Amendment human rights and freedom of conscience.
Personally, I have made a decision. I will NOT have a government teacher for a friend. They are too evil, too stupid, or too much of a Useful Idiot to be a friend. I don't have abortion workers for friends either.
Another Reason to Homeschool.