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Doesn't The Wagner Act of 1935, modified by Taft Hartley make allowing the unions the default position? I realize that the Right to Work provisions of Taft Hartley allow states (most recently Scott Walker's Wisconsin), to opt out of MANDATORY union membership. That does not mean that the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers and similar administrators' unions do not have plenty of Marxist members who join voluntarily. Part of the ongoing revolution, don'tcha know! Preparing the next generation of Marxist robots who will become the voters who serve the US up to its enemies on a silver platter.

Sure, there are a relative handful of informed and patriotic teachers slaving against all odds to actually deliver an education to their students. FR's own Verga is one of them. They better not tell their union bosses that they are patriotic, however, or that they dare make a stab at competence. John Dewey and Horace Mann would roll over in their graves if ANY gummint skewel teacher tried such "professional" heresy and treason against the union bosses and ideologues.

Religion and prayer and any positive mention of God is banned (unless god is Allah). Actual Judaeo-Christian morality? Likewise.

I used to live in suburban Connecticut until we moved to very rural northwest Illinois. Not that we would normally touch the stuff (one year of eldest daughter when she was to far along as a homeschooler to be in an available and acceptable private school. She whined until we let her have one year of gummint skewel to teach her and (through her) her younger siblings just what horrors they were missing. She then did two years of community college in Texas and then private universities. By the time she went to P.S. 666 for that one year, her morals had long been formed and the basic matrix of her actual education completed so that she was able to successfully disagree in class weith her teachers, prove her case, and win.

Stop trying to lay the manifest failures of gummint misedjamakashun on the parents. Their only serious crime (if they are normal middle class parents who love their kids and their country and their faith) is turning junior over to the educrats and modern day Comprachecos who distort not the kids' bodies but their minds and their souls.

Gummint skewel teachers and administrators demand and get obscene compensation, perks, pensions and what not despite the obvious degeneracy of what passes for education in their gulags. If that's not true in your town or school system, it is in most. Not to speak of ideological and factual distortion and propagandizing the kiddies.

You will also note that I mentioned that parochial schools are now being infiltrated by failed public school union teachers introducing guaranteed academic failure via Common Bore and its lies. In our time, if you want anything to go right, you must learn to do it yourself and muster the commitment to do so.

If you think the evil is limited to big liberal cities or New Jersey, go, as I did forty years ago to an NEA national convention and an AFT convention and browse the exhibit halls to see what sort of evils those unions have in store NATIONALLY.