COVID-19 Has Exposed Teachers' Unions as the Shakedown Artists They Really Are

PJ Media ^ | 01/29/2021 | Stephen Kruiser

[SeekAndFind]

Teachers’ Unions Are a Criminal Racket

Maybe that’s a little harsh. Actually, when you consider that I usually refer to the National Education Association as “the most evil labor organization on Earth” the &#

I’ve long been uneasy about heaping blanket praise on any given profession. I’ve met too many members of our species, and conferring blanket sainthood on any group is just not a bright idea. Nobody gets a pass from me. Or from my good friend and colleague Kira Davis.

If public-sector unions are a cancer eating away at America, the teachers’ unions are stage 4. Yet they’ve been elevated to demigod status as part of an enduring leftist false narrative. You know the story: public school teachers take time away from working on ending third-world hunger to help mold your precious baby’s mind so he or she can be successful. They do this, according to the myth, for little thanks and almost no pay while laboring under the burden of their massive halos.

My God, why don’t we appreciate these saints in our midst?!?!?!?

Probably because so many of them are awful people.

Let’s get something out of the way here: public sector teachers’ unions don’t give a tinker’s damn about your kids. Never have. Never will.

You may think I’m engaging in a double standard here. After all, if I don’t believe in blanket praise, shouldn’t I also avoid blanket condemnation? Yes, I probably should. I’m not talking about all teachers here, though, just the union flacks.

They’re evil.

The COVID-19 pandemic has really laid bare a lot of our frailties and flaws as a country. We are all aware that it has not been pretty. It has, however, done this nation a huge service, as it exposed public school teachers’ unions for the frauds they are.

[rktman]

DEFUND TEACHERS UNIONS!!!

[1Old Pro]

For 30 years we have accomplished little in the way of education reform-that is disappointing. I would have thought that Red states might be able to legislate some reforms and get some influencers in the state school boards association.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I wonder what their positions would be if they weren’t getting paid?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Get to work, or your health insurance will be switched from the gold-plated Union plan to Obamacare.

Game, set, and match.

[DugwayDuke]

I’m always fascinated at the claim we should pay teachers more in order to get better teachers.

I like to ask, ‘Well, suppose we do raise their wages, what are you going to do with the teachers you have now?’. I continue, ‘if you’re dissatisfied with the quality of the current teachers, once you get better performing teachers by paying them more, shouldn’t you fire the poor performing teachers you have now?’

The usual response is ‘Well, the ones you have now will work harder and perform better if you pay them more.” To which I respond ‘Why would you want to keep them if you really think they’re not doing the best job they can now?’

[Track9]

And all those stupid ‘thank you’ hearts for full benefit full salary guaranteed job hacks while the private sector is villainized for needing to pay their mortgages.

[_longranger81]

It has seemed to me for the longest time that whenever you get two or more teachers together in a social situation, they end up in the most exhaustive exposition of their benefits packages, its pros and cons, and the various scenarios of exactly how much they will get to the penny if they retire then vs. now, but they would lose these days of sick time, and then the vacation they can or can’t carry over, but Sally who works in the other department gets THIS, and it’s just SO UNFAIR, and people just don’t value their kids’ education...

So I go in the corner and puke.