The author takes aim at the easiest target in education, the teachers union.
But the union has nothing to do with how the core subjects are being watered down. And it has nothing to do with the appalling lack of discipline in the classrooms. The guilty folks here are the school boards. They alone set policy.
Does a teachers union deserve any criticism? Yes, in a way because they will often protect poor teachers. But that’s their job, just as it’s a defense lawyer’s job to protect sketchy clients.
You need to educate yourself. Teachers unions heavily influence school board elections, especially the head of school boards, most of whom have union backgrounds.
It is voter apathy that allows this.
The system to pit school board against union should work, but it has become a symbiotic relationship that drains taxpayers and fosters an agenda.
This. Exactly. Of course there are some bad teachers, and some that do nothing but teach CRT. The Union absolutely protects bad teachers, and definitely endorses Democrat politicians.
But there are a lot of teachers who care very much for their students and want them to lean.
Federal involvement by the Holder JustUS Department in discipline since Obama has seriously undermined the ability of all students to learn. Special Ed law protecting behavior problem students has also undermined the ability to discipline students. Now we have “Peace Circles” and no consequences because there were too many black students being disciplined. Of course they actually did the things they were to be disciplined for, buy obviously disciplining black students is rayciss.
When you leave the predators, gang members, and disruptive in classes, teachers have to spend most of their time trying to maintain order in their class rather than teach.
Those that are disruptive, and the predator gang members ruin the educational environment and intimidate other students who want to learn. No one wants to be singled out, or acting white. If you put a teaspoon of sewage in a barrel of wine, you have a barrel of sewage. Without the ability to discipline, and remove highly disruptive students, you poison the learning of all.
Administrators love to blame teachers for the students not learning, but to make one group responsible for the bad choices of others changes nothing. A student calls you a “fat bald a$$ Mo**** Fu****”, and is sent to the Dean or Principal. Ten minutes later they are back in class after being talked with. Three Kids come into a classroom not their own and drag another student out of his desk and pound the snot out of him hitting him with a chromebook in the hear and they hold a Peace Circle with the 4 boys. Discipline is gone and the schools are out of control.
Administrators also punish teachers who try to hold kids accountable for their attendance, work production and grades. Administrators will poorly evaluate teachers with too many failing students (which the students earned by not working or attending), and the teacher will be gotten rid of.
The only thing I can see that will work, after being in education for over 32 years is to remove the disruptive and those that do not want to learn. Put them in training programs, train them in trade or put them in jail. Get them out so that the students that actually want to learn can succeed. Of course that will never work, because surely it is too white a solution and is rayciss.
“The guilty folks here are the school boards.”
The root cause of the problem is the parents.
“But the (teachers) union has nothing to do with how the core subjects are being watered down.”
Are you smoking something?