Taking a bold political stand, the state teachers' union last week declared the fund off-limits to Wal-Mart purchases. [snip]
In a newsletter distributed to teachers, association President Charles Hasse cited Wal-Mart's "exploitative labor practices (that) have added to public assistance burdens in our state and across the nation." [snip]
These people are so myopic and naive, it's really hard to believe they were sharp enough to obtain a degree. Who do they think this is going to hurt anyway. In an ill concieved effort to hurt the company, they will, if anything, end up hurting the people they are trying to "protect". For the sake of our kids education, I hope none of them is teaching economics.
Teachers are too spoiled today.
In my day we'd march to the bin and grab a piece of coal. Then the teacher would take us to the sidewalk to write up the math lesson. After we were done we'd wait for rain to clean the sidewalk off so we could do the next lesson.
In winter we'd use our fingers and write our lessons on the frosted glass.
I guess my question would be whether the stuff is from China.
OK, so here's the caper: one parent forms a little "group purchase" business and buys ALL the kids stuff at a discount, probably from WalMart, and then turns in a receipt with HER/HIS business name on it and gets reimbursed. Case closed and the Teachers Union is too D*** dumb to even grasp the role of "Free Enterprise!" in the equation! Go for it parents!
Well, that's the end of any contributions by rational people to this "fund."
If the local teachers union or school board tried a stunt like this I think they'd have a really negative reaction.
Wankers.
Why does a teachers union have any authority over purchasing school materials with government tax dollars?
If I were on the school board I'd require that the teachers buy items from the lower priced store, and fire teachers that refused to do so.
Tax dollars for schools should be diverted to push for a union's goals.
Education degrees are generally recognized as the easiest of all degrees to obtain. Teacher colleges are not really about training people how to teach but about indoctrinating the would be teachers into educational theories that promote collectivism and "feel-goodism".
Richard Mitchell talking about what teacher colleges do to their students:
Incipient schoolteachers --I have known hundreds of them--are generally decent young people of average intelligence. Some are stupid, of course, and some rarer few are brilliant. Almost all of them seem a bit more than ordinarily ethical, and I can't believe that any one of them ever decided to be a teacher for the sake of doing harm. Furthermore, the task of teaching a mind to work well is not a particularly difficult one. Teachers do not have to be brilliant, although they probably shouldn't be stupid. In short, almost all of those who seek to be teachers are quite capable of being good teachers, but something happens to them on the way to the classroom. They fall into bad company. -- The Graves Of Academe
Cross Lucy Ricardo and Karl Marx and you have a pretty good model of many a teacher -- daft and doctrinaire.
Does this mean they're going to quit paying union dues because of the union's indifference to student education and adding to "public assistance burdens in our state and across the nation?"