Next, we must undo laws that grant a teaching monopoly to unions and government schools. This will include: vouchers, eliminating certification for teaching (this will partially be achieved through home schooling support and the automation of so many learning programs - foreign languages, spelling, rote mathematics, etc.), creating educational choice, etc. This is the trickiest part.
The unions and teachers have a death grip on legislatures and school boards. Contracts are long term and built to cause maximum pain to busy parents, i.e. they are set up to expire right as school starts over the summer so that when school starts so do the strikes.
The libs have created a tangled web to reinforce their beliefs and control. We need to untagle it carefully.
The unions and the classroom bureaucrats (teachers) are one and the same. Too few people understand that. And you’re right they have a death grip on the political hacks.
They turn out in mass to vote out anyone who tries to fix the schools and they use their position in the classroom to spread the union’s socialist line.
A few years ago a friend of mine pulled his kids out of government schools after his son’s classroom bureaucrat told the kids that people against a school tax increase were trying to ruin the schools and ruin the quality of education in town.
When he told me, I just laughed and asked, “what did you expect when you dumped your kids in a socialist school?”