Sorry, not buying the Shanker rehab article... wasn’t he the guy that said words to the effect of “when it is the children who start paying dues to the union, I will start representing their interests” ?
You can't get more honest than that statement.
I have met Shanker. You are mistaken about him. Like so many Jewish teachers of his time he had an almost rabbinical sense of mission and appreciation of the intellectual life. Which is one reason reason why he clashed with black parents, who cared only that their teachers have black faces.