We have teachers in our family. I understand the situation well. They have a hard line to tow at times. I understand what you are saying about the unions but there are some real problems with some of the leadership in the higher ranks right now (I have identified more than just a few protesters / activists that are union leaders doing research who were former university students; this is something I stumbled across that I thought was nothing then found out there was not just a spark but a fire started). Maybe if they’ll clean that up and some of the associations that have contributed to getting the students to turn protesters to march at their schools on this anti-Trump stuff. IMO unions getting students to protest a president’s election using the professors or even suggesting it should fall outside the scope of their job duties. I can understand if they told their employees to strike but we’re talking students here who are not under their authority. I think they have clearly overstepped their boundaries.
Oh, definitely. But it's really quite rare. Even here in Los Angeles, the Belly of the Beast, most teachers do not want this kind of disruption, because it makes the kids all hyper and hard to deal with for days afterward. Even our liberal Hispanic administration was doing everything they could to keep our students from going out there demonstrating and getting into traffic.