Posted on 07/14/2009 7:13:59 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
During its late conference held during the Independence Day holiday weekend, the National Education Association took up a series of new resolutions that targeted charter schools. The union was looking for ways to reign in the success of charter schools to make their own woeful attempts at education in the public schools look better. The union was also looking for ways to cash in on charter school's success as well as for a way to get more union oversight into them.
But, here is the thing: when they work, charter schools work because they have less union meddling involved in their operations.
In their adopted resolutions, the NEA paid lip service to the "potential" reforms and "creative teaching methods" that can more easily be adopted at charter schools. Yet the following resolutions seemed determined to undermine and eliminate the very freedom and flexibility it paid lip service to at the outset. One is struck by the logical disconnect. Why, exactly, do the unions imagine that the freedom realized at charter schools lends itself to that innovation in the first place? Conversely, why is innovation not seen in public schools?
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Ah yes, teachers:
Ill, or pseudo, educated trade union members.
The UAW of the academic crowd.
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