Posted on 04/15/2006 12:22:00 PM PDT by SmithL
It's the unions. Make teachers "at will" employees like most of the rest of us and behavior will improve. Introduction of union representation brings in a burdensome system of "due process" that makes it difficult and expensive to release an undesirable employee so the employer instead creates "make work" positions for them to, at best, keep them away from problem areas. In the public sector, where the usual demands for financial performance do not exist, this is about all that ever happens. You don't often see a union represented public employee terminated for criminal conduct unless there is a conviction. Even then, the pension is usually a contractual entitlement that can not ever be taken away for any reason.
I'll vouch for that. But you know it wouldn't take very many good California conservatives moving to a smaller blue state like (ahem) Oregon to seriously upset the balance. The leftists wouldn't even know it happened till it was too late.
Just a bit of food for thought.
Way to go, Dave. Drive up real estate even more! :-)
And for thinking of this idea, I'd like the first 1000 to move into Bonny Bettman's (she's baaack) city council ward. If they really like to shop at Whole Foods so much the better. Well maybe a couple hundred out here on the west side to make sure Jennifer Solomon gets reelected.
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