” although it may initially have done good things like getting teachers’ pay raised and long hours shortened and retirement benefits increased “
Something the Japanese teachers’ union ( and I use the term union very loosely ) has not done ...plus teachers are not held accountable over here either . I know because I work with some of the most incompetent English teachers in the world at JHS .
Leftism is simply a war on choice, and thus a war on quality.When they prattle about "quality health care," they are simply deflecting you from the obvious fact that governmentizing health care (or anything else) is all about demanding that it be cheap. Not economical, which would imply good value for the price, but cheap.
Nothing could be more inevitable than that quality goes down without competition for a reputation for quality. We don't need teacher-union health care, we need free-market education instead.
I guess that Pat doesn't know that the US is one of the few nations that tests ALL students. Other countries only test students who are tracked for higher education. No wonder US scores fare poorly against other nations.
Does Pat know that, in Texas, at least, we're educating ALL students as thought they are college material? There's nothing in our public schools for kids who aren't college material. Schools used to supply coursework for alternative careers. No more.
There's a whole lot Pat and the public don't realize.
I do not and never have belonged to a teacher's union. I wouldn't join NEA if they gave me free membership.
How many years did Pat spend in the Army?