Posted on 03/07/2013 10:19:49 AM PST by george76
New Jersey’s governor has branded them “political thugs.”
A former federal education official has likened them to terrorists.
Less vilified in Kansas than some other parts of the country, those teachers unions still find their clout under attack in the Legislature.
The battle over teachers unions has marched its way across the country. Ohio. Michigan. Wisconsin. Idaho. And now it’s in Kansas, greeted by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his conservative allies in the Legislature.
Lawmakers are moving to undercut the tenuous power of teachers unions by barring them from using voluntary paycheck deductions for politics.
And they’re going after teachers’ ability to bargain collectively on key issues — hoping to give cash-strapped school districts new flexibility and leverage in contract talks.
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Defund the “public school”.
The “public school” is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
It is hypocritical to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And children dislike hypocrites.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
To understand the content and compass of modern education, see ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54400125/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
>>Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby also has studied how teacher unions affect education. While there is evidence that teacher unions have a “pretty big positive” impact on how much is spent on public schools, there is either no impact or a negative impact on student performance, she said.
In other words, they unnecessarily drive up costs without providing any benefit to the students.
Government employee unions should be outlawed.
I agree!
Tenuous? Good grief.
I'm guessing the Kansas City Star is written, edited, printed, and distributed by loyal Union members.
The Only Reason why School districts like USD 500 aren't 200% Vilified by the National Opponents to the Government Education System is because KCMO Schools are right next door and are even worse.
The KNEA has been ruining public education since the 50s. One of their favorite governors was Kathline Sibileus. What does that tell you?
Governor Brownback is hated by the RATS here. The papers (all RAT-controlled) are full of hateful editorials by editors and lefty poly-sci professors.
It’s called the “Red Star”.
Sibilues was the worst thing ever to happen to Kansas since the War with Missouri in the 1850's.
KNEA has a habit of sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong.
Every few semesters some new KNEA Gobbledygook would come down the pike and screw even our most minor School plans up.
Teacher unions and other public unions must be terminated, throughout USA. This perversion of government on government should never have been.
Thanks george76.
"Tenuous power"? Teachers unions are as entrenched as it gets. What are these idiots at the Red Star smoking?
While I detest unions, in the private sector the employees can give it a shot.
If any private company decides they don't want to deal with them anymore, they can simply close down.
Businesses open and close every day.
OTOH, we citizens have no recourse against government unions/employees negotiating with each other and against us, as owners/taxpayers.
Well we have the one final solution, but it seems there would be less blood shed if a simple executive order made the nightmare begun by another executive order, simply corrected the error of institutionalizing corruption in government.
The right to free association implies the right to collective bargaining. What should be done beyond implementing right to work laws nationally is to amend the NRLA to remove he exemption from antitrust law unions currently abuse. Don't like their deal, choose another.
Let’sput it another way. Teacher union leaders are more interested in getting money for the public schools than for getting more money for teachers. Furthermore, the NEA especially is not democratically governed. Like many another union, it draws all power into the head and cultivates group think.
Not for government employees.
You have no clue how the market I'm talking about would work. These would be personnel services companies, forced by competition to market the best people possible and make the most of every one. It also satisfies that annoying unalienable right called "free association" and another equally annoying constitutional right called "equal protection." If you can't deal with either, then you don't belong here.
It is MONOPOLY power that makes unions so bad. Were they forced to compete in a free enterprise labor market, they would be totally different.
Ping!
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