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The EIN sure cannot stand for Einstein...that's clear. And manners have nothing to do with your life either...that's also clear. Since you are dumb and rude, let me explain (and I will type slowly so even you can follow). The awful teacher's unions have fought tooth and nail over the past 40 years so that dreadful, idiotic, unprepared teachers could not be fired; they have also fought against any kind of testing that would qualify teachers; thy fought against charter schools; in fact, they have fought against anything that would improve education for students. The only thing these horrible people did (the unions, not the teachers) was fight for themselves. Period. There...did that enter your skull?

You're welcome.

I think you've been indulging in a bit too much of your own product, Pharm. You obviously have a bad case of "on the outside looking in". You don't know what you're talking about, and it's only a shame that you parade this ignorance in public.

It is not true that teachers cannot be fired; unions simply ensure that they have a right to due process.

There is NO evidence that charter schools get better results than public schools. It is also true that charter schools quietly toss students who are lowering the school's stats out the back door, back to public school.

Teachers have to undergo rigorous tests in order to qualify in their specialty, Mr. Know-it-all. Those tests are rather challenging. I borrowed a friend's Kaplan prep books for the Medcats and found them to be well-attuned to the level of the teacher specialty exams I had to take for my field. Out of a possible 300, I scored 285. Soooo dumb. Easy to dish it out, eh moron?

As a matter of fact, Pharmie-la, teachers have fought hard over the years for things that would help their students learn. We, after all, are the people in the classroom with the kids. We know them. We care about them. We know their life stories. We know what kinds of lessons they enjoy, and what kinds of lessons would probably turn them off. Not the politicians looking for some cheap political points. Not the zillionaires looking to keep the training of the next generation within the hands of a very few, so that they will have the future of the nation in their liberal and uninformed hands. And certainly not people living in their mother's basement surrounded by used candy wrappers (and worse) like you.

The next time Mom lets you use the computer, you should make sure of your facts before you pop off at people who know more about their subject than you do. You are SO pathetically dumb and rude.