As I outlined. Getting the teachers to put their hands on an icky gun is problematic, but not insoluble. Replacing all teachers with experienced, worldly people is inherently undoable.
In 1967, they had just such a work-force in NYC. Then the teachers’ strike ended it all. They sacked the professionals who traded their lucrative professions for a secure and rewarding job teaching little sprouts, and the professionals, deprived of the promised security, went back to the real world and made lots of moolah, became yuppies. But they had more teachers of color in NYC, so everyone lived happily ever after, except the students.
Oddly, Home Fires by Donald Katz makes no mention of this aspect of the ‘60s.
>>As I outlined. Getting the teachers to put their hands on an icky gun is problematic, but not insoluble.
Do you know much about labor law, especially dealing with CBAs?