Abolish public schools altogether. Solves a lot of problems.
The unionization of teachers started the fall of education in America.
The solution is not in fighting them. It is in using our energy and time and money in presenting better alternatives. When parents are allowed a choice, they will leave public schools in droves and the public schools, aka, government warehouses/endoctrination camps for our kids, will collapse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt3I0OmL1A4
http://www.newt.org/solutions/21st-century-learning-system
ed break through
http://www.edbreakthrough.org/
Government teacher interests often react with the fallacy of blaming parents in general for lack of progress or misbehavior in their children, although teachers have taught their romanticist (”progressive”), counter-culture beliefs to each generation of parents. Susan B. Anthony and her anti-family, socialist friends pushed for government-funded (public) education to bring the results that you see in parents, children and teachers today (more wealth and power for teachers and other government employees, feminism, divorce paradigm, service regime, etc.). Susan and her friends were followers of Charles Fourier—maybe the first communist.
Abolish public schools. Privatize them all. Stop federal funding to local governments. Starve the b. Avoid unnecessary personal purchases, and become more self-sufficient each month. Start a hobby (for now) of making or manufacturing something necessary or at least useful.
This is a good Stossel program. Of course, it was hard to miss last weekend...must have been run a half dozen times on FNC. I try to catch his show on FBN Thursday nights.
I was amused with the guy he had on (some DC school bureaucrat) who said he didn’t like to rely on test scores to judge how the pupils are doing...he could see it in their eyes.
The unionized NEA workforce is one of a few reasons why education is failing.
The primary reason is the parents, and the infuriatingly large number of public school kids (disproportionately to the population) who are born to parents who themselves have little regard for education. That, and the lack of a father in the home.
A secondary reason (probably trumped by the union issue) is that education has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
BTTT