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.
is that education has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.....If you go by that graph, there is another factor to be included; back in the 1960’s we had a movement to change the United States. These were the protesters finanaced by the Communist party ostensibly against the Viet Nam War. These protester went to college, became teachers (many of them) and administrators. They had “ hopey/ changey in mind for the education system and, like our now selected “Hopey/ Changey” in Chief has ruined everything just as the Marxist party had indoctrinated them to do.