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The teacher's union represents teachers. Do you really consider teachers to be the enemy of your kids? Do you place your children into the care of their enemies

• smegsicle 5y ago
  do you really consider teachers unions to represent the aspect of teachers that cares for students? job security for the lowest common denominator, and 'caring for kids' somehow as well? how would the meetings go?
  • scionthefly 5y ago
    Teachers unions generally work for better teacher working conditions, which means better student learning conditions. They work for a strong contract and enforcement of that contract, which protects all worksers. They work for improved professional practice and improved outcomes for students. When you discuss the "lowest common denominator" teacher as being protected, what is really being protected is the contract. We MUST enforce the contract or it is weakened. The teacher's unions want highly effective, highly skilled teachers providing excellent public education for every child. We work for due process so that teachers have the opportunity to improve, but if they don't improve and the administrators do their jobs then they are let go, all within the scope of a well formed contract.
• baggy_trough 5y ago
  An individual teacher is not the same as a body that represents the collective interests of teachers, and neither of those are necessarily aligned with the interests of children. For example, it would be in the interest of that body to make it as hard as possible to fire hopeless teachers.