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I guess I just think teachers are, on the whole, a pretty great group of people. I feel that way about most working-class people, tbh. I think we'd be a stronge
by UtopiaPunk 3y ago
I guess I just think teachers are, on the whole, a pretty great group of people. I feel that way about most working-class people, tbh. I think we'd be a stronger society if more working people were represented by strong unions.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoWell, I feel the opposite about teachers at least, I think they're mostly an awful group of people. Maybe my view is colored by my experience, or maybe by the state of education in the US. I do like most working class people, and I tend to agree with them more often than not politically.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoI think many teachers are pretty great. Yet some teachers are failing our children, and we need to be able to fire them. For me, the issue is totally about public sector unions. Public schools have a government granted monopoly on education. Who is on the other side of the bargaining table with the union representatives? It's parents, or the representatives that they voted for. Yet unions themselves are political, and they lobby those representatives. Teachers, and their friends and family are voting too. The bargaining power of parents becomes diluted. This is how teacher's unions become so strong that schools can no longer give children the quality of education they otherwise would get. Check out "Waiting for Superman" for a concrete example of how this is playing out in LA and NYC.