Where's Scout when ya need him?



"Dave" wrote this bull****....

It certainly does, if you start out with the assumption that
teachers are all stupid & lazy & corrupt louts who became
teachers for the sole purpose of gleefully defrauding the
public.

Maybe your experiences in school led you to have these
prejudices against teachers?

My conclusions about today's unionized teachers do indeed
derive in part
from my own experiences in school, and the contrast I later
observed. You
see, my school days were before teachers became unionized, and
my father was
for a number of years the president of the local school board.
I had a
chance to see at close range the results of good school
management. Those
teachers who performed got good raises and stayed around. Those
who didn't
perform didn't last more than a year or two. They either moved
on or got out
of the profession. The ones who remained where genuinely
capable in their
fields and interested in their students.

Fast forward 20 years and the teachers in the public schools
are almost
without exception drawn from the ranks of those who can't
master any
substantive field and so study "education." Unionized. No
merit pay. No
work beyond the minimum required in the union contract.
Impossible to fire
if they're incompetent. And it's 30 years and out.

Make no mistake, I have seen many capable teachers in NYC. But
with one or
two exceptions they're non-union and working in the private
schools, not in
the unionized public schools.