How many of you believe that the Teacher's Unions are ruining our education system?

Question

To Jose c: You lost me -- what the hell has American business got to do with our lousy education system? More money?? You (or a family member) must be in a teacher's union.

HAS ANYONE NOTICED THAT THE SPELLING, GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION AND CLARITY OF THOUGHT IN ALMOST ALL OF THESE ANSWERS IS FAR BETTER THAN ANY OTHERS I'VE EVER SEEN POSTED. IT MUST HAVE ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF SOME WELL EDUCATED PEOPLE. WHAT A PLEASANT DISCOVERY!

Answer 1

I totally believe teachers unions are ruining our education system. They hold school districts, communities, parents, and students hostage with their demands because they have unfair bargaining advantages. They are responsible for the lack of quality education in subjects in which we need to remain dominant, like physics, science, and math, because many (If not all), teachers unions don't allow different compensation for different subjects, so a science teacher can't be paid more than a gym teacher. They continually seek to endlessly raise teachers salaries and benefits while at the same time refusing to allow teachers to be held accountable for their performance and conduct. As a result, school budgets creep ever upward while teacher performance creeps downward, resulting in entire generations of students that are less and less prepared to compete in an ever more demanding, highly technological, global economy. In order to meet the demands of increasing school budgets, school boards must choose between raising taxes and increasing the burdon on local taxpayers, or reducing or eliminating beneficial athletic and after school programs. I say abolish teachers unions, and let teachers compete on a personal basis, just like the rest of us. We, and our children, will all be better off as a result.

Answer 2

No they are not, but I know why you feel threatened. God forbid a Union, blue collar raised child can afford an education. Without Unions a lot of children wouldn't be able to afford a good education, and that's what you want isn't it. But I think we all know why CEO's and so-called patriots like you don't want that to happen, where would you get your work force from?? That means, soft hand pansy's like yourself would or may have to do manual labor and stop doing nothing and getting paid, way too much for it, like about 99.9 percent of you do. Now, don't try and play me off as an uneducated oaf, so sorry for you, I have a degree in economics's & have also ran several successful corporations. Retired before I was 40. The stock in my company's have done well for my Unionized work force as well as management. Unions just want the working man to get his fair-share of the American Dream. Deal with them fairly and you shoud get a fair result. Besides, who made you the Grand Poohbah to the american dream anyway ??

Answer 3

Absolutely!

All unions are bad. They are nothing but a haven for slackers and idiots who couldn't hold a job in the real world.

I've known too many people who have been in unions, and it's all the same. They constantly talk about what they get away with because of their contract and how hard it is to fire them. They sleep on the job, they take the maximum number of sick days every year, they do as little work as possible, etc. It's disgusting.

No person who gets their paycheck from taxpayer dollars should be allowed to unionize. Taxes are taken without our permission and then they're given to a corrupt entity that teaches our children liberal ideas instead of "good 'ol book learning." How many parents would send their kids to their current public school if they instead got that $10,000/year to put toward whatever private school they wanted.

The public schools would either have to clean up their act, or they'd vanish in a few years. Wouldn't that be nice?

Answer 4

Both of my parents were teacher's, where thank God there were no Teacher's unions. Teacher's unions, like unions everywhere drive everyone involved to the bottom of the barrel. Unions may have been a good thing 150 years ago, but now they are just a puss laden abscess on the American workforce in all sectors. Thank God I live in a right to work state.

Answer 5

teachers' unions are only part of a gigantic picture of a system that is irretrievably broken. unions are doing what they can to keep teachers professional, despite the fact that they are miserably underpaid and working harder now than ever. do they help bad teachers stay employed? yes, sometimes. and have they been corrupted by a bad system? yes, definitely. but the bigger picture--an industrial model of education that is hopelessly out of date and a government that is systematically starving the system for its own ends are big issues as well. far bigger, in fact, than what any teachers' union could manage to put into motion.

NCLB has sounded the death knell of schools as we have known them. inasmuch as teachers' unions support this movement toward "accountability" (which means testing kids to the detriment of their actual education), they are also responsible.

not that i care that much. homeschooling is a great alternative.

Answer 6

Well. I don’t think they are doing much good. Each of us is ruining our education system by voting for politicians who wont put any money into education. Parents have also ruined our education system. Parents are the most important factor in a child’s education. By not supporting there children parents are placing a burden on teachers that they shouldn’t have to bear.

Answer 7

The teacher's unions are not ruining public education. It's
the american businesses and taxpayers that are not investing
very much money on education. We get what we pay for.

Answer 8

Teacher's Unions are now becoming corrupt entities in which they espouse nothing but liberal garbage. All they do is demand higher pay and ally themselves with the Democratic Party...

Answer 9

The Teacher's Union is truly screwing things up. Don't even get me started.

Answer 10

ah, so the "accountability" police are out ... look, folks, kids and their parents have the primary responsibility for what they learn ...

I've seen how you live ... no family meals, excessive TV and Internet use, kids out on school nights ..... and let me tell you people, I am sick to death of paying over $15,000/year in property taxes so your miserable little snotty kids can goof off all day in the classroom !

Stop blaming the teachers and tell your kid to do his or her homework instead of IM'ing, chatting, texting, gaming and listening to MP3s all night long .....