2007-08-24 11:22:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ah, the old 'teacher's union' BS. Teachers love to innovate...it's what we in the business call 'teachable moments'. These days we're not allowed to do that as we have to cover the 'book' so the kids can 'pass the test'. Real knowledge that gets down to the bone is tossed out in favor of some kind of surface information cut and paste job on the student's brain. Also, there actually isn't a 'public school system'. It doesn't exist. There are fifty states, each with an elected board of education, mostly dominated by conservatives that are tremendous fans of cut and paste education....thinking is so....'liberal'! Then there are literally hundreds of independent elected school boards, one for each district, but these boards are tightly controled by the rules from the State Boards of Education. In real life, teachers are employees, they get almost zero say in managment....at least nobody has ever asked me what would be a good thing to teach. I wanted to do a history class one time called, 'Why the world is the way it is and not some other way'. What if the court had cut Jesus loose? Would the Christian faith have ever developed? What would have happened to the history of western Europe without the Church after Rome fell apart? Give me some possible results of a Christian free Europe for discussion. Oops...way to intense for the the managment class. What would the neighbors say? 'Ya can't teach kids to think...that would be dangerous. Last...if teacher's unions are so powerful, why can't we get a decent pay raise?
2007-08-24 11:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by Noah H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not only are they the biggest impediment to innovation and reform, they support incompetent teachers, which is the biggest threat the teachers unions pose.
2007-08-24 18:34:59 · answer #2 · answered by Kirk 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, The Federal government's waste of our tax dollars is the biggest reason that so little is spent on our schools. The states are equally guilty in this regard, they, (mostly), waste more money building prisons than they do schools, and if it weren't for the Teacher's Unions, No young people would even consider teaching as a career.
I've got a feeling you already knew all this ??
2007-08-24 18:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by thehermanator2003 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not as much as the declining requirement for teachers to posses a degree. Many districts have such a hard time filling slots these days that they accept certificated teachers who don't hold a BA. Add in the huge percentages of people who become teachers for a student loan forgiveness program and our schools are filled with people who just don't care.
2007-08-24 18:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they aren't. It's the "no child left behind" act that is one of the biggest impediments to innovation today. Teachers are being forced to teach children how to take a test rather than teaching them to think critically.
2007-08-24 18:34:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Teachers' Unions serve a necessary function in the free-market of ideas. The real problem is the top-heavy, budget-bloated, self-serving, fossilized mindset of the bureaucracy. Bureaucracies exists mostly to NOT get anything done. They impede innovation and progress. Get rid of the top-heavy, bloated bureaucracy and turn schools over to the parents. Voila! Problem solved!
2007-08-24 21:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by correrafan 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The biggest trip-up-all-around is Teachers Unions protecting sub-par teachers in run-down schools which avoid maintenance so something can collapse and they can blame lack of funding and REPUBLICANS who disapproved the 10% hike in funding because it was WASTE. Then Democrats said it was a "cut" and blamed low test scores on Republicans.
But I digress...teachers unions protect illiterate teachers who show movies of just about anything to keep from teaching and revealing how little they know. Can't fire them...MAY promote them to get them OUT of the classroom!
Congratulations! You are out NEW Assistant Principal!
NOW you can tell Bobby Brown to STOP beating Whitney!
2007-08-24 18:45:39 · answer #7 · answered by uncle_derk 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, where I am anyway. Financially it impedes with dolling out for ridiculous salaries. Highest state in country and my town 3rd highest in state. $7o mill school budget for a town of 40,000 and the majority is their salaries. That doesn't leave much for innovation and God help us if they have to work an extra hour.
2007-08-24 18:41:49 · answer #8 · answered by Oracle 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wah wah wah, "no child left behind"
Public schools were PERFECT seven years ago and Bush messed them all up by doubling funding!
/sarcasm
2007-08-24 18:37:55 · answer #9 · answered by freedom first 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2+2 does = 4 in this instance.
2007-08-24 18:30:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋