Teachers' Unions Falling Out of Favor
With Americans. Is It Any Wonder?
PJ Media,
by
Stacy Lennox
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
8/18/2020 4:38:36 AM
The debate over schools reopening has affected how Americans view teachers’ unions. It has been well-publicized that the unions in many districts have submitted political demands that have little to do with pandemic safety as a condition of returning to the classroom.
None of the political demands have anything to do with educating children, either. One of the requirements, defunding the police, has actually been getting children killed in cities like New York City, Chicago, and Atlanta. Perhaps the most annoying displays were members of the teachers’ unions protesting school openings in large groups while maintaining that returning to the classroom is too dangerous.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/18/2020 5:26:39 AM (No. 513348)
The Teachers Union is no different in thuggery than other Hoffa-style collectives. Maybe not as physically violent as their Mexican counterparts, but they share the same entitlement mentality.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
John C 8/18/2020 5:41:54 AM (No. 513353)
Decertify the teachers union. Home school.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Petronius 8/18/2020 5:52:11 AM (No. 513360)
Unions, like any other parasite eventually begin to kill their hosts. Look what they have done to American steel, automotive, and the post office.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 8/18/2020 6:35:49 AM (No. 513387)
If the teachers who are protesting are so concerned about contracting the China virus, why aren't they wearing a mask and not standing 6 feet apart?
If they can go grocery shopping, why can't they stand in front of same 24 kids everyday? The grocery clerk stands in front of hundreds of different people each and every day and they probably make half as much in salary than a teacher.
Get back to work.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/18/2020 6:41:01 AM (No. 513392)
But...but...they so righteously don't want to work. It's for the chirrin, ya know.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Daisymay 8/18/2020 7:08:54 AM (No. 513406)
I think the Teachers who are too afraid to come back to school, should resign and let young teachers have their jobs! Parents should demand it!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/18/2020 7:11:31 AM (No. 513408)
They have never been in favor with me. Pennsylvania's PSEA is the lowest of the low. Students are short-changed but those raises and benefits are right on time so the dues can be shared with the union and the democrat-du-jour. It's sickening.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 8/18/2020 7:56:32 AM (No. 513429)
Actually, the best thing that could happen is for the public school system to completely collapse. Communities would step in to fill the vacuum, and the children and families would be much better off.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 8/18/2020 8:52:50 AM (No. 513492)
As a non teacher, I have spent my whole life around teachers and they are without a doubt the biggest bunch of , sniveling, complaining, unhappy whiners on the planet. It’s no wonder that they support the party of doom and gloom. Their unions have successfully negotiated contracts with benefits so costly that the cities and townships who approved them knew they would never be able to fund them but the threat of the dreaded teacher’s strike (which would mean that parents would have to babysit their own children) was like Dracula confronted with a cross. President Trump should do what Reagan did to the air traffic controllers. Give them a deadline to come back or fire them. When he did that, not a single plane fell from the sky but it sure opened a lot of people’s eyes. It wouldn’t be the hardest thing to overcome. Heck, we’ve gone this long without them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Yuban 8/18/2020 9:00:37 AM (No. 513501)
Americans need to change the great American dream of owning large houses, fancy cars and fast boats, huge retirements funds, etc etc. The real American dream should be to have God in their lives, a marriage that lasts forever, children educated, either at home or at private schools, love for their fellow human. Our priorities are completely out of line. God first and then family family family.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PostAway 8/18/2020 9:19:24 AM (No. 513518)
As a mother of children in their late 30’s I ask: what took so long? I got so tired of threatened strikes, strikes, suddenly sprung teacher enrichment days and half-days, cockamamie and inconsistent teaching methods, class time-wasting student assemblies to promote obscure social interests, practices or policies and lack of accountability by the teachers and administrators that my husband and I paid high property taxes to support public schools but put our kids in private ones. And if you live in a highly desirable school district think very critically about what is happening there. Are brilliant and special needs students getting preferential treatment in your schools leaving the vast majority of students to a sub-par school experience? Are your children being indoctrinated in leftist thinking rather than educated? Are you treated like an interloper when you ask for information or accountability from teachers or administrators? Do you even know what academic goals are for students in each grade and how well those goals are met? I say, identify problematic districts and fire everyone and start over again, without teacher’s unions. IMHO, the COVID school closure is only a teacher’s strike in disguise for the purpose of helping Biden/Harris in November.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
janjan 8/18/2020 9:20:31 AM (No. 513520)
The education of our children is the most important thing parents provide. Religious,social, and life skills training should be done in the home and the contrary opinions of government employee teachers should be clearly overridden. Some things can’t be outsourced.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Right Time 8/18/2020 9:26:18 AM (No. 513528)
I tire of listening to whining, sniveling teachers complain because they may have 25 students in their classes.
I grew up in the '50's and 69's, and went to Catholic schools K-12. The teachers in K-8 were generally Sisters of Mercy, and taught a class of 60-65 students in all subjects, except maybe Art or Music, for 7 hours every school day.
They had no unions, and there were no complaints.
Those nuns should be canonized.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/18/2020 9:30:11 AM (No. 513535)
Teacher's Unions are falling out of favor with many teachers too! A neighbor, who is a teacher, tells me that the classroom is like being in a communist country. The teachers must present material, such as fake history and mischaracterizations of people and events, as well as politically biased discussion of current events. OR ELSE they will lose their job, and any chance of career progression.
She left the public school system 15 years ago, because this situation had already been going on for some time. She now teaches at a private school and tells what a better education children get there.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
smcchk 8/18/2020 9:54:37 AM (No. 513561)
I had hoped that the whining, self-congratulatory Facebook posts from teachers would be over since they (some) just returned to work while others have been working throughout this pandemic. Wrong. A relative who has been working 4 days posted how exhausted and frustrated she was and told folks to tell a teacher thanks or to send money for beer. Seriously. The 5 medical workers in my family who have not stopped working have never mentioned their work or its difficulty or its dangers. This is just some teachers - I do not want to disparage all.
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The teachers unions are afraid of competition. That makes little economic sense for a band of service providers. If they were confident of their skills and sure of their ability to produce a quality product, then they would welcome healthy competition among potential employers. It would promote more aggressive bidding for their services. The unions’ resistance to charter and independent schools makes no sense unless they are protecting shoddy skill sets and inferior products. The unions’ behavior leaves us no choice but to conclude that they are protectionists with a lousy product.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
columba 8/18/2020 11:01:37 AM (No. 513642)
My decade as a School Board member sealed my distaste for teacher unions. They are simply not OK.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/18/2020 11:11:47 AM (No. 513657)
They are nothing more than a special interest group who has a better pension than most people.
Was very telling how they decided to use the current social justice issue as a means to not go back to work unless there were reforms and medicare for all was instituted, which means it wasn't to protect their safety since they had demands that simply needed to be met for them to return to work.
When you realize that they may have the highest concentration of college graduates of any industry, since you need a degree to be able to teach in public schools, and nearly all in the administration also have degrees, which is where you hear "college educated people lean more to Democrats".
Yet, they can't seem to figure out how to open the schools, safely and properly?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 8/18/2020 11:20:33 AM (No. 513670)
Excessive pay. Excessive benefits. Summers off. Can't be fired. Leftist leeches, for the most part.
Any more questions?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/18/2020 12:08:34 PM (No. 513724)
My thinking on the dangerous factor has to do with the Marxist attitude taught in our public schools... now that's dangerous... so perhaps public schools being closed is a good idea.... years ago all children learned at home with their parents...I didn't start school till I was seven years old... I learned reading and writing and arithmetic from my mama... and cooking and sewing and crocheting were part of the daily lessons....
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LonestarM3 8/18/2020 12:28:02 PM (No. 513742)
For 200 years, we didn't have a federal Department of Education - and didn't have teacher's unions.
Then in the Carter administration, the Dept of Ed was established for the specific progressive purpose of facilitating the wholesale political indoctrination of the nations's youth. Carter's successor, Ronald Reagan, said, "Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction." We are now the cusp of proof of that comment. Nov. 3 will probably be our last chance.
A solution that could change all this has been suggested by Pres. Trump:
Simply let the money go with the student, Charter (and/or local and state school board run) schools would quickly offer good schools, with dedicated teachers - at 75% of the current cost per student.
Very importantly, it would let inner-city minority parents provide their children with a great education and solid future.
[It is not a coincidence that the teacher's unions are the single biggest donor to the DNC is the teacher's unions]
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/18/2020 1:52:08 PM (No. 513818)
Many people have not figured out that unions are nothing but bands against the people. Employers don't pay their employees, customers do. The government doesn't pay anybody. That is done by taxpayers. That McDonald worker that the unions say need a raise, might be able to get by just fine, if he did not have to pay so much for a union built car.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/18/2020 7:22:53 PM (No. 514098)
Public school hasn't been about education since Brown v. Board of Education. All schools fell apart in the early 1970's and became babysitting enterprises with extremely well paid baby sitters, who also bragged about their BA, and MA in Education. Who got rich? Schools of Education and so-so colleges and universities, and their managing Deans, of course.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
thewarden 8/18/2020 10:49:10 PM (No. 514207)
My BIL is a high school teacher. My sister was whining that he had to go back to work this past week...poor baby! But get this...no kids on campus! What the? I swear, they’re both nuts (and liberals, naturally).
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/18/2020 10:52:16 PM (No. 514211)
Me, too, #13. 66 kids in my third grade class at St. Pius X. Moreover, the only administrative staff was our principal Sr. Brigetta, an office assistant, and an occasional nurse. I’ll put my education up against any modern, government school any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Texdad 8/19/2020 9:45:15 AM (No. 514482)
The frustrating thing about this is that people are equating TEACHERS and Teachers UNIONS. A large percentage of teachers disagree with the tantrums being thrown by the Unions. My wife is a teacher and HATES what the Unions are doing in "her" (and other teachers) name(s).
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