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Union Power Destroys Education
The Cartel: How Special Interests Block Real Education Reform
The Cartel is a new documentary film that should be seen by everyone who cares whether children in this country get a good education. It should especially be seen by anybody who thinks that merely shoveling more money into the schools will make them better.
The Cartel reveals the story behind the story of educational failure in the United States: Teachers unions are special interest groups, and, just like any special interest group, the unions exert a disproportionate influence on the public policies that most affect their members. Candidates for school boards must play nice with the unions, if not play the role of outright stooge; if they don’t, they’ll find themselves opposed by a block of very motivated voters. The teachers can thus select the people with whom they must negotiate their contracts; and teachers unions don’t want contracts that reward the best teachers and that allow bad teachers to be fired.
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It’s no secret I’m no fan of unions. Yeah, they had their uses at one point in history, but that time is long gone. We now have laws that protect employees, and do not need a gang of thugs running companies out of business by more and more demands of ‘cradle to grave’. Just look at the auto industry, run into the ground by a feckless union leadership to the point they are now Gubmint Motors, etc.
One of the worst however is the teacher’s unions. Oh, sure, some folks seem to think without their teacher’s unions, kids wouldn’t be taught at all. Horse manure! Kids were a LOT better educated before the unions got a hold of public education. They are no longer schools. They are libtard indoctrination centers. I often wonder if the reason fast food restaurants now have pictures on their cash registers is because the average fast food employee can’t even read, or figure out how to put numbers in little boxes, or if they even are able to recognize numbers?
