It's tough to be oppressed

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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Jerry-Brown-joins-union-s-Vegas-party-3752099.php

[DC Tom]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Jerry-Brown-joins-union-s-Vegas-party-3752099.php

 

Welcome to reason #43 why the teachers' unions are such a load of bull ****.

[Rob's House]

!@#$ these people. I read Fredrick Douglas' narrative last night and one think I took away from it was how much is squandered by the so-called oppressed. This guy had people actively preventing him from learning to read and jumped through proverbial hoops of fire to learn to read and write. And this was a time when disobedience meant he'd get whipped to ****, not get his fragile little feelings hurt. Yet we have government schools that pump thousands of dollars per student per year through their coffers to make sure the little ***** have good school books and computers and professional college educated teachers, and half of them still can't read. The problem is in the parents, the students, and the culture, not school funding.

 

Edit: the problem's also in the absurd job security afforded teachers regardless of performance.

Edited August 1, 2012 by Rob's House

[Philly McButterpants]

And the fact that the unions won't let the free market dictate which schools succeed and which fail.

[DC Tom]

And the fact that the unions won't let the free market dictate which schools succeed and which fail.

 

In truth, that isn't the unions. It's a public school system.