California's Parasitic Teacher Unions
Troy Senik ·
May 20, 2011 at 12:43pm
I was in Nashville last week and had the altogether unpleasant experience of being present for the invasion by millions of cicadas that occurs in Middle Tennessee every 13 years. When I returned to Los Angeles, a similar event was going on downtown. Unfortunately, this pestilence isn't cyclical. Reason TV has the story:
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May '10
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Darn those California citizens that don't want to be taxed even more than they are! They need to think about the collective!
Jun '10
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It looks like California's public school teachers are perfectly qualified to teach our kids to navigate a rudderless wasteful self-destructive monopolistic bureaucracy. Too bad those skills only work for one type of workplace--theirs.
Jul '10
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Where is Godzilla when you need him?
May '11
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The more and more I watch CA sink into a hole the more glad I am that Meg Whitman didn't beat Jerry Brown. It will be a good lesson for voters to see the left try to deal with the mess they made.
Jun '10
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Wow, doesn't this make you wish your kids could be taught by these teachers?!?
Jan '11
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They want to issue ultimatums against the rich. Yeah, we'll show those rich people!
Meanwhile, the rich have left for Texas.
Action, say hello to response ...
Oct '10
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Speaking as a former teacher in the Los Angeles USD and now in a district where the tallest kid on the basketball team is usually 5'10" I have to point out that there really are two distinct classes of teachers in California. The first class is the professional whiners that run for union office so the district gives them release time. Usually women wearing jeans, running shoes and their union t-shirt or men with pony tailes and Tevas. While the other class may wear shorts to class once in a while but they are ironed, the shirts are tucked in and the males can knot a tie. The former get the publicity and the latter simply teach and attend seminars to constantly upgrade their knowledge and class room skills. They do not go to demos or appear on tv carrying preprined spontaneous protest signs.
Nov '10
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This is why we home school...oh and I would rather have faced the cicadas personally.
May '10
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I am speechless.
Jan '11
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For those interested in the causes of decay in public school education, I recommend reading the following:
Thomas Sowell: Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Abigail and Stephen Thurnstrom: No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
Eric Buehrer: The Public Orphanage: How Public Schools Make Parents irrelevant
Anecdotally and statistically substantiated critiques of colleges of education. teacher unions, and government regulation in public school education.
Aug '10
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Troy - Besides the cicadas, there is also a bit of a teacher uprising fomenting here in Tennessee, as the state legislature prepares to drastically reduce the Teachers Union's ability to collectively bargain.
What flummoxes me is that, while the teachers are fighting for more money for themselves, they uniformly pronounce that it's all "for the children."
And nobody in the media dares question that.