Peter has some thoughts about the teacher's union. The government changes hands every few years, reversing policies and creating new policies. The Teacher’s Unions (TUs) don’t change hands and their policies remain consistent.
The policies and actions of the TUs focus on the teachers rather than the students, ie. higher pay and benefits for the teachers raises the standards of the students’ education, or so they allege.
The Democrats curry a synergistic relationship with the TUs. They give the TUs whatever they want and get the votes of the teachers in return. They give no thought or advantage to the students.
In the past six decades the TUs have become increasingly Marxist, due to the large numbers of rebellious anti-Vietnam war protesters who pursued careers as teachers in elementary schools, high schools and colleges. The extremist anti-Americans also rose to positions of power and influence within the TUs.
The anti-American and Marxist sentiment of these extremists has resulted in harmful and controversial curricula, such as Critical Race Theory (CRT), LGBTQ indoctrination and denigration of America’s institutions and history. Our founding fathers have been labeled as racists. Our entire population of whites has been labeled racist. Our institutions have been accused of having systemic racism.
This is what our children are being taught. Our education standing in the world has fallen dramatically over the years. The cause is obvious.
The TUs must be abolished. Schools and colleges should be governed as a meritocracy, with the better teachers getting better pay. It may take a long time to fix our education system because it took a long time to break it. We need to get on with it now!
In the meantime parents must be on the alert for the educational and emotional safety of their children
The government must share the blame for the downfall of our system of education. The U.S. Department of Education should be the first thing abolished. It serves no useful purpose, but has enabled many detrimental things to happen to our children through its policies and mandates.
Posted by: Ruwanna | May 14, 2022 at 01:42 PM
Marxism has been around for a hundred years or more. Those anti-Vietnam war protesters were college kids who got brainwashed by Marxist and anarchist professors. What's different today is that those college kids have matured into Marxist teachers and professors and they have taken their Marxist ideology into our elementary and high schools. That's what Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project are all about. Wake up America, they're brainwashing our children!
Posted by: Gunny | May 16, 2022 at 10:34 PM
The economy is broken. The education system is broken. Law enforcement and the rule of law are broken. The southern border is broken. It was all done on purpose by our dithering and doddering fool of a POTUS and his radical left wing Marxist staff.
Why? Because insecure people can be more easily manipulated if they are more dependent on the government. There is no faster or more effective way to make people feel insecure than to undermine their financial stability and withhold essential services, such as electricity and food supplies. People will suffer as inflation grows and gas prices skyrocket. Biden and his Marxists don't care, as long as they can continue with mandates and manipulation to become more powerful.
Posted by: Karl | May 18, 2022 at 10:33 PM
The young and the new teachers are, for the most part, idealistic and very ignorant for educated people. But those who have been teaching for five or more years, and interacting with the teacher's union, have become cynical. They haven't a care for the students in general, just their own wants and needs. It's the TU that breaks them down by their integrity and pits them against the needs of the students. The TU, indeed, is the culprit in the schools. Of course, the school boards do their fair share of malevolence.
Posted by: Miss Tierny | May 22, 2022 at 01:25 AM
If the teacher's union wants to do some good, they should demand that teachers be armed and qualify on the firing range every three months. That way they could at least protect their students from head cases.
Posted by: Sarge | May 24, 2022 at 08:16 PM