Oft times over the years, teachers have expressed that they are professionals. (By the way, I was a teacher. I taught at all levels from pre-school through college, in public and private schools.) Over the years teachers have told parents that they are interested in doing what is best for our children. They are the trained professionals.
Please know that I know and am aware that there are many honest, hard working, quality teachers who want to do what is best for our children. I am not talking about these professionals who really make a difference in the lives of their students.
However, there are those who are looking for the paycheck and the summer vacations. And then there is my next observation professionals do not go on strike when they encounter barricades in agreements. They do not need to join unions.
On the other hand, the teachers in this video may have told you their primary focus is in the best interests of your child, the speaker says otherwise. Is it really about our children?
What do you think about the actions of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
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It's about the money. Newt Gingrich does an excellent job of explaining this in detail in his important book entitled "To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine." In the section entitled "Work Versus Theft," Mr. Gingrich addresses the very real problem of out-of-control union power. He writes, "The Post Office, which is suffering from a $7 billion deficit, has a similar program [to that of the big three automakers in Detroit] called 'standby time' that pays a large group of employees more than a million dollars a week to do nothing...Worse, until recently, New York City had 'rubber rooms' to house teachers who were so incompetent they couldn't be allowed to teach children. Yet because of their union contract, it takes up to seven years to fire them, so in the meantime they were paid to sit in a room and do nothing. This act of theft - taking something for nothing - cost New York City schools about $65 million a year, which should have been spent on educating children." (p. 11),
ReplyDeleteClearly the teacher's union in NYC was more concerned with protecting the jobs of inadequate employees than it was with meeting the educational needs of children. Pity.
And speaking of the children, should NEANH be spending tax dollars on "workshops" such as "Walking The Talk"? Here's a description of this course in propaganda designed for K-12 teachers:
"This advanced workshop, designed for K-12 classroom instructors, examines various approaches to designing and integrating activities into the classroom that raise awareness of bias and empower students to advocate for change, especially around anti-GLBT bias."
See here:
http://neanh.org/workshops/index.html
What exactly is the "bias" which students must be empowered to overcome as they advocate for change? Why the Judeo-Christian tradition which tells us that homosexual acts are sinful and that marriage is a union between one man and one woman of course.
Is it about the children or is it about protecting muscular teacher's unions which are advocating a secular humanist agenda? Make no mistake, the NEA is more concerned with shoring up its own power and pushing its humanist agenda than it is with the welfare of children.