Guess one way to tick off teachers is to discuss a charter school. Lake County United has been talking up starting a 150-student charter school in Waukegan which appears to have rubbed the Lake County Federation of Teachers the wrong way.
The teachers' abruptly pulled out of what was once a 37-organization community-based group working for change. The Hound thinks it odd that the 6,500-member teachers' union is supporting the presidential candidate of change, Barack Obama, but isn't interested in changing the educational structure in their own county.
Along with leaving Lake County United, the teachers likely took their share of funding with them, like children taking their ball and going home when they don't like the score. What teachers' unions don't like about charter schools is that they are results-oriented.
A 2003 study performed by the national American Federation of Teachers union, which opposes charter schools, found that students attending charter schools tied to school boards do not fare any better or worse statistically in reading and math scores than students attending public schools. That study has run counter to other educational studies which have found the opposite.
The Hound would think the teachers' union would stay in Lake County United and work for change within the system. Instead, they ignore change is afoot with them or without them.
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Unions exist to control labor by the consent of the worker. They then "withhold" that labor from the "business" until they extract the greatest amount of pay for the least amount of labor.
If a society educating its children is a function of transmitting to them the most amount of knowledge (or connected neurons) for the least amount of cost....
Then a "teachers union" is the worst possible entity to achieve an "educated populace."
Teachers unions have NO INTEREST in children, society's advancement, or an "educated populace." They are rapacious engines of waste that have converted our wish for educated kids into a gravy train of cash for a protected monopoly.
News hound is on the right track, but needs to understand the true nature of "teacher's unions."
“When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.” Albert Shanker
Members of the press have a moral duty to expose teachers unions for what they are - 1000s of chapters of mini-Enrons.
THE HOUND SEZ: Let The Hound get this right, Bruno. You don't like unions and you like teachers' unions even less. Is The Hound right on this?
"What teachers' unions don't like about charter schools is that they are results-oriented."
No, Hound, what teachers' unions don't like about charter schools is that they take public money but can cherry pick their students. Of course, they get better results than public schools -- they only have to deal with the smartest, best behaved students! All the gangbangers, special ed, ESL and average students have to stay in the public schools, which now have even less money to spend on their education because of the existence of the charter school!
THE HOUND SAYS: But aren't magnet school students "cherry-picked", Nanner? With "all the gangbangers, special ed, ESL and average students" left in public school, guess Nanner has already raised the surrender flag. The Hound feels sorry for those "average students" if they had you for a teacher. No wonder they remained average. You sound like you're suffering from parapaxis.