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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Teachers' unions are what's destroying our public school system in the US. Keeping sub-par teachers employed is not the same as protecting them from abuse. Lazy, unqualified slobs are protected by unions. These days, with whistleblower laws, OSHA, and federal laws in place to protect our workers, we don't need unions like we used to. In some cases I've seen, they don't seem to have strayed far from their Mafia roots.
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Teacher's unions are almost non-existent in the Deep South, yet our educational system lags WAY behind everybody else's. Can't blame that on the unions. If Southerners must look beyond unions as the cause for our educational bankruptcy, then maybe the rest of the nation should be prepared to do so, also.
And for the record, I taught public school for 12 years in Alabama and Iowa and didn't belong to any unions or teacher's organizations for a single minute of those 12 years. It was not a problem in Alabama, because almost no one belonged to a union there. But it was kind of uncomfortable in Iowa, where the membership situation was reversed.