02-18-2007, 12:38 AM
[quote Silencio] ... Of course, neither of them said that there's plenty of blame to go around on all sides of the fence for the current sorry state in U.S. education. ...
And blaming "bad performing teachers" for poor education is like complaining about the bank tellers for how the bank is run. The front-line folks are NEVER in charge of the overall outcome. It's short-sightedness to the nth degree.
My position is, I'm not really pro- or anti-union (if anything, I lean more to the right on the topic of unions in general) but rather, that they are largely irrelevant to the discussion of quality education, for the same reasons that auto unions don't have much influence in the outcome of how well cars are designed or put together.
Remember back in the '80s when it seemed "everyone" thought that the reason U.S. cars were junk was because of line workers, and by extension, their unions? It's called picking on a easy target instead of the alternatives.
And blaming "bad performing teachers" for poor education is like complaining about the bank tellers for how the bank is run. The front-line folks are NEVER in charge of the overall outcome. It's short-sightedness to the nth degree.
My position is, I'm not really pro- or anti-union (if anything, I lean more to the right on the topic of unions in general) but rather, that they are largely irrelevant to the discussion of quality education, for the same reasons that auto unions don't have much influence in the outcome of how well cars are designed or put together.
Remember back in the '80s when it seemed "everyone" thought that the reason U.S. cars were junk was because of line workers, and by extension, their unions? It's called picking on a easy target instead of the alternatives.