Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spoken like a board member. From the perspective of working people, teachers are badly underpaid in most places. And comparing their contribution to the betterment of society, many teachers are each individually worth 10 Fortune 500 CEOs at least. And yet teachers unions also are guilty of self-interest as well. Schools are screwed up, politicized and so often forget the reason they exist. Our kids. Power is shifting in most states to giving the Federal Government more control. If not in real legal power, certainly in brow-beating schools into emphasizing test scores over real learning and other initiatives such as closing down underperforming schools. Egad, how could ANYONE see the value of that? (Except for people who think such children would be better off in minimum-wage factory jobs). "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" :-) I was a very close friend of a School Superintendent and learned a lot form his perspective, and also from being the primary photographer for a conservative teachers union's house organ in Missouri. (MSTA - they hated the NEA.) The one thing that is clear is that teachers are NOT in a lucrative profession. On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 08:23 AM, LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: > The real opposition to government subsidy of private schools is the > very > powerful teacher's unions, the NEA and the AFT, both of whom > anticipate job losses > in a currently lucrative profession. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. - Will Rogers. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html