School has gotten busy as we head into the end of another year. I haven't been on here as much over the past few weeks due to getting married, moving, putting together final exams, etc. The other day there was a great article up on Michele Rhee's Republican BFF crew. Shockingly enough, the usual round of "blame the teachers and their unions" posters were out.
Here is the link to the origional article:Rhee Article on Kos
The anti-teacher intelligentsia came up with the following awesome comment:
How many urban school systems provide an education worthy of the name?
Of said school systems, how many are controlled by Republican school boards?
Chicago, Detroit, LA, Miami, DC, Philly and keep going. One inescapable truth obtains- the more powerful the teachers unions have gotten the worse education gets.
The answer is staring you in the mirror.
When school systems turn out functionally illiterate kids, why do dems resist reform of failure?
The current reality seems to say you care about public employees power and don't care one whit about the actual kids and their future.
School unions resist ALL changes to improvement. Send the same kids off to Catholic schools and they magically learn to read.
But vouchers are evil, our public school system is too important to be trusted to people who demand an educated citizenry.
I don't even know where to start with this. My real question is:
Why is there such anti teacher rage on the part of people looking at ways to improve urban education?
It really seems like article after article after article has a cadre of anti-teacher commentary pop up. I'm really at a loss.
Thoughts?