Teachers Unions Are Making A Profoundly Stupid Mistake

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By effectively withholding services they are paid billions of tax dollars to deliver, they are forcing millions of Americans to discover that there are alternatives available, including one that could dramatically improve their financial situations now and their children’s prospects tomorrow.

The following is from a family member who prefers to remain private, but who is happy to share what I view as a superb summary of the situation being forced upon so many Americans by the teachers unions. He was responding after I encouraged him to read and react to the National Review piece Glenn linked earlier today:

“For context, we are definitely in the privileged group here, and I don’t mean that in the woke social justice warrior sense, but we have highly performing public schools here due in large part to being predominantly upper middle class with residents who work in the private sector. This means that while we are certainly not immune to the leftist dogma found in other places, generally speaking, our teachers are from and live in our communities where they teach, and are often two-income families with their own kids in the school system.



“That said, we are seeing a few things that lead me to believe that we are reevaluating the entire way we view the role of the government in schools. To the writer’s point, Covid19 has [forced] the frustration which has historically only been felt by those living in major cities, and especially in poor minority communities, into the suburban mainstream.

“As I type this just a few weeks from the start of public school, nearly every family we know is either struggling to make arrangements for their kids or has already decided to pull them out of public school for private or homeschool options. And to be clear about those ‘arrangements’ for the ones who have to give online public school a try, many of those parents are choosing between their jobs and childcare. They are literally having to decide which of their two jobs has the better income, healthcare benefits, schedule flexibility, etc. and leaving the other. (Emphasis added) Consider the financial and macroeconomic impact of these decisions being made all over the country, specifically in the middle class who drive our country’s GDP.

“And, for the families who either cannot leave a job or are not interested in what has been proposed by the public school systems, they are either spending tens of thousands of dollars per year on private education or are now for the first time acquainting themselves with homeschooling options.

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university and colleges are financially dying. just a matter when public schools die. recall if you will the sociopolitical behavior of the democraps, this communist party started the decline of public schools under the communist fdr and was further enhanced by whore dog billy. The American Thinker has posted multiple reviews on the degradation of public schools and the squandering and outright pilfering of federal monies.
Roger Kimball writes extensively for American Greatness and his book Tenured Radicals addresses the political corruption of higher education in America. the trickle down effect had infiltrated all public schools K-12. teachers and alleged professors spout their own version of marxism.
cometh the October Syndrome.

this will add to the dysfunction of public schools. could not load it on edit:

SAT Now Features 5 Answer Bubbles: A, B, C, D, And ‘My Truth’

The sooner we can replace left wing indoctrination with useful learning, the better our future will be.