Sounding much like past UAW president Ron Gettlefinger defying the new reality at GM (we know how that ended), FWEA and ISTA officials set a "defiant tone" (arrogant would be a better word) against the Governor and State Superintendent of Public Instruction at Northrop HS. FWEA president Al Jaquay bemoaned that teachers were being "blamed for all the ills of public education". A more accurate assessment would be that teachers' unions are being blamed. ISTA president Nate Snellenberger said he's getting the "cold shoulder of disrespect" from legislators. After decades of paying off Democrats to do their bidding, did he and the ISTA expect hugs and kisses from Republicans?
Snellenberger also said pending legislation would set back public education 40 years. If only that were true. I could still be proud of my former high school. But the demographics changed, teachers unionized, FWCS lost flexibility and couldn't adapt.
The prospects in the legislature are sobering because, as Steve Brace put it "we're fighting against ideas for change". Well, we certainly wouldn't expect those ideas to come from FWEA. Unless they involved remodeling the buildings.
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This clearly shows that the FWEA and ISTA are more concerned with maintaining their cushy jobs than improving our kids' education opportunities !! Why do the teachers put up with these clowns??
Because the teachers' first priority is also keeping their jobs. As long as the union can do that, the teachers (more than 90% of them in FWCS) will put up with them.
These are the reasons that I consider public education to a form of institutionalized child abuse. The poor kids.
Anon - actaully you can also turn that around and say that (many of) today's kids are an institutional form of teacher abuse. It doesn't bother me all that much that teachers are looking out for themselves and their families first. We all do that. What bothers me is that they claim to oppose all these changes because they will "ruin public education".
http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm
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