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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: CVJ who wrote (6227)3/13/2001 1:55:54 AM
From: Mr. Whist  Read Replies (2) of 59480
 
Re: "Could the decline in the ability of students to learn, as evidenced by test scores for the last 3 decades, have anything to do with the teachers joining unions to protect their incompetent brethren?"

Answer: No.

If a school district wants to get rid of a teacher, there are several ways to do so, regardless of whether the teacher is tenured. School districts root out poor teachers all the time.

Teachers' unions have nothing to do with the decline that you cited. Instead, how about we focus on poor parenting. How about we focus on the fact that parents who don't value the necessity of a good education will pass down that attitude to their children. How about we focus on the fact that lots of people depend on teachers now to teach their kids right from wrong because they as parents are too damn lazy to do the job themselves.

Then after we've thoroughly discussed the poor-parenting issue, we can discuss the fact that kids don't read nearly as much as they used to, and that they watch too much TV and play too many video games.

Then we can talk about the over-emphasis on sports and the under-emphasis on academics in this country, especially at the high school level.

Yeah. Blame it on the teachers' unions. I guess that's Rush Limbo's analysis of the problem, too.
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