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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (34439)7/12/2008 11:08:24 PM
From: Geoff Altman  Read Replies (2) of 224752
 
I think they're skating around the issue a bit, fact is that the teachers unions prevent these very things that schools need. They point out the symptoms but not the cure, which in my book, is to get the unions out of our schools. Course, they may be taking on the unions in an indirect way:

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And we do not pay teachers more even when we ask them to take on harder jobs.
We must change that.

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