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To: lexi2004 who wrote (70520)	11/11/2000 7:00:45 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

If teachers are so proud of public education, why do they disproportionately send their own kids to private schools? And why did Al Gore?

To: lexi2004 who wrote (70520)	11/11/2000 7:09:18 PM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"I'm a public school teacher who has devoted a large part of my life to teaching and children. I take pride in what I do and feel I make a difference with kids. " With all due respect. How can you sit by idly while your teacher's union protects drug abusers,alcoholics and child molesters from being fired ? How can you sit by while some classes have to endure a student standing though the whole class saying F YOU F YOU ? That student cannot be thrown out because of some so-called disability. How can you stand an education system that ends up with people unable to conjugate the verb to be. And finally how is it that the only thing that makes you go out on strike is pay raises ? I believe the whole purpose of the teacher's union is to produce people who are dependent on government and trained to think in that way. This is even more narrow than any religious training in the private school system.

To: lexi2004 who wrote (70520)	11/11/2000 7:11:12 PM
From: Bernard Levy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

It is a contradiction to defend union membership on one hand, and demanding to be treated as an individual on the other hand. Unions typically represent workers whose work forms a commodity, in the sense that their skills are not sufficiently special that they cannot be replaced by other persons. Individuals on the other hand attempt to establish a market for their specific skills by applying for jobs with several competing employers and then taking the best offer. If you want to be treated as an individual in terms of your work skills, you should immediately resign from the NEA.

To: lexi2004 who wrote (70520)	11/11/2000 9:09:28 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL!! You might pass your little sermon along to bigsablepoint, swisstrader, etc. I haven't seen any expressions of great concern from you over their "generalities" and personal attacks. JLA

To: lexi2004 who wrote (70520)	11/11/2000 9:15:02 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

Doribee, You cannot see where the bureaucracy and attitudes the NEA promotes have a great deal to do with the problems of the American educational system? Surely it must at some time occurred to you that there are connections here. The NEA staunchly opposes merit pay for teachers. Why? Because a boss might prefer one teacher over another? In most other occupations, merit pay is considered normal and yes, favoritism does occur, but the nation and the economy do nicely anyway, thank you. The NEA mainly seems good at promoting spending on education. In my lifetime, the educational budget has skyrocketed upwards. And the quality of that education has plummeted. If there is any correlation here, it is negative. Here in California we had a vouchers initiative on the ballot, which unfortunately lost. I voted for it. What the public schools needs most is some string competition that threatens them with extinction. Or maybe finishes the job. Then they will either get better or they will die.