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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (73303)	5/1/2010 12:49:24 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I was a teacher and belonged to a teachers union, AFT. I saw no impact on the teaching by having unions. Except I was protected when I refused to paddle kids. The union forced the school district to bring in a mediator. I never did paddle any kids. But unions can also be activists for good education, like fighting school disricts that want to teach creationism. But my argument, is that either way, the real problem is not making enough affordable education available. An easy way to see this is too simply look at the very high cost of college. Our society should have plenty of free community colleges in every state. And higher education should also be affordable like it was when I went to college. Most of my friends worked their way through college. All I am saying is that we are focusing on the wrong things when we argue about unions or teacher competency . Your way leads to endless argument with no real consensus possible and lots of endless fights; and takes everyones eye off the real problem of not enough affordable eduction. The south has the least educated kids because they refuse to tax themselves enough to provide comprehensive affordable education.