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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (764554)	1/18/2014 5:11:50 PM
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Teachers unions refuse to support bill to keep sex predators out of classrooms If you had any inkling that the teachers unions existed to help better the education of our nation’s children, this story will make you think again. from Wall Street Journal: Anyone with violent or sexual convictions against a child—whether a misdemeanor or felony—would be ineligible for school employment. Background checks would be more thorough, using expanded databases including the FBI’s fingerprint database, the national and state sex offender registries. And districts would be prohibited from knowingly unloading sex abusers on other schools—a practice known as “pass the trash.” These are sensible measures that are overdue. Yet the two most powerful teachers unions in the country have voiced objections to the bill. Both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers complained about the bill before it passed the House. The NEA claimed in a letter to House members that background checks “often have a huge, racially disparate impact.” Randi Weingarten, the AFT chief, warned of inaccuracies in the FBI database and cautioned that teachers would be inconvenienced by potentially long screening delays. read the rest This is typical behavior of teachers unions. They exist only to circle the wagons around their own and milk the taxpayers for all that they’ve got. American teachers, parents, and, most importantly, children would be better off if the national teachers unions disappeared completely. Education would improve, teacher pay would be better (because schools would no longer be forced to tenure bad teachers), and educators would be more accountable to their local communities.