Teachers unions are known to be mighty warriors against reasonable efforts to remove incompetent teachers from classrooms. This is an international phenomenon as these unions are well connected fraternally and they share agendas which favor union goals. In British Columbia we have had a College of Teachers which, like… Read more
Month: January 2010
Teacher Union’s Need to Agitate – BC (Canada)
The annual teacher union protest/campaign/disruption – whatever – happens as regular as clockwork around Springtime in BC (Canada). As one local teacher union newsletter puts it: “As the weather slowly changes, and plants start poking their green leaves up above the dirt, it is time for us to also shake… Read more
Corruption in School Systems Rampant
It’s just a matter of degree. Expect all schools and school systems to be vulnerable to corruption – anywhere from pilfering a pencil from a school to outright criminal embezzlement as we’ve seen in the Detroit Public School system. The education systems, being the biggest or second biggest spenders… Read more