unions

This is the eighth in a series of open letters to Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Union membership is way down, and their collective future is not rosy.

America’s children are suffering greatly and teachers may be exiting the profession en masse.

Teachers union boss assures American children will be spared “drowning in an ocean of online dishonesty.”

A disaster for students and good teachers alike.

School violence rises, mental health days proliferate, and thousands of kids are leaving government schools nationwide.

Taxing the rich has seemed to be one of the Band-Aid solutions for California’s budget, but that’s dangerous as seventy percent of the General Fund is already provided by personal taxes on just five percent of the population.

Unless pension funds around the nation continue to earn 7% or more per year on their investments, it’s likely that taxpayers will be on the hook for trillions of dollars of promises to government unions.

Finnish schools are unionized. American schools are unionized. The similarities end there.

The research is mixed. Some reviews (of the many studies on retention or promotion) have shown little benefit for retention in grade 3 compared with social promotion to grade 4. 

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #149 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the American Enterprise Institute, the State Policy Network, the Ethan Allen Institute, and the Foundation for Government Accountability.

Our country’s teachers unions are doing what they do best: throwing a childish tantrum and demanding they get more of your hard-earned tax dollars to spoil their underperforming members.

As nice as it is for these people to care as much as they apparently do about other people’s children, it’s arrogant for them to think they know what’s best for another parent’s child. And trying to control where and how a child who is not your own is educated makes me wonder: Why do you care so much about the children of others?