[lbo-talk] teacher union bashing

[Jeffrey Fisher]

I heard this recently (around the time of the NYT Magazine cover article on
"Building a better teacher") from a long-time former kindergarten teacher.
Very liberal, strong defender of Obama, but wavering recently . . . When I
pressed her on Obamacare a couple of months ago, she took the position that
I was being too demanding, not reasonable, etc. etc. More recently she has
expressed frustration that the Dems have conceded a lot on the bill and
gotten nothing in return.

Her basic thing with respect to teachers unions was that when she was
teaching, you always knew that there were people who slid by doing the least
that they could possibly do, while others (like herself, and I believe her
on this) worked their butts off. And then the unions protect them.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I recently talked to several liberal Democrats who engaged in teacher union
> bashing, expressing variants of the opinion that public schools are full of
> bad teachers protected by powerful unions.  This has traditionally been a
> Repug trope, so hearing this from the liberal quarters comes as a bit of a
> surprise.  Any thoughts?
>
> Wojtek
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