2020 summer of discontent

[John Galt]

The interest of any union is in the interest of their members. If a union fights for it's members to keep jobs even after poor performance and that union is a teacher's union, then bad teachers will continue to teach our children. It's a matter of aligning the interests. In the public square professional partnerships are a better alternative. One school board or city council or whatever contracts with a partnership of people and makes certain levels as markers of success, while the partnership makes whatever changes it needs to continue to meet the goals laid out by the board, goals which have the children in mind

[exploited]

[Winchester]

[John Galt]

The interests are not aligned. It's no different than a police union that continues to use tax payer funds to pay for "warrior training" even though the government, and the police administration, told them not to. I have no problem with private unions, but I agree with FDR on how public unions are an anathema to democracy

[exploited]

On the contrary, the interests of students are very much aligned with the interests of teachers. The worst abuse comes from areas where teachers are not unionized, and so the evidence does not support your conclusion.

This is not the case in professions that are necessarily and definitively adversarial, such as policing.

[Kane]

Just watched "Dark Waters" starring Mark Ruffalo. Reminded me of The Rainmaker. Just got me down again because Bernie would've taken shit like that seriously.

[Saz]

[Saz]

Also, with all these protests now WORLDWIDE, it's pretty obvious these protests are in large part a reaction to government shutting people in their homes and banning them from work and socialising for 3 months. What did they think would happen?

[Winchester]

Saz, people always advocate for their own best interests if they are able, management/labor is always an adversarial system, unions help equalize the balance. You also make it sound like the government is powerless to effect change, which just isn't true.

Anywho, I'm interested to hear your opinions on what reforms are desperately needed in education and how you think it best to go about implementing them.

[uebermann]