The evil of unionized teachers
In the ongoing discussion in Nevada about how to make schools better, here's a simple example of perhaps our biggest problem: Unionized teachers.
For whatever good might come from unionized teachers, it is obliterated by this horrible example of how a bad math teacher gets moved from school to school, instead of dismissed.
This practice, forced on management by union contracts, is highly corrosive to achievement. It only takes, say, five bad teachers out of 100 good ones to dramatically pull down student performance and, over time, spoil the futures of countless lives.
