01-02-2017, 03:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2017, 03:08 PM by Warren Dew.)
(01-02-2017, 02:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't see the difference in lobbying; private unions can lobby for their supporters to be on school boards too.
The difference is that public unions are doing contract negotiations with those school boards they lobby for; private unions are doing contract negotiations with private school management, whom they do not get to lobby for.
(01-02-2017, 02:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Yes, and it would be nice if the voters finally dump neo-liberalism, so that we can have politicians that care about the people again, instead of wealthy business interests. Then education would improve because teachers would have to please the representatives of the people.
That's not what Bob's sister said. From Bob's post:
(01-01-2017, 02:57 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: My sister taught first grade in a wealthy seacoast Boston suburb, and was for a time a low level union person. She always said the politicians promised easy answers that didn't help. Time spent doing politically mandated stuff could instead be spent teaching. The politicians were generally more interested in votes than the kids.
The politicians are always going to be "more interested in votes than the kids". That's inherent to a democratic system, neoliberal or not, and it's always going to result in suboptimal teaching in public schools.