Greedy Teachers Take a Day Off, Take Brainwashed Kids Along as Pawns
Friend Lennie Jarrett in Grayslake and education watchdog extraoridinaire has a great Essay on his day down in Springfield.
Teachers from all over the state converged on Springfield to lobby for a huge tax increase and fake tax swap.
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Excerpt:
This email (from CPS Spokesperson) shows multiple issues with the rally. Let me highlight a few:
* Students were used as political pawns
* Students were indoctrinated instead of being educated
* The taxpayers spent thousands of dollars on teachers, principals, security officers, etc in busing 2000 students to Springfield in 100 buses
* The taxpayers spent thousands more for substitutes to replace the staff being paid to attend the rally
CPS schools want to receive and spend $20,000 per year per childIt would be interesting to see the lesson plans on how CPS and other schools taught/teach kids about funding inequity. Are they showing them how school funding increased 157% since 1987 while student population increased 13% while Inflation was only 57%?
Please Read the entire essay. The Public Education Industry’s greed knows no bounds.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:07 am
I’m usually on the side of teachers, though not always. I think to say “greedy” is pushing it a bit far. Sometimes I think teachers are as much pawns in the system as these students were on this day. Teachers are seeing a chance for some desperately needed reform and most likely think they’re doing something for the greater good. Not all of them are looking at their own bank account, but rather wondering why their district isn’t doing as well as the neighboring district, etc… Bottom line is that the whole way education is funded needs to be tossed out the window. Granted, some teachers could not care less about the students and funding and really are trying to just get what’s theirs. But I tend to think that the majority of them just feel like something needs to change and, in the absence of better alternatives, they go toward a plan like this. Until we get education funding off of property taxes, this will FOREVER be a mess.
May 8th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
DJ,
I often cop to being being rhetorically aggressive on education spending issues.
While I would admit that most individual teachers wouldn’t view themselves as greedy, the system is voracious.
Let me ask you this. Would you be able to get a group of about 10 -15 teaches together for a “focus group” on some of my reform ideas.
I don’t expect persuasion as much as I think I’d find a goldmine of alternative views and ideas.
Set it up, and I’ll be there.