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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
That's a good point. I have great respect for teachers (for the most part), the unions are despicable.
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The reason you need unions is because rather than parents taking the blame because their kids are not applying themselves, especially at home, they want to blame teachers who can only control for the most part what happens in the classroom. When I was in HS you had kids that went home and studied, did their homework and excelled. More often then not their parents were heavily involved with what the kids did after school. On the other hand you had the kids who showed up, caused distractions, never studied or did homework and barely got by because the parents never pushed or helped their kids. In these times they want to blame the teacher for this,and use incentive based pay, now do you think that is fair? You could be the best teacher in the world, and still have a student who just is never gonna get it, and you as a teacher should not be punished for it. As far as pensions go, they should be phased put , not outright taken away. Are 401k really that much better in the long run for employees, or are they better for the employers? AFAIW most pension pay outs are guaranteed, your 401k is not, just ask the hundreds of thousands who were looking forward to retiring recently on their 401k's, and had to put those plans on the back burner.