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Teachers’ unions constantly strike, demanding more cash and less work, while claiming that they’re not teaching students for the sake of the students. Meanwhile, they are the interface between a public school system and the nation’s children that has destroyed education and test scores while constantly advocating against policies, like test scores and standards, that provide an objective view of outcomes.
All of that was bad enough, but during the pandemic, teachers’ unions became the loudest and most forceful voices demanding the shutdown of schools because it made life easier for them. Zoom school raised suicide rates and lowered student test scores.
How badly? Catastrophically.
The decline in math scores last year was the biggest in the past 50 years, according to newly released federal data.
The average math score for 13 year olds declined 9 points between the 2019-20 and 2022-23 school years.
The average reading score for 13 year olds declined 4 points between the 2019-20 and 2022-23 school years.
50 years. Time for another strike and claims that if only we paid teachers like we do NBA players, public students would be finally able to read. Meanwhile, teachers have managed to secure six-figure salaries in New York City, along with Los Angeles and Chicago, but somehow they just don’t have enough cash.
It’s abundantly clear that there’s no way forward to fixing the country’s educational crisis without school choice, breaking up special interest monopolies, from the Department of Education to major textbook publishers and the public school system, and its biggest parasites, the teachers’ unions..
And the full weight of the federal government needs to be brought to bear against the teachers’ unions that have greedily destroyed education for generations of children… before they find some other pretext for shutting down schools for a year.
JAM says
Defund the teachers Unions. They get paid plenty and give no positive results for the money. If teachers were viewed as a personal stock, people would be selling their stock because the stock would keep resulting in losses.
Roland says
Heck, defund the schools. Take away their power to rob property owners to finance their scam.
I would be ashamed if I knew that the only way I’m getting a paycheck is if the government threatens to sell old people’s homes on the courthouse steps. But these puffed-up ed-yew-cay-tores have no shame.
It would be quite entertaining to see them have to earn a living as the rest of us do by actually satisfying the preferences of consumers.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Quite interesting statistically.
internalexile says
Probably worth remembering that even FDR had serious misgivings about the legitimacy of public sector unions, and their potential for corruption.
Kasandra says
They’ll claim that means that teachers must get higher pay. If they do a good job they win. If they do a crap job they win. Nice gig.
Una Salus says
If they do a good job they’ll be resented.
Una Salus says
These teachers are about right for a society that masks and isolates its children. Damage to the heart and brain are permanent. Those cells do not regenerate. Children never get their formative years back again.
When the HMS Birkenhead was going down and they ran out of women and children to pack into lifeboats they moved onto the youngest members of the crew.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Una, the Birkenhead story is interesting, I never heard it before.
Sounds like it was the Captain’s fault for sailing too close to shore?
Alexander Scipio says
To fight the teachers, first one must fight – and reverse – JFK’s EO 10988 legalizing gov unions, and then the Ed School admission process in which the dumbest cohort of any college (SAT) resides. This often has been dealt with by both Dr Sowell and Dr Williams.
https://open.substack.com/pub/alexanderscipio/p/jfks-eo-10988-unionized-teachers?r=r6kt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Jeff Bargholz says
Student test scores are the lowest they’ve been in the last fifty years, according to the ever reliable federal government. I graduated fifty one years ago and my brother graduated fifty years ago. I guarantee test scores were higher, the scoring system was stricter and the coursework was more difficult.
1990 was when math scores began to go down year by year and 2004 was when reading skills began their decline. As always, the federal government is full of crap.
However, I have no doubt that test scores are the lowest in US history now and the students the most ignorant ever.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah.
Anyway, it looks like the lockdown really hurt the students, which is interesting. Not just a passing event, but a body blow.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, and my math skills aren’t the equal of yours. I graduated forty two years ago. Man, its bad when I screw up basic addition and subtraction.
The federal government is still full of crap, though. What’s with it’s bizarre fifty years claim? Test sores weren’t low in 1972 and they were much higher in the sixties.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, I have no idea where that 50 years comes from.
Dr.Ernesto says
All public employee unions should be illegal. Period. No exceptions. Hell, it’s so obvious, even a doofus like FDR could figure it out.
Tim says
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Jeff Bargholz says
Good one. I honestly did laugh out loud.
Gordon says
This was obviously the desired the outcome of those pushing lockdowns. As for the rank and file teachers and administrators in school systems across America, many are the most thoroughly indonctrinated, easily led, weak-minded people in our society. I guess I would say the same for the medical profession as a whole.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Lucky if you get a good surgeon. What happens when all the old white guys retire?
Jeff Bargholz says
You get submarines which implode.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, exactly. That’s what I’m afraid of. Seriously. The last two times I dealt with a surgeon I got two older white guys, obviously sharp and good at their job. But what happens when they retire?
Angel Jacob says
It’s not like the leftist controlled schools were doing their job of providing real education before the close downs.
Mickorn says
Yeah! Pubic schools are evil! Teachers are evil! Destroy the Department of Education and all public schools!
How will children learn to read, then, Mr. Greenfield? “School choice”. Wow. Awesome. That fixes everything. You’re truly a visionary.
Jeff Bargholz says
You’re truly stupid and evil. The fact that you oppose parents choosing the schools their children attend proves it.Yes, government schools and most indoctrinators are evil and incompetent.
Go jerk it to a tranny strip show.
Christopher Robert Riddle says
And Randi Weingarten just got the Teachers Union(New York City)their BIGGEST Salary Hike,EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!