Another View: Teachers union unfairly scapegoated in recent column
It's just not true, as Ron Bancroft wrote, that teachers are a 'major force' against reform.
By LARRY DYHRBERG
As a retired public school teacher and past member of the Maine Teachers Association, I feel it necessary to respond to the disparaging remarks about "the teachers union" in Ron Bancroft's column in the Press Herald ("Scorecard for candidates shows Cutler gets best grades," Oct. 5).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Larry Dyhrberg is a retired teacher who lives in Falmouth.
His portrayal of the legitimate representation of professional educators as "a major force against any real reform in Maine's K-12 system" is symptomatic of attacks on both public school teachers and the very existence of organized labor currently in vogue by politicians and pundits alike.
Over the past decades, public school teachers have