The NEA Fails It’s Members and Our Students
I met a retired principal who worked within the Seattle Public School District for many years last week on the ferry going to Bremerton. He remarked that the ferry-boat workers made more money than teachers saying that the ferry-boat workers made on average $70,000 per year. You don’t need an education, a certificate of any sort or any other validation of your expertise to take tickets and route cars to a particular lane but that’s what they get.
How can anyone say that the teachers’ unions are the fat cats of our educational system when we all know that is not the case? The corporate venturers and privatizers who want to squeeze a buck out of our public school system with their charter schools think so because when they look at the balance sheet, the teachers are the most costly line item. The cost is relative of course, but for a charter school to make a profit, all expenses have to be pared down and what better way to do it than to have teachers compete over test scores? The only way that a charter school can keep its’ state license is to show high test scores.
This is an introduction to an article by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer NEA Flunks Crucial Test posted in