Teachers Unions: Always Assumed To Be Evil
It appears that the only group on Earth that we are allowed to assume have bad intentions are teachers unions:
Teacher tenure reform has been among the more delicate and misunderstood issues roiling New Jersey under Gov. Chris Christie.
Reduced to its most basic elements, the simple goal is to allow truly bad teachers to be fired, rather than allowing them to enjoy virtual lifetime security after just three years on the job. Nearly everyone can agree on the wisdom of that — even the teachers union. Or at least the union recognizes that public support for change is too overwhelming to combat.
So it was encouraging, although not entirely surprising, that a compromise reform bill offered by state Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex, last week received the backing of some stakeholders on all sides of the issue, including — perhaps most importantly — the New Jersey Education Association itself. [emphasis mine]It must be a rule they teach you in Editorial Page Writing School: anytime you can impugn a union's motive