What do you think the NEA and local teachers unions do to improve education in the United states?

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Personally, I strongly feel that they do nothing to improve education I am a strong believer that the unions take the educational process several steps backwards. I actually ran as a candidate last year in our local school board elections. I lost, and it was because I 'bucked' the union.So few people show up to vote, and the union usually accounts for more than half of the voter turnout.

It becomes such a corrupt system because the union always stacks the school boards. From there, they can just approve everything the union wants. The unions get very greedy and very demanding.

Often times, it is not even the teachers that get the benefit. Quite often the teachers are used as "front line" soliders and taken advantage of by union higher-ups. Such is the case in the union-controlled health care plans.

Many state unions have health care companies that are owned by the union itself. They provide teachers the same coverage as a private plan like Blue Cross, Aetna, etc.They cost taxpayers millions more. However, the union higher ups convince the teachers to actively bargain to maintain these plans.

Who gets the benefits here? Not the taxpayers, not education, and not even the teachers - the union higher ups do. The union leaders often times are worse than CEOs of private companies.

The union focues first on themselves and their higher ups, then on teachers, and lastly on education. I firmly believe that if education I the United States was de-unionized, the system as a whole would be better off. Education itself certainly would be better off.

Sources: personal opinion .

Demand better from your administration I would like to see administrators held more accountable for what happens in a school. Become more vocal at school board meetings. I also think that there should be some way to hold parents accountable.

Sources: opinion .

2 You sure have a bee in your bonnet about teachers, Rock. Why don't you go back to your previous question and READ the answers. Or are you going to keep asking until you get the answer you want.

Good Luck.

You sure have a bee in your bonnet about teachers, Rock. Why don't you go back to your previous question and READ the answers. Or are you going to keep asking until you get the answer you want.

Good Luck.

3 tuppence: In his prior rant against teachers, I gave Rock a link to my school's web site to show him how schools can be if teachers are allowed to do their jobs. Then he wrote it MUST be atypical so I answered:My school may not be representative of inner city schools NOW but when I came here in 1991 it had the nickname of "Hatchet gh" because of an unfortunate incident a few years before. It was not uncommon for water bottles to come flying off the 3rd & 4th floors onto passersbys and cars on the busy street.

What changed things? Teachers wrote grants in the beginning to bring in special programs. We started with a step-up-to-high school program for incoming freshman.

We also started the Health Careers, Informational Technology, Environmental Sciences & EMT programs. This meant teachers used personal time for common planning. We were given 2 hours a week for department planning and cross curricular work.

The departments set up their own agendas based on what they needed to do. A new principal came in who supported us on discipline issues. The entire administration spent hours being a presence in the school instead of sitting behind their desks pushing paper.

We try to develop programs and activities that give students choices rather than running the school like a sausage factory. We started to trust each other and our principal managed to hold off some of the most idiotic district fiats. When word got out that we offered a good experience we became a school of choice.

Our student body grew from 1650 to almost 2300. Parents became more active in decision making. Everything is not perfect of course.As every problem appears we work very hard to deal with it.

The main thing that has led to our being the most improved school in our district is the faculty being allowed to identify the school's needs. We know better than the federal govt, state govt or local bureaucrats how to teach and what to teach. If you want a good school you have to make everyone in the school a chance to do what they do best.

Teachers have always been the whipping boys in our society. If things don't go well in your child's life it must be the teacher regardless of lack of resources, classroom overcrowding, and direct orders from above (by people who were never good teachers) trying to direct everything a teacher must do and how they must do it. Let teachers free to teach, plan and develop their skills and atypical and successful will become typicalEvidently his last question did not bring out the teacher bashers, so he went looking for a new audience.

Congrats on your weell-thought-out contribution .

Tuppence: In his prior rant against teachers, I gave Rock a link to my school's web site to show him how schools can be if teachers are allowed to do their jobs. Then he wrote it MUST be atypical so I answered:My school may not be representative of inner city schools NOW but when I came here in 1991 it had the nickname of "Hatchet gh" because of an unfortunate incident a few years before. It was not uncommon for water bottles to come flying off the 3rd & 4th floors onto passersbys and cars on the busy street.

What changed things? Teachers wrote grants in the beginning to bring in special programs. We started with a step-up-to-high school program for incoming freshman.

We also started the Health Careers, Informational Technology, Environmental Sciences & EMT programs. This meant teachers used personal time for common planning. We were given 2 hours a week for department planning and cross curricular work.

The departments set up their own agendas based on what they needed to do. A new principal came in who supported us on discipline issues. The entire administration spent hours being a presence in the school instead of sitting behind their desks pushing paper.

We try to develop programs and activities that give students choices rather than running the school like a sausage factory. We started to trust each other and our principal managed to hold off some of the most idiotic district fiats. When word got out that we offered a good experience we became a school of choice.

Our student body grew from 1650 to almost 2300. Parents became more active in decision making. Everything is not perfect of course.As every problem appears we work very hard to deal with it.

The main thing that has led to our being the most improved school in our district is the faculty being allowed to identify the school's needs. We know better than the federal govt, state govt or local bureaucrats how to teach and what to teach. If you want a good school you have to make everyone in the school a chance to do what they do best.

Teachers have always been the whipping boys in our society. If things don't go well in your child's life it must be the teacher regardless of lack of resources, classroom overcrowding, and direct orders from above (by people who were never good teachers) trying to direct everything a teacher must do and how they must do it. Let teachers free to teach, plan and develop their skills and atypical and successful will become typicalEvidently his last question did not bring out the teacher bashers, so he went looking for a new audience.

Congrats on your weell-thought-out contribution.

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