re: #169 Dark_Falcon

As they should be. The educators are not to be trusted to create such measures, as the measures they create will serve only to present the image they want delivered.

Individual teachers are by and large good people, but when their unions are in it only for the union and its members. How the schools are doing is not a matter of great import for the union.

re: #169 Dark_Falcon

As they should be. The educators are not to be trusted to create such measures, as the measures they create will serve only to present the image they want delivered.

Individual teachers are by and large good people, but when their unions are in it only for the union and its members. How the schools are doing is not a matter of great import for the union.

You really have no idea what being a teacher involves, do you? Teachers’ association/unions are there to protect the teacher, who spent a lot of time and money getting their degree and getting licensed to teach. They are professionals who should be treated as professionals. The associations/unions ensure that teachers cannot be fired because a principal get a stick up his/her butt and simply doesn’t like a particular teacher. Yeah, it can be that petty in a school. Unions also bargain for salaries and benefits. No one ever said that unions are in it for the children. That isn’t their purpose. Unions/associations take care of certain things so teachers can focus on their jobs and students.