re: #99 Dark_Falcon

Well, the Chicago Tribune recently did an article on just how hard it is to fire a bad teacher, so it’s not a myth. Overblown, maybe, but not a myth.

As for salary increases, I think the referendum needed. It prevents sweetheart union deals and forces unions to take their case to the public. If some teachers leave over it, so be it.

I didn’t say it was a myth.

The fact of the matter is that it is any union’s basic function to protect its members. Combine that with the fact that while you may be able to observe that a teacher is bad, proving it is a completely different matter that simply due to the nature of the work will take a considerable length of time, and yeah, it’s gonna take a long time to get a teacher fired.

Have the unions made it too difficult in places? Probably.