re: #314 researchok

I am really at a loss as to what your anecdote was supposed to relate. Giving teachers pensions is always a bad thing? In Virginia they don’t have pensions?

How on earth did your anecdote support the contention that ‘the unions have shortchanged the kids’?

Why are you so insistent on defining your position as apolitical? I can agree your motives are apolitical. Your position, however, is not, nor would any action that would be taken as a result of your position be non-political. Public school education discussions are, by their very nature, political discussions.