[extropy-chat] teacher unions a bugbear?

[Al Brooks]

Too much emphasis is placed on the role of teachers'
unions in educational mediocrity. I think the blame
lies mostly with parents, who don't have enough time
to monitor public education, defaulting to teachers
and their unions.
And maybe, just maybe, the parents don't particularly
want their children to be more educated than
themselves. Naturally, there is no way to research
this as parents aren't going to admit such; but when
you have an educational system with such a high level
of illiteracy one might be excused in thinking there's
more to the problem than merely teachers' unions. 


		
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