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Posted by: macaoidh on Friday, February 19, 2010, 9:11
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“Parents are voting with their feet. … As kids continue leaving the system, we will lose teachers. Our very survival depends on having kids in D.C. schools so we’ll have teachers to represent.”

- George Parker, head of the Washington, D.C., teachers union, when asked about the school voucher program which was killed by the Obama administration last year.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Mike_Youngblood Mike_Youngblood

    Apparently Parker doesn't care about the quality of education offered by the system he works in, but only about having teachers paying dues to his union. Why are kids and their parents leaving? Where are they going, and what does their destination school offer?

    Fix the system? NO! Just collect the dues.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/macaoidh macaoidh

      It's a union. Unions don't exist to foster excellence in the workforce; they exist to perpetuate themselves through more money for their members and more control over working conditions. This isn't such a terrible thing when there is management on the other side of the table to negotiate at arm's length with its own money, but in the case of a public-employee union like the teachers, there is no "management" – there are only politicians who see the union members as a constituency to be co-opted and taxpayer funds as inexhaustible.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Mike_Youngblood Mike_Youngblood

    Apparently Parker doesn't care about the quality of education offered by the system he works in, but only about having teachers paying dues to his union. Why are kids and their parents leaving? Where are they going, and what does their destination school offer?

    Fix the system? NO! Just collect the dues.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/macaoidh macaoidh

      It's a union. Unions don't exist to foster excellence in the workforce; they exist to perpetuate themselves through more money for their members and more control over working conditions. This isn't such a terrible thing when there is management on the other side of the table to negotiate at arm's length with its own money, but in the case of a public-employee union like the teachers, there is no "management" – there are only politicians who see the union members as a constituency to be co-opted and taxpayer funds as inexhaustible.