Unions aren't all bad currently a student teacher. During a school board meeting the administration tried to take away uninterrupted 30 min lunch periods and planning blocks for teachers. They said the teachers can just come school an hour earlier. The schools union stood up stopped them. Their argument was they only work 180 days.
Before education became unionized? How far back are we talking of ? Teachers unions are declining in number and the quality of education is declining too. You know who opposed common core? Teachers unions . And running education like a business will give you schools with crumbling buildings and not enough staff.
The video didn't offer a resolve. We can't stop paying taxes. The only true resolve is to remove teachers unions from the schools. That is the only chain we can break in this machine and that can only be done by the politicians. The same politicians that are lobbied for by the Unions. Do you think they will break that chain of income and votes to themselves? There is no feasible resolution to this systemic problem other than big businesses driving the Unions out.
@@conservativeeepatrick6752 Wisconsin resolved it. It allowed for union membership to be truly voluntary. Fewer teachers volunteered to join the union and the system broke down. The money saved from automatic dues collection and no longer having to use the union health insurance plan went directly into teachers’ pockets.
@@bdfunke and what benefits are there for teachers or students? Have you ever talked to any Wisconsin teachers? You really think employing people without health insurance and poor pay will resolve this problem . Imagine if you treated your doctors and other like this. Union membership isn't really the problem in first place rather budget cuts which led to this.
@@alterego8496 there’s the propaganda. Being free from just choosing the overpriced, union plan, school districts were free to choose better plans at a lower price. Then they were able to pass on the cost savings to the teachers as a raise. This is well documented but don’t let these facts get in the way of “the narrative”.
Living in NC and two teachers live in my apartment building. They were both day drinking during the pandemic while "teaching from home". By 3 PM they were venturing out (maybe to pick up more booze) and would come back parking their car in two spaces or at an angle. One was recently arrested for DUI. Most teachers aren't the "hero's" the media makes the out to be. They're not very bright and took an easy way out on a job that gives them half the year off. Nothing exactly noble about about that if you ask me.
I only stay at the hotel if I choose to, and I happily pay for the stay and any services I use. I am forced at gun point to pay for wars, services I don't use or need, the property I supposedly own in this country. Same thing applies in pretty much any other country nowadays. I and many others are fighting to restore this country to what it was founded as. If taxes were such a fantastic idea, they wouldn't need the men with guns.
Corporations in general don't make money off taxpayers, they make money off their customers, and they have to persuade the customer to give them money in return for services.
Center lefty here. I wanted to get a tough but fair take on this issue from the other side, but also not some insane/stupid fox,etc take. Thanks, Reason! Never change!
There is nothing wrong with any of those steps, except the last one. Buying a politician with campaign contributions. Just limit political donations to people (no unions or corporations) and limit the dollar amount to something low (like $1000) and you'll have a lot more democracy and a lot less corruption.
I think America's problem is most of all corruption. Unions are big here in Scandinavia, but the system works quite well without the massive corruption in unions and politics.
Great explanation. Really begs the question as to why education needs both the protection of “the Government” and the Union. But then it is already known to many of us as simple racketeering. A seemingly unsolvable problem associated with machines. But, since the Dems are in control, Tammany Hall still reigns supreme.
My mom’s name is Sally. She’s a teacher. But she lives in a Right-to-work state. She teaches a classroom full of students who have behavioral disorders that other teachers refused to teach. The kids beat her up on a daily basis. Pinching her until they draw blood. Kicking her in the knee so she has to have a knee operation. They run out of the classroom naked and destroy her property and teaching materials. In order to maintain order in the classroom, she needs more help, but the district refuses to give it to her on the account that it would redirect money out of their paychecks. Regardless of whether Sally’s in a union or not, Sally’s underpaid.
Having worked in the public schools for many, many years I can vouch for what is stated in this video. In NYC teachers are sent a whole newspaper with political candidates running for office in the NY, NJ. Conn. area and you need an electron microscope to find a Republican listed on any of the many pages. Where there is a Republican running unapposed the Teachers Union paper leaves it blank. So yes he is quite right and the teachers unions will hate him for exposing their corruption.
Im a Republican and I really like a lot of Reason-TV's videos. Like this video, reasontv shows us real problems without caring much about parties. The American people is a whole and we need to work together to better the economy, not divide ourselves into parties. The reason why I started by saying that Im a republican is because that shouldn't really matter, I'm just an American
Excellent video! Thank you Evan! I wish there was some way to get this video on TV, but that would only help if the passive and pacified TV viewer could somehow be motivated to care about important stuff like this.
"So by that logic one could also say that ..." No. One couldn't say that b/c govt employee unions get their money from taxpayers and then use that money to bribe politicians to increase funding from tax dollars. So there is a feedback loop. Corporations also lobby politicians and I oppose that. But they're not bribing politicians with tax dollars. So there is no feedback loop. Ultimately, corporations do have some accountability to the market.
The great thing about private schools is that they have to produce good results or parents will start changing their kids' schools. Public schools have no such incentive and in a lot of places students are locked into a single district, not able to change schools. Allowing private schools provides healthy levels of competition that every industry needs. Once again, everyone can afford private schools with vouchers, not just the rich, so any inequality is not based on class or income.
Oh, I'm with you. I'm all for having a huge turn-over rate for all of Congress until all the 'owned' ones are gone. I think it was Twain who said, "Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed often and for the same reason." I also think that any public(gov't) job should not be allowed to unionize, it's backwards thinking. Imagine if the U.S. military unionized, they'd become about worthless, so why cops, nurses (like in the V.A.) and teachers?
True, they only imply it throughout by suggesting that A) education spending is spent on teacher salaries and B) education spending had been rapidly increasing.
Stopping schools from hiring, retaining and rewarding the VERY BEST teachers by requiring LIFO (last-in, first-out) staffing. Is that how your favorite football team is staffed, or do they try to find and KEEP the very best players in order to improve team performance?
i got a idea, how about everyone homeschool the kids and plan the kids ahead so they can literally get a education from their parents? ya know like all parents should be able to do instead of working 2-3 jobs a week just to get by?
It is not the teachers job to "Raise Smarter Kids", it is the parents job to raise them and the teachers job is to educate them. There seems to be a big disconnect when you can't tie a teachers evaluation to the ability of the students that they teach. It looks like the teachers union was not able to "buy" all of the Chicago politicians, so they go on strike to somehow force the public to give them what they want through pressure on the politicians. Seems the teachers have abandoned the kids.
Our entire "Educational" system needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch. It doesn't matter how difficult a project like that would be, considering the alternative is the destruction of our nation.
the best thing i learned in elementary school was math. this same math (not "new math") taught me percentages and ratios. a five dollar registration fee paid for my associate degree and much more. this was during the mid 70's when the word "rip off" was heard like prophecy.
LOL!! Yes! My favorite comment was at the DNC was when Clinton said " Instead of trying to fix the economy the republicans were more focused on stopping Obama from another term? That was F'ing brilliant.
I share your concern over outsourcing (and even H1B Visas). My recommendation is that imports and exports be balanced so that the US can't import more than it exports. That would solve the trade deficit and act as a brake on outsourcing. That was Warren Buffet's idea, by the way.
It the students who suffer the most: there have been no improvements in academic performance for decades despite such huge increases in spending on public schools. We've got to get rid of tenure for teachers (and just outright fire them if they consistently perform poorly in teaching). Speaking of unions: Randi Weingarten is the current president of the AFT; her annual salary totals over $540,000.00. What the hell is she getting paid that much for when the US ranks below Europe and East Asia in standardized tests? The whole system needs to be revamped starting with removing the bureaucrats who've made it this lousy.
East Asian suicide rates, are ironically, due to their COLLECTIVE cultures. It is not the "schooling system" or "long school hours (as they have much longer and more breaks during the day)" that products higher suicide rates (as their suicide rates are also higher over the general population in every age group), but their cultures of conformity. Anyone who dons't fit the "mold" find themselves as outcasts. It's funny how Scandinavian counties are used as examples for socialists, yet they fail to mention they have school voucher systems, accelerated paths (separating problem children from academic children), and rank a lot higher in economic freedom indexes, with far fewer regulations.
Well you obviously can't put the one public protection tool (unions) in place against the public themselves. Only anti-union people would do that and only dummies would go along with it. It's a self eating loop and you only need a little common sense to see it. Unions are put in the public sector to "break" towns and force privatization - it's the privatization motive. Just like we do to 3rd world nations but using different means. In this case - they are saying "you like unions so much - you use them on yourself" and that's not how they work. . If you want to know how a proper Union works - see the NFL. Those guys (on average) would do that for 70k a year or less. They instead make millions of dollars but WITHOUT breaking the owner - the owner is rich too. They are all happy because the situation is balanced. A proper union, besides securing safe conditions, secures a "fair share" of the profits. That's what a union is suppose to do. In a public situation - you simply don't have a "fair share" of the profits to measure unless you recalculate everyone's wages based on the towns taxes. Right now - police, fire, education gets way too much public money and produce nothing. The only one producing anything is the schools and that product directly benefits the private companies so shouldn't the private companies be paying for education? How long and in how many ways are you going to subsidize private industry with public funds?? They are the biggest welfare queens going - particularly the biggest companies. Walmart helps full time workers get welfare and their container ships coming from China - you know the reason we lost our jobs - are coming over protected by U.S. Naval ships that we also pay for. Never mind the carbon pollution and waste we all have to pay for because they want to make stuff cheaper and cheat us out of jobs. Put your blame where it belongs and tell everyone if we want Unions - we all have to them. No union bosses and no dues. One union. Also - if we want to call citizens/people lazy welfare queens, make damn sure you have a job worth leaving the house for to offer them first. These so called jobs are shit wages that only a desperate slave will take. You don't want that world.
i generally agree with this argument; the only problem is that the argument is usually reappropriated to justify the existence and actions of much larger and more powerful gears of the machine. the primary goal of the non-corporate union is not to effect campaign contributions but to stop the gears from moving, which is, at a time of unlimited and unaccounted for bailouts, corporate welfare, massive military and prison expenditures, etc., very much necessary.
I LOVE how this is anti-teacher union video and not just anti-union. What about police and firefighter unions? If the American people want to destroy unions it HAS to be ALL unions. Personally, for the health of the government employee, I think there should be unions. Just make it into a choice and let it not be mandatory.
The difference is that schools in Finland operate in a vastly different way. Our school system is pretty terrible as it is, and little is being done to reform it. And no, throwing more money on the problem doesn't help, we need to revamp the system completely. Private schools offer a way to give a child an education that does not have to follow the failing system enacted in public schools. Not only that, but if you have voucher programs, everyone can get a private education, even the very poor.
It doesn't matter how many organizations throw up their arms and yell, it matters what their argument is. If their argument is that they can no longer impose their religion on those who don't agree with them, they lose. If their argument is that this effects their worship, they'll win. If their worship requires imposing their religion on others then you've reached the limits of the first amendment.
Campaign Finance Reform is the solution to this problem. NOT attacking the poor teachers or the poor students. Leave the unions alone, although I certainly don't dispute that they represent some negative variables in the equation also.
The key to fixing our broken educational system in America is to get rid of the unions. When have teacher's unions EVER advocated FOR the STUDENTS? NEVER.
Yes, public schools are equal; every child gets an equally terrible education. You can't just get rid of private schools assuming some kind of reform will be done afterwards, fix it first and then people will go back to using it. There is also no reason that a private education is inherently unequal. Voucher programs have been very successful at allowing children of all types to get a private education. And people of all income levels want private schools, not just the rich.
Once again, no reason-no point. My statement was that private schools spend less on administration and more on BOTH teachers and cirriculum. Public school districts are overburdened with administrative positions. Even out here in Texas the ISD has administrators outnumber teachers 2:1. And when private schools spend money there's a profit-loss motive, consumers (parents) want results. There is no market factor keeping Public schools in check- the pitfall of government programs.
I'll agree with you on resolving contract disputes; but in what way does the current government today ensure property rights? We are a serfdom, try not paying annual property taxes even after you've owned your property for decades, or heaven forbid a crony real-estate developer thinks your property would make a great addition, there's always imminent domain. And tragedy of the commons is simply what happens when property rights to homestead resources are prohibited by a government.
No, a few states (VERY few) won't withhold union dues without the member's written permission -- or won't withhold dues PERIOD. But in at least 45 states, the mandatory dues requirement is the law.
No, you're not forced to stay at the hotel at gun point. But you did stay at the hotel anyway. When the owner expects his cash, you're trying to call him the thief. Similarly, you are not forced to remain in this country, or even to remain a U.S. citizen.
This couldn't be further from the truth. 1. Union dues do not go to politicians. People can donate to PACs just like anyone else and that money is used once the MEMBERS decide who to endorse, NOT Jim. 2. "Sally" makes her money because she EARNED that money. The tax payers are just giving her money to give away. She earned it and has the right to spend it in the manner she decides. 3. Without unions you wouldn't have Labor Day, 8 hour work days, and many other benefits.
The one factor you seem to have forgotten is the ignorance, laziness, and lack of desire to be informed of the common tax payer. But of course with downward spiral of less educated kids (future taxpayers), I would say it is utterly hopeless, and collapse is just a matter of time GO-BAMA!
What ought a teacher be paid? What ought the curriculum be? Should there be a curriculum? These, and numerous other questions cannot be answered by you, me, or anybody else. Some methods work for some students, other methods work for others. In any case, parents and students are the ultimate decision makers for what's best for them. Forcing others to pay for a school system that they do not want (or worse, does not work for them) is elitist and cruel. Give freedom and non-violence a chance.
Why would the GOP support public education that ruins the lives of so many children? Unlike the teacher's unions, the GOP actually cares about educating children. All the teacher's unions care about is more money for less work. Look at the Chicago strike - the teachers there make $75K/year and work 7 hour days, 10 months a year. That's 50% more than what I make as a programmer, working 8-10 hour days year round. And still it's not enough for them! Meanwhile the kids are out of school.
If private schools and voucher programs are so bad, why is Denmark, a country where 1 in 8 students are enrolled in private schools, tied at the number 1 spot on the UN Education Index? There is a very easy way to reform education, create public charter schools. Unions don't like them because they can't enforce most of their rules there, hence they have been stymied. Charter schools are also a huge chunk of the school system in Denmark, so we know they can work very well if implemented right.
You can opt out of a union and you can opt out of having dues go to political purposes. Unions fight for smaller class sizes and more funding for categoricals like GATE and field trips. Collective bargaining is not thuggery. The state pays me and I choose what to do with it.
Mistake at 3:10. Edward does not use that money to campaign for more teachers like Sally. He uses that money for campaign commercials to get elected. Once elected he raises property taxes to get more money to pay Sally. So Sally gets a raise so she can pay more in Union dues, which gets more campaign money the next time around for Edward. It's the biggest kickback scandal in term of dollars in history.
The government made union membership mandatory for teachers. Thats much easier and more direct than taking the money from the tax payers first and then give it to the unions.
You cannot have a "pure free-market" without government to, at a very minimum, ensure property rights, resolve contract disputes, and mitigate the tragedy of the commons. Without that, you have rule by the strongest. The largest most powerful group will form their own government. Anarchy never lasts.
The party split for business spending is about 50/50 Democrat/Republican, while union spending is almost *entirely* Democrat. Furthermore, no one is forcing anyone to buy a product from a company with which they disagree (except the Democrats, through the ObamaCare mandate). If someone doesn't like that a company's political spending, they can get out of supporting it, without losing anything. If you don't like where the unions spend their money, it's your livelihood on the line.
Constitutionality is NOT based on what a bunch of unaccountable judges say. The courts can force the rest of the government to PRETEND something is Constitution or not; they do not MAKE it so. "to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." - Thomas Jefferson
Teachers' Unions don't only keep bad teachers in the payroll, they cause teachers to lose their job for no real reason. An experienced, licensed teacher with an advanced degree can be forced out after one year. Evaluations are nebulous and unspecific, so even a teacher with a satisfactory review can be non-renewed. Why would schools do that? To keep the teacher from moving up the pay scale. Because teachers and school cannot negotiate salary terms, schools must pay the what the unions set. And new college graduates are far less expensive than teachers who have better credentials, so new grads are always going to be preferred. I know of one district that hired long-term substitutes for the first semester while they waited for college students (relatives, of course) to finish student teaching. Do you want your children taught by an experienced teacher, or a cheaper one who doesn't really know how to do the job?
A big part of the problem is getting the unions to change. They're entrenched in a lot of ways, like a lot about of modern institutions, and have become highly bureaucratic. But they become bureaucratic because the system they're working in requires bureaucracy. A history of the NEA would show how they were forced to become increasingly bureaucratic in response to changes that happened during the 20th century.
I applaud you sir on your trolling. You crammed in so many straw men and false assertions in so few words. I am not looking to debate you. I just wanted to let you know that your skills have been noted and admired. Thunderous applause sir, THUNDEROUS!!!!! (clap, clap, clap)
Yes, I think enough of us turned into this. We are no longer the kind of Americans who built this country. And so when people say "we been down before and come back," I think, no WE haven't. They were down and they sacrificed (as a group) and came back. We really won't do that. We just won't. And there is nothing to suggest we will other than we had ancestors who did -- precisely because they were radically different from us.
"Well-oiled machine" is a bit too polite for what would other-wise be called a parasite.
Before education became unionized, we were in the business of educating. Now, we are in the education business.
Unions aren't all bad currently a student teacher. During a school board meeting the administration tried to take away uninterrupted 30 min lunch periods and planning blocks for teachers. They said the teachers can just come school an hour earlier. The schools union stood up stopped them. Their argument was they only work 180 days.
Before education became unionized? How far back are we talking of ?
Teachers unions are declining in number and the quality of education is declining too.
You know who opposed common core? Teachers unions .
And running education like a business will give you schools with crumbling buildings and not enough staff.
The low-key carnival music fits the cut out magazine animation so well!
98 people love living off the backs of the productive.
-FFM
Yes, ignorance is truly bliss. That's why we have so many blissful people in this country.
I wish I could give this 1,000,000,000,000,000 thumbs up! This would solve so so many problems in the US.
The video didn't offer a resolve. We can't stop paying taxes.
The only true resolve is to remove teachers unions from the schools. That is the only chain we can break in this machine and that can only be done by the politicians. The same politicians that are lobbied for by the Unions. Do you think they will break that chain of income and votes to themselves?
There is no feasible resolution to this systemic problem other than big businesses driving the Unions out.
@@conservativeeepatrick6752 Wisconsin resolved it. It allowed for union membership to be truly voluntary. Fewer teachers volunteered to join the union and the system broke down. The money saved from automatic dues collection and no longer having to use the union health insurance plan went directly into teachers’ pockets.
@@bdfunke and what benefits are there for teachers or students? Have you ever talked to any Wisconsin teachers?
You really think employing people without health insurance and poor pay will resolve this problem . Imagine if you treated your doctors and other like this.
Union membership isn't really the problem in first place rather budget cuts which led to this.
@@alterego8496 there’s the propaganda. Being free from just choosing the overpriced, union plan, school districts were free to choose better plans at a lower price. Then they were able to pass on the cost savings to the teachers as a raise. This is well documented but don’t let these facts get in the way of “the narrative”.
Living in NC and two teachers live in my apartment building. They were both day drinking during the pandemic while "teaching from home". By 3 PM they were venturing out (maybe to pick up more booze) and would come back parking their car in two spaces or at an angle. One was recently arrested for DUI.
Most teachers aren't the "hero's" the media makes the out to be. They're not very bright and took an easy way out on a job that gives them half the year off. Nothing exactly noble about about that if you ask me.
In Right to Work states, you cannot be forced to be part of a union.
Privatize schools! Get government out of education!
I only stay at the hotel if I choose to, and I happily pay for the stay and any services I use.
I am forced at gun point to pay for wars, services I don't use or need, the property I supposedly own in this country. Same thing applies in pretty much any other country nowadays. I and many others are fighting to restore this country to what it was founded as. If taxes were such a fantastic idea, they wouldn't need the men with guns.
Corporations in general don't make money off taxpayers, they make money off their customers, and they have to persuade the customer to give them money in return for services.
Finally, someone else that sees things for what they are!
pro tip : watch series on flixzone. I've been using it for watching loads of movies lately.
@Leighton Watson Definitely, been using Flixzone for since november myself :)
Center lefty here. I wanted to get a tough but fair take on this issue from the other side, but also not some insane/stupid fox,etc take. Thanks, Reason! Never change!
There is nothing wrong with any of those steps, except the last one. Buying a politician with campaign contributions.
Just limit political donations to people (no unions or corporations) and limit the dollar amount to something low (like $1000) and you'll have a lot more democracy and a lot less corruption.
In Sacramento the most expense building built in the city is the Teachers Union headquarters, glad I could help with my taxes.
We need reform now!
Defund the school system until they banish the Teacher's Unions.
I think America's problem is most of all corruption. Unions are big here in Scandinavia, but the system works quite well without the massive corruption in unions and politics.
Great explanation. Really begs the question as to why education needs both the protection of “the Government” and the Union. But then it is already known to many of us as simple racketeering. A seemingly unsolvable problem associated with machines. But, since the Dems are in control, Tammany Hall still reigns supreme.
Why is it that in the Untied States, it is always about "follow the money"?
Union thugs. Serve no purpose in life besides extortion.
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You’re misinformed, you listen to your employer anti-union propaganda
davec3487 clueless
My mom’s name is Sally. She’s a teacher. But she lives in a Right-to-work state. She teaches a classroom full of students who have behavioral disorders that other teachers refused to teach. The kids beat her up on a daily basis. Pinching her until they draw blood. Kicking her in the knee so she has to have a knee operation. They run out of the classroom naked and destroy her property and teaching materials. In order to maintain order in the classroom, she needs more help, but the district refuses to give it to her on the account that it would redirect money out of their paychecks. Regardless of whether Sally’s in a union or not, Sally’s underpaid.
They don't fight for the rights of the taxpayer. Or the kids.
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Homeschoolers still have to pay for this crap, plus the cost of their own curriculum, having a parent stay home, co-ops, and field trips. For now...
Having worked in the public schools for many, many years I can vouch for what is stated in this video. In NYC teachers are sent a whole newspaper with political candidates running for office in the NY, NJ. Conn. area and you need an electron microscope to find a Republican listed on any of the many pages. Where there is a Republican running unapposed the Teachers Union paper leaves it blank. So yes he is quite right and the teachers unions will hate him for exposing their corruption.
Im a Republican and I really like a lot of Reason-TV's videos. Like this video, reasontv shows us real problems without caring much about parties. The American people is a whole and we need to work together to better the economy, not divide ourselves into parties.
The reason why I started by saying that Im a republican is because that shouldn't really matter, I'm just an American
Excellent video! Thank you Evan!
I wish there was some way to get this video on TV, but that would only help if the passive and pacified TV viewer could somehow be motivated to care about important stuff like this.
This is sickening.
Yes. The NEA talks a good game about putting "students first" while their actions deny the very thing they so loudly espouse.
"So by that logic one could also say that ..."
No. One couldn't say that b/c govt employee unions get their money from taxpayers and then use that money to bribe politicians to increase funding from tax dollars. So there is a feedback loop. Corporations also lobby politicians and I oppose that. But they're not bribing politicians with tax dollars. So there is no feedback loop. Ultimately, corporations do have some accountability to the market.
brilliant, professional and extremely well polished. Please more videos like this! even if the cost is fewer videos in total.
The great thing about private schools is that they have to produce good results or parents will start changing their kids' schools. Public schools have no such incentive and in a lot of places students are locked into a single district, not able to change schools. Allowing private schools provides healthy levels of competition that every industry needs. Once again, everyone can afford private schools with vouchers, not just the rich, so any inequality is not based on class or income.
...homeschool
or go private.🙏
Oh, I'm with you. I'm all for having a huge turn-over rate for all of Congress until all the 'owned' ones are gone. I think it was Twain who said, "Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed often and for the same reason." I also think that any public(gov't) job should not be allowed to unionize, it's backwards thinking. Imagine if the U.S. military unionized, they'd become about worthless, so why cops, nurses (like in the V.A.) and teachers?
I FUCKING HATE SCHOOL EVEN MORE NOW
Funny
True, they only imply it throughout by suggesting that A) education spending is spent on teacher salaries and B) education spending had been rapidly increasing.
Agreed, if only we could somehow find a way to enforce this system, the results would be astonishing.
Right to work = right to work for less. Right to work is code for unionbusting.
Well done.
I am for a world of Wal-Mart !
Stopping schools from hiring, retaining and rewarding the VERY BEST teachers by requiring LIFO (last-in, first-out) staffing. Is that how your favorite football team is staffed, or do they try to find and KEEP the very best players in order to improve team performance?
> You never hear any complaints about the prison guard unions.
You're not paying attention.
i got a idea, how about everyone homeschool the kids and plan the kids ahead so they can literally get a education from their parents? ya know like all parents should be able to do instead of working 2-3 jobs a week just to get by?
This is why I never trust public school teachers other than teaching me their subject.
Well done!
Anyone receiving money from the govt should not be allowed to vote or give money to campaigns.
It is not the teachers job to "Raise Smarter Kids", it is the parents job to raise them and the teachers job is to educate them. There seems to be a big disconnect when you can't tie a teachers evaluation to the ability of the students that they teach. It looks like the teachers union was not able to "buy" all of the Chicago politicians, so they go on strike to somehow force the public to give them what they want through pressure on the politicians. Seems the teachers have abandoned the kids.
Our entire "Educational" system needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch. It doesn't matter how difficult a project like that would be, considering the alternative is the destruction of our nation.
there is power in numbers. . . taxpayers unite !
the best thing i learned in elementary school was math. this same math (not "new math") taught me percentages and ratios. a five dollar registration fee paid for my associate degree and much more. this was during the mid 70's when the word "rip off" was heard like prophecy.
LOL!! Yes! My favorite comment was at the DNC was when Clinton said " Instead of trying to fix the economy the republicans were more focused on stopping Obama from another term? That was F'ing brilliant.
I share your concern over outsourcing (and even H1B Visas). My recommendation is that imports and exports be balanced so that the US can't import more than it exports. That would solve the trade deficit and act as a brake on outsourcing. That was Warren Buffet's idea, by the way.
No. As a Libertarian, the freedom of association is essential to a society. However, FORCED unions are a different thing.
Privatize public schools.
I love the music.
Why don't get rid of police unions first.
It the students who suffer the most: there have been no improvements in academic performance for decades despite such huge increases in spending on public schools.
We've got to get rid of tenure for teachers (and just outright fire them if they consistently perform poorly in teaching).
Speaking of unions: Randi Weingarten is the current president of the AFT; her annual salary totals over $540,000.00. What the hell is she getting paid that much for when the US ranks below Europe and East Asia in standardized tests? The whole system needs to be revamped starting with removing the bureaucrats who've made it this lousy.
Ah yes, the East Asian school system. The best suicide machine money can't buy. That needs ridiculous standards and 12 hour school days.
East Asian suicide rates, are ironically, due to their COLLECTIVE cultures. It is not the "schooling system" or "long school hours (as they have much longer and more breaks during the day)" that products higher suicide rates (as their suicide rates are also higher over the general population in every age group), but their cultures of conformity. Anyone who dons't fit the "mold" find themselves as outcasts.
It's funny how Scandinavian counties are used as examples for socialists, yet they fail to mention they have school voucher systems, accelerated paths (separating problem children from academic children), and rank a lot higher in economic freedom indexes, with far fewer regulations.
Well you obviously can't put the one public protection tool (unions) in place against the public themselves. Only anti-union people would do that and only dummies would go along with it. It's a self eating loop and you only need a little common sense to see it.
Unions are put in the public sector to "break" towns and force privatization - it's the privatization motive. Just like we do to 3rd world nations but using different means. In this case - they are saying "you like unions so much - you use them on yourself" and that's not how they work. .
If you want to know how a proper Union works - see the NFL. Those guys (on average) would do that for 70k a year or less. They instead make millions of dollars but WITHOUT breaking the owner - the owner is rich too. They are all happy because the situation is balanced. A proper union, besides securing safe conditions, secures a "fair share" of the profits. That's what a union is suppose to do. In a public situation - you simply don't have a "fair share" of the profits to measure unless you recalculate everyone's wages based on the towns taxes. Right now - police, fire, education gets way too much public money and produce nothing. The only one producing anything is the schools and that product directly benefits the private companies so shouldn't the private companies be paying for education? How long and in how many ways are you going to subsidize private industry with public funds?? They are the biggest welfare queens going - particularly the biggest companies. Walmart helps full time workers get welfare and their container ships coming from China - you know the reason we lost our jobs - are coming over protected by U.S. Naval ships that we also pay for. Never mind the carbon pollution and waste we all have to pay for because they want to make stuff cheaper and cheat us out of jobs.
Put your blame where it belongs and tell everyone if we want Unions - we all have to them. No union bosses and no dues. One union. Also - if we want to call citizens/people lazy welfare queens, make damn sure you have a job worth leaving the house for to offer them first. These so called jobs are shit wages that only a desperate slave will take. You don't want that world.
Sally needs to challenge this law on Constitutional grounds!
Sally did. The Janus Decision by the Supreme Court. I just dropped out of the teacher's union.
i generally agree with this argument; the only problem is that the argument is usually reappropriated to justify the existence and actions of much larger and more powerful gears of the machine.
the primary goal of the non-corporate union is not to effect campaign contributions but to stop the gears from moving, which is, at a time of unlimited and unaccounted for bailouts, corporate welfare, massive military and prison expenditures, etc., very much necessary.
I LOVE how this is anti-teacher union video and not just anti-union. What about police and firefighter unions? If the American people want to destroy unions it HAS to be ALL unions.
Personally, for the health of the government employee, I think there should be unions. Just make it into a choice and let it not be mandatory.
The difference is that schools in Finland operate in a vastly different way. Our school system is pretty terrible as it is, and little is being done to reform it. And no, throwing more money on the problem doesn't help, we need to revamp the system completely. Private schools offer a way to give a child an education that does not have to follow the failing system enacted in public schools. Not only that, but if you have voucher programs, everyone can get a private education, even the very poor.
Others might call it "protection money."
It doesn't matter how many organizations throw up their arms and yell, it matters what their argument is. If their argument is that they can no longer impose their religion on those who don't agree with them, they lose. If their argument is that this effects their worship, they'll win. If their worship requires imposing their religion on others then you've reached the limits of the first amendment.
I'm not forced to stay at his hotel at gun point. I am forced to pay taxes at gun point whether or not I have kids, drive on public roads, etc...
Campaign Finance Reform is the solution to this problem.
NOT attacking the poor teachers or the poor students. Leave the unions alone, although I certainly don't dispute that they represent some negative variables in the equation also.
This is a distinction without a difference. The whole video was about money transfer.
The key to fixing our broken educational system in America is to get rid of the unions. When have teacher's unions EVER advocated FOR the STUDENTS? NEVER.
Thanks Evan, Erin, Maurice, Rob & Stacie.
Awesome videos! Yeah I do agree about what he said about not using the money we worked for.
Yes, public schools are equal; every child gets an equally terrible education. You can't just get rid of private schools assuming some kind of reform will be done afterwards, fix it first and then people will go back to using it.
There is also no reason that a private education is inherently unequal. Voucher programs have been very successful at allowing children of all types to get a private education. And people of all income levels want private schools, not just the rich.
Once again, no reason-no point. My statement was that private schools spend less on administration and more on BOTH teachers and cirriculum. Public school districts are overburdened with administrative positions. Even out here in Texas the ISD has administrators outnumber teachers 2:1. And when private schools spend money there's a profit-loss motive, consumers (parents) want results. There is no market factor keeping Public schools in check- the pitfall of government programs.
how is it legal for our public servants to collectively bargain while under contract? I don't remember authorizing our servants to do this.
Another professionally produced video from Evan Coyne Maloney. Great job! So simple even a gradeschooler would understand.
I'll agree with you on resolving contract disputes; but in what way does the current government today ensure property rights? We are a serfdom, try not paying annual property taxes even after you've owned your property for decades, or heaven forbid a crony real-estate developer thinks your property would make a great addition, there's always imminent domain. And tragedy of the commons is simply what happens when property rights to homestead resources are prohibited by a government.
Good presentation. And nothing will stop the machine.
No, a few states (VERY few) won't withhold union dues without the member's written permission -- or won't withhold dues PERIOD. But in at least 45 states, the mandatory dues requirement is the law.
No, you're not forced to stay at the hotel at gun point. But you did stay at the hotel anyway. When the owner expects his cash, you're trying to call him the thief.
Similarly, you are not forced to remain in this country, or even to remain a U.S. citizen.
There is no need for the dept of education. My money should stay in my community and we should deceid what right for us
Wisconsin is so blessed with a governor that is school superintendent. He knows how to help teachers.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
1. Union dues do not go to politicians. People can donate to PACs just like anyone else and that money is used once the MEMBERS decide who to endorse, NOT Jim.
2. "Sally" makes her money because she EARNED that money. The tax payers are just giving her money to give away. She earned it and has the right to spend it in the manner she decides.
3. Without unions you wouldn't have Labor Day, 8 hour work days, and many other benefits.
Taxation using the threat of force makes all this possible, without the threat of force and redistribution of wealth, there can be no chain.
The one factor you seem to have forgotten is the ignorance, laziness, and lack of desire to be informed of the common tax payer. But of course with downward spiral of less educated kids (future taxpayers), I would say it is utterly hopeless, and collapse is just a matter of time GO-BAMA!
What ought a teacher be paid? What ought the curriculum be? Should there be a curriculum?
These, and numerous other questions cannot be answered by you, me, or anybody else. Some methods work for some students, other methods work for others.
In any case, parents and students are the ultimate decision makers for what's best for them.
Forcing others to pay for a school system that they do not want (or worse, does not work for them) is elitist and cruel.
Give freedom and non-violence a chance.
Why would the GOP support public education that ruins the lives of so many children? Unlike the teacher's unions, the GOP actually cares about educating children. All the teacher's unions care about is more money for less work. Look at the Chicago strike - the teachers there make $75K/year and work 7 hour days, 10 months a year. That's 50% more than what I make as a programmer, working 8-10 hour days year round. And still it's not enough for them! Meanwhile the kids are out of school.
If private schools and voucher programs are so bad, why is Denmark, a country where 1 in 8 students are enrolled in private schools, tied at the number 1 spot on the UN Education Index?
There is a very easy way to reform education, create public charter schools. Unions don't like them because they can't enforce most of their rules there, hence they have been stymied. Charter schools are also a huge chunk of the school system in Denmark, so we know they can work very well if implemented right.
Great vid! Was this video done in 2007? Because i see that the reffered to 2007 as the current year on the bar graph. Thanks!
that is as good a summary as I have read
You can opt out of a union and you can opt out of having dues go to political purposes.
Unions fight for smaller class sizes and more funding for categoricals like GATE and field trips. Collective bargaining is not thuggery. The state pays me and I choose what to do with it.
Mistake at 3:10. Edward does not use that money to campaign for more teachers like Sally. He uses that money for campaign commercials to get elected. Once elected he raises property taxes to get more money to pay Sally. So Sally gets a raise so she can pay more in Union dues, which gets more campaign money the next time around for Edward. It's the biggest kickback scandal in term of dollars in history.
Poverty is the best tax shelter. I encourage more people learn how to live with less material needs and enjoy happiness in other ways.
The government made union membership mandatory for teachers. Thats much easier and more direct than taking the money from the tax payers first and then give it to the unions.
You cannot have a "pure free-market" without government to, at a very minimum, ensure property rights, resolve contract disputes, and mitigate the tragedy of the commons. Without that, you have rule by the strongest. The largest most powerful group will form their own government. Anarchy never lasts.
The party split for business spending is about 50/50 Democrat/Republican, while union spending is almost *entirely* Democrat. Furthermore, no one is forcing anyone to buy a product from a company with which they disagree (except the Democrats, through the ObamaCare mandate). If someone doesn't like that a company's political spending, they can get out of supporting it, without losing anything. If you don't like where the unions spend their money, it's your livelihood on the line.
Constitutionality is NOT based on what a bunch of unaccountable judges say. The courts can force the rest of the government to PRETEND something is Constitution or not; they do not MAKE it so.
"to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy."
- Thomas Jefferson
Teachers' Unions don't only keep bad teachers in the payroll, they cause teachers to lose their job for no real reason. An experienced, licensed teacher with an advanced degree can be forced out after one year. Evaluations are nebulous and unspecific, so even a teacher with a satisfactory review can be non-renewed. Why would schools do that? To keep the teacher from moving up the pay scale. Because teachers and school cannot negotiate salary terms, schools must pay the what the unions set. And new college graduates are far less expensive than teachers who have better credentials, so new grads are always going to be preferred. I know of one district that hired long-term substitutes for the first semester while they waited for college students (relatives, of course) to finish student teaching.
Do you want your children taught by an experienced teacher, or a cheaper one who doesn't really know how to do the job?
A big part of the problem is getting the unions to change. They're entrenched in a lot of ways, like a lot about of modern institutions, and have become highly bureaucratic. But they become bureaucratic because the system they're working in requires bureaucracy. A history of the NEA would show how they were forced to become increasingly bureaucratic in response to changes that happened during the 20th century.
When small minds don't know how to debate with logic, they resort to cursing.
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Yes, there is no way a government worker could fight back alone.
Yes, I think enough of us turned into this. We are no longer the kind of Americans who built this country. And so when people say "we been down before and come back," I think, no WE haven't. They were down and they sacrificed (as a group) and came back. We really won't do that. We just won't. And there is nothing to suggest we will other than we had ancestors who did -- precisely because they were radically different from us.
NO! thats what collages do in the US and that system is the most broken thing ever. it also endorses a rich get richer mechanic.