I am a case manager and medical consultant for worker's comp. I literally get 2 dozen teachers with work injuries caused by students beating the hell out of them. The teacher's union doesn't care about the teachers.
I have a friend who was attacked by a student wheeling a 3’ 2x4 in a shop class. The teacher was fired for defending himself with his hands. This was probably 30 years ago in a progressive city in Texas. I can’t imagine how much worse the imbalance has gotten.
Having spent 13 years as a teacher in the public schools I can say do not keep your kids in them. It cannot be reformed. You can remove their power in one day by pulling your kids out and homeschool, co-ops, private. The agenda is in the teacher colleges, textbooks, curriculum, testing companies, school boards etc.
R. M. I taught home schooling classes for my local Home Schooling Coop for eleven years while at the same time having a full time job! I can say without a single doubt that the students coming in to my classes from Public (government) School were many times hopelessly behind Home Schooling students. I say this without hesitation, "Public School IS child abuse."
My wife was an elementary school teacher here in Maryland for 22 years. Thankfully, she could retire early due to some medical problems. For most of the time she was not part of the union except for a few years when she was extremely bullied to join. You 😮should’ve seen the amount of bullying. She received from her principal and some of her coworkers after we got married, and I put Republican bumper stickers on our cars. The level of harassment she received wouldn’t have never been tolerated in a private business. The funny thing was, some teachers would come up to her, and say that they were extremely conservative too, but they were afraid to show it. As a veteran, I find that absolutely disgusting that you’d be afraid to show your beliefs just to keep a job. She is so much happier, being retired, and I having to deal with the nonsense anymore.
I taught in MD. I did not join the union, but dues are taken from teachers' paychecks no matter their membership status. This was before Janus, so I could not do anything about it. There was a benefit, though. The medical insurance was great. I had life-saving brain surgery, with all the pre- and post-care, paid for by insurance. My co-pays were miniscule. I left the state 2 weeks after the surgery and i won't be back.
I am retired. My Maryland middle school was very conservative and relatively unwelcoming to those who weren’t. The most anti union teacher almost lost his job but the Union saved it. Personally, I thought he was in the right, but the parent was vocal and lawsuit happy so the BOE of going to fire him. I felt he deserved a commendation. After his experience, he never spoke another bad word about the union. The health insurance was good but like all employers that depends on the county. The retirement is horrible. The best benefit was an almost free Masters Degree ($40,000-$60,000 value). Pay in Maryland was highly variable based on the county you work in. There could be a $20,000 starting pay difference. I wouldn’t trust school administrators to give out pay raises based on meritocracy. Maryland Teachers Union has components to it. The political part you can opt out of and not pay that portion of the union dues. I always mention it to anyone complaining about the political arm of the union. It is a simple way to protest when you disagree with the union politics. I am sorry your wife felt bullied. I hope her health improves. Best wishes to you and yours!
My post-secondary institution just voted on bringing in the MEA. We had not been represented by any union, prior. The pressure to join was immense. When the cards came to allow a vote, I signed mine. But when the vote came, I abstained. It was my thought that anyone desiring to join should have that right to vote on it, but I would not. As abstaining doesn't count as a negative vote, that's as far as it went, on my part. I was delighted and surprised to see a substantial number of votes directly against the union. However, the union WAS approved. Now I will be pressured to directly join and pay dues. But this is the decision I made. I'm sticking to it-- for all of the reasons this video presents. I'm of the belief that we need to live our beliefs.... so I would not have felt right denying them a vote. But I won't join this organization... I don't support it.
@@renadamTWELVE as you know we live in a litigious society. I priced the difference between educators insurance offered by my home insurance company and union dues. Union dues won. There were other benefits I used. 2+ free hours with a lawyer per year. So they could do your will one year, year 2 file your consensual divorce, year 3 the closing for your new house. There were other benefits but I’m retired and no longer a union member. You can lower your dues by opting out of the political process of the union.
Teachers need to stop paying union fees on mass. Once the money dries up either they will change their tune or perish. Either outcome is a step in the right direction.
The situation is much the same, here in Canada. I remember it being an issue as a student in the 70's and 80's, where we had teachers that behaved inappropriately towards students, but complaints meant nothing. Those teachers had tenure. But a brand new teacher? One mistake, and he was gone - and us kids all agreed, it should have been the student that was punished, not the teacher. It's just gotten worse over the years.
@@AMKB01 as kids we loved it- we looked forward to at least 3 classes a day where the teachers socialised with us. ZERO work. Not an open book, not a word about subject were attending for that 45 minutes.
@@dnice4335 that's just... amazing. Kinda scary, too. When we were homeschooling still, and I would get challenged about how I, a mere parent, could think I could do a better job of educating our kids than a trained teacher in school, I would sometimes answer that it would take effort on the part of the parents to do a worse job than the public school system. I hadn't realized just how true that statement really was!
@@AMKB01 What the teacher has over you .... Maybe ..... is knowledge. That is not always true. I've seen teachers who knew nothing about the subject. I had a reading teacher who had you read to her. After she "tested" everyone you were assigned where to start in ... Sorry I'm not sure what to call it, but you basily read off a card, answered the questions on the back and if you did good moved on to the next. You gave the teacher your paper. Halfway through the year we had to read for her again and she placed me where she felt I needed to be. At the time I was terrible reading out loud. (Speech problems, self-confidence and other issues) I had to re read all those articles and tales again. Later in college I was tested for a learning disability. For reading and reading comprehension I was over 90% of the population. She had me doing things for less than 50% of the population. My point if that is all the teacher is going to do you can do it at home with the child, in a more relaxed environment.
Simply either homeschool your kid or send them to a private school or the last option look for a good charter school. Read Thomas Sowell book about "charter schools and the people against them"
Right, because everyone knows the option is so simple. How stupid of parents to not do that. It’s not like they have other responsibilities like a job or two, or even more kids to raise. Just leave your kid at home or pay the equivalent of a vehicle every year in subpar education. Geez I wonder why people don’t just do that since everybody has thousands of dollars laying around.
@@Hgh38 Your best source for info is your local homeschool group. The homeschooling rules are different for each state/area & they would be most familiar for the laws in your area. That being said, homeschooling is easier than most people think. Homeschool hours do not have to be the same as school hours. Once my kids got into the routine; they were finished by 12pm (so 5 hours of school). There are also co-op classes where a room is rented & a parent teaches. There are outdoor days & playground days. There's a lot of options out there.
My kids go to Catholic school but homeschool is plan B. I would love this as well. Kids need more stay at home mom’s. A lot of the moms in our kids school are SAHM and of course most of the kids are in a 2 parent household. I think that is the biggest privilege a child can have.
I worked with the San Diego Union school district. it was terrible. Between common core, crt, and the lack of discipline, it was Bs. We had one kid bring a knife to school. He damaged school property and threatened a student. He was suspended for one day. We had one who broke most school rules. One day suspension after another, but no change. We had a three strikes and you are out policy with my program. It was never enforced. I'm glad I left.
angel goya I am a 74 year Californian resident , living in Newsom's one party, controlled, state prison. I live roughly 90 minutes north of SD. I thought LAUSD and the teachers' union were crap until more stories about the SD school district surfaced. I always wondered how much in government dollars the SD school district received for having classes for bussed in illegals while your schools were still shut down? I hope you ate doing better and you are in a safer environment.
On the one hand there is literally no discipline. But on the other hand teaching attracts mediocrities who figure anyone can be smarter than a bunch of kids so that is perceived as their only venue to be some level of management. But the jokes on them because teachers are not management, hence their reliance on labor unions to protect themselves. And since American public schools are really only daycare centers for mostly imbeciles, teacher quality doesn’t matter because most of the kids are certainly not going to learn much of anything anyway. So everybody loses. Hence the rising popularity of home schooling, UNSCHOOLING and online academy not to mention just screwing off until you’re old enough to attend GED cram school, my former speciality. I could take anyone with a sixth grade reading level and get them their high school equivalency diploma in six months no sweat! That’s literally how easy the GED test actually is. Then at that point you’re golden for community college. After two years of community college it’s a cinch to get into the local commuting state university such as Cleveland State or the University of Akron. That’s literally how little public school even matters. I always vote no on school levies except for Cuyahoga Community College and the public library. I taught for 7 years and it was a complete waste of time except for the GED tutoring I did for two years at the end. I had the highest pass rate in the state for two years.
Wow omg. There is this school located in New York called Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation. And the kid was constantly getting bullied by two other kids, and he would tell the teacher and the principal about the situation, and nothing was done. Therefore, the boy brought a knife to school because he was bullied in school based on his sexuality. I guess it was revenge. So he stab the other kid constantly, where everyone was screaming, and panicking that parents had to pick up their kids early from school. Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation is permanently closed for good.
@@keciaaskew5166 ".. The kid was constantly getting bullied by two other kids, and he would tell the teacher and the principal about the situation, and nothing was done." I have a great disdain for the slogan used by teachers and teachers' unions, "We care about the kids". IThe slogan seems conveniently used when teachers and Teachers' unions are asking for more money, more benefits, more time off,smaller classes and unnecessary b.s.,. especially in the larger school districts in the nations, like in California and New York. You have all these highly, educated adults with degrees and they are unable to properly "care about the kids" when it comes to such things as bullying. I don't know how good the school was, but it is closed down and kids have to go elsewhere.
@@Nordic_Sky Randi Weingarten is an unmitigated piece of useless crap. She shut down schools and lied and said she wanted schools open. Maybe she knows that the southern border is secure, too.
I’m gonna send my daughter to private school I don’t want her going to a public school. My parents moved when I was in 7th grade and the new school was a terrible experience for me I was bullied, made fun of, teachers knew and did nothing, a teacher called me fat and the whole classroom laughed at me. The school I was at before moving I was never bullied, I was not popular but I was friends with everyone but not the new school. At the new school it all started because I stuck up for some nerdy kids getting bullied and because I did that I started getting bullied. The school I was at before was much bigger and bulling really wasn’t a thing kids were much nicer. If my daughter ever has any problems like I did I will do whatever it takes to help her, pay for a different school or whatever I refuse to let her have an experience like I did!
I remember my dad wanted to put me in a private high school. Unfortunately, my grandmother put me in a regular high school, where I was bullied because I would receive speech, and the students would laugh at me and the teacher wouldn’t do anything about at.
I always had anxiety from not fitting in and not having the right clothes, as well as unhappiness at home. This was a huge distraction from learning. It really hit home recently when I saw a teenager on TH-cam say she knew she looked good, and could focus on her work. Fitting in gives you peace of mind.
Private schools have plenty of bullying....more so than public school, in my opinion. (K-10 private and 11-12 public) I homeschool and my daughter was just called weird today by her so called friend. Bullying happens everywhere and we can't completely shield our children from it even though I wish we could. The best thing that we can do is try to be there for them when it happens and give them the tools they need to deal with it.
Politics should be left out of the “American”public education system. The American education system is the worst compared internationally with countries around the world. But the main problem why the education system in America is so bad is because the culture in America does not put education as a priority. The military is priority. Huge amount of money goes to the military, but pennies go to education. Students are not held accountable or responsible for their learning. Students can pass their classes with doing one to no assignments for the entire school year otherwise parents challenges the teacher and school system. Principals have graduation quotas to meet, thus teachers are pressured to pass kids whether they learned anything or not. The teacher thus loses the motivation or ambition to teach anything of value. Kids and parents complain why they or their kid not learning. This is why… American public schools are not academic institutions for learning, but a teen babysitting center, meeting quotas, and checking off items on a checklist. School choice don’t work. Not enough teachers. So when many kids move to a certain school, if the teachers there are overloaded with students, the instruction suffers, and the child don’t receive the one to one help needed to be successful. Even universities in the US is collapsing, but are doing well in China. Why does US not have talents it use to have? The talents are not coming to US anymore. US never really had any homegrown talents, because education was never a priority in the country. US was strong and powerful not because of its own people having skills, knowledge and abilities, but it was dependency on foreign talents coming to the US. They are not coming anymore. US having many problems now.
The best prager u videos are the ones you already know. I gave college a try and after 1 semester I dropped out because I knew it's a cash grab scam/ woke indoctrination centers
As of typing this I'm almost through my first year of college and I'm already dealing with headaches after some classes... good to know that I'm not the only one who thinks the system is broken
@Richard Fox During the years of Rush Limbaugh broadcasting, not only did he speak of how these things were occurring at colleges including the prestigious ones. Rush over 30 years, would have students call in, like Sampson Liang, speaking of the problems in asking questions, voicing an opinion which might be in opposition to prevailing thinking. Students, now, even in high schools, are being harassed by other students if they are known to support Conservatism. One female high school student, questioned crt and white privilege being taught at her school. She, a Conservative, had previously spoken with her parents of her concerns. They listened, approved and supported what she felt she would do. So, she was not only harassed and villifief by other students, she was a straight "A" student, who wad suspended from school until she would change her position. She was able to have class work and assignments sent home so she could keep up. Over time, education, including k-12, had turned in to propaganda mills. My thinking that it had come about because of the bombing, burning, protesting rioting radicals of the 60s and 70s getting into Education, big business and politics. It has taken awhile but thid id what we've got. This, sir, is how and why they "Do Dare". Sorry for the long response to, "how dare they", a phrase also famously used by the Green activist blond girl.
One point that is ignored about merit pay is that the reason the unions oppose it is not to retain those who are incompetent, but to protect every teacher who, for whatever personal reasons, does not "please" the administration. Merit pay can easily become just a tool for administration to reward their favorites while starving out those who displease them, personally or politically. Education is not like business where those who get paid more is because they acquire more profits. At this point you may want to bring up testing as a factor of improvement and thus as reason for merit pay. To which I must bring up that students have different talents and aptitudes and are usually grouped accordingly. Those groups can be manipulated to benefit some teachers while making it more difficult for other teachers... and now you want to bring less pay into the mix as well? There may be many things that need to be fixed in education, but merit pay is not a good solution.
Jocof 01 Good write up. When you wrote, " Those groups can be manipulated to benefit some teachers while making it more difficult for other teachers.." it had thinking of how political parties like to draw and redistrict lines to serve their advantage in getting votes. Speak of manipulating...when my youngest was going to school, in the late 80s, the school attempted a unilateral move, to move her schoolmate, Angie, from A.P. classes to regular classes to accommodate another family's child, who was a known "darling" of the school district. I think they thought they could pull it off as the Angie's mother was a single mom with two children in school. She took a half day off , working as an R.N. to go to the school to correct that problem.if she hadn't the school and the district would have screwed up Angies's academic track towards college.
You want to get rid of teacher unions. Here is how you do it. Give teachers insurance in the event they are sued by parents. That insurance protection is the main reason teachers join the union.
I had a teacher who was on tenure. He would enter class, not do any work or teach us anything, if we would tell him that we would protest and tell the principle he would scoff and say "I am on tenure, you can't do anything to me" and he was right. We learnt nothing from him and he was outed as a pedophile a few years after I had him as a teacher. Very disturbing
I've been teaching for 18 years in Texas. I've seen teachers come out of the principal's office crying because they were fired. The union has little influence here.
I am from Mississippi and we aren't seeing it to this extent yet. My neice is a teacher in Utah and I am appalled at the things she tells me about what goes on in her school. Just this week she had a student say he was going to shot some of the kids and her (6th grade) and the ONLY thing that happened to the child is he was suspended for the rest of the day. I told her she should quit. That is just insane. Also they cannot fail anyone.
@Richard Fox "Unions need to be stronger - however poor performance must be addressed." Unions needing to be stronger? There may have been a place for unions, but not any more. As a former chief steward in a union, I can say, the tail has increasingly been wagging the dog more. If you are talking about "poor performance" of the students, how's that going to happen as the? Curriculum and books are set up by the district, the unions , "educators" and folks up the educational food change. You have districts, such as in New York City, who are purposely taking out A.P. classes so as not to cause equity issues for other students. There are schools and school districts who are adjusting the pace of leaning, down, to accommodate slow learners and the newer illegal immigrant , low educated students. Again some of this is occurring in NYC. What about underperforming teachers who get paid the same as excellent performing teachers,, because of union contracts, There is something to be said of Merit Paid. It is curious with the all the wealth of knowledge in education, the scientists, mathematicians, economists no one, to date has set a viable proposal of how to institute Merit Pay? Maybe NO ONE wants to do it, because it would be like making sense.
@Richard Fox Thank you for the clarification. I truly like and appreciate how you expressed your thoughts on the subject and I have great respect for your input. I'm a great grandfather, having retired from the military and also retired from a government job. As a youngster, I worked selling papers and having a paper route. Worked while in high school and after graduation. Served in the military, sold insurance, sold copiers(draw against commission ). I worked in a factory, where I became a chief steward. As a manager, in the military and private sector, among various duties in both environments, , I evaluated employee performance and production which could lead to eventual promotions and pay increases. Maybe the culmination of all those working experiences may have a contributed to my , uh, tougher, 'old school', “a day’s work, for a day’s pay” mentality….good, bad and otherwise.. It is my thought, whether the working environment is union shop or not, Merit Pay or not, an employer will always find a way to abuse an employee, if they have a mind to do so. I have seen and even experienced it myself. I think some of the comments submitted will attest to that. So although we may ‘agree to disagree about Merit Pay, it is my thinking, something could be figured out with the two of us included in the discussions,…. if we were asked of course, lol lol. I see tenure, particularly for K-12 teachers, as a type of “safety net” that that works to the advantage of the average, poorer performing teachers. You can’t get rid of, or replace, a poor performing tenured, teacher with a motivated one. The students ultimately lose.
@Richard Fox Hah, my dad's family from Texas👍🏼.I was just getting ready to shut down and saw your reply. I'm in Califi-funkia with one of the most worthless person in life much less politics...Newsom, nephew in law of Gangsta Nasty Pelosi. Your description of teaching and pay[reward] seem to be a good system and a good alternative to what is going, here, across the pond from you folks:). With being a successor to another steward, humbly, I was. pretty good. He left to go back to Boston, Ma. Before passing the reins over to me, he briefed me on the quirks and deviousness of the management of the company and briefed me on the those who would cry wolf to get you into a no win, faux grievance situation with management. The last thing, Tommie(was his name)did was to give his shirt pocket sized notebook with stuff I needed to be aware of and past grievances that employees had files or attempted to file.
When I was asked to resign [for beating up an assailant] I was overjoyed that I finally had an airtight excuse to quit. I had a very cheerful talk with the principal about my function aboard the nuclear submarine I’d crewed on as a quartermaster, listened to his stories about being an MP in the China/Burma/India theater during the Second World War, left the building with an immense sense of relief, then spent the summer as a gardener at this really peculiar Episcopalian monaster after attending truck driving school, then switched to adult education at Job Corps. Teaching is such a shitty job I simply can’t imagine being upset by either getting fired or quitting. Driving a garbage truck would be a more satisfying career since at least you’d be performing an actual public service.
My kids had gone to a Charter School & didn't have problems. Unfortunately, we had to move them to a public school to get speech therapy for one of them as it wasn't available at the Charter School...There, both kids always got bullied and the school wouldn't do anything about it!! 😡
@@troywest7045 public schools are a bad investment. if parents had to pay for education they'd have a different set of standards. more like what we see in private schools today.
One of my biggest shocks from watching this is the fact that a public school teacher can have tenure? I always thought tenure was a University thing. I never IMAGINED a 4th grade, public school teacher could achieve tenure! To me, that's outrageous! As a taxpayer, I'm PAYING for that nonsense!
@@Bc232klm everyone who owns or rents their residence pays for government schools through property taxes. Are you so ignorant that you don’t know where the funding originates? Or are you one of those who live in a tent on public land?
Tenure started as a university thing. It was meant to protect professors who had opposing political views that the higher ups, who would fire political opponents. In NJ, it takes 7 years and observation to get it (pretty simple). After that you're pretty protected. I don't know if it's changed in 4 years but in NJ (I moved out of state) you CANNOT get out of the union, even if you refuse union status, they will still take the money out of your check for dues.
People already forgot what the teacher's union did. People have many justifications for leaving their kids in the public schools. The unions just need numbers in order to justify asking for more money. We the people are allowing it. It's discouraging. I hope the school choice initiatives are very precise about not letting the money be a way to make private schools teach and only buy the curriculum the state wants. That would be worse because then we would have handed over private schools to them as well.
When I was a kid and forced to take state assessments, I knew that they were designed to grade the district: in this case, one of many I attended, and particularly chalked with abusive, activist instructors. We spent weeks prepping, all teaching to the test. The test was expected to take hours, and we were free to go when complete. I got into the test bay, colored a giant smiley face using the bubbles in my Scantron, and left. Others followed suit. This was done respectfully, but purposely. That school needed serious intervention. It got it. And we got in a good movie. I went on to graduate a near 4.0 in undergrad, and a 4.0 as a graduate student. Not because of, but DESPITE our public schools. Our system is a joke. I'm now a prof working it from the inside. I could tell you things that would get you reaching for your pitchfork. But I won't stop working from there. There a lot more like me... and we're making more headway than you think.
To notice it that soon mad respect, I knew something was up but still did my best because education was important in my family. I did graduate college with honors and said it’s a piece of paper. Only reason I still have it is my mom got it framed 😂.
Totally agree. Public high school in particular is mostly social life and sports. Just the frequent class changes ruin the learning atmosphere. And it’s all mass lecturing to the dull normal level. Real education such as that dispensed in the great British universities revolves around the tutorial method and heavy concentrated reading in a specific subject, the very antithesis of American mass schooling. Even at the university level in the USA you are continually being distracted from your major course of study by the requirements that you be continually wandering around the campus taking all of these silly distribution requirements. So typically you only get one year’s worth of credits even in your actual major. Plus it takes at least a year too long. Garbage in garbage out.
@@marcmeinzer8859 true to some degree until graduate level, then it is intensity training solely focused on your major with supporting electives. Ideally. Most students opt for the easiest route. I never took an elective that was easy. Many do.
@@renadamTWELVE Yes, for instance you don’t often hear of people taking foreign languages or calculus as their electives. Were I raising kids I would force them to take four years of a language and four years of math in high school in order to make college easier for them. But I found even science electives at the 300 level to be quite easy typically. I also found the concentrated first year of Spanish done in one quarter quite easy as well. Bull I could never follow what university math instructors were doing even though I easily learned celestial navigation in advanced underwater navigation for submarine quartermasters when I was in the navy. The navy no longer has submarine quartermasters today having automated that job out of existence, just as the coast guard did.
They don't care about students either. 3 of those beaten teachers were beaten up because they committed statutory rape. I guess a rape from a female is not considered "agregious"
Teacher perspective: quit NEA last week because they do nothing except send me monthly woke indoctrination pamphlets and take $800 away from my already meager salary. The logic of membership is that if you ever get into got water with student claims of sexual harassment they will come to the rescue I'm your defense... My solution: don't be alone with any students ever...
Look up: Association of American Educators. Non-political, still has liability insurance and other types of support built in. Saved me $1000 a year compared to District/NEA Union.
@Ian we just had a vote on MEA at my institution. I voted for their card to vote, but abstained on the vote itself. My thought is they have a right to vote on a union (hence the card), but beyond that they are on their own. I cannot support it, either. And I won't.
Leif Hendricksen Wasn't there a lawsuit by teachers regarding Forced dues and the issue of those dues going to campaigns and causes not agreed to by the union members? It seemed to drop off from media attention.
@@ga6589 Respectfully, sir, the use of "Fair share" , is well worn phrase, a playbook talking point, that to me, is not entirely correct. If there was a way to have total access to "the books "and create a pie chart of the spending and out go where ALL the membership dues are going, I'd take a s.w.a.g. that maybe 10%, if that much, is going to negotiating salaries, benefits and pensions. Unions are a great money making con game. Their end isn't fully taking care of their members, they are into acquiring power, control and influencing public policy. Sorry, but you're trying to sell Igloos in the Sahara residents. What your selling, I'm not buying it.
Teachers are already taking care of that. They're leaving the profession in droves and there aren't enough young folks willing to go into education and take their place. (It isn't because of the unions.)
Online charter schools can be annoying, and they have a lot of room for improvement. With that said, they have a lot of accountability to parents because they can't hide the curriculum. My two sons are autistic and they have been in charter school from kindergarten to now (4th and 5th grades) and they in closer to being on track for grade level then most autistic children their age. Probably because of all the time they spent learning their curriculum (and they get pet animal breaks).
As a public school teacher myself I have forgone joining the union, in 2 schools I've been at. The initial school couldnt do anything for me anyway when I was let go bc I had no tenure, so I'm glad I didn't join bc it would have been money lost for no reason. The new school I also am not a part of it but If you ask me, if I'm gonna pay gas money for an entire month, I need to ACTUALLY GET SOMETHING out of it. Adulthood sucks.
The problem with unions is that the gains for the workers (teachers) in the 1st or 2nd contract are substantial and makes unionizing seem like a good idea. Now that the 3 or 4 pain points have been addressed, the union leaders have nothing else to push for. So, to justify union dues, they have to keep pushing for ridiculous salary or benefits demands so people don't go "why do we need a union now?".
mae2759 When I checked, a few years back, LAUSD full time teachers were getting paid about $62,000 a year. Their $15000/year health insurance was paid by the school district. When they were asked to return to work, the Union presented conditions that included SJW issues, which had nothing to do with education. One condition that was asked for and granted, was being given a "ridiculous benefit' of a $500/month stipend for child care to apply towards their children. Schools are teaching children that math and language are oppressive and racist. Why are teachers' unions needed?
I apologize for this lengthy response, but as a parent, a U.S. citizen, & a retired school nurse & educator, I'm very interested in this topic. Most children, IMHO, are easily distracted at home if they don't have adult supervision in the room with them. They also need the socialization w/ other kids, good, bad, or ugly. If we coddle them & don't let them learn early the moral & practical skills that come with interacting w/ others (e.g., bullies, opposing world views, differing cultures), then they lose out on valuable life skills. Being around people who are the same as them is not only boring & "safe," but it lulls them into a false sense of security & curtails a whole world of learning opportunities that they might not get otherwise. They also need opportunities to talk w/ their parents &/or teachers about these interactions in order to become skilled in correctly assessing & participating in resolving moral dilemmas, socialization skills, critical thinking, & informed decision-making. Personally, I think the money for educating our children needs to follow each child, so I'm VERY pro-voucher program & think that teachers may need to up their creativity, pedagogical teaching skills, & self-directed learning if they are competing with other learning environments & systems (e.g., parochial vs home schooling vs private) to give children the BEST education possible.
I don't understand why people are surprised that teacher unions look out for teachers first. Are they also surprised that steel worker unions look out for steel workers first?
I would like to see Catholicism to be eradicated from this great nation. It's time to get rid of the corrupt Vatican with all their scandals. I am baffled by the fact that people dare to call themselves Catholics after all that has happened.
You pay property taxes, regardless if you have a child or not, regardless if they go to public or private schools. Needless to say religious schools will never receive a penny of tax dollars.
Plus never forget that public school teachers aren’t even allowed to discipline the kids. The kids are literally permitted to run out of the classrooms to wander the halls and nobody’s allowed to lay a finger on them. And if one of the other kids starts beating up your kid the teacher’s not even allowed to break up the fight. I was literally asked to resign for rescuing one of the kids from a beating because I in turn started beating the assailant until he broke off the assault. After all, what else can you really do? I initially only dragged the assailant off of his victim but then he of course starting punching me in the head. Was I supposed to permit him to knock me out? I don’t think so. It is nothing but the complete absurdity of idiocy. Always vote no on school levies. And in any event you can’t permit any room for nuance in public school instruction because everything is pitched to the dull normal level of obviousness bordering on obliviousness. I literally had parents calling me unpatriotic while teaching the American Revolution at parochial school because I mentioned the fact that the first Episcopalian bishop in this country had been a Tory chaplain to the British army during the revolution which is why George Washington would never speak to him even though Washington was an Episcopalian. And that Ben Franklin’s son had been the royalist governor of Pennsylvania or that Paul Revere didn’t say “the British are coming” for the obvious reason that the colonists themselves were also British then. Anything taught at less than the university level in this country is literally gauged to imbeciles unless you’re at one of the elite boarding schools catering to rich kids. I know this because I guided boarding school kids at canoe camp up in Canada.Half the other guides were teaching at elite eastern boarding schools. I quit teaching 35 years ago to become a deck hand in the merchant marine which ought to show you how little I think of teaching.
This video as well as Fox news complained about how terrible the public schools are and I agree but also in the same breath complained about how during the pandemic they couldn't send their children to the terrible schools. 🤦🏾♀️
I am married to a public school teacher (whose apparently not in a union) and he has some issues with merit based pay for teachers in that you get stuck with what kids they give you as a teacher and if you get multiple kids who are lower on the spectrum as far as knowledge they base your pay off of whether or not those kids are up to par when the end of the school year comes. The issue is that some teachers, by luck of the draw, get many lower students and can't always bring them up to where they should be by the end of the year. If they were paid merit based, they would get docked in pay based on the amount of lower students. Now that special ed children are integrated; that's another factor that plays into merit based pay since they also have to be up to par at the end of the year and they rarely are. I agree with this documentary but this is something to consider. A good teacher may not always get ALL his/her students to meet the standards by the end of the school year which would be problematic for pay.
Merit pay in the truest sense recognizes the dedication, expertise, and effort of teachers with their students on a case by case basis. This treats every instructor as an individual, versus a collective group assigned a given demographic and aptitude set of students. I instruct both dev ed and honors/AP students in a challenging post-secondary setting. The amount of time and effort I put in is double or even quadruple that of my counterparts as a result. However, I'm paid the same. I would welcome merit pay.
@@renadamTWELVE I guess it depends on how they did merit based pay. We have never been told exactly what that would look like. If its pay based on hard work; dedication; time spent with students; time spent with parents etc that's fine. It's just that when we personally think of merit based pay we think of every student being on par at the end of the year which is really what my husbands school expects already even without adopting merit based pay. I would agree that bad teachers need to go. If they adopt merit based pay they need to be really specific on what that means.
How about merit pay based on student and parent evaluation? My son had fantastic teachers one year and then horrible verbally abusive one the next. The bad experience traumatized him for many years. After we got the lottery of a Montessori charter school, the difference in education quality changed dramatically for the better. Now my litter one will stick with the Montessori community no matter where we live.
14:24 "lack of discipline" hmm, I think there's something missed here. I was just in a public school a year ago (graduated.) It was a top 200 public school. It felt like prison and nearly all students would have agreed with me, Many students misbehaved freshman year, (they got kicked out later for the better or worse), but the real issue seemed to be the liability laws. The teachers could not kick those students out. The rest of us had to suffer because of these stupid laws. Imagine being watched 24/7. If a parent did that to a child... if the child had no room of their own, then people would probably say that's bad parenting, but in schools it's "okay" in the name of safety. Look, life is dangerous. If we want to prevent all crime/danger we should lock all of ourselves up in our homes. We have the technology now to do that and keep track of every person 24/7... that's not the way though. If you want students to learn respect them. Remember what teachers used to say about respect going both ways? Yes, that applies to students as well. Our school was a rigorous school so the teachers were more lax, but adults really don't understand how freedom stripping these schools are. We literally had to raise our hands and get permission at age 18 to use the bathroom. That's humiliating from 2nd-3rd grade.
Modern education (atleast in the us) is not even about learning much or becoming smarter it's just a memorization game in order to pass,I had a 4.1 GPA in highschool yet forgot nearly 95 percent of the stuff I ever learned, grading doent truly show ones intelligence.
People often mock me for dropping out of school because I had cancer, and I'm still far too sick to go off to college. Though my parents view it as a blessing in disguise because of what's being taught at most schools nowadays.
@Richard Fox I know and that's why the Catholic Church has the Magisterium to guide the church into how to correctly interpret the Bible. I'm fine if a public school promotes socialism but the Catholic Church has always condemned socialism so it should have no place in a Catholic school.
As a 26-year member of the 2nd largest school district union in the country, I can honestly say that we didn’t only press for salaries! We pushed for smaller class sizes (my middle school classes in Math and Science averaged 34), full-time nurses, more psych services, less administrative red tape and restrictive demands on our time. Teachers are only paid for the 6/6.5 hours of the school day, but are expected to spend 7.5/8 hours a day working, and that isn’t even close to how many hours a week worked. Good teachers (and yes, there are many “bad” ones who should be fired!) work at least 50-60 hours/week on planning, grading, meetings, paperwork (like analyzing data), taking mandatory weekend and evening continuing education courses or trainings and more. I personally spent every Sunday working for 5-8 hours and many Saturdays either working or at trainings. I’m NOT defending the unions - they are egregious in many of their actions! I’m just telling the other side of the story this piece does not say. I don’t pretend to know about CRT - I retired in 2021 and never ran into anything like that in our district of over 664,000 students (including charter schools & adult learners) and over 25,000 teachers. I do know of many teachers who were in a rubber room after an altercation or incident with a student, and they would report downtown or to their local district and sit there.
I am tired of teachers bitching about how many hours they work. Most professional put in more than a 40 hour week. We do not get tenue or months off during the year. We would be fired if we produced the results of our current educational system.
We had a counselor that would not help certain kids fill out for college, she would tell colleges that some kids had other scholarships and get you scholarship opportunity taken and given to someone else... when she was a teacher 20yrs before she told students she would make sure they didn't graduate no matter what they did.... she has tenure, nothing anybody can do. She had that power in a school that had graduating class of 42
As a public educator, I know the educational system is seriously flawed. There are bad teachers out there and they do get fired. The problem with merit pay is how you measure it. Student scores, parent feedback, administration recommendations? The problem with student scores is the belief that you have ultimate control of the outcome of it. Student are their own individuals and will decide whether to give their best effort or not. I’ve seen with my own eyes students deciding not to care about their own education and purposely fail. It’s disheartening as an educator who gives it her all. So how is that the teacher ‘s fault? How do you account that for merit pay?
I would argue that public schools and unions are doing exactly what they were designed to do. They were never meant to be neutral. I highly recommend listening to Public School Movement by Steve Wilkins.
And people wonder why teachers are leaving. It does not pay to be a teacher anymore. I was a teacher for 18 years. It became nothing more than political issues as stated and it became not an enjoyable environment so it was time to step away I could have not made a better choice.
Considering how little it pays if teaching proves to be unpleasant then you can forget about it. And the bar to entry is low since a bachelor’s degree is simply the middle class union card which everyone is expected to get more as finishing school than anything else, even if you really want to become a carpenter. So it’s really less than nothing to shrug off teaching once you’ve found out for yourself that it’s a pain in the ass. People get certified as teachers just to avoid the language requirement with a regular BA which includes no job credential. Then once you realize that most teachers are charlatans who just fake it assuming that no one will notice it becomes impossible to have any respect for the other teachers as well. The curriculum needs to be standardized and put online so there’s no difference between online academy and regular public school. And regular teachers should not be permitted to just wing it all the time, worksheet the kids to death, and basically never even talk to the kids which is a common observation of teaching aides in my experience. Teaching aides I worked with routinely said the other teachers would simply pass out worksheets, then walk around repeating “sit down and shut up” for the entire period before saying “pass your worksheets to the front of the class”. Then the dependence on teachers as lecturers needs to be overcome. Then perhaps teachers could function more as tutors. But as a kid if you’re entirely dependent upon getting all of your motivation from teachers pressuring you to do your reading in the first place, because you have no intellectual curiosity, then you’re basically doomed and would certainly never survive even your freshman year of college.
The two main reasons that teaching public school has become impossible are first, inability to impose discipline on the kids, and then second, inclusion in mainstream classes of the uneducable who belong in manual arts, therapy for the emotionally disturbed, or the juvenile lock up for the criminally inclined. When everyone simply gets dumped in mainstream classrooms the end result will always be chaos, the best teachers will all quit, and you will convert teaching into daycare for knuckleheads. People in general are of course entitled to believe what they wish, but the situation will not improve as long as the schools are run by cowards who always cave to the parents and the unions. And the notion that teachers are laborers who belong in labor unions is suspect although not entirely discredited in my opinion although if the teachers unions are so powerful how is it that teachers are so poorly paid? The seniority system does however alienate new teachers of higher ability.
@@genxx2724 That’s essentially what it comes down to reductio ad absurdum. At the inner city high school I worked at they would get rid of the real knuckleheads by first double checking their current address, then transferring them to another building if they’d moved without telling anyone, but most comical to me at least was the dodge wherein undesirables over the age of sixteen could be reclassified as “work/study” with their work assignment being something totally lame such as Burger King. We had this one kid who worked at Burger King and would violate the no hats inside the building rule by proudly wearing his paper Burger King crown. He was finally rewarded for his near constant irritation of the staff by a vice principal making him literally “career designated” as a burger flipper.
I work at Home Depot and they highly ward us against Unions. They make them sound bad. They also have all these systems in place for their workers to get their voice heard so they don't Unionize. There was a Union that formed for one Home Depot and they looked at that as a huge loss.
I mean, companies are naturally going to be anti-union and will always feed you anti-union propaganda. You need to decide for yourselves if unionization is a good thing, if your working conditions are truly that bad. Usually they aren't.
Everyone involved is responsible for our failed education system. Teachers, Unions, Administration, Students, Parent(s). All have different motives and agendas. Quality education is not a priority for anyone.
I completely agree. The public education has many problems. And unions have many problems as well. But can we all stop acting like this video was produced by a completely objective source? Prager U is not affiliated with any university or other academic organization. It is a political organization with a specific right wing agenda. This video does not provide a comprehensive exploration of the problems, their causes, or the options for addressing them. The decline of the public education system is tied to the exodus of manufacturing jobs that began in the 1970s. Without the same base of middle-class families able to afford to vote for increases in school taxes, decade after decade, we’ve been asking teachers to do more with less. The students are paying the price, but Prager U is only interested in convincing it’s constituency that “the other guys” are to blame. If we aren’t smart enough to spot a wolf in sheep‘s clothing, like Prager U, then we don’t stand a chance of ever working together enough to make this nation, a place we want to leave to our grandchildren.
Back in the eighties in the UK, the unions had too much power and become political motivated. Margaret Thatcher our PM at the time stood up to them at the time and refused to back down, there was a Miners strike for over a year, with a lot of violence, from the Miners themselves, she banned secondary picketing and made it law for the Unions to only picket their place of work and after 12 months the unions were broken, never to rise to be a political power house like before. We are seeing a rise in strikes once more, but it's political and they are being called out for it. So these strikes we are having now are small and localised, ineffectual. The US needs to crack down on the Union power, they are strangling the USA, especially in the manufacturing sector as it's better to move jobs abroad where there are no Unions, than invest in the US.
Agreed 100%. Do we take our Medicare cards to government hospitals? Hardly ever unless there’s a big county hospital where you live. But the county hospital is usually the hospital of last resort for those with no hospitalization insurance. Then the first thing they do is sign you up for their insurance or get you on Medicaid. Public schools in the USA are like the educational equivalent of Medicaid for the indigent, especially in the big cities.
Yeah, let's throw young kids into the system of "haves" and "have-nots". Rich kids go to good schools and poor kids can go to the fields to work. Talking about morality. Without any implemented standards, any school can teach anything and ultimately your kids will learn nothing. Oh yes, that pi is equal to 3 because the Buybol says so.
Union teachers can't be fired. But if you're not in the union, they will get rid of you by not renewing your contract. Happened to me many times before I gave up and stopped trying to be a classroom teacher. I jumped through many hoops (and took out a very expensive student loan) to get qualified for a specialist job. I can't get that either. With an advanced degree and many years of experience, I am so high up on the pay scale that no one wants to hire me. Once again, screwed by the unions.
Is it possible for teachers to form a different Union One centered around patriotism and Traditional Values of American education? And if so is it possible for teachers to decide to leave this teacher's Union and go to the other? I don't understand how unions work but I do think it is strange that a union apparently created to help each individual teacher cares nothing about the individual teacher and only about their own political goals. There's got to be a way to counter this
Yes, there is such a union. Christian Educators Association International. I left my public school union and joined CEAI. Too bad this video did not mention that many teachers can choose which union to support. The dues are less, too.
The problem is; the type of teachings this video is mentioning IS happening in private schools as well. In fact, I know for a FACT the political, CRT, DIE ideologies IS happening at an international school in Indiana yet they try and hide it by not being transparent about the curriculum and what topics are being taught
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0:09 "It is about money and power." • 2:45 Tenure • 3:21 Q: Do you think the unions protect teachers that probably shouldn't be in the classroom? A: Unquestionably. . . . Rubber rooms 19:11 end
Seen in the last couple years an administrator who was targeted by the superintendent and didn't quit. Most quit knowing the union would do nothing to help them. One even got an additional $20,000 in an agreement she wouldn't sue for harassment. This administrator was harassed, ridiculed, threatened with termination, there were attempts to force her to sign non disclosure agreements, etc. The board did nothing. The union, given the evidence and eyewitness accounts told the person, hire a lawyer, we don't do anything about things like that. After 25 years that harassed person realized the union wasn't on her side.
I homeschooled years ago and would definitely do it now. I have tried to encourage my son and his wife to homeschool their children...my first grandchild is attending a charter school. I have a question to those who choose to rely on the public school system - What would happen if a coalition of parents across the country in every school district took their children out of school for five days at the same time period during the school year? BTW - I worked in the public system for 10 years and would never send my children or grandchildren to public school in this mess.
rochester ny just got tested by ny state (tested 12,000 of the 24,000 students) and, despite spending $40,000 per student, the school only has 2% of students testing at grade level in math. How many teachers will get fired for failure to teach? 0
I left one of my district’s unions and now pay more for a private, Christian teacher’s union. It is designed for public school teachers and provides the same amount of support.
Congress is the greatest lawmaker in U.S. They need to make it illegal for teachers to unionize. A good teacher will have job security. Education should be returned to the states. School choice would help weed out bad schools, so of course the unions are against it.
Do you argue for a national law while saying education should go back to the states? One or the other but not both. I would agree to Dissolve the the Department of Education and Severely limit redistribution between the states of funds for education.
Unions are good sometimes for teachers. If the teachers are accused of something, the union gets legal representation for them and advice. If a principal is picking on a teacher, the union can get involved to be a voice for the teacher. Their collective bargaining is responsible for good pay and benefits. (I do wish they'd back up merit pay though. Although, the problem is how do you define merit pay? Bad teachers are excellent at performing well for observation.) That's where their work should end though. I also concur with dissolving the Dept of Ed.
Where I live, school choice is written in state law. BTW, what assurances are there that a "good" teacher will have job security or make a decent wage? There are Harvey Weinstein- types in all professions, including education administration.
@@ga6589 I'm thankful school choice is written into your state's law. I'm hopeful it may become law in my state. You said, "what assurances are there". Well, in this imperfect world, nothing is guaranteed. But!, there are things that work better than others and some are worse than others. I just think that the teachers unions are creating far more problems than they solve. Since laws are in place for prosecution and punishment of Harvey Weinstein types, there is a venue to get justice for those wronged; without having protection for poorly functioning teachers. Children's welfare should be a higher priority than the collective protected by teacher unions.
The problem with education is that it is for sale! The people that run education have no idea about teaching, children, or education. All they care about is getting to the next level to make more money. The parents are even worse! They think the public school system is set up for their child to be taught individually. Parents also don't want to pay taxes, because they think taxes should only be used for them and their kids. So basically the inmates run the asylum's! Teachers are afraid of the school administration, school administrators are scared of the school board, the school board is scared of the parent(i.e. voters), and the parents are scared of their kids. Propaganda videos like this one only make it worse. I would say if you don't like public schools, then teach your kids your self, but we saw how that went during the pandemic. This is basically a propaganda video for a private school and butt hurt parents to point blame at somebody. Instead of trying to work together to find a way to help children, we just want to place blame and try to make money off of people's feelings. What a horrible dangerous video this is!
When the NY governor mandated that anyone working in education who chose not to get the experimental cocktail would be forced to get an experimental invasive medical test every single week while healthy, the union did nothing. There is a Tenure law for Due Process that states you cannot be placed on unpaid leave before a hearing unless you have sex or do drugs with a student, but the union lawyer said they could do nothing and would not represent us. Our contract says nothing about our employer having control over our bodies. I have paid almost $17,000 in union dues just from my current job, but the union did nothing. No one has ever asked teachers who we should back politically.
YES they are. I made a comment supporting this video and even provided a few links to support my claim and it was deleted and my account was blocked for 2 days for even being allowed to reply to ANYTHING
Madeline Mardigan Randi Weingarten "Teachers' union president, went to the Ukraine. She "pulled six-figure salary while pushing school closures. American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten's gross salary was over $426,000 from 2020-2021". Weingarten is an unmitigated poc. What is covered in this video, has been going on in California, under Newsom, SEIU, teachers unions in LASUD, San Diego and around the entire state. During Covid, the teachers, full time in particular, were getting their salaries, pensions and benefits. The clock did not stop on the accrual of their vacation time and sick time, most notably in such places as California and New York. Simply stated, the teachers were out of the classrooms, on "vacation". Weingarten, the AFT and the various teachers' unions, facilitated the behavior of public school teachers not to return to classrooms. And to add insult to injury, the unions attempted to cause closures of private schools parochial schools and I believe some charter schools, that had continued to remain open, with little or no apparent children related, covid health issues If you type in your search engine something like I did, such as, "Randi Weingarten claimed she did not want school closures", you will see a lot of articles on this female version of Jimmy Hoffa. They are bullies like their old Teamsters' Union counterparts. Here's a excerpt from one article: Randi Weingarten’s attempts to rewrite school-closings history won’t fly "Weingarten and her National Education Association counterpart used their political muscle to exercise an inordinate amount of say over local school-district decisions and supplement the school-closure push by local unions. Even as the august American Academy of Pediatrics encouraged schools to reopen for classes in fall 2020, Weingarten opposed then-US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ vow to reopen schools. And when the union-friendly Biden administration took over, the AFT was better able to exert influence. In May 2021, The Post reported on conversations between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the AFT and the White House. Weingarten’s union actually suggested language for the CDC’s school-reopening guidance released in February that resulted in schools staying remote longer into the 2020-2021 school year."
Starts out at the state Ed level then to admin. The districts then push their agendas. Superintendents, principals and educators that were trained like those in charge above them. The slam should not be on the educator that works hard, but the state Ed., district level and admin. Educators always get the slam. Where state, admin, difficult students must take responsibility.
Karrisa Joss Because I don't have that Masters degree or PhD, I feel inadequate in attempting to discuss the problems I'm observing in education and in the classrooms..such as CRT, white privilege, teachings of Alfred Kinsey, gender affirming, attempting to change the sex and or name of children without parental knowledge much less permission. If these various things are now the current Curriculum, to be taught, by "educators", entrusted with our children and grandchildren, to teach those subjects in place of math, science and language. The "Slam" is justified. So the the districts have their agendas, but State Eds support those agendas and remember where the States funding comes from... Washington D.C. I can't put my finger on it, but it doesn't seem your "Starts out" with, missed including, say, the White House, The Green New Deal funding education with specific provisions such as students will be taught how to be activists and protestors, Also include the NEA, Weingarten and the teachers' unions. Lest not forget that Biden, who has the backs of Transgenders, has expanded Title IX, to allow Trans males in female sports, bathrooms, showers and changing areas. Female students who have complained have been bullied, harassed, ostracized, and in some cases, expelled. So If this is considered A "Slam', it seems to be a well deserved one as this isn't conspiracy, a lie or just making it all up. If Leaving out those entities and throwing in "problematic students", it sounds more like a dodge, misdirection, distraction. From time immemorial, there have always been a segment of children, in learning environments, for a variety of reasons, who have been "problematic". That, to me, by itself, is it's own separate subject for another discussion. So students should not be included in this particular discuss and thrown under the bus. Just my humble thoughts.
@@ga6589 As it is supposedly said in court dramas, "If you're asking the question, you already know the answer". In any event, I noticed how you avoided responding to some of my thoughts by deflecting with question. I supplied enough info for you to search engine keywords and phrases. I would like to believe, your intellect, plus your research skills, should aide you in determining those answers for yourself. That's how I've learned. That's how I've attempted to be better, not perfectly, informed.
@@vinyltapelover Yes, I knew beforehand that you'd never directly observed, nor could name, any school attempting to change the sex of a child. That goes for your other claims you made regarding CRT, white privilege, or teachings of Alfred Kinsey. I've done quite a bit of online "research" about these and similar public school accusations. Invariably the hits are from right-wing websites or social media platforms that give only one side to a very muddled story... usually a story involving a disgruntled parent. In order to be better informed, I suggest you actually visit schools and talk with teachers directly. BTW- The burden of proof is on the party making the accusations. Telling them to simply use a search engine to find it wouldn't go over very well in any court.
@@ga6589 Your mask is off and you came through magnificently and as expected. I chose correctly not to respond with links, references, sources etc, . I knew you were agenda driven and your opinion was already set in stone. Therefore, you are not looking for dialogue or sharing information back and forth. Rather you were, and are, looking to attack what ever information is presented to you. . The beauty of what you wrote, you have not the guts to boldy state upfront, your agenda and what, folks like yourself, believe. As I and many like myself are not tied to a party affiliation, philosophy or agenda, you(in the plural) would rather attack those of us who are not accepting of what you are trying to shove in our minds and our childrens' minds, educationally or politically speaking. So you will turn the conversation using scripted, distracting 'playbook' word games and insults in your curious attempts at deflect attention from what your short and long term goals are. Your stuck on angry. dissension and hate and what you're selling, a lot of us are not buying. You're a hoot:)
The US education system has a law where teachers (even the bad ones) can’t be fired. Some teachers were breaking the school policies and weren’t fired. The students are being forced to be taught by them. The system also is preventing the students from graduating. Pray for America.
I am a case manager and medical consultant for worker's comp. I literally get 2 dozen teachers with work injuries caused by students beating the hell out of them. The teacher's union doesn't care about the teachers.
the Union and Teachers want the DRAMA ... they want the damage. Disgusting. Don't support either.
I have a friend who was attacked by a student wheeling a 3’ 2x4 in a shop class. The teacher was fired for defending himself with his hands. This was probably 30 years ago in a progressive city in Texas. I can’t imagine how much worse the imbalance has gotten.
The dude with the board committed felonious assault.
@@matthewrogowski8526 perhaps but he didn’t even get in school suspension.
Correct. They care about teaming people up to destroy legitimate industry, and convert society into a counter-reason collective.
Having spent 13 years as a teacher in the public schools I can say do not keep your kids in them. It cannot be reformed. You can remove their power in one day by pulling your kids out and homeschool, co-ops, private. The agenda is in the teacher colleges, textbooks, curriculum, testing companies, school boards etc.
Exactly
R. M. I taught home schooling classes for my local Home Schooling Coop for eleven years while at the same time having a full time job! I can say without a single doubt that the students coming in to my classes from Public (government) School were many times hopelessly behind Home Schooling students. I say this without hesitation, "Public School IS child abuse."
Though I believe your experience and insight, that is a sad state of affairs.
I'm glad you're gone, the students are better now that you're no longer near them.
@@Bc232klm Honest question. How many children do you have?
My wife was an elementary school teacher here in Maryland for 22 years. Thankfully, she could retire early due to some medical problems. For most of the time she was not part of the union except for a few years when she was extremely bullied to join. You 😮should’ve seen the amount of bullying. She received from her principal and some of her coworkers after we got married, and I put Republican bumper stickers on our cars. The level of harassment she received wouldn’t have never been tolerated in a private business. The funny thing was, some teachers would come up to her, and say that they were extremely conservative too, but they were afraid to show it. As a veteran, I find that absolutely disgusting that you’d be afraid to show your beliefs just to keep a job. She is so much happier, being retired, and I having to deal with the nonsense anymore.
I taught in MD. I did not join the union, but dues are taken from teachers' paychecks no matter their membership status. This was before Janus, so I could not do anything about it.
There was a benefit, though. The medical insurance was great. I had life-saving brain surgery, with all the pre- and post-care, paid for by insurance. My co-pays were miniscule.
I left the state 2 weeks after the surgery and i won't be back.
I am retired. My Maryland middle school was very conservative and relatively unwelcoming to those who weren’t. The most anti union teacher almost lost his job but the Union saved it. Personally, I thought he was in the right, but the parent was vocal and lawsuit happy so the BOE of going to fire him. I felt he deserved a commendation. After his experience, he never spoke another bad word about the union. The health insurance was good but like all employers that depends on the county. The retirement is horrible. The best benefit was an almost free Masters Degree ($40,000-$60,000 value). Pay in Maryland was highly variable based on the county you work in. There could be a $20,000 starting pay difference. I wouldn’t trust school administrators to give out pay raises based on meritocracy.
Maryland Teachers Union has components to it. The political part you can opt out of and not pay that portion of the union dues. I always mention it to anyone complaining about the political arm of the union. It is a simple way to protest when you disagree with the union politics.
I am sorry your wife felt bullied. I hope her health improves. Best wishes to you and yours!
My post-secondary institution just voted on bringing in the MEA. We had not been represented by any union, prior. The pressure to join was immense. When the cards came to allow a vote, I signed mine. But when the vote came, I abstained. It was my thought that anyone desiring to join should have that right to vote on it, but I would not. As abstaining doesn't count as a negative vote, that's as far as it went, on my part. I was delighted and surprised to see a substantial number of votes directly against the union. However, the union WAS approved. Now I will be pressured to directly join and pay dues. But this is the decision I made. I'm sticking to it-- for all of the reasons this video presents. I'm of the belief that we need to live our beliefs.... so I would not have felt right denying them a vote. But I won't join this organization... I don't support it.
@@renadamTWELVE as you know we live in a litigious society. I priced the difference between educators insurance offered by my home insurance company and union dues. Union dues won. There were other benefits I used. 2+ free hours with a lawyer per year. So they could do your will one year, year 2 file your consensual divorce, year 3 the closing for your new house. There were other benefits but I’m retired and no longer a union member. You can lower your dues by opting out of the political process of the union.
@@damoab1909 cuckoo for cocoa puff, go wander your desert.
Teachers need to stop paying union fees on mass. Once the money dries up either they will change their tune or perish. Either outcome is a step in the right direction.
Teachers no longer have to pay dues. Look up the Supreme Court Janus ruling.
Teachers no longer have to pay dues. Look up the Supreme Court Janus ruling.
The situation is much the same, here in Canada. I remember it being an issue as a student in the 70's and 80's, where we had teachers that behaved inappropriately towards students, but complaints meant nothing. Those teachers had tenure. But a brand new teacher? One mistake, and he was gone - and us kids all agreed, it should have been the student that was punished, not the teacher. It's just gotten worse over the years.
my teachers just didn't teach in the 80's.........
@@dnice4335 :-( I guess that's one down side of growing up in the boonies. Small towns hadn't been quite as infected, yet.
@@AMKB01 as kids we loved it- we looked forward to at least 3 classes a day where the teachers socialised with us. ZERO work.
Not an open book, not a word about subject were attending for that 45 minutes.
@@dnice4335 that's just... amazing. Kinda scary, too. When we were homeschooling still, and I would get challenged about how I, a mere parent, could think I could do a better job of educating our kids than a trained teacher in school, I would sometimes answer that it would take effort on the part of the parents to do a worse job than the public school system. I hadn't realized just how true that statement really was!
@@AMKB01 What the teacher has over you .... Maybe ..... is knowledge. That is not always true. I've seen teachers who knew nothing about the subject. I had a reading teacher who had you read to her. After she "tested" everyone you were assigned where to start in ... Sorry I'm not sure what to call it, but you basily read off a card, answered the questions on the back and if you did good moved on to the next. You gave the teacher your paper. Halfway through the year we had to read for her again and she placed me where she felt I needed to be. At the time I was terrible reading out loud. (Speech problems, self-confidence and other issues) I had to re read all those articles and tales again. Later in college I was tested for a learning disability. For reading and reading comprehension I was over 90% of the population. She had me doing things for less than 50% of the population. My point if that is all the teacher is going to do you can do it at home with the child, in a more relaxed environment.
Simply either homeschool your kid or send them to a private school or the last option look for a good charter school. Read Thomas Sowell book about "charter schools and the people against them"
luckily we have the internet now so kids can't be brainwashed by homeschooling parents as easily.
The people against charter schools are the ones that want better education.
@@Bc232klm you have been drinking too much cool-aid.
Right, because everyone knows the option is so simple. How stupid of parents to not do that. It’s not like they have other responsibilities like a job or two, or even more kids to raise. Just leave your kid at home or pay the equivalent of a vehicle every year in subpar education. Geez I wonder why people don’t just do that since everybody has thousands of dollars laying around.
@@Bc232klm Oh, yes. The internet is a completely safe place for kids. 🙄
The biggest reason to homeschool
Not the biggest, but a close second in a list of several hundred reasons to educate at home or with a group of like minded friends.
So how would homeschool work? Like you guys say homeschool but never talk what would you do?
@@Hgh38 Your best source for info is your local homeschool group. The homeschooling rules are different for each state/area & they would be most familiar for the laws in your area.
That being said, homeschooling is easier than most people think. Homeschool hours do not have to be the same as school hours. Once my kids got into the routine; they were finished by 12pm (so 5 hours of school). There are also co-op classes where a room is rented & a parent teaches. There are outdoor days & playground days. There's a lot of options out there.
I wish the system would incentivize mothers to homeschool!
That's a far stretch, but I still wish it.
My kids go to Catholic school but homeschool is plan B. I would love this as well. Kids need more stay at home mom’s. A lot of the moms in our kids school are SAHM and of course most of the kids are in a 2 parent household. I think that is the biggest privilege a child can have.
I worked with the San Diego Union school district. it was terrible. Between common core, crt, and the lack of discipline, it was Bs. We had one kid bring a knife to school. He damaged school property and threatened a student. He was suspended for one day. We had one who broke most school rules. One day suspension after another, but no change. We had a three strikes and you are out policy with my program. It was never enforced. I'm glad I left.
angel goya I am a 74 year Californian resident , living in Newsom's one party, controlled, state prison. I live roughly 90 minutes north of SD. I thought LAUSD and the teachers' union were crap until more stories about the SD school district surfaced. I always wondered how much in government dollars the SD school district received for having classes for bussed in illegals while your schools were still shut down? I hope you ate doing better and you are in a safer environment.
On the one hand there is literally no discipline. But on the other hand teaching attracts mediocrities who figure anyone can be smarter than a bunch of kids so that is perceived as their only venue to be some level of management. But the jokes on them because teachers are not management, hence their reliance on labor unions to protect themselves. And since American public schools are really only daycare centers for mostly imbeciles, teacher quality doesn’t matter because most of the kids are certainly not going to learn much of anything anyway. So everybody loses. Hence the rising popularity of home schooling, UNSCHOOLING and online academy not to mention just screwing off until you’re old enough to attend GED cram school, my former speciality. I could take anyone with a sixth grade reading level and get them their high school equivalency diploma in six months no sweat! That’s literally how easy the GED test actually is. Then at that point you’re golden for community college. After two years of community college it’s a cinch to get into the local commuting state university such as Cleveland State or the University of Akron. That’s literally how little public school even matters. I always vote no on school levies except for Cuyahoga Community College and the public library. I taught for 7 years and it was a complete waste of time except for the GED tutoring I did for two years at the end. I had the highest pass rate in the state for two years.
Wow omg. There is this school located in New York called Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation. And the kid was constantly getting bullied by two other kids, and he would tell the teacher and the principal about the situation, and nothing was done. Therefore, the boy brought a knife to school because he was bullied in school based on his sexuality. I guess it was revenge. So he stab the other kid constantly, where everyone was screaming, and panicking that parents had to pick up their kids early from school. Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation is permanently closed for good.
@@keciaaskew5166 ".. The kid was constantly getting bullied by two other kids, and he would tell the teacher and the principal about the situation, and nothing was done."
I have a great disdain for the slogan used by teachers and teachers' unions, "We care about the kids". IThe slogan seems conveniently used when teachers and Teachers' unions are asking for more money, more benefits, more time off,smaller classes and unnecessary b.s.,. especially in the larger school districts in the nations, like in California and New York. You have all these highly, educated adults with degrees and they are unable to properly "care about the kids" when it comes to such things as bullying. I don't know how good the school was, but it is closed down and kids have to go elsewhere.
My favorite comment from the leader of the largest teachers' union in the US: "I'll start caring about kids when they start paying union dues."
@Richard Fox Yes, they are about kids when they feel it is in their best interest re public relations.
Was that New York or LA?
@@barbaras676 Al Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers. He was a national leader, like Randi Weingarten, but earlier.
@@Nordic_Sky Randi Weingarten is an unmitigated piece of useless crap. She shut down schools and lied and said she wanted schools open. Maybe she knows that the southern border is secure, too.
@@vinyltapelover I detest her. Ugh.
I’m gonna send my daughter to private school I don’t want her going to a public school. My parents moved when I was in 7th grade and the new school was a terrible experience for me I was bullied, made fun of, teachers knew and did nothing, a teacher called me fat and the whole classroom laughed at me. The school I was at before moving I was never bullied, I was not popular but I was friends with everyone but not the new school. At the new school it all started because I stuck up for some nerdy kids getting bullied and because I did that I started getting bullied. The school I was at before was much bigger and bulling really wasn’t a thing kids were much nicer. If my daughter ever has any problems like I did I will do whatever it takes to help her, pay for a different school or whatever I refuse to let her have an experience like I did!
I remember my dad wanted to put me in a private high school. Unfortunately, my grandmother put me in a regular high school, where I was bullied because I would receive speech, and the students would laugh at me and the teacher wouldn’t do anything about at.
I always had anxiety from not fitting in and not having the right clothes, as well as unhappiness at home. This was a huge distraction from learning. It really hit home recently when I saw a teenager on TH-cam say she knew she looked good, and could focus on her work. Fitting in gives you peace of mind.
Private schools are not exempt from bullying. How naive. 🙄
Private schools have plenty of bullying....more so than public school, in my opinion. (K-10 private and 11-12 public) I homeschool and my daughter was just called weird today by her so called friend. Bullying happens everywhere and we can't completely shield our children from it even though I wish we could. The best thing that we can do is try to be there for them when it happens and give them the tools they need to deal with it.
I taught at a private school. Same old stuff...bullying, nastiness, student laziness, etc. However, not as violent.
Politics should be left out of the “American”public education system. The American education system is the worst compared internationally with countries around the world. But the main problem why the education system in America is so bad is because the culture in America does not put education as a priority. The military is priority. Huge amount of money goes to the military, but pennies go to education. Students are not held accountable or responsible for their learning. Students can pass their classes with doing one to no assignments for the entire school year otherwise parents challenges the teacher and school system. Principals have graduation quotas to meet, thus teachers are pressured to pass kids whether they learned anything or not.
The teacher thus loses the motivation or ambition to teach anything of value. Kids and parents complain why they or their kid not learning. This is why… American public schools are not academic institutions for learning, but a teen babysitting center, meeting quotas, and checking off items on a checklist. School choice don’t work. Not enough teachers. So when many kids move to a certain school, if the teachers there are overloaded with students, the instruction suffers, and the child don’t receive the one to one help needed to be successful. Even universities in the US is collapsing, but are doing well in China. Why does US not have talents it use to have? The talents are not coming to US anymore. US never really had any homegrown talents, because education was never a priority in the country. US was strong and powerful not because of its own people having skills, knowledge and abilities, but it was dependency on foreign talents coming to the US. They are not coming anymore. US having many problems now.
*COURAGE IS A VIRTUE!*
DON'T LET THEM BULLY & SHAME US.
STAND TOGETHER AGAINST THE POLITICAL MACHINE
I am so thankful and grateful that I have been homeschooling my 3 children since birth, my oldest is 17!
The best prager u videos are the ones you already know. I gave college a try and after 1 semester I dropped out because I knew it's a cash grab scam/ woke indoctrination centers
As of typing this I'm almost through my first year of college and I'm already dealing with headaches after some classes... good to know that I'm not the only one who thinks the system is broken
@Richard Fox During the years of Rush Limbaugh broadcasting, not only did he speak of how these things were occurring at colleges including the prestigious ones. Rush over 30 years, would have students call in, like Sampson Liang, speaking of the problems in asking questions, voicing an opinion which might be in opposition to prevailing thinking. Students, now, even in high schools, are being harassed by other students if they are known to support Conservatism. One female high school student, questioned crt and white privilege being taught at her school. She, a Conservative, had previously spoken with her parents of her concerns. They listened, approved and supported what she felt she would do. So, she was not only harassed and villifief by other students, she was a straight "A" student, who wad suspended from school until she would change her position. She was able to have class work and assignments sent home so she could keep up. Over time, education, including k-12, had turned in to propaganda mills. My thinking that it had come about because of the bombing, burning, protesting rioting radicals of the 60s and 70s getting into Education, big business and politics. It has taken awhile but thid id what we've got.
This, sir, is how and why they "Do Dare". Sorry for the long response to, "how dare they", a phrase also famously used by the Green activist blond girl.
One point that is ignored about merit pay is that the reason the unions oppose it is not to retain those who are incompetent, but to protect every teacher who, for whatever personal reasons, does not "please" the administration. Merit pay can easily become just a tool for administration to reward their favorites while starving out those who displease them, personally or politically. Education is not like business where those who get paid more is because they acquire more profits. At this point you may want to bring up testing as a factor of improvement and thus as reason for merit pay. To which I must bring up that students have different talents and aptitudes and are usually grouped accordingly. Those groups can be manipulated to benefit some teachers while making it more difficult for other teachers... and now you want to bring less pay into the mix as well? There may be many things that need to be fixed in education, but merit pay is not a good solution.
Jocof 01 Good write up. When you wrote,
" Those groups can be manipulated to benefit some teachers while making it more difficult for other teachers.." it had thinking of how political parties like to draw and redistrict lines to serve their advantage in getting votes.
Speak of manipulating...when my youngest was going to school, in the late 80s, the school attempted a unilateral move, to move her schoolmate, Angie, from A.P. classes to regular classes to accommodate another family's child, who was a known "darling" of the school district. I think they thought they could pull it off as the Angie's mother was a single mom with two children in school. She took a half day off , working as an R.N. to go to the school to correct that problem.if she hadn't the school and the district would have screwed up Angies's academic track towards college.
There’s no wonder why the US is in the 30’s in Science and mathematics.. The teacher Union is making our kids dumb.
You want to get rid of teacher unions. Here is how you do it. Give teachers insurance in the event they are sued by parents. That insurance protection is the main reason teachers join the union.
This isn't just a United States problem, this is a Canadian problem as well.
I had a teacher who was on tenure. He would enter class, not do any work or teach us anything, if we would tell him that we would protest and tell the principle he would scoff and say "I am on tenure, you can't do anything to me" and he was right. We learnt nothing from him and he was outed as a pedophile a few years after I had him as a teacher. Very disturbing
Teaching Anti-Americanism in Public Schools certainly does not help future adult U.S. citizens!
I've been teaching for 18 years in Texas. I've seen teachers come out of the principal's office crying because they were fired. The union has little influence here.
I am from Mississippi and we aren't seeing it to this extent yet. My neice is a teacher in Utah and I am appalled at the things she tells me about what goes on in her school. Just this week she had a student say he was going to shot some of the kids and her (6th grade) and the ONLY thing that happened to the child is he was suspended for the rest of the day. I told her she should quit. That is just insane. Also they cannot fail anyone.
@Richard Fox "Unions need to be stronger - however poor performance must be addressed."
Unions needing to be stronger? There may have been a place for unions, but not any more. As a former chief steward in a union, I can say, the tail has increasingly been wagging the dog more.
If you are talking about "poor performance" of the students, how's that going to happen as the? Curriculum and books are set up by the district, the unions , "educators" and folks up the educational food change. You have districts, such as in New York City, who are purposely taking out A.P. classes so as not to cause equity issues for other students. There are schools and school districts who are adjusting the pace of leaning, down, to accommodate slow learners and the newer illegal immigrant , low educated students. Again some of this is occurring in NYC. What about underperforming teachers who get paid the same as excellent performing teachers,, because of union contracts, There is something to be said of Merit Paid. It is curious with the all the wealth of knowledge in education, the scientists, mathematicians, economists no one, to date has set a viable proposal of how to institute Merit Pay? Maybe NO ONE wants to do it, because it would be like making sense.
@Richard Fox Thank you for the clarification. I truly like and appreciate how you expressed your thoughts on the subject and I have great respect for your input. I'm a great grandfather, having retired from the military and also retired from a government job. As a youngster, I worked selling papers and having a paper route. Worked while in high school and after graduation. Served in the military, sold insurance, sold copiers(draw against commission ). I worked in a factory, where I became a chief steward. As a manager, in the military and private sector, among various duties in both environments, , I evaluated employee performance and production which could lead to eventual promotions and pay increases. Maybe the culmination of all those working experiences may have a contributed to my , uh, tougher, 'old school', “a day’s work, for a day’s pay” mentality….good, bad and otherwise.. It is my thought, whether the working environment is union shop or not, Merit Pay or not, an employer will always find a way to abuse an employee, if they have a mind to do so. I have seen and even experienced it myself. I think some of the comments submitted will attest to that. So although we may ‘agree to disagree about Merit Pay, it is my thinking, something could be figured out with the two of us included in the discussions,…. if we were asked of course, lol lol.
I see tenure, particularly for K-12 teachers, as a type of “safety net” that that works to the advantage of the average, poorer performing teachers. You can’t get rid of, or replace, a poor performing tenured, teacher with a motivated one. The students ultimately lose.
@Richard Fox Hah, my dad's family from Texas👍🏼.I was just getting ready to shut down and saw your reply. I'm in Califi-funkia with one of the most worthless person in life much less politics...Newsom, nephew in law of Gangsta Nasty Pelosi.
Your description of teaching and pay[reward] seem to be a good system and a good alternative to what is going, here, across the pond from you folks:).
With being a successor to another steward, humbly, I was. pretty good. He left to go back to Boston, Ma. Before passing the reins over to me, he briefed me on the quirks and deviousness of the management of the company and briefed me on the those who would cry wolf to get you into a no win, faux grievance situation with management. The last thing, Tommie(was his name)did was to give his shirt pocket sized notebook with stuff I needed to be aware of and past grievances that employees had files or attempted to file.
When I was asked to resign [for beating up an assailant] I was overjoyed that I finally had an airtight excuse to quit. I had a very cheerful talk with the principal about my function aboard the nuclear submarine I’d crewed on as a quartermaster, listened to his stories about being an MP in the China/Burma/India theater during the Second World War, left the building with an immense sense of relief, then spent the summer as a gardener at this really peculiar Episcopalian monaster after attending truck driving school, then switched to adult education at Job Corps. Teaching is such a shitty job I simply can’t imagine being upset by either getting fired or quitting. Driving a garbage truck would be a more satisfying career since at least you’d be performing an actual public service.
My kids had gone to a Charter School & didn't have problems. Unfortunately, we had to move them to a public school to get speech therapy for one of them as it wasn't available at the Charter School...There, both kids always got bullied and the school wouldn't do anything about it!! 😡
Prívate speech therapy through medical insurance or self-pay.
We need to close down public education.
Cool, parents can pay 100% of their children's education and everyone else's taxes go down.
@@troywest7045 public schools are a bad investment. if parents had to pay for education they'd have a different set of standards. more like what we see in private schools today.
One of my biggest shocks from watching this is the fact that a public school teacher can have tenure? I always thought tenure was a University thing. I never IMAGINED a 4th grade, public school teacher could achieve tenure! To me, that's outrageous! As a taxpayer, I'm PAYING for that nonsense!
No you're not, youre not rich enough lol. How wealthy do you think you are????
@@Bc232klm everyone who owns or rents their residence pays for government schools through property taxes. Are you so ignorant that you don’t know where the funding originates? Or are you one of those who live in a tent on public land?
Tenure started as a university thing. It was meant to protect professors who had opposing political views that the higher ups, who would fire political opponents. In NJ, it takes 7 years and observation to get it (pretty simple). After that you're pretty protected. I don't know if it's changed in 4 years but in NJ (I moved out of state) you CANNOT get out of the union, even if you refuse union status, they will still take the money out of your check for dues.
People already forgot what the teacher's union did. People have many justifications for leaving their kids in the public schools. The unions just need numbers in order to justify asking for more money. We the people are allowing it. It's discouraging. I hope the school choice initiatives are very precise about not letting the money be a way to make private schools teach and only buy the curriculum the state wants. That would be worse because then we would have handed over private schools to them as well.
Private religious schools should never receive a penny of tax dollars.
When I was a kid and forced to take state assessments, I knew that they were designed to grade the district: in this case, one of many I attended, and particularly chalked with abusive, activist instructors. We spent weeks prepping, all teaching to the test. The test was expected to take hours, and we were free to go when complete. I got into the test bay, colored a giant smiley face using the bubbles in my Scantron, and left. Others followed suit. This was done respectfully, but purposely. That school needed serious intervention. It got it. And we got in a good movie. I went on to graduate a near 4.0 in undergrad, and a 4.0 as a graduate student. Not because of, but DESPITE our public schools. Our system is a joke. I'm now a prof working it from the inside. I could tell you things that would get you reaching for your pitchfork. But I won't stop working from there. There a lot more like me... and we're making more headway than you think.
To notice it that soon mad respect, I knew something was up but still did my best because education was important in my family. I did graduate college with honors and said it’s a piece of paper. Only reason I still have it is my mom got it framed 😂.
Totally agree. Public high school in particular is mostly social life and sports. Just the frequent class changes ruin the learning atmosphere. And it’s all mass lecturing to the dull normal level. Real education such as that dispensed in the great British universities revolves around the tutorial method and heavy concentrated reading in a specific subject, the very antithesis of American mass schooling. Even at the university level in the USA you are continually being distracted from your major course of study by the requirements that you be continually wandering around the campus taking all of these silly distribution requirements. So typically you only get one year’s worth of credits even in your actual major. Plus it takes at least a year too long. Garbage in garbage out.
@@marcmeinzer8859 true to some degree until graduate level, then it is intensity training solely focused on your major with supporting electives. Ideally. Most students opt for the easiest route. I never took an elective that was easy. Many do.
@@renadamTWELVE Yes, for instance you don’t often hear of people taking foreign languages or calculus as their electives. Were I raising kids I would force them to take four years of a language and four years of math in high school in order to make college easier for them. But I found even science electives at the 300 level to be quite easy typically. I also found the concentrated first year of Spanish done in one quarter quite easy as well. Bull I could never follow what university math instructors were doing even though I easily learned celestial navigation in advanced underwater navigation for submarine quartermasters when I was in the navy. The navy no longer has submarine quartermasters today having automated that job out of existence, just as the coast guard did.
School choice is needed!
Where I live, school choice is part of state law.
Religious schools need not apply.
They don't care about students either. 3 of those beaten teachers were beaten up because they committed statutory rape. I guess a rape from a female is not considered "agregious"
No. Most men believe that boys who get molested by crazy female teachers are “lucky”.
Teacher perspective: quit NEA last week because they do nothing except send me monthly woke indoctrination pamphlets and take $800 away from my already meager salary. The logic of membership is that if you ever get into got water with student claims of sexual harassment they will come to the rescue I'm your defense... My solution: don't be alone with any students ever...
Look up: Association of American Educators. Non-political, still has liability insurance and other types of support built in. Saved me $1000 a year compared to District/NEA Union.
@Ian we just had a vote on MEA at my institution. I voted for their card to vote, but abstained on the vote itself. My thought is they have a right to vote on a union (hence the card), but beyond that they are on their own. I cannot support it, either. And I won't.
One point made, briefly, is that teachers are FORCED to pay dues, even if they choose not to be union members.
They pay 'fair share,' not the full dues amount, as they stand to benefit from union negotiations at contract time.
Leif Hendricksen Wasn't there a lawsuit by teachers regarding Forced dues and the issue of those dues going to campaigns and causes not agreed to by the union members? It seemed to drop off from media attention.
@@ga6589 Respectfully, sir, the use of "Fair share" , is well worn phrase, a playbook talking point, that to me, is not entirely correct. If there was a way to have total access to "the books "and create a pie chart of the spending and out go where ALL the membership dues are going, I'd take a s.w.a.g. that maybe 10%, if that much, is going to negotiating salaries, benefits and pensions. Unions are a great money making con game. Their end isn't fully taking care of their members, they are into acquiring power, control and influencing public policy.
Sorry, but you're trying to sell Igloos in the Sahara residents. What your selling, I'm not buying it.
Thank you for your work to expose the lies.
Like Elon is doing to Twitter, the whole American education system needs clearing out root and branch
Teachers are already taking care of that. They're leaving the profession in droves and there aren't enough young folks willing to go into education and take their place. (It isn't because of the unions.)
Twitter is trash since Musk took it over, don't tell me you're a Musk boot licker?
The guy is an idiot who takes credit for things others do.
Online charter schools can be annoying, and they have a lot of room for improvement. With that said, they have a lot of accountability to parents because they can't hide the curriculum. My two sons are autistic and they have been in charter school from kindergarten to now (4th and 5th grades) and they in closer to being on track for grade level then most autistic children their age. Probably because of all the time they spent learning their curriculum (and they get pet animal breaks).
As a public school teacher myself I have forgone joining the union, in 2 schools I've been at. The initial school couldnt do anything for me anyway when I was let go bc I had no tenure, so I'm glad I didn't join bc it would have been money lost for no reason. The new school I also am not a part of it but If you ask me, if I'm gonna pay gas money for an entire month, I need to ACTUALLY GET SOMETHING out of it.
Adulthood sucks.
My children do not go to public school for the same reason we don't live in public housing.
The problem with unions is that the gains for the workers (teachers) in the 1st or 2nd contract are substantial and makes unionizing seem like a good idea. Now that the 3 or 4 pain points have been addressed, the union leaders have nothing else to push for. So, to justify union dues, they have to keep pushing for ridiculous salary or benefits demands so people don't go "why do we need a union now?".
mae2759 When I checked, a few years back, LAUSD full time teachers were getting paid about $62,000 a year. Their $15000/year health insurance was paid by the school district. When they were asked to return to work, the Union presented conditions that included SJW issues, which had nothing to do with education. One condition that was asked for and granted, was being given a "ridiculous benefit' of a $500/month stipend for child care to apply towards their children. Schools are teaching children that math and language are oppressive and racist. Why are teachers' unions needed?
My daughter is 16 months and she is never setting foot in a public school as a student, I’ve known for a long time I wanted to homeschool.
I don't really think the shutdowns were to blame. The teacher's unions were. You can still teach remotely. They just refused to do so.
I apologize for this lengthy response, but as a parent, a U.S. citizen, & a retired school nurse & educator, I'm very interested in this topic.
Most children, IMHO, are easily distracted at home if they don't have adult supervision in the room with them. They also need the socialization w/ other kids, good, bad, or ugly. If we coddle them & don't let them learn early the moral & practical skills that come with interacting w/ others (e.g., bullies, opposing world views, differing cultures), then they lose out on valuable life skills.
Being around people who are the same as them is not only boring & "safe," but it lulls them into a false sense of security & curtails a whole world of learning opportunities that they might not get otherwise. They also need opportunities to talk w/ their parents &/or teachers about these interactions in order to become skilled in correctly assessing & participating in resolving moral dilemmas, socialization skills, critical thinking, & informed decision-making.
Personally, I think the money for educating our children needs to follow each child, so I'm VERY pro-voucher program & think that teachers may need to up their creativity, pedagogical teaching skills, & self-directed learning if they are competing with other learning environments & systems (e.g., parochial vs home schooling vs private) to give children the BEST education possible.
I don't understand why people are surprised that teacher unions look out for teachers first. Are they also surprised that steel worker unions look out for steel workers first?
I wish I could be reimbursed my property taxes and put it in my kids Catholic school.
I would like to see Catholicism to be eradicated from this great nation. It's time to get rid of the corrupt Vatican with all their scandals. I am baffled by the fact that people dare to call themselves Catholics after all that has happened.
You pay property taxes, regardless if you have a child or not, regardless if they go to public or private schools. Needless to say religious schools will never receive a penny of tax dollars.
It's failing because the public schools are too worried about teaching kids CRT and calling them by their proper pronouns
"Is this CRT in the room with us right now?"
@@boredd9410 What are you talking about
Not to mention, teaching children the alphabet agenda
It's been failing (on purpose) for decades. Those issues are just some of the last nails in the coffin.
Plus never forget that public school teachers aren’t even allowed to discipline the kids. The kids are literally permitted to run out of the classrooms to wander the halls and nobody’s allowed to lay a finger on them. And if one of the other kids starts beating up your kid the teacher’s not even allowed to break up the fight. I was literally asked to resign for rescuing one of the kids from a beating because I in turn started beating the assailant until he broke off the assault. After all, what else can you really do? I initially only dragged the assailant off of his victim but then he of course starting punching me in the head. Was I supposed to permit him to knock me out? I don’t think so. It is nothing but the complete absurdity of idiocy. Always vote no on school levies. And in any event you can’t permit any room for nuance in public school instruction because everything is pitched to the dull normal level of obviousness bordering on obliviousness. I literally had parents calling me unpatriotic while teaching the American Revolution at parochial school because I mentioned the fact that the first Episcopalian bishop in this country had been a Tory chaplain to the British army during the revolution which is why George Washington would never speak to him even though Washington was an Episcopalian. And that Ben Franklin’s son had been the royalist governor of Pennsylvania or that Paul Revere didn’t say “the British are coming” for the obvious reason that the colonists themselves were also British then. Anything taught at less than the university level in this country is literally gauged to imbeciles unless you’re at one of the elite boarding schools catering to rich kids. I know this because I guided boarding school kids at canoe camp up in Canada.Half the other guides were teaching at elite eastern boarding schools. I quit teaching 35 years ago to become a deck hand in the merchant marine which ought to show you how little I think of teaching.
This video as well as Fox news complained about how terrible the public schools are and I agree but also in the same breath complained about how during the pandemic they couldn't send their children to the terrible schools. 🤦🏾♀️
Taught public school for 2 years, needles to say it was the worst 2 years of my life.
Who is even surprised by this?
If you have a disabled kid you need to homeschool there’s no exceptions
I am married to a public school teacher (whose apparently not in a union) and he has some issues with merit based pay for teachers in that you get stuck with what kids they give you as a teacher and if you get multiple kids who are lower on the spectrum as far as knowledge they base your pay off of whether or not those kids are up to par when the end of the school year comes. The issue is that some teachers, by luck of the draw, get many lower students and can't always bring them up to where they should be by the end of the year. If they were paid merit based, they would get docked in pay based on the amount of lower students. Now that special ed children are integrated; that's another factor that plays into merit based pay since they also have to be up to par at the end of the year and they rarely are. I agree with this documentary but this is something to consider. A good teacher may not always get ALL his/her students to meet the standards by the end of the school year which would be problematic for pay.
Merit pay in the truest sense recognizes the dedication, expertise, and effort of teachers with their students on a case by case basis. This treats every instructor as an individual, versus a collective group assigned a given demographic and aptitude set of students. I instruct both dev ed and honors/AP students in a challenging post-secondary setting. The amount of time and effort I put in is double or even quadruple that of my counterparts as a result. However, I'm paid the same. I would welcome merit pay.
@@renadamTWELVE I guess it depends on how they did merit based pay. We have never been told exactly what that would look like. If its pay based on hard work; dedication; time spent with students; time spent with parents etc that's fine. It's just that when we personally think of merit based pay we think of every student being on par at the end of the year which is really what my husbands school expects already even without adopting merit based pay. I would agree that bad teachers need to go. If they adopt merit based pay they need to be really specific on what that means.
How about merit pay based on student and parent evaluation? My son had fantastic teachers one year and then horrible verbally abusive one the next. The bad experience traumatized him for many years. After we got the lottery of a Montessori charter school, the difference in education quality changed dramatically for the better. Now my litter one will stick with the Montessori community no matter where we live.
This explains so much of my public school experience.
Let’s merit pay police officers and politicians too…
14:24 "lack of discipline" hmm, I think there's something missed here. I was just in a public school a year ago (graduated.) It was a top 200 public school.
It felt like prison and nearly all students would have agreed with me, Many students misbehaved freshman year, (they got kicked out later for the better or worse), but the real issue seemed to be the liability laws. The teachers could not kick those students out. The rest of us had to suffer because of these stupid laws. Imagine being watched 24/7. If a parent did that to a child... if the child had no room of their own, then people would probably say that's bad parenting, but in schools it's "okay" in the name of safety. Look, life is dangerous. If we want to prevent all crime/danger we should lock all of ourselves up in our homes. We have the technology now to do that and keep track of every person 24/7... that's not the way though. If you want students to learn respect them. Remember what teachers used to say about respect going both ways? Yes, that applies to students as well.
Our school was a rigorous school so the teachers were more lax, but adults really don't understand how freedom stripping these schools are. We literally had to raise our hands and get permission at age 18 to use the bathroom. That's humiliating from 2nd-3rd grade.
Modern education (atleast in the us) is not even about learning much or becoming smarter it's just a memorization game in order to pass,I had a 4.1 GPA in highschool yet forgot nearly 95 percent of the stuff I ever learned, grading doent truly show ones intelligence.
People often mock me for dropping out of school because I had cancer, and I'm still far too sick to go off to college. Though my parents view it as a blessing in disguise because of what's being taught at most schools nowadays.
@Richard Fox One of the Catholic schools I went to taught that Jesus is a socialist and that the Bible teaches us to live the way of Marx and Lenin.
@Richard Fox I know and that's why the Catholic Church has the Magisterium to guide the church into how to correctly interpret the Bible. I'm fine if a public school promotes socialism but the Catholic Church has always condemned socialism so it should have no place in a Catholic school.
@Richard Fox Exactly!
@@ChrisZoomER No school should be promoting socialism.
@@CatholicTraditional Agreed.
As a 26-year member of the 2nd largest school district union in the country, I can honestly say that we didn’t only press for salaries! We pushed for smaller class sizes (my middle school classes in Math and Science averaged 34), full-time nurses, more psych services, less administrative red tape and restrictive demands on our time. Teachers are only paid for the 6/6.5 hours of the school day, but are expected to spend 7.5/8 hours a day working, and that isn’t even close to how many hours a week worked. Good teachers (and yes, there are many “bad” ones who should be fired!) work at least 50-60 hours/week on planning, grading, meetings, paperwork (like analyzing data), taking mandatory weekend and evening continuing education courses or trainings and more. I personally spent every Sunday working for 5-8 hours and many Saturdays either working or at trainings.
I’m NOT defending the unions - they are egregious in many of their actions! I’m just telling the other side of the story this piece does not say.
I don’t pretend to know about CRT - I retired in 2021 and never ran into anything like that in our district of over 664,000 students (including charter schools & adult learners) and over 25,000 teachers. I do know of many teachers who were in a rubber room after an altercation or incident with a student, and they would report downtown or to their local district and sit there.
I am tired of teachers bitching about how many hours they work. Most professional put in more than a 40 hour week. We do not get tenue or months off during the year. We would be fired if we produced the results of our current educational system.
We had a counselor that would not help certain kids fill out for college, she would tell colleges that some kids had other scholarships and get you scholarship opportunity taken and given to someone else... when she was a teacher 20yrs before she told students she would make sure they didn't graduate no matter what they did.... she has tenure, nothing anybody can do. She had that power in a school that had graduating class of 42
This is how you start a education revolution. 🇺🇸🦅🗽
As a public educator, I know the educational system is seriously flawed. There are bad teachers out there and they do get fired. The problem with merit pay is how you measure it. Student scores, parent feedback, administration recommendations? The problem with student scores is the belief that you have ultimate control of the outcome of it. Student are their own individuals and will decide whether to give their best effort or not. I’ve seen with my own eyes students deciding not to care about their own education and purposely fail. It’s disheartening as an educator who gives it her all. So how is that the teacher ‘s fault? How do you account that for merit pay?
I would argue that public schools and unions are doing exactly what they were designed to do. They were never meant to be neutral. I highly recommend listening to Public School Movement by Steve Wilkins.
And people wonder why teachers are leaving. It does not pay to be a teacher anymore. I was a teacher for 18 years. It became nothing more than political issues as stated and it became not an enjoyable environment so it was time to step away I could have not made a better choice.
Considering how little it pays if teaching proves to be unpleasant then you can forget about it. And the bar to entry is low since a bachelor’s degree is simply the middle class union card which everyone is expected to get more as finishing school than anything else, even if you really want to become a carpenter. So it’s really less than nothing to shrug off teaching once you’ve found out for yourself that it’s a pain in the ass. People get certified as teachers just to avoid the language requirement with a regular BA which includes no job credential. Then once you realize that most teachers are charlatans who just fake it assuming that no one will notice it becomes impossible to have any respect for the other teachers as well. The curriculum needs to be standardized and put online so there’s no difference between online academy and regular public school. And regular teachers should not be permitted to just wing it all the time, worksheet the kids to death, and basically never even talk to the kids which is a common observation of teaching aides in my experience. Teaching aides I worked with routinely said the other teachers would simply pass out worksheets, then walk around repeating “sit down and shut up” for the entire period before saying “pass your worksheets to the front of the class”. Then the dependence on teachers as lecturers needs to be overcome. Then perhaps teachers could function more as tutors. But as a kid if you’re entirely dependent upon getting all of your motivation from teachers pressuring you to do your reading in the first place, because you have no intellectual curiosity, then you’re basically doomed and would certainly never survive even your freshman year of college.
The two main reasons that teaching public school has become impossible are first, inability to impose discipline on the kids, and then second, inclusion in mainstream classes of the uneducable who belong in manual arts, therapy for the emotionally disturbed, or the juvenile lock up for the criminally inclined. When everyone simply gets dumped in mainstream classrooms the end result will always be chaos, the best teachers will all quit, and you will convert teaching into daycare for knuckleheads. People in general are of course entitled to believe what they wish, but the situation will not improve as long as the schools are run by cowards who always cave to the parents and the unions. And the notion that teachers are laborers who belong in labor unions is suspect although not entirely discredited in my opinion although if the teachers unions are so powerful how is it that teachers are so poorly paid? The seniority system does however alienate new teachers of higher ability.
“Daycare for knuckleheads”. 😆 I love it. Warehousing tomorrow’s burger flippers and delinquents.
@@genxx2724 That’s essentially what it comes down to reductio ad absurdum. At the inner city high school I worked at they would get rid of the real knuckleheads by first double checking their current address, then transferring them to another building if they’d moved without telling anyone, but most comical to me at least was the dodge wherein undesirables over the age of sixteen could be reclassified as “work/study” with their work assignment being something totally lame such as Burger King. We had this one kid who worked at Burger King and would violate the no hats inside the building rule by proudly wearing his paper Burger King crown. He was finally rewarded for his near constant irritation of the staff by a vice principal making him literally “career designated” as a burger flipper.
I work at Home Depot and they highly ward us against Unions. They make them sound bad. They also have all these systems in place for their workers to get their voice heard so they don't Unionize. There was a Union that formed for one Home Depot and they looked at that as a huge loss.
I mean, companies are naturally going to be anti-union and will always feed you anti-union propaganda. You need to decide for yourselves if unionization is a good thing, if your working conditions are truly that bad. Usually they aren't.
Are you happy with your pay and benefits?
Everyone involved is responsible for our failed education system. Teachers, Unions, Administration, Students, Parent(s). All have different motives and agendas. Quality education is not a priority for anyone.
I completely agree. The public education has many problems. And unions have many problems as well. But can we all stop acting like this video was produced by a completely objective source? Prager U is not affiliated with any university or other academic organization. It is a political organization with a specific right wing agenda. This video does not provide a comprehensive exploration of the problems, their causes, or the options for addressing them. The decline of the public education system is tied to the exodus of manufacturing jobs that began in the 1970s. Without the same base of middle-class families able to afford to vote for increases in school taxes, decade after decade, we’ve been asking teachers to do more with less. The students are paying the price, but Prager U is only interested in convincing it’s constituency that “the other guys” are to blame. If we aren’t smart enough to spot a wolf in sheep‘s clothing, like Prager U, then we don’t stand a chance of ever working together enough to make this nation, a place we want to leave to our grandchildren.
There so much wrong with the teacher union’s and need to be disband!if the children are failing then the teacher must be fired!
Back in the eighties in the UK, the unions had too much power and become political motivated. Margaret Thatcher our PM at the time stood up to them at the time and refused to back down, there was a Miners strike for over a year, with a lot of violence, from the Miners themselves, she banned secondary picketing and made it law for the Unions to only picket their place of work and after 12 months the unions were broken, never to rise to be a political power house like before.
We are seeing a rise in strikes once more, but it's political and they are being called out for it. So these strikes we are having now are small and localised, ineffectual.
The US needs to crack down on the Union power, they are strangling the USA, especially in the manufacturing sector as it's better to move jobs abroad where there are no Unions, than invest in the US.
Eliminate` departments of education. Eliminate public school. Privatize, privatize. It's the moral choice.
Agreed 100%. Do we take our Medicare cards to government hospitals? Hardly ever unless there’s a big county hospital where you live. But the county hospital is usually the hospital of last resort for those with no hospitalization insurance. Then the first thing they do is sign you up for their insurance or get you on Medicaid. Public schools in the USA are like the educational equivalent of Medicaid for the indigent, especially in the big cities.
Yeah, let's throw young kids into the system of "haves" and "have-nots". Rich kids go to good schools and poor kids can go to the fields to work. Talking about morality. Without any implemented standards, any school can teach anything and ultimately your kids will learn nothing. Oh yes, that pi is equal to 3 because the Buybol says so.
Union teachers can't be fired. But if you're not in the union, they will get rid of you by not renewing your contract. Happened to me many times before I gave up and stopped trying to be a classroom teacher. I jumped through many hoops (and took out a very expensive student loan) to get qualified for a specialist job. I can't get that either. With an advanced degree and many years of experience, I am so high up on the pay scale that no one wants to hire me. Once again, screwed by the unions.
I homeschool my 5 kids. For a million reasons
Is it possible for teachers to form a different Union One centered around patriotism and Traditional Values of American education? And if so is it possible for teachers to decide to leave this teacher's Union and go to the other? I don't understand how unions work but I do think it is strange that a union apparently created to help each individual teacher cares nothing about the individual teacher and only about their own political goals. There's got to be a way to counter this
Yes, there is such a union. Christian Educators Association International. I left my public school union and joined CEAI. Too bad this video did not mention that many teachers can choose which union to support. The dues are less, too.
@@MM-cb6fz if it were possible to join this union individually versus collectively, I would do so. Unfortunately... not possible.
@@MM-cb6fzChristian Educators is an oxymoron
The problem is; the type of teachings this video is mentioning IS happening in private schools as well. In fact, I know for a FACT the political, CRT, DIE ideologies IS happening at an international school in Indiana yet they try and hide it by not being transparent about the curriculum and what topics are being taught
Congress needs to amend the NLRA to specifically exclude teachers from collective bargaining.
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I can relate as a parent and city worker the unions like this country is clearly broken great documentary.
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0:09 "It is about money and power."
• 2:45 Tenure
• 3:21 Q: Do you think the unions protect teachers that probably shouldn't be in the classroom?
A: Unquestionably. . . .
Rubber rooms
19:11 end
I know this is easier said then done but every parent needs to pull their kid out of public schools
Seen in the last couple years an administrator who was targeted by the superintendent and didn't quit. Most quit knowing the union would do nothing to help them. One even got an additional $20,000 in an agreement she wouldn't sue for harassment. This administrator was harassed, ridiculed, threatened with termination, there were attempts to force her to sign non disclosure agreements, etc. The board did nothing. The union, given the evidence and eyewitness accounts told the person, hire a lawyer, we don't do anything about things like that. After 25 years that harassed person realized the union wasn't on her side.
I homeschooled years ago and would definitely do it now. I have tried to encourage my son and his wife to homeschool their children...my first grandchild is attending a charter school. I have a question to those who choose to rely on the public school system - What would happen if a coalition of parents across the country in every school district took their children out of school for five days at the same time period during the school year? BTW - I worked in the public system for 10 years and would never send my children or grandchildren to public school in this mess.
rochester ny just got tested by ny state (tested 12,000 of the 24,000 students) and, despite spending $40,000 per student, the school only has 2% of students testing at grade level in math. How many teachers will get fired for failure to teach? 0
Ridiculous. Education spending is a bottomless pit. We need to get back to basics.
The educational system needs to be restored.
I left one of my district’s unions and now pay more for a private, Christian teacher’s union. It is designed for public school teachers and provides the same amount of support.
Get government out of education. When the NEA was created, the education system when down the crapper.
Congress is the greatest lawmaker in U.S. They need to make it illegal for teachers to unionize. A good teacher will have job security. Education should be returned to the states. School choice would help weed out bad schools, so of course the unions are against it.
Do you argue for a national law while saying education should go back to the states? One or the other but not both. I would agree to Dissolve the the Department of Education and Severely limit redistribution between the states of funds for education.
Unions are good sometimes for teachers. If the teachers are accused of something, the union gets legal representation for them and advice. If a principal is picking on a teacher, the union can get involved to be a voice for the teacher. Their collective bargaining is responsible for good pay and benefits. (I do wish they'd back up merit pay though. Although, the problem is how do you define merit pay? Bad teachers are excellent at performing well for observation.) That's where their work should end though. I also concur with dissolving the Dept of Ed.
1st amendment
Where I live, school choice is written in state law. BTW, what assurances are there that a "good" teacher will have job security or make a decent wage? There are Harvey Weinstein- types in all professions, including education administration.
@@ga6589 I'm thankful school choice is written into your state's law. I'm hopeful it may become law in my state. You said, "what assurances are there". Well, in this imperfect world, nothing is guaranteed. But!, there are things that work better than others and some are worse than others. I just think that the teachers unions are creating far more problems than they solve. Since laws are in place for prosecution and punishment of Harvey Weinstein types, there is a venue to get justice for those wronged; without having protection for poorly functioning teachers. Children's welfare should be a higher priority than the collective protected by teacher unions.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
Justice for Good and Helpful Teachers and Students
I have been bullied by my union. Who can I contact? I am an educator. I do not pay dues.
*Rubber rooms*
3:43 If a teacher did something so bad they can't be in the classroom ...
*Merit-based pay*
Teachers, stop paying union dues! The Janus ruling by the Supreme Court ruled against mandatory dues to unions.
Don't force teachers to join the union!
Any right to work states teachers pull out from unions
Bureaucracy Is the problem.
yes, more competition. That’s how private schools works. They compete with what they offer.
The problem with education is that it is for sale! The people that run education have no idea about teaching, children, or education. All they care about is getting to the next level to make more money. The parents are even worse! They think the public school system is set up for their child to be taught individually. Parents also don't want to pay taxes, because they think taxes should only be used for them and their kids. So basically the inmates run the asylum's! Teachers are afraid of the school administration, school administrators are scared of the school board, the school board is scared of the parent(i.e. voters), and the parents are scared of their kids. Propaganda videos like this one only make it worse. I would say if you don't like public schools, then teach your kids your self, but we saw how that went during the pandemic. This is basically a propaganda video for a private school and butt hurt parents to point blame at somebody. Instead of trying to work together to find a way to help children, we just want to place blame and try to make money off of people's feelings. What a horrible dangerous video this is!
When the NY governor mandated that anyone working in education who chose not to get the experimental cocktail would be forced to get an experimental invasive medical test every single week while healthy, the union did nothing. There is a Tenure law for Due Process that states you cannot be placed on unpaid leave before a hearing unless you have sex or do drugs with a student, but the union lawyer said they could do nothing and would not represent us. Our contract says nothing about our employer having control over our bodies. I have paid almost $17,000 in union dues just from my current job, but the union did nothing. No one has ever asked teachers who we should back politically.
Are TH-cam deliberately trying to quash these videos? 2.4M views and only 2.5k Likes seems fishy to me.
YES they are. I made a comment supporting this video and even provided a few links to support my claim and it was deleted and my account was blocked for 2 days for even being allowed to reply to ANYTHING
Public school was my worst bully. When my classmates kept bullying me, the schools did f*ck all. Teachers blamed me no matter what I did.
Why does school choice stop the unions being paid? Can someone clarify that for me?
as a european my reactions is WTF ??????
Well we did'nt start the fire.
Didnt a teacher union member go to Ukraine recently?
Madeline Mardigan Randi Weingarten "Teachers' union president, went to the Ukraine. She "pulled six-figure salary while pushing school closures. American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten's gross salary was over $426,000 from 2020-2021".
Weingarten is an unmitigated poc. What is covered in this video, has been going on in California, under Newsom, SEIU, teachers unions in LASUD, San Diego and around the entire state. During Covid, the teachers, full time in particular, were getting their salaries, pensions and benefits. The clock did not stop on the accrual of their vacation time and sick time, most notably in such places as California and New York. Simply stated, the teachers were out of the classrooms, on "vacation". Weingarten, the AFT and the various teachers' unions, facilitated the behavior of public school teachers not to return to classrooms. And to add insult to injury, the unions attempted to cause closures of private schools parochial schools and I believe some charter schools, that had continued to remain open, with little or no apparent children related, covid health issues
If you type in your search engine something like I did, such as, "Randi Weingarten claimed she did not want school closures", you will see a lot of articles on this female version of Jimmy Hoffa. They are bullies like their old Teamsters' Union counterparts.
Here's a excerpt from one article:
Randi Weingarten’s attempts to rewrite school-closings history won’t fly
"Weingarten and her National Education Association counterpart used their political muscle to exercise an inordinate amount of say over local school-district decisions and supplement the school-closure push by local unions.
Even as the august American Academy of Pediatrics encouraged schools to reopen for classes in fall 2020, Weingarten opposed then-US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ vow to reopen schools. And when the union-friendly Biden administration took over, the AFT was better able to exert influence.
In May 2021, The Post reported on conversations between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the AFT and the White House. Weingarten’s union actually suggested language for the CDC’s school-reopening guidance released in February that resulted in schools staying remote longer into the 2020-2021 school year."
Starts out at the state Ed level then to admin. The districts then push their agendas. Superintendents, principals and educators that were trained like those in charge above them. The slam should not be on the educator that works hard, but the state Ed., district level and admin. Educators always get the slam. Where state, admin, difficult students must take responsibility.
Karrisa Joss Because I don't have that Masters degree or PhD, I feel inadequate in attempting to discuss the problems I'm observing in education and in the classrooms..such as CRT, white privilege, teachings of Alfred Kinsey, gender affirming, attempting to change the sex and or name of children without parental knowledge much less permission. If these various things are now the current Curriculum, to be taught, by "educators", entrusted with our children and grandchildren, to teach those subjects in place of math, science and language. The "Slam" is justified.
So the the districts have their agendas, but State Eds support those agendas and remember where the States funding comes from... Washington D.C.
I can't put my finger on it, but it doesn't seem your "Starts out" with, missed including, say, the White House, The Green New Deal funding education with specific provisions such as students will be taught how to be activists and protestors, Also include the NEA, Weingarten and the teachers' unions. Lest not forget that Biden, who has the backs of Transgenders, has expanded
Title IX, to allow Trans males in female sports, bathrooms, showers and changing areas. Female students who have complained have been bullied, harassed, ostracized, and in some cases, expelled. So If this is considered A "Slam', it seems to be a well deserved one as this isn't conspiracy, a lie or just making it all up.
If Leaving out those entities and throwing in "problematic students", it sounds more like a dodge, misdirection, distraction.
From time immemorial, there have always been a segment of children, in learning environments, for a variety of reasons, who have been "problematic". That, to me, by itself, is it's own separate subject for another discussion. So students should not be included in this particular discuss and thrown under the bus. Just my humble thoughts.
@@vinyltapelover Where, exactly, are these public schools that are attempting to change the sex of children?
@@ga6589 As it is supposedly said in court dramas, "If you're asking the question, you already know the answer". In any event, I noticed how you avoided responding to some of my thoughts by deflecting with question. I supplied enough info for you to search engine keywords and phrases.
I would like to believe, your intellect, plus your research skills, should aide you in determining those answers for yourself. That's how I've learned. That's how I've attempted to be better, not perfectly, informed.
@@vinyltapelover Yes, I knew beforehand that you'd never directly observed, nor could name, any school attempting to change the sex of a child. That goes for your other claims you made regarding CRT, white privilege, or teachings of Alfred Kinsey. I've done quite a bit of online "research" about these and similar public school accusations. Invariably the hits are from right-wing websites or social media platforms that give only one side to a very muddled story... usually a story involving a disgruntled parent. In order to be better informed, I suggest you actually visit schools and talk with teachers directly. BTW- The burden of proof is on the party making the accusations. Telling them to simply use a search engine to find it wouldn't go over very well in any court.
@@ga6589 Your mask is off and you came through magnificently and as expected.
I chose correctly not to respond with links, references, sources etc, . I knew you were agenda driven and your opinion was already set in stone. Therefore, you are not looking for dialogue or sharing information back and forth. Rather you were, and are, looking to attack what ever information is presented to you. . The beauty of what you wrote, you have not the guts to boldy state upfront, your agenda and what, folks like yourself, believe. As I and many like myself are not tied to a party affiliation, philosophy or agenda, you(in the plural) would rather attack those of us who are not accepting of what you are trying to shove in our minds and our childrens' minds, educationally or politically speaking. So you will turn the conversation using scripted, distracting 'playbook' word games and insults in your curious attempts at deflect attention from what your short and long term goals are. Your stuck on angry. dissension and hate and what you're selling, a lot of us are not buying. You're a hoot:)
The US education system has a law where teachers (even the bad ones) can’t be fired. Some teachers were breaking the school policies and weren’t fired. The students are being forced to be taught by them. The system also is preventing the students from graduating. Pray for America.