So the teachers you know, do they or have they lost their incentive to teach because they have job security?
He was there in support of teachers unions and his Mother.
A few YES, they stopped caring and went along with the program but admitted to the issues that I posted here and agree with them.
This may help you understand my point a bit better.
Teachers are individuals who try, I give most of them the credit for getting into the profession but I can't view them as individuals nor can possible accept that their plight based on what I hear or what some idiot actor says.
It is not because of any preconceived notion I have about how bad some teachers are or how great they teach but rather seeing them represented as a group, not individuals, by a union and people like Damon who don't want to have the individual represented.
When was the last time you heard a teacher demanding to opt out of a union or any one of them speaking for themselves while striking for a contract renewal or at a protest?
They don't and the ones I know, even the tenured lazy ones they know better to speak about issues outside the circle or against the union line.
It isn't that we need to rid ourselves of teachers but the system and as the union and administrators fight - with the help of groups of teachers - things that improve education, like charter schools and the money following the student, many seem to fall into line as a group complaining about how bad those improvements are only based on the threat of the union and their power and those in office who are supported by the union.
Tenure is not needed, it is not for those who teach K-12 school kids. Tenure should be used in some cases not a blanket coverage to all who met a time period in their job. They are public servants, just like the administrators so they need to be treated as the public is treated and no better or worse.
