Teachers' Unions At Work! Mind the Slaughter

No matter how many millions of young brains are destroyed by teachers' unions, they have ironclad protection. Legislators have been bought and paid for by the teachers' unions, which makes the unions untouchable--they have the license to kill brains. The brains of your children.

Steve Jobs was quite correct when he blamed the teachers' unions for the abysmal state of K-12 education in the US.

"I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way," Jobs said.

"This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy."

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It is the truth that all intelligent people know, but few are courageous enough to state out loud: every generation of students that is destroyed by the teachers' union cabal is a generation that cannot solve the old problems--much less the new problems. So the problems accumulate and collect interest. The more money that is thrown to the education machine, the worse the performance.

When school board representatives sit down with union officials to negotiate a labor contract, neither party is under pressure to pay attention to worker productivity or the system's overall competitiveness: if the contract allows some teachers to be paid for hardly working at all, and others to perform incompetently without penalty, there is no real economic danger for either side. After all, most of the monopoly's customers, the schoolchildren, have nowhere else to go. Historically, tax revenues have continued to flow into the schools no matter how poorly they perform. Newark's public schools, for instance, have performed worse and worse in recent years, but per-pupil annual expenditure there is now almost $10,000, 50 percent above the U.S. average.

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Some may think that vouchers, charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling combined with visas for overseas professional workers, provide enough of a bypass relief system to allow North American culture to survive. Every means of avoiding the brain-killing educational/political machine helps a little.

But what is needed is a massive re-construction of the North American educational system--in such a way that the corrupt and destructive teachers' unions are left out of the loop. They have destroyed many millions of young minds, and continue their mind-rape and murder virtually unhindered--thanks to their friends in elected offices and in government agencies.

What is needed is a new system of learning, such as that described in this Da Vinci Institute report.

There is enough time. Barely enough time.