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Originally Posted by pauldun170
Even our "union free" districts have unions 
Knowing plenty of teachers, including some principals I'd have to say I'm neutral on the teachers unions. Their compensation is reasonable for the area.
The big thing that seems to have fucked us (locally) over in terms of quality of education and cost of education are lawyers and No child Left Behind. Thats followed by idiots who think our schools have to be tachno whizbang state of the art. SO much money pissed right down the toilet because some old fucktard thinks we need state of the art this and state of the art that... |
True. I dealt with a new high school that was being built a while back. The tech ed department in that district bought a computer for each desk in their two assigned classrooms, which cost around $100k. I was back about a month after the school opened and probably 10% of those computers were already broken. I heard the tech ed department eventually moved them to a magnet school where the students were actually interested in using them as computers rather than punching bags and fodder for "what happens if I shove my pencil in here" experiments.