Teacher Unions' Gain Is Children's Loss

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelBarone/2007/11/12/teacher_unions_gain_is_childrens_loss

Teacher Unions' Gain Is Children's Loss

Education is not ordinarily thought to be in the purview of a Federal Reserve chairman. So it's striking when Alan Greenspan in his memoir, "The Age of Turbulence," raises the subject.

"Our primary and secondary education system," he writes, "is deeply deficient in providing homegrown talent to operate our increasingly complex infrastructure." The result: "Too many of our students languish at too low a level of skill upon graduation, adding to the supply of lesser-skilled labor in the face of an apparently declining demand."

So if you're concerned about widening disparities in income, Greenspan tells readers attracted to his book by its publicists' promise of criticism of George W. Bush, then what you need to do is to "harness better the forces of competition" in educating kids.

[DoctorDoom]

Public "education" is a fraud. It turns out future welfare leeches who can't read, write, or add, who can't find the US on a world map, who think the world owes them a living, whose only learned skill is putting condoms on cucumbers, and who will robotically vote for DemonRATs.

Thank God for homeschooling.

[Beowulf]

It is also the loss of the taxpayer since teachers and other publicly paid officials seem to think that the taxpayer well is bottomless.

I got a 5% raise this year. The teachers will be taking that and then some in the next tax bill.

[Pro2A]

Gotta love government bureaucracy... this is what happens when you let the government fund and run things. I believe all education should be private just like health care. A lot of this crap would end real quick.