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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught for a number of years in two different school systems.  I've posted something like the following before:

We did not have the "union' but a 'professional organization" that acted as a union.
They get you to join by telling you that you need the liability insurance.  Scare you into thinking you can be sued.

The only people who truly benefit from the organizations are the people running them.  They are frequently people who really don't want to be in the classroom.  Do you really think Randi Weingarten cares about the classroom?  
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I doubt that Kimberly Adams is currently working in the system.  Does anyone know?  Don't they take off to work for the organization?[/b]

Where I taught, there had been a strike a couple of years before I started teaching there.  Do you know who benefited from the strike?  The leaders of the strike?  They all ended up with supervisory jobs outside the classroom.  Kind of ironic, isn't it?  They were fired and then hired back a couple of years later as "language specialists," etc. in the central office--think Gatehouse.  It was a deal that was worked out behind closed doors.  Shocked the teachers who were still in the classroom.  These strike leaders were "punished" when the strike ended, but ended up moving up.

In the other system where I taught, the building reps were always the worst teachers who kept telling us to "work to the contract."  That meant go home everyday as soon as the contract allowed.  (I think it was 20-30 minutes after the kids left.)  Most of the teachers (we had a strong staff) just laughed at them and did our work.

In that same system, there was a teacher who was moved to our school on probation from another school.  Nice gal, but not cut out to be a teacher.  Highly nervous and could not control a classroom.  The year she spent in our school was awful. Parents were asking to pull their kids out of her class.  I'm not sure how helpful the principal was to her, but I do know that other teachers tried to help and she turned them down.  She should have been fired outright from the other school, but, because of the union, she was given a chance to ruin a school year for another group of kids.  
That said, I am sure there are principals from whom good teachers do need protection.  I do know of a principal who made inappropriate advances to young teachers (a friend worked for him.) It took years to get him fired.  Maybe the administrator's union protected him.  Not sure.  But, I don't think the teachers' union did much for my friend. [/quote]

To the bolded, she's not. Which makes it especially amazing that she posted a picture of herself getting the COVID vaccine 2 days before teachers could get it.[/quote]

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