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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Union-busting is a right wing goal.  Do you really think we're better off if teachers are not unionized like in charter schools?  I know several current & former charter school teachers.  There is some awful stuff that happens in the school and no recourse for them.  It's bad for the kids.[/quote]

eh, I'm not for no unions, but having been a union organizer and a union member, there are definitely corrupt unions.  Unions aren't 100% great.

The history of education in DC suggests that the teachers union hasn't been precisely stellar at advancing kids' educations.  I'm not saying charters are way better, but at least it's an attempt at SOMETHING different.[/quote]

I don't get why it's charter vs. union.  We can always have unions.  Charter schools can balance out centralized bureaucracy.[/quote]

Agree.  Charter teachers can unionize; at least one charter in DC has.

So it doesn't seem correct that advocating for school choice = "union-busting".

Also, by the sound of it, a bunch of DCPS teachers hate their own union, so I don't know that the union is serving the teachers, either.  (I don't believe they are serving children, since that is not their goal.)[/quote]

That's pretty speculative.  Remember the charter school that chose to shut down when the teachers voted to unionize?  It was named after Cesar Chavez also.  Would be funny if it wasn't so sad.[/quote]

No, I don't know of that charter.  There's a Cesar Chavez PCS that is still in operation, but I don't know if it is unionized.  It doesn't seem to have closed, as you suggest.  The one that I know is currently unionized is Mundo Verde.
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