"LWG" wrote in message ...
You've hit upon the great paradox. The unions protect the wildly incompetent and undermine the respect we have for
the profession. In NYC, they have only fired one teacher in the last few years. It is so time consuming and expensive
to fire a teacher, they simly reassign the incompetent to places where they don't have to teach. Were it not for the
unions, teachers would be more highly regarded because they would be more highly qualified. There is little or no
issue of qualification in private schools, and the teachers command more respect from students and parents. Of course,
in order to go to a private school, one has to pay even more than the $10,000 per year per student they extract from
us in taxes for each government school pupil.



and most of the private schools pay the teachers much less than the public schools...