".Blueskies." wrote in message
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"LWG" wrote in message
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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...
Yup...they can't draw their revenue at gun point.