"john smith" wrote in message
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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.

And here in Ohio, the state teachers union is going to start signing up
the charter school teachers to get them union representation.
They can't get rid of them, so they are recruiting them.

The K-9 school (private, not charter) where my kids went was almost
completely staffed with public school ex-patriate teachers. I rather suspect
a recruiting effort there would have resulted in tarring and featherings.

http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=7185 (Is the NEA Really a NUT?)

Is the NEA really a NUT? By asking, I’m not casting aspersions on the
National Education Association’s sanity, just on its choice of name. The NEA’s
British counterpart really is a NUT: It is the National Union of Teachers.
British educators unapologetically acknowledge that their union is a union,
while their American peers cling to a name that belies their organization’s
agenda — literally.