NJ Student Slams Teacher to the ground

[Rockman]

I think the concensus is schools need fixing,where it gets muddied is agreeing on a solution.For me it is akin to LOWE'S and Home Depot cornering the market by keeping price low enough to get rid of the friendly neighborhood hardware stores only to raise their price afterwards,bypassing the unions is a sure way to being unchallenged in executing your will.I remember watching the news a few months aback,a story of a school in my neck of the wood,that school did not have a bio teacher for months and depended on compensating that by using a teacher thst isn't proficient in that subject as a substitute.Also,with Govt having less say,who is to stop administrators from changing the traditional curriculum?
On the flip side,there are teachers that lack the dedication needed,efforts to rectify that are hampered by the unions.Between a rock and a hard place.

[Islandman]

Unions have and have always had a role to play. However it is my belief that many if not most of their leaders still have a 20th century world view and as such have not adjusted their organizations to deal with the new realities of the world economy and workplace. I am not talking about just teachers unions, all of them. I don't want unions eliminated, I want to see them modernized.

Yes reform is not an easy thing to accomplish when you have groups that are dug in, set in thier positions and there is no trust between them. That is certainly true in public education.