Well sure... I mean, would you want to give anything up? (rhetorical question) Especially if you had a job as demanding as teaching?
I blame the system, foremost-ly, for bad teachers. It alone, will make a good girl turn bad, so to speak. That's not exactly a union problem. The actual system of a union, is pretty sweet, if you ask me. We're sorta like a union... the good old U.S. of A., that is. I'm a big fan of personal responsibility (at least the concept). Like, I sorta feel responsible for shit the government does. Yes, it is machine-ish. And no, son, you shouldn't trust it. But it's ours, and we 0wn it. Maybe unions do bad things, protect bad people... but "group power" is derived from the group, not the leaders of a group. We can change things. All it takes, is saying, "this is that", collectively. Sorta. I don't think we should divorce ourselves from stuff like Unions and The Government- put our own personal responsibility on the back of this fictional character. In summation: The problem isn't unions, it's us. And it's always who you know, obviously. No man is an island. But those are easy ones, neh? Sucks... but still. Common sense. The good news is, we can change^H^H^H^H^H^Hstart a haiku thread whenever we want to! :Den -- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. John Stuart Mill On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Partly because they are not willing to give up things like tenure and > seniority which does keep bad teachers employed. While they may want to > improve things as teachers, they are not willing to do what it takes to make > it happen. They are too secure and comfy in their positions to give that > up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324743 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
