Driver paid $97,500 from teachers union

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Karin:
Yes, but let us emphasis the word "few"
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Picture a Bell Curve, Karin. Few at the top end, few at the bottom end, most in the middle.
 
Skip the bell curve…put most of them at the bottom with a few at the top. If your not a great teacher you should not be teaching…a mediocore teacher is just as bad as a “bad” teacher!
 
Local taxpayers fund the NEA. Over $300 million a year in dues so the NEA can lobby to raise our taxes and expand public education to pre-school and lower.

Think of what could be done if just the dues were kept in communities.

We broke up business trusts over a century ago because they were too powerful. But they were not nearly as powerful as the NEA. We need to expand the anti-trust act to include government unions. Or ban them outright. Most workers in America are “at-will” employees. Let teachers find out what it is like to live as the rest of us.
 
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Karin:
Skip the bell curve…put most of them at the bottom with a few at the top. If your not a great teacher you should not be teaching…a mediocore teacher is just as bad as a “bad” teacher!
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Just like any other career field. A few great lawyers, a few great doctors, and so on.
 
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Karin:
Skip the bell curve…put most of them at the bottom with a few at the top. If your not a great teacher you should not be teaching…a mediocore teacher is just as bad as a “bad” teacher!
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If you think so, Karin. Sigh…
 
When teachers are arrested for crimes at school, the NEA defends them. The NEA has no ethical standards in place to purge criminal teachers.

“Pass the trash” is the deal NEA works out with school administrators to save rotten teachers’ jobs.
 
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David_Paul:
Local taxpayers fund the NEA. Over $300 million a year in dues so the NEA can lobby to raise our taxes and expand public education to pre-school and lower.
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Dues are not paid by taxpayers. They come out of the salaries of teachers who have earned those wages for services rendered. Teachers can use the pay they’ve earned any way they want.
 
Richardols-
You know that there are few things we agree on, I am sorry for that. But corrput teachers union, bad teachers and schools I feel strongly on. If you can show me something that owuld change my mind please, I wait…
 
What makes teaching so different from other occupations is the union. The NEA resolutions are a blinking neon sign encouraging those who probably should not be teaching to enter the field. No performance evaluations. Lots of rhetoric about “gender”, “diversity” and so on.

Consider the problems churches and the Boy Scouts have had with people who should not be around children entering their ranks. And both make a point of not encouraging those who engage in activites outside the norm from doing so. The NEA does not. It endorses a 100% pure politically correct agenda which includes the gay agenda.
 
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Richardols:
You are wrong. Once the teacher is paid, it is the teacher’s money, and if the teacher has some of the salary deducted for union dues or for cancer insurance or for an investment, it’s no one’s business and no one’s money except that teacher’s.

We can all spend our salaries anyway we wish, once we’ve earned it.
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Just a question, because I’m not sure of the answer:

Can someone teach at a public school and not be part of a union? Can a teacher choose not to contribute to the union?
 
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Lizzie:
When teachers are arrested for crimes at school, the NEA defends them. The NEA has no ethical standards in place to purge criminal teachers.
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No, they don’t “defend them.” They provide legal counsel as part of the union benefits package. BTW, since when is being arrested the same as being convicted?
 
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qmvsimp:
Can someone teach at a public school and not be part of a union? Can a teacher choose not to contribute to the union?
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Depends on the school district. Some have no unions, some are “open shops,” and some are “closed shops.”
 
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qmvsimp:
Just a question, because I’m not sure of the answer:

Can someone teach at a public school and not be part of a union? Can a teacher choose not to contribute to the union?
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Absolutely. In San Antonio - many teachers have military ties - either married or in the reserves (like myself), and are pretty conservative. I bring this up because - I do not like the Teacher Unions constant support/endorsement of liberal politicians, however - We join becouse of the millions of dollars in liability we are covered thru membership. I look at it as legal insurance - in special education - we are constantly threatened with lawsuites, most of which are unustified.
 
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qmvsimp:
Can someone teach at a public school and not be part of a union? Can a teacher choose not to contribute to the union?
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Information on opting out for religious reasons is here:

ichoosecharity.org/how.php

And opting of our unions in general here:

National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation (there is a special section for teachers).

In addition, there are other unions a teacher could join including Christian ones. But teachers seem to prefer the political agenda of the NEA. They elect the most radical leadership of nearly any union in the nation.
 
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Adonis33:
Absolutely. In San Antonio - many teachers have military ties - either married or in the reserves (like myself), and are pretty conservative.
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Isn’t Texas a Right to Work State?

I believe in many states teachers are required to join a union. There are ways to opt out (see links above) but doing so is more than a matter of not joining the union and can be onerous.
 
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David_Paul:
Isn’t Texas a Right to Work State?

I believe in many states teachers are required to join a union. There are ways to opt out (see links above) but doing so is more than a matter of not joining the union and can be onerous.
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In some places, one doesn’t have to join the union, but can be required to pay a certain amount of the union dues as one’s share of the benefits received from the union’s activities on behalf of the teachers.
 
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David_Paul:
Isn’t Texas a Right to Work State?

I believe in many states teachers are required to join a union. There are ways to opt out (see links above) but doing so is more than a matter of not joining the union and can be onerous.
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Yes - Texas is a Right To Work State. I honestly do not know how it works in other states.
 
Richardols-

I am confused…are you for or against the teachers union? Or is it just teacher “bashing” your against?
 
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Karin:
I am confused…are you for or against the teachers union? Or is it just teacher “bashing” your against?
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As a general rule, I favor unions, in any industry or service area, for teachers as well as truck drivers. When I was in college, I myself was a unionist belonging to the Musicians’ Union, playing in a dance band in NYC.
 
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