It seems that the propaganda is wearing off
Debate ran high within Barack Obama’s transition team over whether the next secretary of Education should be a traditionalist in sync with the national teachers’ unions or a reformer who will help break the hold those unions have on Democratic Party policy. Obama’s choice of Chicago School Superintendent Arne Duncan is seen as a move to bridge those competing camps.But two-thirds of U.S. voters (66%) say the teachers’ unions – the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers – are more interested in protecting their members’ jobs than in the quality of education.
Only 23% of voters say educational quality comes first for the unions, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided.
Men and women are equally critical of the teacher’s unions. Married voters are more critical than unmarrieds by 12 points. Seventy percent (70%) of voters with children at home think the unions are more interested in jobs, compared to 63% of those without children in the house.
While 78% of Republicans and 66% of unaffiliated voters say teachers’ jobs are the chief focus of the unions, only 55% of Democrats agree.
That is because 45% of Democrats will believe anything a Union Rep says, having been raised to distrust only management.
The key words when talking to an anti-school choice prag are: The System
They always whine about money being “taken out of the systemâ€.
That is when you need to ask them if they are for children getting educated or are they for “the systemâ€.
With large numbers of metropolitan school districts having a 50% drop-out rate, we know “The System†isn’t working. Yet these people always want to throw more money at “The Systemâ€, as though money will be a defibrillator to “The System”.
Alone, without significant reforms, no amount of money has ever been shown to improve a failing school system. Those people are fools.
Found via the Evergreen Freedom Foundation blog