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Teachers Unions HATE Accountability, Rebel Against Performance Measurement
It’s all about the children right?
At least that’s what the teachers unions will tell you when they rail against performance measurement in their industry.
I’ve never seen an industry so averse to accountability. Our education system is crumbling, and the teachers unions have a big part to do with that. By refusing to hold bad teachers accountable (and even enabling them), the unions are damaging the future of our country.
Performance testing is a big evil in their eyes. Why should they have to perform like the private sector? They are “owed” tenure, a “living wage,” and “freedom from accountability.”
What a crock of you know what.
In New York, the teachers who are “all about the children” are now threatening to refuse to test students. Yes, you got that right. Teachers are rebelling against accountability by telling their kids they don’t have to take the tests that measure their learning.
Unbelievable, right?
The Wall Street Journal reports:
In an aggressive move against testing, the New York State United Teachers Union started robocalling members Thursday with a reminder they can have their children refuse next week’s state exams.
“This is insanity,” says the robocall’s recording of union president Karen Magee. “Governor Cuomo is forcing schools to use tests as a hammer…we are fighting back.”
Evan Stone, co-founder of Educators 4 Excellence, which aims to elevate teachers’ voices in policy, said the union should use its influence to improve testing rather than trying to undermine the testing system.
Our education system has become a seminary for liberal teaching of the socialist religion. ‘Get all you can from government, avoid accountability, lie in order to obtain power, and brainwash the children’ is the new mantra.
Accountability is critical if we are to rid our schools of this cancer. The New York teachers union should be ashamed.
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