At one time public schools and teachers were in the business of caring about and educating students. Then the teachers’ unions came along. Now I think the public education system is all about teachers making as much money as they possibly can while doing as little for it as they possibly can.
Many kids that do eventually graduate from a public high school do so with an eighth-grade education. Many of the inner-city kids can’t even read or write once they push them out the door.
If you do the math, a teacher making a $70,000 salary and working six hours per day for 180 days is averaging $65/hour. That would be the equivalent of a regular full-time employee making $135,000/year, which is completely insane. Considering that they get the entire summer off, that’s not a bad part-time gig.
In turn, these teachers pay dues to their union bosses to stuff their pockets and funnel what’s left to politicians to pay them to support this failed system. It’s a vicious cycle. More taxpayer funds need to be diverted to private non-union schools that actually care about the students and give them a good education. Eventually, the entire system needs to be privatized.
E. Joseph Biss
Greensburg