Letter: Teachers deserve more respect
May 26, 2011 at 5:03 am in The Farmington Independent
I recently read a New York Times opinion piece titled, High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries. It makes this point: in the military, our soldiers are sent out to do a job. If that job fails or is not done correctly, or has a history of not performing well, the focus of criticism falls on leaders who plan the support efforts. Continue Reading
I find it interesting that educators want to tell us they are the experts, we should follow their lead, and yet when the result don’t work out as well as expected it’s the parents fault.
when the parents want to take control of the curriculum, the budget, or for that matter anything to due with administration we are basicaly told it is not our place, let the “professionals” handle it. well the “professionals should then be held accountable.
The unions have overtaken the curriculum with embeding their sociaized ideology and group think into every subject.It take probably 10 years for the average public school student in the real world work place to figure out they have been scammed.
If we had an open market place, where we purchased education as we would any other commodity, we would see a great deal of change for the better. Our current failing education systems monopalized by force under our goverment leaves little options for parents struggling to make ends meet.
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What determines the value of one’s labor? The market place does, if an individual wants to trade labor (intellectual or manual) someone has to be willing to purchase it. If this is forced upon either party it is no longer a valid price. If labor is forced it is slavery, if pricing is forced it is robbery! With collective bargaining it is no different, the one purchasing the goods or services must be free to go elsewhere if they wish to. If the collective price themselves out of the market place the business will fail proving they over estimated their worth.
The biggest problem arises when the government gets involved and tries to pick sides, or manipulate the market. The economic laws of supply and design can’t be swept away. Government employees that are given collective bargaining rights go and elect the very people who negotiate the contracts, and we the consumers are forced by gun point to purchase their services. If you don’t think this is true just try not paying your taxes.
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