Has the NEA destroyed public education?

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Do Unions battle to save jobs even if it disregards the economic effects of the stability of the company that employs the union workers? United Airlines just filed for Bankruptcy, didn't the Mechanic's Union reject a wages reduction? Now United is in Bankruptcy and employment will be drastically slashed all across the board.

I don't have enough expsosure to the various industries and local economies to comment on that accurately.

 

[Tiger]

In no specific order, and by no means a complete list -

- apathetic kids that have no interest in school
- apathetic parents that have in interest in their childrens schooling
- far too bloated operations/upper level positions
- poor spending of money (largely due to the above)
- *some* very poor teachers
- lower caliber of talent vs. other career fields (why teach when you can make 2x-10x the salary in the private business sector?)
- increased regulations and stress of offending someone leaving teachers with their hands tied

There is no single reason why schools are "failing". I personally think that smaller schools (200-500 students) offer a much better education than large schools (1000+ students). It's been my experience that students who came from a small town school are more well rounded in their education, have better work ethics, and are better prepared for college. Most of the problems that I hear about school districts "failing" are from larger schools in larger cities.

I dunno, maybe I'm naive, but that's just what I've witnessed.

Right by a wide margin.
My sister is a teacher in a very affluent suburb of Detroit, MI.
They've got money, they've got infrastructure, technology, and a great learning environment.
Their test scores don't come close to her former district in Belle Fourche, SD that doesn't have any of the above.
Empirical proof that simply throwing money at education hasn't and won't work.
The public schools in NYC spend more money per head on education than anywhere else on the planet. Public schools in NYC are quite possibly the biggest waiste of tax dollars ever.