This two-week series has focused on a variety of contemporary educational issues which necessitate the collective action(s) of informed teacher input. Can you imagine not involving staff when decisions are rendered concerning Educational Services, tenure, class size, teacher evaluations, standardized testing, merit/effectiveness and more? Well, not really!
For those who see teacher unions/associations as impediments to dealing with today's classroom and attending issues, it is worth noting that teacher unions almost always work cooperatively with school officials to resolve conflicts and move forward. It is the nature of how they work with our children in dozens of ways on an everyday basis. The perception that unions are the problem is not born of fact.
Put another way, if one were to take unions out of the equation in terms of dealing with the issues noted in the first paragraph there is no way of telling what decisions would have been made in such a void. One thing is for sure, we would not have achieved the same progress now enjoyed in so many of our schools.
Dick
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