The idea promoted by some state lawmakers (including some governors) that if teachers are stripped of employment rights; ie, collective bargaining, the right to forms associations/unions and other sorts of ways of coming together to advocate for educational improvements then students will perform better or that education in its totality will be better served is just ludicrous on its face.
If lawmakers, so called reformers, governors and other naysayers came together and joined forces with teachers to do something about school funding shortfalls and the harmful social/economic inequities that hit many communities then we would be doing far more to advance student progress than merely railing against teachers.
As I side note, this anti-teacher sentiment has another harmful side effect. It lends itself, in public discourse, to potentially dissuading great young people from entering the profession.
No, getting rid of education associations, or unions, would have absolutely no positive impact on student learning and advancing education in America.
Dick
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