Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Will The Supreme Court Destroy Public-Sector Unions?" video.

  1. Teacher unions have done a lot of harm for public schools. Instead of working in educating kids they work on keeping bad teachers hired and getting paid more. The best way to improve K-12 education is to get rid of teacher unions.
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  2. +MMAmachinhead92 Teacher unions pay base on seniority instead of actual ability and demand. Because of that schools that suffer the most are low income schools. Why teach at a low income school when you can get paid the same teaching at a school in a rich area with better students? Also, $35,000 a year is not bad considering they sign a 180 day contract, get weekends, holidays and summer off.
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  3. +MMAmachinhead92 I agree that standardized test are a problem. I don't buy that black students will score lower automatically. Teaching students like that are more challenging and teachers who are willing to teach in inner city schools and are able to should be paid well, and much more so than teachers that don't. The reality is that middle and upper class students don't need good schooling to succeed when they have an advantage already. Those from poor areas do and that is what the public education system is supposed to do, but teacher unions hinder that a lot. Fact is that teachers are at fault. If they can't teach the kids then they failed at their job. The salary is more than adequate if you compared it to private sector jobs.
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  4. +MMAmachinhead92 They do have the ability to absorb direction. Teaching them take a different method but they do have the ability. In Silicon Valley and SF peninsula is near the top in household median income. It is full of rich people. That is why those schools do well. As a teacher you want to work there, students from successful homes that will do better overall. With teacher unions you will get paid the same working there as you would at a Title I school. In reality you get paid more teaching in Silicon Valley because you have better students, better facilities and an easier job. You would have a counter argument if you were saying that a poor area is doing well and has strong unions, but you didn't. You instead looked at one of the richest areas in the US. Get rid of teacher unions and you will pay teachers based on demand and skill. There is a demand for teachers in low income schools. And if you can teach them then you have skills and thus will get paid very well. Instead, with unions, you don't get paid more, so why state at a Title I school with lesser quality facilities and students when you can go elsewhere? In right to work states (saying right to work for less makes you sound very ignorant, please avoid meaningless phrases) teacher unions are strong as well. My state is a right to work state and the teacher unions have hurt education a lot.
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  5. +Bacae Strife Exactly.
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