| Teachers unions do several things.
1. They make it harder to fire incompetent teachers.
2. They hold back schools from paying higher salaries to better teachers and thus continue the cycle of bad education for a particular school.
3. They take large portions of meager teacher salaries even if the teacher does not wish to join the union.
4. The NEA, the largest labor union in the US, is a public school teacher union which consistently opposes homeschooling and decries parents as inadequate for teaching their children when the statistics suggest otherwise (homeschoolers do better on standardized tests than public school kids). |