Delware teachers union attacks charter schools
June 26, 2008 by libertyisforme
After you read this, you will want to barf on a liberal.
The state’s largest school employee union hired a Washington, D.C., consulting firm to craft a public relations strategy for limiting the expansion of charter schools in Delaware.
The firm represents some of the most extremist statist groups: Open Society Institute, National League of Cities, and LULAC - just to name a few.
The 38-page report makes seven recommendations, including not to “attack charters directly,” make funding the main reason for restricting the number of charters and “use teachers to carry the message.
This is a jihad against charter schools,” said Greg Meece, president of the Delaware Charter School Network. “DSEA is trying to smear and tear down charter schools. It’s an all-out furor against charter schools.”
Barf. It gets worse.
“Our interest is overall good public education for Delaware,” Grogg [union operative] said. “We have a right and a responsibility to look at the policies and develop one that is as strong as possible to ensure that schools will go forward in the future.”
Union tools say they favor overall public education but they oppose charter schools, which are part of public schools too!
You know what also drives me up-the-wall unions claiming they have rights. Rights to what.
Legally no one has ever recognized that a union has any jurisdiction in deciding what happens to kids education.
However, parents and taxpayers have rights!
The right to have the best schools around, whether charter or not. The point, taxpayer money should be used to educate kids not to create slush funds for teachers.
Finally, the last interesting point…
Unlike district teachers, charter school teachers aren’t required to be union members. Consequently, the union has few charter members because they don’t see the advantage of being unionized, said Meece, who also is the school director at Newark Charter School.”
This isn’t about the quality of education or public school funding, but unions collecting more membership dues.
