What would a bunch of local teachers be doing by meeting at the local International Longshoremen's Association Hall? Supposedly called by the Quality Education Project, their stated goal is to discuss pay, conditions, and the future.
Teachers have never been unionized in South Carolina, nor should they be. Being a teacher is not the same as being on an assembly line, no matter how much our culture tries to make school into one. Should we have doctors' unions? How about lawyers' unions? Teachers should always remember that they are professionals as well. Meeting at a union hall sends the wrong message to the public.
Dr. Kendall Deas, director of Diversity at the College of Charleston (whatever that means), is co-director of the project.
Not encouraging.
Teachers at this time of the year are swamped by end-of-school-year duties. Yes, pay should be higher, especially for effective, experienced teachers, and working conditions can be horrendous, but meeting to complain to each other does not advance educational goals.
We all know that the real purpose of the meeting is to organize activists to push for unionization.
Ain't gonna happen.
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Actually doctors for all pacrical purposes have a union - AMA. Doctors set wages. They control their profession.
And in those states with teachers’ unions - they’re not near the bottom in achievement.
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