Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnaught View Post
Do we really have to start comparing teacher salaries+benefits in the larger unionized districts with test scores?

More importantly, no one is calling for union leaders to be put in jail.

And ultimately union pension benefits aren't integral to our economy. Our financial system is.
Teachers are more important to our nation's future than some MIT math quants promising bonii to Wall Street traders or hedge funds.

Of course our banking industry is integral to commerce and capitalism! But when a larger portion of our GDP or lobbyist/politician power (wealth) is tilted toward financial schemes that go BOOM, instead of Education.....well, you tell me how that makes any sense.