Is it the job of govt. to educate children well or as cheaply as possible?

From Mike, he makes some interesting and valid points. -cpg

Teaching is not a private sector job, where you can get a job with another business down the street. As a teacher, your entire career is in the hands of the school board and the Department of Education. And their goals are not to educate children well, but to educate them as cheaply as possible.

Whenever people have power, bad things creep in. This goes for unions, sure, but it also goes for governments and corporations and management teams. Certain people on the Right tend to forget this.

Teachers unions exist for very good reason. They are the only organizations fighting for teachers' rights, and by extension, students' rights.

Think about it: who is fighting for smaller class sizes? For better supplies in the classrooms? Is it the government? Hell no. It's the teachers' unions.

So, whenever you feel the need to blindly slam teachers' unions, remember this first.