Reply #205: I'm certainly not baiting

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And in the school systems I've learned in and worked in the bad teachers have lasted a very long time. (30 years. 40 years.) And the unions aren't remotely the biggest part of that problem but they are part of it, and it doesn't do good teachers any good to pretend:

A) that teachers are never the problem
B) that some TUs don't put teacher job security above everything else
C) that in some dysfunctional systems education jobs are doled out as political rewards and viewed as an entitlement by the people who hold them

Is there any reform involving getting any teachers out of the classroom that you wouldn't consider union-busting?