Re: Unions=communism

Lester M

Posted on 11/19/09

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On 11/18/09, Me wrote:
> "Grinchlike union bosses are blocking at least 200 of
> Boston’s best teachers from pocketing bonuses for their
> classroom heroics in a puzzling move that gets a failing
> grade from education experts.
>
> The Boston Teachers Union staunchly opposes a performance
> bonus plan for top teachers - launched at the John D.
> O’Bryant School in 2008 and funded by the Bill and Melinda
> Gates and Exxon Mobil foundations - insisting the dough be
> divvied up among all of a school’s teachers, good and bad.
>
> “It’s insanity,” said Jim Stergios, executive director of
> the nonpartisan Pioneer Institute. “They’re less concerned
> about promoting the interest of individual members than
> maintaining control over their members.”
>
> The incentive program pays Advanced Placement teachers $100
> bonuses for each student who passes the test, and up to
> $3,000 a year for meeting other goals. Students also can
> also receive $100 for passing.
>
> “(The union) is standing in the way of innovation,” school
> Superintendent Carol R. Johnson told the Herald. “I think we
> have to realize we can’t do business as usual. . . . We have
> to be willing to make changes and give kids the
> opportunities they need.”"

The best thing that can happen to the American public school
system is for the teachers unions to be broken. Unions are
communist- union supporters are anti-Democratic, and
unAmerican.

If you are pro union, then you're a communist

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