Credentialism is not always harmful, but in US "public" education and public health is is harmful.
Credentialism gives teachers' organized crime its power. Credentialism in public health gives false science.
Two grandchildren are in parochial settings mostly in erson school since Sep 2020. Other grandchild in public school at home until early March, another district in county open all year. Difference is teachers union, all in "public" school.
Never exclude malicious intent when it is a feasible alternative.
IF the primary, albeit implicit mission of the unions is to stay 'in business' and the explicit, and secondary mission is to lobby on behalf of the teachers, then it 'makes sense' that they use all means to affect policy on their own, and their teachers behalf.
I'm skeptical that they are saying 'this'll get those bratty kids, bwahaa,' rather they're saying , how do we stay in power? Getting their teachers paid, and not having to work isn't malicious per se.
That no in-person school or school sports is harmful to kids - by some unmeasurable degree - isn't a direct consideration of the unions.
Amazing work, hombre, verdad. Who owns the AFT? I seriously doubt it is Weingarten. My youngest child has been fully remote (NYC) after a disastrous trial of partial in-person in January when she and one boy were the only kids in a class kept at 60 degrees and the teachers moved from room to room so she didn't even get to stand up and ate lunch at her desk. She was so miserable we pulled her out after two weeks. NYC is an open-air psychiatric ward.
I’m so thankful my wife sacrifices and homeschools our kids
Credentialism is not always harmful, but in US "public" education and public health is is harmful.
Credentialism gives teachers' organized crime its power. Credentialism in public health gives false science.
Two grandchildren are in parochial settings mostly in erson school since Sep 2020. Other grandchild in public school at home until early March, another district in county open all year. Difference is teachers union, all in "public" school.
Never exclude malicious intent when it is a feasible alternative.
re your malicious intent comment:
IF the primary, albeit implicit mission of the unions is to stay 'in business' and the explicit, and secondary mission is to lobby on behalf of the teachers, then it 'makes sense' that they use all means to affect policy on their own, and their teachers behalf.
I'm skeptical that they are saying 'this'll get those bratty kids, bwahaa,' rather they're saying , how do we stay in power? Getting their teachers paid, and not having to work isn't malicious per se.
That no in-person school or school sports is harmful to kids - by some unmeasurable degree - isn't a direct consideration of the unions.
Neither the teachers nor the unions seem to care about the kids...... whether self aggrandization has any thing to do with motives the actions speak.
I would PATCO them all.
Amazing work, hombre, verdad. Who owns the AFT? I seriously doubt it is Weingarten. My youngest child has been fully remote (NYC) after a disastrous trial of partial in-person in January when she and one boy were the only kids in a class kept at 60 degrees and the teachers moved from room to room so she didn't even get to stand up and ate lunch at her desk. She was so miserable we pulled her out after two weeks. NYC is an open-air psychiatric ward.
el gato:
first opinion piece i've read from you.
i also subscribe to taibbi and greenwald
your content was solid ... but i could have used a summary or paragraph at the top as i had to pick out the lede from your pages and pages of content
keep it up. i'm a huge fan of substack giving an outlet for long form content.
ps - experimenting with your zero caps formatting ... it's weird for me ...
it's hard enough editing with paws without worrying about hitting the shift button as well.
Tour de force.