Now that I see how small the Federal contribution to education is, I'm hoping that the education organizations (because they have nothing else to do, of course), would push hard against federal laws that do not represent teacher/student/parent ideas. There can't be 50 different ideas of what our schools should be doing. States can work more cooperatively and collaboratively to be heard and develop clout. Teacher unions show us how states can work to get what they want. Perhaps they could expand their reach to other states to work for more state teacher unions and more political action. Just saying that is hard to consider. Teachers want to teach; they probably don't want all this other administrative/political stuff. It's so frustrating that so much of our lives have become politicized and /materialized/monetized--and not necessarily in good ways. I don't wish it was like the old days, I just want public education and so much more in our country to be like the right way. We don't seem to be getting to the right way.
Now that I see how small the Federal contribution to education is, I'm hoping that the education organizations (because they have nothing else to do, of course), would push hard against federal laws that do not represent teacher/student/parent ideas. There can't be 50 different ideas of what our schools should be doing. States can work more cooperatively and collaboratively to be heard and develop clout. Teacher unions show us how states can work to get what they want. Perhaps they could expand their reach to other states to work for more state teacher unions and more political action. Just saying that is hard to consider. Teachers want to teach; they probably don't want all this other administrative/political stuff. It's so frustrating that so much of our lives have become politicized and /materialized/monetized--and not necessarily in good ways. I don't wish it was like the old days, I just want public education and so much more in our country to be like the right way. We don't seem to be getting to the right way.