Saturday November 8

I agree with a good amount of what was said. I agree about the idea of getting unions out of the schools. It really reminds me of one of my earlier posts from this class. The post dealt with incompetent teachers still be allowed to work because of tenure. Well I feel that unions really create a deal of problems within the schools system. It seems that so often unions will back a teacher simply because they are one of their own. This really seems as if they are only hurting themselves in some cases. Also, I enjoyed the talk on collective bargaining agreements, grievances. etc. I understand principals don't have a great deal to do with those, but it is still interesting to me and would like to learn more about it.