Even though this story is about teachers unions, it’s the DC City Council that is most confusing. They cut the school district’s budget after the 2009 budget had been approved, and then held hearings for 18 hours after the cuts resulted in teachers losing their jobs.
Huh.
On a separate note, maybe a topic to flesh out at another time, unions fascinate and confuse me. They couldn’t be worse at managing public relations.
Teachers unions, in particular, appear to be the worst, even though they’re usually the only recourse good teachers have when they run afoul of a bad principal or other bad situation (they protect bad teachers also, I realize, but give a little credit where it’s due). It’s not just the unions that cause bad schools and districts, clearly it’s a much more pervasive problem than that. So why do the unions take so much blame?
