Teachers Unions

The School board in a Rhode Island district, unable to get sufficient help from the faculty at a local high school, eventually responded by firing the lot of them. Shades of Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers!

The President, in a move I certainly would not have predicted, came out in favor of the school board. Predictably, the two national teachers unions are livid.

“I ripped the Obama sticker off of my truck,” said Zeph Capo, a midlevel official at the Houston Federation of Teachers who trains classroom teachers. “We worked hard for this man, we talked to our neighbors and our fellow teachers about why we should support him, and we’re having to dig the knife out of our back.”

Bummer, dude. Like you, I had always thought that the teachers unions existed to keep mediocre teachers from being fired until they could get tenure.