Read this.
Then ask yourself: If 70 or 75 percent of parents want (or don’t want) their children to be treated a certain way, how is it that teachers and administrators are able to ignore them?
It’s because we pretend that these positions are not political when in fact, they are. So they are protected by things like unions and tenure in ways that can’t happen for positions like state representative, selectman, or school board member.
When you pay for something with taxes, it’s inherently political. It’s delusional to pretend that it’s not. Someone teaching your child, helping decide how your child will be taught, or just interacting with your child in a tax-funded school is engaged in politics, and the only sane way to continue with tax-funded schools is to acknowledge this by putting those positions up for election.
It may take a little work to get your head around this, but consider that all the difficulties we’re seeing with respect to issues like gender and pornography — to say nothing of the fact that nearly 2/3 of students are below proficiency in reading! — are happening because we aren’t letting taxpayers have a significant voice in how their taxes are being spent.
Electing teachers sounds crazy… until you realize that the alternative is crazier.
