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Dogs in the manger?
Here's a disingenuous proposal from a Tennessee teachers' union president to restrict school board trustees to people who have worked in the education field. The three-minute video clip makes the point that at election time most teachers' unions identify sympathetic school board candidates and support them in various ways, including financial support. So I asked myself - does this happen in my school board?
Sure enough, when I looked at the Waterloo Region District School Board, I found that 7 of the 10 non-acclaimed trustees had been supported by the local teachers' unions and every single one of them had strong education and/or union ties. I would be interested to find out if this is true in other Canadian school boards.
Assuming it is the case most everywhere, you have to wonder why the Tennessee teachers' union president wants to cut out non-educators completely. What more could the unions possibly want than they are already getting? H/T to Chas