[sportbos]

Why are you holding teachers to a standard of social accountability that you would not ask for in anyone else?

"How dare those uppity teachers band together to secure an income. They should teach for the love of it alone!"

I don't. Why are you? I don't think anyone should be allowed to band together and create a labor monopoly. I don't think unions should be legal, period. Teacher's unions are uniquely damaging however as governments can't just go out of business the way corporations can.

Don't delude yourself into believing that this is about removing bad teachers. Nothing in the proposals is doing anything to improve education. It's just trying to kill unions as if that a magic fix. It's the same as TMM's belief that giving more authority to state governments will magically fix all financial problems.

Making it possible for the government to make pay cuts may not be entirely about removing bad teachers. But the idea that people should never have to face a pay cut and never have to be fired and never have to have their pension benefits reduced is insane. Completely insane. And while it won't fix everything, it certainly is a start.

And its purpose is twofold: I'm sure Walker and the other Republicans would agree with Michelle Rhee's belief that teacher unions and the policies they support are a barrier to improving schools.

It's illegal but it's happening.

Ronald Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers when they went on strike. I suppose I wouldn't mind if Walker did something similar.

Non-sequiturs aside, what evidence do you have that these are in fact their goals. You are saying that their goal is to hire teachers that can't be hired elsewhere. That's a pretty bold statement. So I assumed that you must have some evidence to back it up.

If there are any that do not at some level believe this to be true then the best you can say is that this is what they achieve.