The time to have raised a stink was 25 or 30 years ago, when the propaganda that our public schools couldn't keep up with other countries as noted in the fraudulent Nation at Risk report was published. That was the opening salvo in the war against public education.
Finally, the job benefits that keep people in teaching — tenure, pensions, union contracts that provide medical insurance and other protections — are not anachronistic relics of a distant past as characterized by many reformers. Rather, they allow and encourage people to stay in a difficult career that provides many challenges and limited financial rewards.
By the way, those are ALL being held as relics of the past as tenure laws are being subverted to get rid of unwanted (read expensive) teachers, pensions are being reduced because of wholesale firing of teachers, and union contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on, thanks to unions all too often being in bed with the school districts.
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