The Teacher Unions demand: (1) No Charter Schools; (2) No School Choice; (3) No Firing Bad or Incompetent Teachers; (4) No Curriculum Review; (5) No Opposing Questions of any kind... - Clearly, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Teacher Unions need to be given "The Regan Treatment"!
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CORRUPTION
I agree that the status quo is not a solution in this case. The status quo is at best impotent and at worst toxic.
On the other hand, if we fired everyone at once a sea of new charters schools are not out there waiting to be filled with high quality staff and students.
I think an alternative might be merit based pay based on objective standards.
Test students at the beginning and end of each course and see how much they've progressed. Base a teachers pay on their results. Basing pay on anything other than results is ludicrous.
Teachers that are doing good work would end up being well paid (and the pay needs to be good enough to attract quality people). Teachers that are ineffective could then be fired because better applicants would be available.
That would be truly allowing the market to function in education.
You aren't wrong but it's like telling a hit and run driver to hit the brakes. The only way you can have any input on the situation is deploying spike strips and destroying the tires. We aren't in the driver's seat and the people in charge are determined to run our country over.