{"id":7420,"date":"2012-03-19T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2012-03-19T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:07:05","slug":"romney-admits-union-busting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/romney-admits-union-busting\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Admits Union Busting"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that the Republican Party has been after the NEA for a long, long time, but it\u2019s rare that a Presidential candidate will actually come out and admit to union busting.  However, union busting is not the only reason Republicans are trying to eliminate federal oversight of education.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"19teachers\"Republicans always say they want to get the federal government out of education. This comes in many forms, but usually they say something like "education should be returned to local control" or "I’ll eliminate the Department of Education." They always avoid talking about union-busting because union-busting is not always especially popular. Wisconsin’s Governor Walker can attest to that.<\/font><\/p>\n

Romney, in a rare moment of transparency, told Bret Baier that the reason for returning control of education to the states is for one reason: to union-bust.<\/font><\/p>\n

But the role I see that ought to remain in the president’s agenda with regards to education is to push back against the federal teachers unions. Those federal teachers unions have too much power, in some cases, they overwhelm the states, they overwhelm the local school districts.<\/strong><\/span> We have got to put the kids first and put these teacher’s unions behind.<\/font><\/p>\n

I’m sick and tired of seeing teacher’s unions demonized, and even more tired of seeing teachers shamed and demonized<\/a><\/font>. There’s been a theme that Democrats and Republicans alike have adopted where teachers are the reason for problems in the schools. Teachers are not the problem<\/a><\/font>. I would argue that teachers have been the backstop to keeping schools from deteriorating in the face of constant budget cuts, student poverty, larger classroom sizes, and not enough parent involvement. I don’t necessarily blame parents for that, by the way. When you’re working two jobs to make the house payments it’s tough to head down to your kids’ school or constantly nag about homework.<\/font><\/p>\n

The problem in the schools right now is not teachers’ unions, either. The problem in the schools is that for ten years, teachers have been forced to teach to a test<\/a><\/font> and "one size fits all" standards\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The other reason Republicans want get the federal government out of education is to privatize it in such a way that shifts the burden of educating rich kids in private schools and Theocons\u2019 kids in church schools to taxpayers. If Plutocons want to give their kids a premium education, not available to other Americans, that\u2019s their right.  And if Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians want to educate their kids in schools that lie about science and teach who Republican Supply-side Jesus (not the real Jesus) wants them to hate, that\u2019s their right too, however distasteful.  However they must pay for that themselves.  To take resources away from the schools that most Americans depend on is wrong.  That’s what Republicans are up to and the NEA is standing in the way.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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