You are SICK MAN……

Trade Unions served a good purpose in the past, and in some cases they still give employees leverage that they would lack without the organization. Despite some optimistic fantasies, humanity has not somehow evolved past the point where businessmen and…

But they have to make sure that any guest worker program that passes restricts workers rights so there will be a reason to organize later.

Thus endeth today’s conspiracy theory.

Teachers are at the mercy of the admininstration who are in the bag with Big Government.

I never joined the NEA in the years I was teaching. It was all a racket…just another way to get money into the pockets of the big spending liberals.

Teachers in NC have NO rights. It is an at will employee relationship. Most of you believe this is fine. Well, it isn’t exactly what it is supposed to be. If your principal doesn’t like your clothes, age, style, personality, etc., they do not rehire you. You think; well, work at another school. Not so fast. You are on the “Blacklist”. All principals are banned together. You are “marked”.

So there goes your 4 year degree down the toilet. Yet the very teachers that are truly NOT quality material, do not care about the students are firmly planted.

Many new teachers will teach for one year and then quit. There is not incentive in THIS state to stay in an occupation where teachers are the low end of the totem pole. You are at the mercy of an incompetent school board, superintindent who makes a huge salary, and principals who enforce the socialistic rule of “law”.

There is always a teacher shortage here. They even hire people not qualified to fill positions regularly. Not to mention that classes are over-run with illegals in some counties.

The unions do not work for NC. Teachers cannot go on strike and have less rights than common criminals.
They just quit or deal with the insanity of big government.

I left the profession because I refused to teach socialism and got frustrated with students who had severe behavior problems. Most principals are not true educators – just another political ploy drawing a nice paycheck. In the old days, principals disciplined – no longer the case. The teacher does it all or is expected to do so.

There is no incentive to stay in this profession any longer. I had much to offer my students but it goes unappreciated by the system, regardless of what they claim to care about.

I deserved a better life even with less pay. Off my podium!

Just wanted you to get an inside view of the way schools are truly run. It should be about the students but there’s more going on that most do not know about. The morale in NC school systems is one of the worst- other than inner city schools perhaps.

derel3433 said:
i think the unions might be an ally in this whole north american union thing. they don’t want it either.

I’m not sure right now what to make of the NAU thing, derel. So thought I’d see what folks here have by way of opinions about it.

What do y’all figure on the “north American Union”?

“A goofy conspiracy theory”

“The NAU is for real”

“Somewhere between those two”

“Both”

“Neither”

Or?

They don’t work for the teachers,

I guess it depends on what you mean by “work for the teachers.” The NEA’s about getting teachers more money for less work and making it impossible to fire lazy and incompetent teachers (I’m pretty sure the only way a teacher can lose their job is to have sex with a student, and even it depends on the state).

OTOH, the NEA doesn’t work on behalf of the children teachers are meant to be education.