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Teaching is a hard job if the teachers are serious enough to make the children learn. Since public schools are mostly populated by low income or just a little above average income, most of these children have no discipline and their parent are not mostly educated to see the benefits of discipline for students learning. Exempted from that are most Asian families who are mostly focused on making their children learn and excel.

When the good teachers impose discipline to the students so they learn, or do their homework, or even pay attention to the subjects being taught, some students fight back.
But they expect the teachers to give them good grades. If they don't get that, they fight back with the teachers. Many teachers have been assaulted and become victims of the lawless students especially those in the high schools.

There are times when the teachers teach them to behave proper manners, they report to their parents different stories, and then parents come, and sue the teachers.

So, being a good teacher is difficult and dangerous when students fight back. Parents and teachers must address and resolve this problem if they want to make their children learn.

Proper education is one of the most important factors in elevating the living standards of the families to rid them from lifetime welfare.

If you really believe the lack of teachers union is a problem there's not much that would change your mind.

I lived in Texas, Arlington to be exact, as well as California, Alabama and New York. Arlington had the best schools, followed by Huntsville Alabama - with California being the worst. The quality of schools is very much the function of individual school districts - and if one looks at places like Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark, Camden, LA, Chicago and so many more that are bastions of unionized teachers and dysfunctional schools - one would hardly attempt to make such an argument.

Emarine, they're paying almost all of the taxes now. Consider this, if the entire 1% turned over their entire wealth to the USA Treasury, at the rate America is burning though its money that windfall would carry us for about 3 days. Then who do you go after when the former 1% is as poor as the rest of us? This whole wealth inequality gig is a smokescreen thrown up by the Libs to take everyone's eyes off the ball. Obuttface has yet to tell anyone what his overused, "fair share," phrase actually means. What does he think the 'fair share' should be? We don't know because he has never defined it. Smoke & mirrors, the old "shell game," that the Libs use so well.

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States that outlaw teachers' unions have Classroom Teachers' Associations.

A rose by any other name...

The government schools on the whole do a very, very, poor job.

Many high school and college grads cannot compose a proper sentence, spell or handle arithmetic at a grade school level, cannot read a ruler, cannot count change, or do many of the things an elementary school grad should be able to do

The semi literacy of so many can be seen right here on this forum.

Emarine, they're paying almost all of the taxes now. Consider this, if the entire 1% turned over their entire wealth to the USA Treasury, at the rate America is burning though its money that windfall would carry us for about 3 days. Then who do you go after when the former 1% is as poor as the rest of us? This whole wealth inequality gig is a smokescreen thrown up by the Libs to take everyone's eyes off the ball. Obuttface has yet to tell anyone what his overused, "fair share," phrase actually means. What does he think the 'fair share' should be? We don't know because he has never defined it. Smoke & mirrors, the old "shell game," that the Libs use so well.

LOL! True enough about the forum writers here. Pretty sad.

However, I personally don't think going private on education will do the trick. Private institutions want business. If their patrons are wanting something for their kids that doesn't jive with what they need, the three R's for example, then the private institutions will alter their product and comply. The mentality in America is such that the competition between private institution will boil down to which one's can make school the most fun. Sad but true.

But hey, lets see. I'm for the voucher programs to allow parents to be able to pay their Ed dollars to a private institution and forgo their ed tax dollars. After a few years it will become perfectly clear that it won't do the trick. The we can talk about REALLY reforming education. But ultimately, if we don't change our cultural biases about what we want to know/learn from education and how far we want it to go and who actually has responsibility for learning, we are a doomed ship.