Bill Bumpus Somerville MA - An injury to one is an injury to all

By DAVID MACARAY

There’s
a myth circulating out there that not only threatens to ruin the
reputation of America’s school teachers, but has the potential to
side-track any realistic hopes of education reform.  It’s the assertion
that “powerful” teachers’ unions are responsible for the decline of
public education in the United States in general, and California in
particular. 

Propagators
of this myth claim that the reason test scores of American children
have sunk so low in recent years is because our public school teachers
are too incompetent and lazy to provide adequate instruction. 

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