George P. Bush attacks teacher unions

[TexasTowelie]

[font color=green]I know that this was posted last week on the Texas State Teachers Association Website, but I did not see any articles on DU regarding this story.[/font]

When he was even younger, the young George P. Bush taught for a while in an inner city high school in Miami. Presumably, he experienced many of the challenges that teachers face each day in the classroom and, you would think, learned to appreciate the vital role that teachers play in trying to prepare the next generation for a productive future.

But maybe the education of this former, short-term teacher came up a bit short. I say that because Bush, now a candidate for Texas land commissioner, delivered a direct attack on teacher unions at a campaign appearance in Richmond last week. He said he will not be afraid to take on “the teacher unions who are deteriorating public education,” according to a TSTA staffer who attended the event.

This was a political shot designed to appeal to the school privatization advocates and anti-public service zealots who dominate the Republican primary in which Bush is a candidate. And, it was a direct slap at the teachers whom he purports to admire, the teachers who are trying to save public schools from those privateers and ideologues.

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Speaking to a group of high school students in a conference at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011 – before he became a candidate for office — George P. Bush endorsed the school budget cuts that the legislative majority enacted that year. He said, in essence, that laying off teachers was better than raising taxes to cure a revenue shortfall.

More at http://www.tsta.org/grading-texas/jeb-bush/george-p-bush-attacks-teacher-unions .

[The Philosopher]

1. Maybe he links

his leaving teaching to improved school conditions.

[DhhD]

2. Right to Work Law prohibits teacher unions in the state of Texas as well as 24 other states.

There is a map on down in text. And reference note #37 give Texas Law Code against teacher union rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law

George P. Bush as a Florida Teacher apparently did not support a teacher union or teacher-parent union as it really is. Republicans like the Bush Family, support privatization of education. Some one needs to ask him to explain privatization that his family profits off of. And the fact that parents have no say at a business facility that they place their children into for lessons. He needs to explain the dismal record of privatized facilities and the fact that educational facilities can be and are being denied to person's with disabilities. Someone needs to ask him about the funding that leaves a school district and is sent to a private school - no voucher needed. A Voucher is a formal financial Swap instrument. Informal is the school district signs away the money the state (from the taxpayers) sends the public school district that the student lives in.

http://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/2013/05/15/what-the-florida-teacher-evaluation-lawsuit-could-mean-for-other-states/

[DhhD]

3. Texas Teachers have a right to student feedback. That could mean a poll taken the next day

after the State Evaluation Exams have been returned to the State Education Agency.