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16. Speaking as a public school teacher and former union representative ...

I couldn't disagree with you more.

Virtually any teacher I have ever worked with will bend over to help any child, regardless of race or background. The biggest problem we have is that we are usually not asked.

In my school, and most of the schools in this very large school system, are children from the entire world. My school has kids from 90 different countries.

The union works with the school system on continual improvements. Our curriculum is recognized as good enough to be packaged and sold to other school systems.

I will also point out a simple fact: the top achieving school systems in this country, with the highest test scores, are systems with strong teacher unions. The weak union, or non-union states, are the low achievers.

Every single thing we talk about, in every school meeting, is how to make things better for our students to achieve greater outcomes. That is about all we talk about. We act on it, too.