2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: AFT executive council shoots themselves in the foot... endorses Clinton w/o asking the membership [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)do think for themselves, and the benefits for the kids rank a close second. I cannot imagine an entire flock of right wing teachers. Maybe at the high school or higher eduction level, and maybe I'm a couple of generations away.
Once they literally forced a "new and improved" reading program on us...first of the year. I was teaching 1st grade that year..."the dawn of reading enlightment" which is why I loved it.
Not a one of us taught it...it was insipid and prominently stacked up in the corner by the sink...unused. And it was noiselessly withdrawn the next year. Same with tons of the other crap, and this was before the union. These were the years we had to buy EVERYTHING...Proposition 13 had gutted the budget. I learned how to make paste...truly...flour and water and some salt and food coloring. In fact we all did it together.
But no matter how bad it got, we could handle it and didn't need the well-dressed, well-paid District or Union folks telling us what we could do.