MICKEY KAUS: Everybody Hates The Teachers’ Unions Now. “How can we know when the tide of respectable opinion has decisively turned against the teachers’ unions? When a panel that includes Father Hesburgh, Birch Bayh. Bill Bradley, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Roger Wilkins goes medieval on them, saying their resistance to reforms designed to hold schools accountable has hurt ‘disadvantaged students’ and led to “calcified systems in which talented people are deterred from applying or staying as teachers’ …”