JEFFREY CARTER: The Education Debate in a Microcosm: The Administrators Don’t Get It.
I left Chicago for a lot of reasons, personal safety being the number one reason. I left a lot of friends there. There has been a tempest in a teapot brewing there for a long time and you can extrapolate it across the United States where it has been repeated.
The Teacher’s Unions, and the elite administrators along with their school boards have wrecked government-run education in the United States. The US had a great educational system until the 1960s.
Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race on an education issue. The media has focused on Virginia and other school systems. But, the first strike in the fight happened in the northern suburbs of Chicago.
First, some background.
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Plus: “Speak up. Get involved. I know so many people that don’t want to “be political” and are tired of all the stuff that is going on. They just want to be left alone. But, the leftists won’t leave you alone until you get rid of them.”
The way you get them to leave you alone is to make it prohibitively expensive — and painful — to not leave you alone. And they’re slow learners.