Image by Getty Images via @daylife"This month's NaBloPoMo challenge is to write a post every day around one word. So, today's word is greed. Greed is the extreme desire for something, and usually involves having more than one's share.
When I look at the events taking place in Wisconsin, this is the word that comes to mind. The teachers are making
extraordinarily good pay, and yet they believe they should have even more. They don't believe salaries should be
performance based. Is it because if they were, none of the teachers would ever see a raise?
Ok, that's not a really fair statement. The good teachers, and they do exist, would be the only ones getting a raise. The lousy teachers who not only can't teach, but spend their time on
facebook and playing games on the net, would never see a raise and hopefully - be fired.
To me, the whole Unions game encourages teachers to be lazy and not apply themselves. To not shoot for greatness and excellence in teaching. After all, why should they apply themselves when they'll still get the same great salaries and benefits as those who do, no matter what.
I wonder, do the good teachers actually think it's
ok for the lousy teachers to have the same pay as they do? If so, how? Why? Why do they support the Union when this is what they do?" What do you think?
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