Democrats and Teachers

A quote from
Jerry Pournelle - I really have nothing to add.



It won't be that hard to narrow the minority gap in educational achievement, the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act, though actually closing it is far beyond any educational technology the schools can adopt. The reason is that Democrats do not genuinely care about racial equality. Rather, they care about jobs for teachers, since a major part of their support is teachers' unions. So, teaching jobs are protected. But too many incompetent teachers in middle-class schools would provoke a revolt from the middle class. What happens is that the most incompetent teachers, as well as the most incompetent administrators, are never fired but safely sent to the what are called underserved schools (a term never given an operational definition), whose parents go to the polls in far lesser percentages than middle-class parents. Every now and then, some oversocialized (the Unabomber's term) liberal observes the hypocrisy, but he is ignored. What counts for voter support is the promise of equality, not the results.