Teachers union disavows internal memo endorsing deception of parents Read more

[roo_ster]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/08/teachers-union-disavows-internal-memo-endorsing-deception-parents
This one has a link to the document:
http://bejohngalt.com/2011/08/who-do-you-work-for-suckya/

AFT brags about subverting the legislative process by lying to parents.  Yeah, another "dog bites man" situation, but rarely so obvious in their released materials.

[CNYCacher]

If you actually read the report, it becomes clear that the article about the report is mostly made up, and that the author didn't even read it, but skimmed it for quotes and then presented them in whichever context he imagined fit his prejudice.

[roo_ster]

If you actually read the report, it becomes clear that the article about the report is mostly made up, and that the author didn't even read it, but skimmed it for quotes and then presented them in whichever context he imagined fit his prejudice.

The article is a bit tarted up, but the thrust of it and the title is accurate.

[CNYCacher]

I think the article did a good job of steeling your preconceptions before the actual report was presented to you.

I read the actual report, and I don't think the article has any basis in reality.  Especially the title.

As an interesting experiment, I invite any APSer to read the report itself, then see if the article gives it a fair shake.

[Scout26]

Going back and looking at more than just the report. The "Parent Trigger" is legislation that allows the local school board/parents to take action if a school continues to fail.  That opens the door to charter schools, vouchers and other ways of freeing kids from the bonds of failing public schools.  What the AFT did in this instance was "water down" the Parent Trigger legislation (in absence of their ability to kill it), to neuter the power of the parents from being the decision makers to just being able to "advise" the decision makers and also putting the teachers union in the decision making process.

The teachers union did this not "for the children", but to protect their union members.  And they did it by bending the truth about their true motives, the aforementioned.