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Much negative attention has been rightly directed at teachers unions in recent years.
The teachers unions, which represent progressive viewpoints and policies rather than the best interests of everyday teachers and students, were a driving force behind keeping government schools closed during the lockdowns and supporting the injection of critical theory into curricula.
Beyond all of those objectionable actions in recent years, even a quick glance at one contract for a teachers union shows how absurd these politicized interest groups truly are.
They need to lose a lot of power.
One social media thread from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a fiscal conservative think tank in Michigan, detailed some bizarre elements of a union contract discovered in the state.
That contract said teachers caught drunk at school can only be fired on the fifth offense. The first offense merely earns a “written reprimand with counseling required,” followed by three days of suspension, five days of suspension, and ten days of suspension for the next three offenses.
Meanwhile a teacher can only be fired for drug possession on the third offense. The first two offenses respectively call for a written reprimand with counseling and suspension for three days.
If a teacher is caught selling, manufacturing, or distributing alcohol or drugs, the teacher can only be dismissed on the second offense, and only receive three days of suspension for the first.
They should not be allowed near kids.
One would expect that any employee seen partaking in such degenerate conduct at the office, especially after multiple offenses, would quickly find himself out of work in any other industry. That would hopefully be the case for any profession that involves working with children.
Ask yourself if you could engage in such conduct at your job and still remain employed.
The fact that some teachers can break almost every rule in the book and still have their positions only starts to indicate how powerful the teachers unions have become, and how necessary scaling back their political power and stranglehold on the education system remains.
