California Teachers Union

Someone needs to take them on.

The common mantra are teachers are important and they should get paid more.  Hogwash.  They get paid adequately for working 9 months out of the year, generally having stability, and the lack of market pressure stress.

Consider the results of shitty public education in California:

1.  Eliminating equality of opportunity.  Everyone knows education - in theory - should be the great equalizer and the primary way for disadvantaged people to rise up out of poverty.  Shit, it might be the only way with a real and lasting impact.

2.  Hurting home prices and living standards.  Anywhere with shitty public schools runs the risk of being ghettoized and/or a two-tiered society.  Los Angeles is ground zero of this.  Communities become the super rich and the people who work for them.  The super rich send their kids to great private schools and the people who work for them send their kids to shitty public schools.  And they live on top of one another.  This is the stuff of Latin America in the 80s.  American democracy, quite simply, will fail if this model persists.

If California fancies itself as being the most progressive state in the Union, the very least we should have is top tier public schools.  This is a stain on our community.