Wisc teacher union sick-out

This illegal and tone-deaf action seems sure to backfire with taxpayers and lawmakers. Arrogance tends to result in tactical errors of this sort.

The governor should immediately order them back to work, require lost time to be made up on their own weekends, and fire anybody who refuses to comply. If you can fire and replace the nation's air traffic controllers, you can sure as hell fire and replace some Wisconsin school teachers.

Byron

Have teacher unions nuked the fridge?

Teachers unions dropped $40 million on the midterm election, which Democrats desperately needed — and which did them almost no good in the end anyway.

The public has grown angry over decades of accelerated spending and federal interference in education with little to show for all of the resources sunk into it. The government protects education as a near-monopoly, where only the wealthy can have actual, real choice in how their children are educated.

Union control of education has led to mediocrity rather than excellence, and sclerosis where there should be innovation.

Thirty years ago, the public saw teachers as underpaid and overworked professionals trying to prepare the next generation for leadership. These days, the teachers unions are doing their best to present an image of arrogant entitlement combined with an inability to withstand scrutiny and accountability. When that $40 million failed to rescue Democrats from their midterm debacle, it may well have been a nuke-the-fridge moment that brought a dawning realization of the political albatross that teachers unions have become.

Precisely.