Thread dynamic: OP illuminates a charming story about abysmal government school performance in a Rhode Island community, the teacher unions inflexibility to improve it, and their subsequent firing by the superintendant.
In the real world, this would appear to be good news....in a "community seeks improvement by demanding more from their tax dollars" kind of way.
But no....the real world has gone topsy turvy, where abysmal is acceptable as long as there is evidence of other failures, and blame to lay elswhere.
For example:
Somehow...in the minds of some participating in this thread, this is an opportunity to deflect from the topic by explaining just how darn tough it is to work 2/3's of a year and still earn 3 times the communities mean wage. While others have chosen to go completely off topic with an attempt to deflect criticism from a failing teachers union by equating it to systemic failures of a few private, non-union companies, banks and bailouts...a "well, what about them" defense.
My take: Instead of recognizing, accepting and correcting systemic failure, some will defend it, or attempt to lay blame elsewhere solely for the sake of personal agenda, and petty partisan politics, and this attitude, in my opinion, speaks to the reasons behind America's incremental slide into mediocrity, and will ultimately ensure complete and utter failure...or worse, enslavement.
Please see: Hegelian Dialectic
