In today’s public schools, a teacher may have moral principles or religious beliefs, but sharing them can get you fired, as a California teacher learned. Jessica Tapia, fired in January, had returned to teach in the Jurupa Valley school district where, as a student, she had earned straight-As and participated in numerous sports. As a physical education teacher, she won […]

Benji Backer is the kind of student teachers dream about, or should; a young man who takes seriously what he learns in the classroom and is just as serious at applying it to his life outside of school. Unfortunately, because he has, he’s learned some hard lessons about how people’s fears can be manipulated and that unions are masters of […]

Ruth Finnegan was a young teacher grading papers in her classroom in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when five men in black suits burst in and demanded she join the union. Terrified, she gathered herself to ask what the union could offer her. “Protection,” they said. To Ruth it sounded like a line from a gangster film. “Protection from being sued.” Ruth told […]

Aaron Benner is an outstanding Minnesota teacher who knows firsthand what happens when students, and teachers, feel unsafe in the classroom. “Safety is critical,” he says. “Learning suddenly is on the back burner, everything goes out the window once the classroom has been compromised. Instead of looking at the teacher, you’re looking over your shoulder. You’re not focused on learning, […]

Title: Charter Schools Rise To The Challenge Author: Larry Sand Date: December 5, 2023 Parents need a choice if their child’s school is failing, and a charter school may very well provide that escape valve. Due to pandemic-related issues, declining birthrates, inferior education, radical curricula, etc., government-run schools are bleeding students. Whereas traditional public schools (TPS) had 50.8 million students […]

  Title: History And Civics Scores Drop For 8th Graders; COVID Lockdowns Hurt Children’s Education Source: Michele Tafoya Podcast Author: Michele Tafoya Date: December 5, 2023 URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmENjpaRS8 “Rebecca Friedrichs is the founder of ForKidsAndCountry.org. As a teacher of 28 years, she has fought for kids — not unions. And her inside view of teachers unions provides a startling picture […]

Title: The Union Monopoly Is In Trouble In Florida Author: Larry Sand Date: November 28, 2023 A new law in the Sunshine State makes public employee unions competitive. Since 2018, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling, no public employee has to pay a penny to a union as a condition of employment, and workers have been indeed leaving. The Mackinac […]

Title: Randi Weingarten’s Not-So-Dandy Year Author: Larry Sand Date: November 21, 2023 The union boss has been having an awful 2023. I have written about Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, many times over the years, as there is an ongoing abundance of subject matter to be explored. And 2023 has certainly not been an exception. Picking […]