All teachers are not tarred with the NEA brush and I know many that would willingly cross and have crossed picket lines. They put their students ahead of the union that is forced upon them.

They are professionals the others laborers. White Collar versus Blue Collar

They are also few and far between. Most districts will shut down and play vote for us or we will cut off football,basket ball, music and most play to the fears of those with children currently in school garnering just enough votes to pass budgets year after year ...and returning little for the investment.

Most hate filling out three or four forms instead of teaching. And some refuse to do so.

Go to the inner cities it's even worse. Sure they make movies about the heroic one's but movies do not correct reality.

Those teachers are few and far between. Then we have the go along get alongs on down to those who condone sale of drugs within the schools themselves and other unacceptable attitudes...

And the result is a student body who graduates with honors but cannot add nor subtract nor put together and hand write a simple sentence.

The problem in education is pandemic with a few islands of self-innoculation. If that is indeed a word.

Most are forced into being government spies and in many cases it is needed.But teaching children their parents are of no consequence does not save families.

Do the schools become the family?

Hardly they turn their back on the students once their shoved through the grist mill and sent out as failures to be in a world that doesn't care why Johnny cannot think, write nor speak. The world that says if you work you will be paid and if you cannot function their is no job for you.

And so they drift into 'higher education' based on free ride for the moment loans and attempt to gain what they were denied in the first 12 years.

And enter the world of debt management which has it's own perils. A few escape by entering the military when they have gained enough knowledge to pass the entrance exams.

Some don't make it. Some get the military education assistance and use it IF they don't stay in for a career and find it's been taken away as the Mongomery GI Bill did to Vietnam era career soldiers in too many cases.

But most go back to the 'hood and scant choices there except perhaps the occasional free temporarily housing programs compliments of Franck and Dodd.

Some never make to simole literacy.

While in the schools the standards are lowered while the pay checks are fattened.

The politicians have their cannon fodder and baby factories. What else are they good for.

And turn their backs.

Families become 13 year old mothers with children they cannot feed as they cannot feed themselves

and they are left with all that wonderful self-esteem that buys nothing at the store.

but that's not all teachers or all students. Just the majority.

Might as well have a war. It reduces the welfare roles and fattens the campaign coffers. What else is the public good for.

Easy dump socialist economics, unfetter capitalism for the first time ever, and don't equate learning to live independently with a lot of help developing skills from charitable organizations.

I agree you can't fix the family without fixing education as education is one of the main stakes in the heart of the concept of family the way we think of it

.Not only have to fix education - words like lobotomy come to mind - you have to fix five generations and completely replace teaching staffs, Since they can no longer be trusted put them to work replacing the illegals and the Mexican Immigrants to work replacing the non productive slugs