Midlands Educrat Touts Teacher Unionization In South Carolina

Dr. Moore is very accomplished and in fact, her accomplishments/experience should have taught her better than to think that a union would fix anything (except the deficit in the teacher’s union’s bank accounts).

As a senior Army officer and an OSD level DA civilian, she had to have seen the idiocy caused by “unionized” governmental employees. Whether she recognized it for what it is or not is apparently now in question.

Despite having a union, Florida, where she held her previous job as a superintendent, has some of the lowest teacher pay rates in the US. The FEA union is apparently worried more about the falsely labeled “don’t say gay” and other woke BS issues than they are any real issue affecting the quality of education or teacher pay.

I will never argue that quality teacher pay and retention of high performing teachers through incentive programs is a waste of resources but creating more bureaucracy via a union is a sure way to head towards the Chicago outcome.

Rather than trying a failed model, why don’t we try eliminating the duplicative school districts in many of our counties (46 counties, 82 districts, some of which have fewer students than some of our largest high schools – Greenville County (1 district, 77,000 students wear neighboring Spartan burg County (7 districts, 45,000 students) out in every area of academic achievement. Charleston is he largest district in the sate and they wear RCSD 1 and 2 out. RCSD 1 is probably the worst managed district in the midlands area of the state with no real student achievement and multiple investigations (and plenty of more things needing investigation) going on all the time.