Schooling the teachers

Lately, Gov. Chris Christie (R-New Jersey) has been under harsh attacks from the teachers unions. However, Gov. Christie is just doing what he promised he would do to benefit our state. The liberals are seeing that he's REALLY cleaning New Jersey up, and they are scared that they are losing the people who are now seeing the conservative sunshine amidst the dreary liberal clouds that have hovered over the state since the Byrne administration. This is especially true since the people voted down many of their school budgets last month.

First of all, with all the smack talk that the teachers unions, especially the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), are throwing at our governor which include namecalling, and yes, even death threats, the teachers unions are missing the overall picture that goes beyond their little utopia. We hear about how the governor should be removed because he doesn't want to give the teachers what they demand, that he wants pay freezes for teachers, that he's going to make teachers pay for their own benefits (God forbid! Just about EVERYONE ELSE has to do it, but not us!)

Look at these problems that the teachers unions have. Riddle me this, New Jersey: how many of these questions are about the students? (Don't worry I'll wait)

Exactly.

None of the questions are about the students. Why don't the unions explain why the schools are failing? Why there are students from our inner-city schools who have been given high school diplomas falling behind in scores compared to other students from say private and parochial schools? And what are the only thing these students learing? To defend their teachers tooth and nail, regardless of the fact that they don't know anything (they're already ignorant) and the fact that the debt that has been accumulating for over 30 years will be on their heads.

Next time you criticize our Governor for wanting to lower taxes and make judgements on him that he doesn't care about the students, think about the empire that the Teachers Unions have created with YOUR tax dollars since Gov. Byrne's administration and the how the standards of our children have dropped since then. If you knew the truth about the teachers unions, you wouldn't have to think twice about them because you would flip them off the minute they spoke.