As usual, the goal of a teachers union is to keep/add jobs and increase compensation — at all costs. The children are secondary. Check out what the head of the New Jersey teachers union — who makes more than $300,000 — had to say about low-income kids who are trapped in rotten schools.
Giordano made the comment on the local “New Jersey Capitol Report” programover the weekend. During the interview, he was challenged by the host on why low-income families should not have the same options as other families when their child is in a failing school.
“Those parents should have exactly the same options and they do. We don’t say that you can’t take your kid out of the public school. We would argue not and we would say ‘let’s work more closely and more harmoniously,'” Giordano said.
When told some families cannot afford to finance the shift to private school without government help, Giordano said: “Well, you know, life’s not always fair and I’m sorry about that.”
In some ways, he’s right. Life isn’t fair. However, we can make it more fair by ensuring that all kids have an opportunity to attend the school of their choice — not just the ones from families that have the resources to opt out of a failing system.
