Such as public backlash: I cannot imagine teachers being stupid enough to risk the public backlash that opposing such a reform would cause
Well, adjust you're priors appropriately.
Unless teachers in the USA already had such a low social image that they would not care about degrading it further.
Or rather they have such a high social image that the people who aren't paying much attention react the same way you just did.
Or rather they have such a high social image that the people who aren't paying attention react the same way you just did.
By all accounts, teachers in the USA are the dregs of society: very badly paid, subjected to unreasonable demands of moral upstanding, and powerless in front of the students, the administration, and the parents.
I have found this most wonderful (if fairly lengthy) article, and thought you would enjoy having it brought to your attention.
It is so good, I think we should include it among the references in the "Politics is the Mind Killer" wiki page. But, before that, I submit it to you, and ask you: is there anything in this article that would warrant its exclusion from this site? I mean, besides the fact that it is about politics, and written by a notorious Social-democrat (And is that in itself grounds for exclusion?).