The Anti-dissing Strike | Neal McCluskey | Cato Institute: Commentary

The Anti-dissing Strike | Neal McCluskey | Cato Institute: Commentary: "That reality is made clear by the regular refrain of Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, of which the CTU is an affiliate. As she wrote in this morning's USA Today, "no one wants to strike ... this strike comes on the heels of numerous steps that left teachers feeling disrespected."

That teachers have been the victims of brutal dissing has been the complaint of their unions for years, a mantra that's coincided especially with efforts to assess teachers' performance using, at least partially, the achievement of their students."

"Of course government schooling doesn't really serve democracy; it serves the people employed by the system. It's a simple matter of incentives: On any given issue politicians will tend to respond to the groups most active on that issue, and no one has greater incentive to be involved in education politics than those who draw their livelihoods from it. And what will they demand? What we'd all like: as much money as possible and no accountability for performance."