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Unions Ruining Education in America?

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    FBN’s John Stossel on the impact of unions on the nation’s schools.

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Look who -- their kids to private school.

-- policy Hillary Clinton Al Gore.

-- Or make in the rules already have choice.

You know the politicians and -- used to be a politician the politicians have choice yet all these politicians who sent the -- kids to private school.

Oppose school choice for regular people.

Thank you for taking my question President Obama.

I want to know whether or not you think that Malia and Sasha we get the same high quality rigorous education and ADC public school.

If I wanted to find.

-- great public school from Orleans I should be and we could probably maneuvered adored.

But apparently he didn't want to the president now since option and Malia had a Sidwell friends.

It's the same school the vice president's grand kids attend.

Tuition 32000 dollars a year.

And the union leaders -- the private school that's correct I graduated kappa key Joseph del Grasso was head of Newark's teachers union -- Top negotiate.

At this school board meeting and chairman said he used up speaking tenant.

They'll Grasso marched up to the front to demand more -- My union contract may end date seven more -- stepping down.

And rigidity of this is stupid union contract is why the kids suffer you're -- is the problem.

I think you know back and -- Grasso opposes letting kids escape his rules by say allowing them to attend charter schools and existing school built.

Over my dead body they're gonna -- I'm going to be there.

And physically tried stop them.

There's certain things that don't mix or Willem Warner you -- animal -- There's still -- there are the year have been constantly you know there's not get them these -- he'll Grasso assist charters favor rich -- Newark public schools spanned almost 400 foul per classroom.

The charters get less not that much -- According I think get less it's hardly the rich vs the poor happy Fordham we don't want a -- -- school.

Don't want in our schools why should they you're not -- for on this but let's and -- fox and CNN already saying building I don't think so.

But fox and CNN can't banish the competition.

Competition is good competition is where we have fox CNN and MSNBC.

When you have a choice of what channel you're gonna watch what school you attend competition.

Makes things better.

-- also understands that about his own education.

My mother paid for me to go to and it kinda made me feel that I had better do pretty good in that school.

-- So -- like -- arguing against the unionized public school.

In the hot arguing against them most of the independent schools are still Catholic schools -- -- a great job for less than half the money you spent.

And I would say that.

Seventeenth now verses five -- tell -- -- -- -- bingo game and get it over with.

Catholic schools fire bad teachers but government run schools really can't because teachers get -- Why I have ten year most professions don't have tenure when he went into organized crime you got to be it made parts and there was like a ceremony.

But not getting tenure.

Which is a -- state.

Any kind of like organized crime news that -- in for ever -- die or kill.

It that well -- there there's that perspective Bobbitt you're good teacher it shouldn't be a problem.

Here's one problem that every teacher is -- summer really lousy it's impossible to fire these -- but life.

Because there are millions steps.

Now.

There's only one it's one step that's all these steps but it.

This is the list of steps required to fire a teacher in my ten.

This is why most principals don't even -- they look at the list of appeals this one in just give -- Or they push the worst teachers to transfer to another school.

At such a common way to avoid these rules is even a name for the dance of the -- It would be funny except these rules lead some kids stock with.

Terrible teachers.

This is crazy this former police investigators as it takes years to -- even an abusive teacher lots of people said he hit it.

-- -- Lots of people said he -- it in other teachers said that were present in the classroom took me four years.

283000.

Dollars a 127000.

Dollars in legal fees plus would have cost to.

Have a substitute -- in all while he's sitting home -- popcorn.

Still being repaid by the state still being paid by its district.

He couldn't even fire the teacher who faked his doctorate in he went to sleep in class.

And he was quite disturbed when the supervisor came and in welcome up he complains that never ends it never ends.

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