~ Danger! Danger Will Robinson! ~

Warning: Long rant ahead!

Last night on the channel 5 news here in MN (where Hell does freeze over) they had a story about a Teacher who was arrested in Glenwood City, Wisconsin. Two of my nieces and a nephew of mine go to the school there just like their parents before them. So, I watched the story with great interest.

As the story goes this young woman while a freshman at this school had joined the girl’s basketball team where she met this Teacher/Coach. This Teacher then began stalking this student. Now, if this isn’t bad enough it gets even worse. This Teacher continued to stalk her for the next 3 years that she was at that school. Here’s the kicker, the school KNEW about this (the young lady had obtained a restraining order against the Teacher and the parents had talked to school officials) and the powers that be, kept this Teacher on the pay roll and teaching at this school the whole time! This Teacher was still teaching when he was arrested Sunday!

Now, this Teacher has stalked this poor young woman for the last 7 years! What finally led to his arrest was he walked into her house and went around looking for her. Lucky for her she wasn’t alone and has a big boyfriend that protected her. I’m just glad that the young woman wasn’t harmed in anyway physically by this nut job! Unfortunately, this isn’t an isolated incident because it’s happened before in other parts of the USA.

You’re probably wondering (just as I did when I heard the Story), how could the school sit back and take no action against this Teacher? Well, personally I think it’s a combination of reasons for why this menace was allowed to continue Teaching in spite of his obvious threat to the female population at that school.

The reasons are as follows:

1.) The school district wanted to keep it hushed up to protect their image. (Their image looks really good now, let me tell you!)

2.) They’re desperate for teachers cause they are a rural community. (Many rural communities are in the same sad situation)

3.) The Teachers Union wields so much power that they make it virtually impossible to fire bad teachers for any reason. There are at least 20 hoops (more or less) that the school district must jump through in order to get rid of ONE teacher. (In NYC the school districts must rent space in other buildings for bad teachers (so they are no longer around students) to spend 6 hours a day sitting around doing nothing while collecting their pay cause the district can’t get rid of them due to the Teachers Union)

Here’s what I propose:

1.) The Teachers Union needs to be busted in all 50 states! (This way they won’t have so much control over the wellbeing and education of our children nor be able to place or keep them in danger!)

2.) Once the Teachers Union is busted Legislation should be passed immediately preventing the Teachers Union from re-entering any school district in the USA for a period of 20-25 years. (This allows the schools time to weed out bad teachers, compensate good teachers and lure in more good teachers for the sake of our children. It also allows for reforms to our current school systems in order to educate our children better. )

3.) Legislation should also be past that will limit the wielding power of the Teachers Union so it never is able to reach the level of power that it currently enjoys!

4.) Legislation should be passed making any school official an accomplish to stalking, physical abuse or what not if they are fully aware of this behavior going on and sit back and do nothing to protect the child/children in that school. (In other words, if the Teacher mentioned earlier would have been fired and prohibited from stepping on school property or from attending school functions (of any sort), then that young woman would not of had to live in fear everyday while attending school for her education. Schools are to provide a safe learning environment for our children and they can’t do that when they protect bad teachers of any kind)

5.) Passing legislation that makes school districts and district employees liable in a court of law. No more anonymity!

Now, don’t get me wrong here. I was raised by Union members and was raised pro-union. For the most part I still am very much pro-union. However, I am very Anti-Teachers Union because of all the power they currently have. Due to all this power they have ceased to be an asset and have in turn become detrimental to our education system, to our children, to our government and to us the tax payer. When something ceases to be a benefit then it must be done away with and the Teachers Union needs to go. Even good Teachers pay the price of maintaining the current Teachers Union because they KNOW who the bad teachers are and get brushed with the same stroke the bad teachers get brushed with.