Is Democracy Killing Public Education Reform?

It is not a secret that the state of public education in the United States is uneven and too often failing to look after the best interests of students, much less actually educate them.

With the Supreme Courts ruling this past week that removes spending limits for corporations and unions on political campaigns and obliterating the McCain-Feingold Act of 2002, America is now at the mercy of not just interest groups but self-interest interest groups.

Teachers Unions are by and large one of the most destructive forces in public education. By definition it's looking after the interests of the teachers.

Where is the Students' Unions? Oh, it should be the parents. Theoretically the parents, if they are so inclined, gain their leverage through electing government officials that reflect their values and educational desires of for their students, officials that are hog-tied and rendered impotent by these union contracts.

So perhaps it is not democracy that is killing public education reform but these unions that protect too many bad, yes bad, teachers that feels some sense of entitlement, no better than someone gaming the welfare system and in fact no different.

And god bless those teachers that actually care that suffer through these bureaucratic self-serving nightmares.