Steve Jobs: Anti-Union Warriror
andThe teachers' unions, Jobs believes, are ruining America's schools because they prevent bad teachers from being fired.
"I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way," Jobs told a school reform conference in Texas on Saturday. "This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy."
If you ignore Leander Kahney's pro-union, pro-government schools bias, you see that Jobs has, at the least, libertarian leanings. Pretty cool, huh?Jobs has also been a long-time advocate of a school voucher system, another ridiculous idea based on the misplaced faith that the mythical free market will fix schools by giving parents choice.
Jobs argues that vouchers will allow parents, the "customers," to decide where to send their kids to school, and the free market will sort it out. Competition will spur innovation, improve quality and drive bad schools (and bad teachers) out of business. The best schools will thrive.
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