How many times does the "evil-corrupt-teachers' unions" have to threaten and scare and fear monger the public into falling for their corrupt self-serving agenda?  These "public thieves" use and abuse, "children" in every way shape and form to their own self-serving interests.  They always glibly say "for the children" to use as any excuse for their self-serving thievery.  These "teachers' unions" really "couldn't care less about the children."  For too many years they have used this lame excuse. The unions' like to always scream and holler about "special interests," when by their actions and behavior that is all they are about.  These corrupt unions are all about perpetuating their own existence, they're also the biggest "special interests" there is, bankrupting the state, coddle and protect the useless and incompetent morons in their own ranks who could not survive in the "real world."  I have stated before and have it on good authority that besides all the bonds, earmarks, lottery monies we were induced into voting for that was suppose to take care of education funding, we could write and "Open Ended Check," a Blank Check to the school and say "you fill out the amount, put as many Bazillion, Gazillion, Quintillion zeros on this check, and the teachers' union would still say "IT'S NOT ENOUGH!"  When is the public going to realize that no amount of money thrown down the toilet of "education funding" will make any difference?  It wasn't long ago that schools were spending a few hundred dollars per student and we had excellence in education.  Now we are spending untold thousands per student and have one of the worst educational systems in the world!  Again, it's time that we used Nancy Reagan's watch word and tell the corrupt teacher's union "We Just Say No."  We must as a society just face the simple fact that we can't afford the corrupt union control that is killing our country.

R.S. Nicholson