Romney has made statements against teachers unions and I want to make some statements clear.  First of all in most cases teachers unions are a good thing.  The teachers union is used as a governing body, so that teachers, as a whole, have a voice at the district level.   This allows for teachers to fight for better wages, when most agree that teachers are underpaid, smaller class sizes, and things that benefit students.  Romney argues that teacher don’t want to test students and the tenure system makes it impossible to fire teachers.  Someone with a business mindset doesn’t see that people learn differently and at different rates.  To test all kids with the same test is unfair, and results in the skewed test results we have.  Romney needs to talk to teachers, rather than alienating them, to work together to find a better solution to our nation’s education problem.

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