{"id":2563,"date":"2011-03-03T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2019-01-15T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:12:44","slug":"teacher-unions-24-karat-hokum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/teacher-unions-24-karat-hokum\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Unions 24-Karat Hokum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[photo from the New York Times]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First They Came for the Teachers&#8230; and I Didn&#8217;t Speak Up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does it get any deeper?<\/p>\n<p>Hell, if you went to public school, you probably can&#8217;t string together ten lines of coherent points on why teacher unions are not a pox on the school.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a 1996 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreemanonline.org\/featured\/teachers-unions-are-the-schools-run-for-them\/\"><strong>Freeman article<\/strong><\/a> I wrote thumping teacher unions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve need to update my tribute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[photo from the New York Times] &#8220;First They Came for the Teachers&#8230; and I Didn&#8217;t Speak Up.&#8221; Does it get any deeper? 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