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It is the purpose of public school educators to help their kids

Well, that's what they say. Looking at the way that the public school systems are run -- the way they fight school choice, the way they fight merit systems, the way they resist all efforts to measure teacher competence, the way they fight firing criminally bad teachers -- it seems that the purpose of public school educators is to protect their jobs and power base.

It's no coincidence that the NEA is the largest union in the country.

Naturally, there are some great teachers out there... but if you're going to generalize, at least cover the most obvious purpose of those you're generalizing. As a whole, the public education system itself is a self-serving disaster.