Comments on: Challengers Try To School Menino On Education http://www.wbur.org/2009/09/21/mayoral-issues-schools WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D. Weeks http://www.wbur.org/2009/09/21/mayoral-issues-schools/comment-page-1#comment-1840 D. Weeks Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:47:53 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=6521#comment-1840 Boston truly does have the potential to become an excellent school system. We are certainly surrounded by enough prospective teachers and colleges in general. However, the main issue is that unions have their hands in the mayor's pocket and continually hold the Boston school children hostage. They make demands for more and more but expect their teachers to be less accountable. Richard Stutman and the BTU have blocked every reform presented to the union. Now he is boasting about a union school. I smell an insult. We must send a message to the public unions that we will not allow our children to become their pawns as he continues with his politics. The city residents should demand accountability from the union and demand fresh blood to flow by Stutman resigning yesterday. (Oh by the way teachers are not allowed to speak words of truth about the union-ever) Believe me it means trouble, in other words it means no accountability and corruption Boston truly does have the potential to become an excellent school system. We are certainly surrounded by enough prospective teachers and colleges in general. However, the main issue is that unions have their hands in the mayor’s pocket and continually hold the Boston school children hostage. They make demands for more and more but expect their teachers to be less accountable.

Richard Stutman and the BTU have blocked every reform presented to the union. Now he is boasting about a union school. I smell an insult. We must send a message to the public unions that we will not allow our children to become their pawns as he continues with his politics. The city residents should demand accountability from the union and demand fresh blood to flow by Stutman resigning yesterday. (Oh by the way teachers are not allowed to speak words of truth about the union-ever)

Believe me it means trouble, in other words it means no accountability and corruption

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