"Kids Aren't Cars" trailer - kidsarentcars.com

"Kids Aren't Cars" is a 9-part short film series on the state of public education in America. It highlights examples from Midwestern states. It shows the impact organized labor and the assembly-line system has had on educating children. www.kidsarentcars.com

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News & Politics

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• Kids Aren't Cars
• documentary fim
• public education
• organized labor
• teachers union
• Michigan Education Association
• Illinois Education Association
• MEA
• IEA
• ISTA
• National Education Association
• NEA
• Detroit Federation of Teachers
• DFT

[yakyakyak69]

Unions are LEECHES stealing the future of our children.

Abolish Gov't unions!

Abolish Tenure!

[Mrd777]

OK- I find this video VERY interesting. I've been teaching for several years now in the deep south where there are no unions, collective bargaining, etc. And guess what?? We have the same exact problems... Do I think unions (especially in the northeast and rust belt) are troublesome? Yes, they can be, but that's a whole different issue. Down here, teachers are told what to teach and how to teach, etc. All the assembly line crap is coming from the federal government- blame them :)

[kidsnetsoft]

I agree that bad teachers need to find another profession and unions shouldn't protect them. However, I know what some of these schools are like. You can have some of the most dynamic curriculum, passion for kids and your content and still have incredibly apathetic students and parents. I get so sick of teachers getting all the blame. When will parents and students take responsibility. Our entire system is failing. Let's not be so simplistic and only blame teachers.

[omganotherun]

@Mrd777 Curious, what is it like in the South as an educator? Detroit is pushing - no exaggeration - 47% adult illiteracy and 24% High School graduation rates. Mrd, is it like this down where you are? State? City?

[SlayerofFiction]

@IamAteacher100 I am going to add that in your position, teaching the youth, is once more, far more important than keeping some deadbeat droll who is ruining the lives of children, congrats for confirming the message of the video.

[SlayerofFiction]

@IamAteacher100 again, a union only preserves the job of a poor employee thus dragging down the company and other employee's around, with good employee's that translate into good work ethics, the company does better and the co workers do better, explain to me again why you want to keep a tumor?

Canada Enjoys Prosperity only because of world communists systimatically dismantelling America and giving you trade opportunities that previously would not exist, seriously, and your a teacher?

[IamAteacher100]

@SlayerofFiction

Thanks for giving me such a good chuckle. Your last message confirmed the reason it is so easy to our convince members that they need to stay unionized - some employers treat them so badly. If employers actually had due process, care and compassion, there'd be no need for unions.

ps Lots of countries have access to you tube, a good education system, and strong unions. You should avoid jumping to conclusions. But Canadians can be happy you put them in the category.

[SlayerofFiction]

@IamAteacher100 lol canada? seriously? LMFAO, council teachers? here IM an employer this is how you handle a bad employee, you fucking fire them, right there, on the spot, and replace them with someone compitant.

[IamAteacher100]

@SlayerofFiction

ps I work in one of the very best education systems in the world and it happens to be highly unionized. The two are not mutually exclusive.

[IamAteacher100]

@SlayerofFiction We definitely agree that horrible systems need to change! But, I am not a 'shitty teacher'. I'm also not a marxist or an American. I am a teacher & do support unions. In fact, I've worked to improve evaluation systems of teachers, improve teacher PD, and to counsel teachers in difficulty to leave the profession. I treat teachers as fairly as I think we should be treating students.

Please be VERY careful about painting people with too wide a brush.

[SlayerofFiction]

@IamAteacher100 what makes me angry are shitty teachers in a horrible system refusing to acknowledge the problems in order to correct them, instead you cling on to the very problem wich is Unions, which do not allow poor teachers to be removed, a must, which again, strike to use Children as a bargaining chip during surprise, time when children shoudl be being educated. And last, Unions are by definition marxist, so not something American at all. Good day.