Steve Jobs, hippie hero and ultra-liberal Democrat, comes down hard on teachers unions:
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers.
Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.
“What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in they couldn’t get rid of people that they thought weren’t any good?” he asked to loud applause during an education reform conference.
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“I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way,” Jobs said.
“This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy.”
And staunch Republican Michael Dell defends the teachers unions:
Dell responded that unions were created because “the employer was treating his employees unfairly and that was not good.”
“So now you have these enterprises where they take good care of their people. The employees won, they do really well and succeed.”
Black is white, up is down, in is out. The world has just turned upside-down.
