From these two points of view, it results in a conflict in which many things that protect teachers are not in the best interests of the student. For a teacher who had been found “[showing] the R-rated 'Silence of the Lambs' to his underage students according to state education department records…. He let them play ping-pong in his classroom and kick balls in the hallway. He often allowed his students to wander around the school, officials charged. Even students who were not in his class came to him for a subscription. Once, when a student asked about a historical figure, Moyer responded that the person was "some [expletive] in history." He told a boy to drop a pencil on the floor and ask a girl to pick it up so he could see her breast when she bent over. Yet when this teacher was finally prosecuted “it would take nine years and dozens of documents before the state removed his Lehigh County teacher's license…..” Unions continue to extend legal representation to protect teachers like Mr. Moyer . It is clear that, contrary to the union's goals, they actually offer their legal services to any teacher who belongs to the union. Michelle Rhee, when offering bonus policy for quitting tenure, unions would not allow such policy. If teachers unions remained true to their ideal of protecting only useful teachers, Rhee's program would be extremely beneficial to union members. The fact that the unions did not accept this offer reveals that not only do the teachers unions protect incompetent teachers, they have realized this simple fact. When considering these two cases, it is clear that teachers' unions can claim that their priorities take into account the student and the teacher, while the unions in reality focus mainly on the
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