Teacher Unions

I always thought that teacher unions were there to help the system and the people in it. Watching "Waiting for Superman" really opened my eyes. I always know that teachers at colleges could get tenured into a school. Watching the video has really opened my eyes as how that is such a horrible thing expecially for teachers in elementary, midddle and high schools. I beleive that there are a lot of teachers out there that are tenured and feel like they don't have to work anymore or make sure that the students are learning what they are supposed to be. They go home with a paycheck no matter what the student goes home with so what does it matter to them. Tenured should be taken away from teachers in those schools. I teacher should always care what they are teaching the children like they are their own. The most disturbing part to me was when the one mom mentioned that education is only about adults. We have gotten way off track and allowed politics to affect schooling way to much. Why should the children have to suffer and be a part of lotteries. What happens to the children that don't make it. Why should the children have to suffer because of problems with adults and lazy teachers that decide teaching is not important anymore now that they are tenured. I don't belive in teacher unions anymore because they are the ones that support the broken school system and are preventing us from fixing it. I understand that they are there to support the teachers, however they need to fix the contract so that teachers that are not keeping their students learning and reaching levels that they are supposed to be at can leave. Everybody wants what is best for their child but they never see the big picture unless it happens to them or close to home. I truely believe that this movie has opened my eyes and I believe that teacher unions need to end or be fixed in order to fix they broken system.