re: If the Dems are so opposed to socialism

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My argument is that they need to change their priority to incentivize success rather than protect mediocrity.

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That is not the goal of a union. Incentivizing success is the role of the employer.

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Especially in a field that is as critical to the success of our country as education, I believe we have a moral obligation to provide the highest quality educators possible.

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These are all reasons that incentivizing success should be on the employer, which is the tax payers.

Let the unions do their job, we as the people need to do ours.

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And the teacher unions have prevented them from rewarding success by forcing uniform pay.

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Unions cannot force anything, you should be well aware of this.

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You can’t simultaneously say that the employers should incentivize success and that the unions are correct in preventing success from being incentivized.

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Unions are correct in protecting their members. That is their one and only goal as a private enterprise.

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Unions cannot force anything

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In theory, sure, “forced” is not a perfect word. In practice, you are surely aware that teacher’s unions wield significant political power. A teacher’s strike is basically a immediate death note for any politician within arm’s reach. So when teachers unions go to governments and say that uniform pay is non-negotiable, governments play ball.

This is a policy that unions specifically demanded. Trying to shirk off responsibility for that and saying “nuh un, that’s government’s fault” is nonsense.

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Unions are correct in protecting their members.

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In general, yes, of course I agree. But as it relates specifically to uniform pay, that is only protecting their low performing members. Not their good ones.

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This is a policy that unions specifically demanded.

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Again, since you're aware they can't force anything, their demands are just negotiating pieces.

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Trying to shirk off responsibility for that and saying “nuh un, that’s government’s fault” is nonsense.

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You're not understanding. It's not the government's fault, it's just actually their responsibility in this equation. I am assigning blame to the party who's responsibility incentivizing pay is.

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But as it relates specifically to uniform pay, that is only protecting their low performing teachers. Not their good ones.

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No, they are protecting all teachers. A well performing teacher can become a bad performing one. Their job is not to only protect the good ones.

That bold point is one I think you're not really understanding. The private enterprise of a union exists to serve it's members. Are you suggesting that the union should step outside it's bounds and have goals outside of protecting it's members?

I'm sure to someone who is/has paid dues, the idea that the union would represent anyone but who they exist to represent, is a bit laughable.

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Uniform pay suppresses wages for successful teachers. I don’t see how that can possibly be disputed.

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Tax payers suppress wages for teachers.

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Who wants to teach in an enviroment where students are not even prohibited from staying off cell phones.

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No one when the job pays like shite.

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The job wouldn’t pay like shite if you could get rewarded for success

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We are in total agreement on this.