Seriously , though . It would be really great if dumbasses stopped pumping out dumbass kids . <| sep |> I ' ve never ever been to a Sam ' s with less than 58 registers open . Guess the one by you sucks . Never been to Costco , but after seeing this pizza , I wanna go . <| sep |> Oh , that ' s less interesting than I was expecting . <| sep |> He ' s not retarded , he just plays one on TV . He knows where his bread is buttered , <| sep |> Why do I get the feeling that Flickery Flies is a stage name ? <| sep |> Is it racist when it makes offensive jokes against everyone ? <| sep |> it ' s a big step ? wait what ? <| sep |> Can help with porygon tradeback <| sep |> I ' m not saying that unions are angels but they ' ve been unfairly demonizedNow as a general rule I like unions . I ' m perfectly okay that my package costs slightly more because the UPS guy is unionized and the company is forced to give good benefits and guarantee a full 8 hours of pay even when the route is slow . Unions are the sometimes selfish voice of the teachers , Unions are the explicitly selfish voice of the people they represent . That ' s their literal job , go read the charter of any teacher ' s union and there is not a single word about the children . If something like classroom size comes up that ' s a happy coincidence , the drive has nothing to do with improving education quality and everything to do with lowering the workload of the union ' s members . That doesn ' t make the union evil . But it does mean that as the consumer of the education product their members provide , the union is working opposite your interests . To a reasonable extent , paying teachers a little more , that ' s fine . To an unreasonable extent , where schools are inexplicably failing year after year and you can ' t hold anyone accountable that ' s wholly unacceptable . ESPECIALLY , when a charter school opens up in town with a faculty that ' s aggressively graded for performance and all the failing students who transfer in start thriving . This isn ' t a hypothetical , the school system in my town had this play out , a habitually failing school , the state took it , fired every single teacher and administrator , and made every single person reapply . All in all about an 80 % turnover , but like magic the test scores started soaring , same kids , same building , same budget , no union .