Corey DeAngelis

Since 2000 to about 2021 is the kind of period that I've examined.

The student enrollment has been basically flat.

It's actually decreased a little because of the COVID mass exodus of kids leaving the government school system and going towards homeschooling more than anything else.

But the number of teachers in the system has increased by about 10% over that period.

Well, they've lost students, which is an anomaly by itself, but it gets worse than that.

The number of administrators in the system has increased by about 95%.

And so it's become more of a jobs program for administrators than an education initiative for kids.

And you have to ask yourself, why would the teachers unions want this?

And the reason is that, again, they're a political entity.

They benefit in two ways from having more people in the buildings.

Well, one is that they have more dues paying members.

If they were to spend that money on salaries, they want to increase their total revenues because their revenues come from how many members are paying them dues.

It's not based on if you have a higher salary, you're going to pay a lot more in dues.

It's based on, are you a teacher?

And so if they have more boots on the ground as well, they have more political muscle because they have a larger voting block to push their socialist agenda.

And so they email all the teachers all the time.

If a school choice bill is up, they'll email all the teachers, give them the form to press a button to contact legislators.

And then you have even Republicans sometimes think, oh, my goodness, this is not a popular issue.

I'm getting a thousand emails that all look the same with a canned response because they're

either the superintendent tells them that they need to do these things or the teachers union leadership tells them that, oh my goodness, you're going to lose your job if there's a little bit of competition, which has never happened.