Harvey Silverglate
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948 appearances
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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The schools in Cambridge were pretty good.
He lived in our house.
Monday to Friday, and he went to school with Isaac in the Cambridge Public Schools.
Elsa and I would show up to school committee meetings when there was bargaining between the teachers' union and the school committee.
The teachers' union objected to our being there.
We argued with taxpayers.
We have a kid in the school and we have, his best friend lives with us and goes to school with him.
We have a real interest.
And the school committee walked out of the bargaining session.
The city council then reconsidered its vote and they voted that citizens
taxpayers, parents of kids in the school, could not show up to these negotiation sessions.
I thought that was absolutely outrageous.
But I understood why, because these contracts are crazy.
No sane municipality should enter into some of these contracts.
And
So I have become an opponent of the National Teachers Association, the Cambridge Teachers Association.
I don't think there should be unions for public employees because there's no real bargaining going on.
And I think that the public school system will never be improved as long as the
The teachers are unionized.
If the educational system in the elementary and high school levels is improved, we wouldn't need affirmative action.
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