Teachers' Unions

The NYT on schools:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/opinion/15kristof.html

The effort to remove the [allegedly incompetent] teacher is expected to cost about $400,000, and the outcome is uncertain. In New York City, with its 80,000 teachers, arbiters have removed only two for incompetence alone in the last couple of years.

Whoa.