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Doesn’t it seem odd that despite the capability of providing at least $400,000 yearly per classroom, students do not seem to be doing any better when it comes to their schooling? What is the education system doing about it? Any way one looks at it, there is just something very wrong with the situation. Is it an education cartel, perhaps?

The statistics themselves are enough to dishearten anyone… nearly 80% of graduates from high school who actually manage to take up further schooling in college need some form of remedial lessons. Students who enter college should already be capable enough already academically as long as their fundamentals are sound. If that was not bad enough, the current educational system is the main culprit for this shortcoming.

There is a saying that a nation’s hope lies in the youth. That will be all for naught if the people in charge care little for ensuring that the youth in this generation are schooled properly. There will simply be no hope left.

The culprit here is the New Jersey Education Association. The group is primarily a teachers’ union with the noble task of molding the minds and the educating the youth in public schools across the state. It wields considerable political influence and it has massive influence. One would think that proper education would be the focus but sadly, it is not. This union acts in ways that show it to be only after personal enrichment using state funds and to perpetuate generations of students who will always lack a good education. This despite increasing funds allotted for the improvement of learning curriculums. It seems the funds have only proceeded into the pockets of an unscrupulous few in the group.

What follows is a short detail of one of the recently discovered exposes involving one of its members. One school district secretary was found to have been making more than what she should be receiving. The sum amounts to a staggering $180,000 annually. How did this happen? It is quite simple. Closeness to the education cartel is to blame.

Students with their bright and inquisitive minds cannot hope to thrive in conditions such as these. Even incompetent teachers cannot be sanctioned, much less replaced, because the union is coddling them. On the other hand, good teachers and idealistic educators are being harassed and challenged because they will not conform to this shoddy system. Some have had to face dismissal from their jobs for doing what was right.

This does not bode well for the public school system at all. The union acts like a money-hungry cartel intent only with siphoning state funds to the detriment of quality education. It is a wonder that this type of corruption has not been exposed and the perpetrators sanctioned already.

As it is, the only hope seems to lie with the charter schools and school vouchers. These schools have a knack for performing much better than the district schools yet state bureaucrats have not been very supportive of these schools. They would rather maintain the existing situation because it would be to their own interest if the system remains the same. Until the public is made fully aware of this unbalanced cartel trend, there will continue to be more problems that the students will have to suffer.

Insider Online story of The Cartel, a film by Bob Bowdon.