Ok, BIG disclaimer here. This is a video that was done in an undercover fashion 0f an education union’s conference for New Jersey. It was done to expose the rampant corruption in the New Jersey education unions.
There is some explicit language and offensive four letter words throughout the video that is used by some of these teachers/union members/principals etc… If that offends you please do not click on the link. There is footage of them drinking in a bar (I assume at the conference hotel), and making inappropriate comments about students, tax payers, and the elected officials in NJ. There is also footage of the conference itself and more inappropriate stuff. The way these educators speak of our children is no less than child abuse.
Some of the most disturbing content occurs at 3:4o in the video. Near the end of the video a teacher/principal asks about padded rooms being used to control students. She is questioning the education union leaders about putting special ed students and regular students into rooms that are padded with mats on the wall to control them. She mentions the non-violent intervention system that is supposed to be used but she reveals that the padded room is being used for out of control students (typical and special education students), and you can tell she honestly has a problem with it. She earnestly wants to know if that is an appropriate intervention to be used on ANY student, and she asks if that is something her teachers should be doing. The footage stops there and you do not get to hear the rest of the exchange, but it disturbs me MORE that the video reveals the padded rooms are in fact a reality in the New Jersey public school system.
There is a part II to this video where you find out that an elementary school teacher verbally abused a child with special needs. This child was called the ‘N’ word and demoralized in ways that no human should endure. This was an ELEMENTARY AGED CHILD mind you.
You find out that this teacher will not be fired or recieve any retribution from the leaders because, in a union, no one gets fired, ever…
I realize not all schools are this way, nor are all teachers anywhere near this corrupt. I do, however have a HUGE problem with education unions and unions in general. I believed the unions were good at one time, but they have outlived their usefulness.
I do not know if it is a result of the union’s mission becoming more and more obsolete over time, but the unions have also become very corrupt over time. When they start to effect children with special needs, I have a big problem with the entire system that has not improved things in our education system.
Please pass this information on. Currently it is being buried and not enough people are outraged.
