Teachers unions have worked to destroy local control of education, subvert standards, prevent teacher accountability, and deny parents a significant voice in their children's education. Policy dictators Teachers unions are increasingly dictating policy to the schools. Teachers unions blatantly exploit their power over school children. Many politicians have claimed that the problems of public education can be resolved by rigorous new teacher evaluation programs. But teachers unions often politically dominate state legislatures, and the legislators protect the teachers against their own incompetence.
Home schooling is one of the fastest growing triumphs in family rights in the country.
Naturally, teachers unions have been fiercely opposed to permitting parents to teach their own children to read and write. The NEA annually passes resolutions calling for a near-total ban on home schooling. One measure of the coerciveness of the government school monopoly is the percentage of parents who would remove their kids from government schools if they could. Teachers unions and school officials have repeatedly sabotaged parents' efforts to defect from the public school monopoly. Though organizers got almost one million signatures to put the measure on the ballot, the effort was bushwhacked by the California Teachers Association and public school officials.