Union boss: America abuses its teachers

Published December 5, 2013 5:00am ET



America is demanding too much from its public school teachers and then demonizing them when they push back on new classroom chores, according to the president of the American Federation of Teachers union.

Randi Weingarten said that with the new requirements on teachers, pay should also rise, but isn’t, and she suggested that other nations treat and respect their educators better than America.

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