Trumped up charges.

• Author: Gardner, Walt
• Position: Letter to the editor

The situation at Clear Creek Elementary School in Bloomington, Indiana, is not an isolated case ("A Chill in the Classroom," by Matthew Rothschild, March issue). Without the backing of a strong union, teachers across the country are virtually powerless to defend themselves against determined parents and administrators. Free market ideologues vigorously maintain that unions diminish educational quality by protecting incompetent...