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Teacher unions hold kids hostage: Here’s the way out

Striking San Francisco teachers reached a deal with the district Friday, after leaving roughly 50,000 kids without an education for a week and their parents scrambling to figure out how to go to work without child care.

Teachers unions once again had put their own interests ahead of the children they’re supposed to serve.

School-choice programs can spare families of such hardships in the future.

By giving parents the power to vote with their feet, and their dollars, we can curb this cycle of strikes and hostage-taking once and for all.

The San Francisco teachers union demanded a 9% raise along with other benefits, even though their members are already pulling in an average salary of $103,472 per year — just in base pay.

That’s around the median individual income in San Francisco for a profession that only shows up to work 184 days a year.

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Meanwhile, the district is staring down a $100 million deficit and is under state oversight due to a longstanding financial crisis.

The district provides about 6,000 teachers for 50,000 students — about one teacher for every eight kids, a ratio most private schools would envy.

Yet the union still wanted to........

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