Teacher's Unions and the Failure of the K-12 Educational System - Essay Example

Those arguing against the motion said that the teachers union should not be blamed for the failure of the system. They argued that social factors like poverty and shrinking budgets are the main causes of the failure. The problems faced by students at home affect the student’s understanding and thinking capacity. Poverty makes students not learn properly due to a lack of reading materials. A shrinking budget also affects the system because with insufficient funds the reading materials can not be bought. They further claimed that teachers' unions are not supposed to be blamed for these issues since they do not play any part in ensuring that parents support their children academically, but they are concerned about teachers' welfare (Debate, 2014).

In the end, the team supporting the motion that teachers' unions should not be blamed for the failure won with 68 % against 32 % of those arguing that teachers' unions should be blamed (Debate, 2014).