In California, teachers unions manipulated a state-funded peer assistance program to discourage impressionable teachers from opting out of union membership. In New York City, the United Federation of Teachers has a long history of holding the city, and its families, hostage for substantial wage increases without concessions.

The Chicago Teachers Union bullied the city into signing an enormous $1.5 billion package, primarily earmarked to staffing costs, that forced an almost immediate tax hike.

Now consider the COVID-19 pandemic, during which teachers unions listed outrageous and unscientific demands before they would allow schools to resume in-person instruction. The lack of in-person schooling is expected to cause decreases in life expectancy for young children: 0.67 years for boys and 0.45 years for girls.

What good do modern teachers unions serve, then? They do little more than keep children out of school and treat taxpayer money as an unlimited resource.