Waiting for superman: Documentary response

Expenditures on education have been increasing over time; however, proficiency levels in math and english have been going down, as more and more money is pumped into education. The lowest english proficiency levels can be found in no further than the US capital: DC.   I don't believe that educational expenditures and proficiency levels are inversely proportional. I think teachers need further education on how to educate. In New York teachers receive a normal salary to be in this "rubber room". Where they basically just drink coffee, play cards and do nothing. They do nothing, and they receive a big fat check! I find that infuriating. The rubber room is basically a place for the teachers that gave up. I find it unfair because people that work minimum wage jobs cannot simply give up. You (minimum wage workers) call in sick constantly, you’re not going to get a substitute, you are going to get a replacement. They will take your job because it is that easy for the employer to fire you. You are not indispensable to the company. For the same reason, there is no such thing as a retail store union, fast food workers union or any of that sort as far as I’m concerned. We (U.S. citizens) have the right to come together and form a union but it’s pointless because they’ll fire that 40 year old lady that lead the union and hire a 17 year old. When you go to apply to a minimum wage job, in the application it states something around the lines of “The employer can fire you at any given moment without a reason”. See minimum wage workers don’t get a pat on the back, they don’t get to lay back on the hot tub with bubbles and drink red wine. I don’t want to be biased either. I know some teachers don’t get paid what they are worth either. In the documentary they said that a bad teacher covers 50% of the material in a school year while a good teacher covers 150%. The sad thing about this, is that no matter how much the good teacher covers he's still going to make as much as the bad teacher. In my opinion unions are good to some extent. However, in this case, it makes teachers almost seem untouchable, which can encourage teachers to not care about what they should care about which is teaching the posterity. There are teachers that leave when the bell rings at three, but there are also teachers that leave hours after the bell rings – and it’s not cause they we’re sleeping their last period and didn't hear the bell.