Waiting for Superman

The film "Waiting for Superman" was done in a very powerful way. It succesfully engaged the viewer emotionally. But looking past the individuals involved in the movie is a big idea that the schools are continually failing our students. I am stuck on one part of the movie, well two actually but the money spent on prisoners is another long conversation in itself. But the part about the teachers union not even voting on the change to performance based pay really bothers me. There is no way you can look around and not acknowledge that changes need to be made. It might not have been the right change for the situation, but for the union to not even vote on it shows an arrogant sense of entitlement. Tenure should not be the goal of a teacher, and to make a second year teacher basically untouchable for life is a ridiculus business model.