This story is from the “No matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up” file. I have once again been disabused of the notion that the teachers’ unions may actually emerge from their radical egalitarian, socialist and incentive killing worldview. From the Boston Herald….

“Grinchlike union bosses are blocking at least 200 of Boston’s best teachers from pocketing bonuses for their classroom heroics in a puzzling move that gets a failing grade from education experts.

“The Boston Teachers Union staunchly opposes a performance bonus plan for top teachers - launched at the John D. O’Bryant School in 2008 and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Exxon Mobil foundations - insisting the dough be divvied up among all of a school’s teachers, good and bad.”

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