When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

I'm a believer in paying your dues.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

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It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve; it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.