That's a distinction without a difference IMO.
I disagree. There's a difference between criticizing a union policy ("We oppose merit pay") and criticizing teachers themselves. From what I've seen, a lot of "teacher bashing" is really "criticizing the unions."
The Wall Street Journal piece is a case in point. The blogger lied/twisted the piece and accused the WSJ of calling teachers "greedy and selfish."
In fact, the piece made no accusations like that whatsoever. It just criticized two union policies. One policy created financial difficulties for a charter school that it didn't create for the regular public schools. The other one banned the use of non-union teacher's aides using money raised by parents.
Whether or not anyone reading this message agrees with the WSJ piece, it was clearly NOT calling teachers "selfish and greedy." It was criticizing union policies.
