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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Radical Youth Alliance? You mean study, demonstrate strong values, think for yourself, apply yourself, live with integrity, etc., right?
Or are you simply kids who are emulating the completely vacuous CTU leaders? Emulating the mutton chops who called for the abolishment of the police? The BLM and ANTIFA folks who rioted and committed arson all 2020?
Sadly this is likely a case of useful idiots modeling the behavior of the imbecilic adults they see on TV.
Hey kids,
Chicago schools and the CTU have failed you!! Think about that and next time make better choices!
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. These students learned well from their CTU overlords, well indoctrinated in the culture of non-work and entitlement and of course fear.
Most of the so called education for kids in today’s world comes from social media not the classroom. TikTok-Meta-Instagram-Snapchat-Twitter-WhatsApp-Youtube/etc most of which is worthless to me but are influensors to them. The kids can fly through these platforms like there’s no tomorrow. Why not find a way to entice kids to learn on these platforms IN the classroom since many are probably on them anyway. Kids know more about their phones than they do their own family members. The technology is here so let’s use it for some good. Do they really learn anything in a book dated 1970? Lets… Read more »
I’ve learned over the years the most important aspects to education are a curiosity to learn and the ability to rationally and logically walk through issues. These concepts go back Socrates and Plato teaching their students in Athens. Today’s schools are little more then day cares that indoctrinate children in leftist propaganda. There’s no room for thinking things through. Educators claim they are teaching analytical thinking, but it’s really just walking kids through the problem and arriving at the leftist result to the answer. It’s no surprise CPS schools are so bad, they don’t teach kids anything, and they spend… Read more »
Debtsor, you sure nailed it when you said “the most important aspects to education are a curiosity to learn and the ability to rationally and logically walk through issues.” If you have just that, you will get educated, even if you have to do it on our own. I have been stunned by some of you readers who I have gotten to know in person. Many of you have no fancy degrees and no background pertinent to the things we discuss. But because you have the curiosity and know how to think, you have become astonishingly well educated on some… Read more »
A little learning is a dangerous thing! And those imprisoned at CTU/CPS are learning very little. Did you notice the fathers and mothers of the students coming forward to disapprove of the walkout? Neither did I!
These kids should read the op-ed by the UofC kids. Maybe they’ll learn something.
Are you referring to the one in the Chicago Thinker about 6 days ago? It was excellent!
Don’t make a big deal about this. That’s exactly what they want. Treat it like kids adding a day to their holiday weekend. Nothing more.
Since when is kids skipping school a story. I mean, good for them. Stick it to the man. But guess who the two men are: CPS and CTU.
If there was any DOUBT the students in Chicago school system aren`t being taught but are being INDOCTRINATED by the MARXIST CTU
Useful idiots! Come one come all, we can always use another loudmouth.
Oh boy, here we go. I just finished a comment over on the teacher’s article about “kids being used as pawns.” Ok, so let’s start: “I think it shows a multitude of things,” Savado said. “I think, specifically, it shows that young people, specifically our Black and brown young people in Chicago, have not been considered, our humanity hasn’t been considered for a very, very long time.”Savado said they’re demanding extra safety and support from CPS as COVID cases continue to surge. Victimology (check). CRT (check). Narcissism (check). Dramatics (check). Safetyism — a special feature of Gen Z (check). “They… Read more »
Do they really expect us to believe that a CPS freshman organized this walkout?
Bingo.
It’s possible because they are 27yrs old
Lol
I think I found the source: Toolkit for Transforming School Discipline in Remote and Blended Learning During COVID-19 . One of the students mentioned in the article was a part of this study. The Transforming School Discipline Collaborative (TSDC) is a collaborative of organizations working to ensure that Illinois’ schools are safe and supportive for all students. An interdisciplinary team of attorneys, school psychologists, restorative justice practitioners, school-based professionals, policy advocates, and community partners, TSDC is dedicated to supporting districts and schools to implement equitable and non-exclusionary discipline practices. We aim to meaningfully reduce the high number of school days that students lose due to exclusionary discipline policies… Read more »