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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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Sprints will be one inch.
Exercise will only be watched on cell phones to avoid injuries.
Gym class will be renamed Slim Jim’s
Walking is optional
Weightlifting consists of downing a 64 oz Big Gulp.
Weights will be measured in grams not pounds or kilo’s
Swimming without water to avoid accidental drowning
If someone pulls a finger muscle texting tubes of Ben Gay or the corrected name is Ben LBGTQ+ ointment will be available.
Don’t enforce reasonable standards, instead lower the bar.
Yup, that’s the new academic culture to achieve equity.
What are they thinking????
Sounds like they need to tweak the cafeteria food.
Failing gym class? It is graded on effort, and in contrast to core academic subjects, rightly so. The culture has vastly changed. I I was glad that Illinois required four years of PE. My 11th grade year was the best, enrolling in the class (then politically incorrectly referred to a Eskimo PE), where the promise was to never ever to go inside the entire year. I can’t begin to describe how fun (if a bit dangerous) it was. My single mother came home to her large Dutch oven boiling over as we put our plastic street hockey sticks in hot… Read more »