Scott Shay donated to Northwestern University every year after earning his undergraduate degree in 1979. He stopped in 2020 after researching a book on antisemitic conspiracy theories on campus. The former chairman of Signature Bank, he now donates to the Hillel and Chabad organizations at the university instead. After the Hamas attacks, other donors have reached out to him saying they are reconsidering their gifts. “I’ve heard from four people within the last hour,” Shay said Friday.
Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
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No sympathies. For two generations, they donated to colleges that spread hate, division and anti-gentile and anti-asian racism, while demanding that a special, favorable category for ‘israel supporter’ be carved out just for them. And now, like Casablanca, they are “shocked!” that 40 years of funding anti-white hatred has not exempted them from the ‘colonizer’ label. Like, sorry rich pronoun liberal, what did you expect? Did you really think that decades of anti-white indoctrination at college would not ultimately consume you too? These rich donors fed and reared the very system of hate that is now uncaged and looking to… Read more »
It isn’t only elite universities. It’s educational institutions from kindergarten to post graduate programs. Young people have been indoctrinated against the values on which this nation was founded.
I wish people could see what’s happening to our most important institutions, but many don’t. They believe we are the ones making a to-do about nothing. Sometimes, I question my own thinking on these issues. These past two weeks have been a real eye-opener for my very liberal Jewish friends and I’m beginning to feel hopeful now that they too are paying attention.