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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Does the documentary give the names of the real estate firms, the bankers and the property owners of some of the worst tenement slum housing in Douglass Park or Near West Side? Because that would be far more enlightening than another white people bad fluff piece. Our grandparents knew who the real enemy was and that’s who they were really getting away from.
Completely ignored in this article, and probably the documentary, is that YOUR RACIST ANCESTORS weren’t as much racist as they were ANTI-CRIME, as they for the most part accepted assimilated immigrants of all races. The purpose of documentaries like this to shame you, whitey, for the ‘sins’ of your ancestors who built Chicago, and because of their sins, you no longer own this city, whitey. It’s been well documented, but not spoken about in polite company, that neighbors that quickly desegregated, and become majority African-American as part of the great migration, turned into violent hellholes where the new residents would… Read more »
In retrospect, what happened to these neighborhoods with the mass migration from the south is similar to what is happening today with Latin America migrating in the United States. Their showing up in neighborhoods with no means, into communities ill-equiped financially and emotionally to handle the massive social problems, and social disruptions caused by the mass migration, with not enough housing or resources to go around for everyone, and then violence breaks out and people move. THEN YOU and YOUR ANCESTORS are called vile racists for not wanting to see your communities destroyed. Just like then, as it is now,… Read more »