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Union leaders say this is necessary to protect families and ensure students can stay home if they’re afraid of being targeted by federal officials while traveling to or from school. State Rep. Lilian Jiménez said there is a lot of fear in the Northwest and West side communities she represents of being detained near a school.
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“Labor unions can initiate negotiations when an issue arises that affects their members’ working conditions.”
How does ICE arresting people who are here illegally affect a teachers working conditions?
Here’s a solution. Hire illegals to teach in CPS. Give CTU a cash pay-off to funnel to their members after the CTU leadership gets its taste. Let the CTU teachers stay at home, get fat, change their sexes, murder their children, paint their hair blue and protest ICE for overtime pay. CPS reading levels may actually improve.
The CTU will always make up a crisis to capitalize on to screw the tax payer. Obviously we should disagree with this path. If the kids fear for their lives…what’s the point in learning? Education is done at school. If you don’t want to go, it does not become the tax payers responsibility to adapt to your whim. If you are in the US legally, you have nothing to worry about.
But drug dealers and gang bangers do not pose any danger!
Have the teachers ever thought that the feds can subpoena internet service providers and get the location information of the laptops being used on internet, thereby providing an exact location of where people are at? Since they can seem to teach students how to read and do math, probably not.
The truancy laws aren’t enforced anyway, and remote learning has been a proven failure. Remote learning is how CTU justifies the low test scores: students couldn’t be expected to learn during Covid. If anything, fear of detention and deportation causes much greater distress than fear of infection. It’s all a byproduct of the toxic [pretend] empathy that burdened us with sanctuary cities. Time to “just say no.” Haven’t we undermined enough of our civilization: prosecutors, judges, bus drivers, public safety, art museums, grocery stores etc. Biden would say “don’t!” and that’s been shown not to work. Fund cutoffs, teacher layoffs,… Read more »
We saw what a disaster remote learning was during covid and now they want more of it?
Failure is the union way
Is it too much to ask that the teachers go in and teach ? All we need is more unoccupied buildings. And lazier teachers
Use Khan Academy and forget about the CPS and CTU.
No because CTU will want more teachers to be on stand -by for the remote learning . They’ll say a teacher can’t do remote and classroom teaching at the same time . Enough of this CATERING TO ILLEGALS.
CPS needs to negotiate with CTU about actually teaching in school first.