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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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The Covid-19 kids (2020) have textbooks, newspapers magazines, radio, television, websites, Youtube and remote learning. ???
The Spanish Flu kids (1918) only had textbooks, newspapers and magazines. ☹️??
Today’s kids are generally online via internet, iphone, tick tick, facebook, twitter, texting and other social media anyway. That’s a lot of screen time. ??
Janet Jackson is doing a great job. ?
Unionized teachers like it at home, its like early retirement. Don’t expect teachers to return. Online learning is a joke. My grand kids go online, learn nothing, the teacher gets to the point in the last few minutes of a session. Online learning for grade schoolers is a total farce, may as well homeschool. The teachers can’t be compelled to come back because they were given an online system, so they wont return. It would have been better to have no online classes. Them at least you’d have angry parents to force teachers back, as it is many parents still… Read more »
This line of chatter recurs periodically and is a bit amusing. On the one hand many here keep saying teachers are worthless, not differenting one system vs. another or one person for antoher for that matter. Now, here you are saying they are worthless on line and should be going back to school. For what, if you are one of those fitting what I’ve just said–learning purposes or baby-sitting purposes? Methinks it might be baby-sitting services you really miss. Having the little buggers around 24/7 is just too much for you, isn’t it, funky?
Yes, we understand that there are teachers who are good at what they do. But you are unfair to assume that parents only want babysitters. It is not unreasonable to expect that teachers do the job that they are paid to do. That includes the expectation that schooling is provided in the school building.
And there is zero evidence that this cannot be done safely.
Teachers can be all grouped into one big block and called bad, thats how they want to be treated. That is exactly the purpose of their union, to eliminate any personal yearly reviews, good teachers and bad teachers are all the same to that union, individualism is not the union policy. Ever see a bad teacher get fired? No. So when I say online public grade school classes suck without differentiating one teacher from the next, I’m actually doing the same thing their union does to them. Skills and talent don’t matter, individual reviews and raises don’t exist, seniority rules,… Read more »
Well, if your children as presumably is the case here then “teachers” here really means teachers in one particular school or one school district at most. All you know really is how your own children far and rumors from other parents to that effect. In any case your knowledge of the teachers there is largely rumor-focused since you’ve had no personal contact with them or through your children. So, your opinion is based upon a very small subset of all teachers in that school and an even smaller subset system wide. What you are complaining about here without saying do… Read more »
“essentially we’re talking about tens of thousands of people in this city who want an option other than what we’re offering” Meanwhile the people paying the taxes are demanding in school at a rate of 100%. Either these “facts” are completely made up to push a narrative by the socialist CTU and their comrades in the media or the virus selectively targets Black and Latino families with children but not white families. Ive yet to meet a single family with kids that doesnt want them back in schools we pay for and that includes Black and Latino classmates’ families from… Read more »
I like how Chicago will “ask” teachers to do their jobs and earn their salaries.