Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Start with the interior of the school. Proceed to the grounds surrounding the buildings and expand your efforts to the neighborhood picking up trash and removing graffiti as you go. You’re then doing more for the environment than any dump of money will ever do! You may also be providing a lesson that holds more value than anything going on in a CPS classroom.
“That’s especially important, she added, to a union that’s mostly female and facing a power structure that’s dominated by white men.”
Where are these white men?
There’s an evil white man under every bed and around every corner, per Joe and his race baiters.
Interesting talk about accountability and standards coming from an illiterate who will die on the hill of making sure there are never goals, standards or benchmarks used to judge her gang of predators, seditionists and malcontents.
And just to make sure you all understand her demands: Pay Me, Pay Me More and Pay Me Now !
These people are too distracted and focused on creating more buckets of funding to pay themselves for their time vs. actually teaching. Fire them all, close it and start over.
CPS is a major redistributor of income into the community. Quite a few members of the community have teaching jobs and they support not only themselves but extended family members as well off that income. A retired CPS teacher with a pension Chicago is a matriarch in her community, with a guaranteed check of $8-10k a month that supports her kids, her siblings, her baby daddy, her grandkids, and so on. The problem is that the CTU is so full of itself, it thinks it owns CPS, and has gone off the rails with its social justice agenda. Yet, at… Read more »
If your unfortunate enough to have kids in Chicago schools, I’d say start planning but you can’t find a private school that doesn’t have at least a 4 year waiting list. It unfortunate the Chicago Teachers Union doesn’t prioritize actually teaching kids, clearly demonstrated as not important. Nothing in there to actually TEACH children.
Most private schools, other than the explicitly Catholic ones, teach the same woke nonsense. Especially the elite schools, Latin, Parker, Lab, Loyola Academy, they’re super-duper woke like the CPS. One guy I know has his kid in a local Catholic grade school and he was considering Loyola, but then I told him no way, Loyola is totally leftwing now, it’s awful. He thanked me for the advice and seemed genuinely appreciative because he had no idea, was relying on his own now nearly 30 year old outdate ideas of how the school actually functioned.
For those who insist that teachers are powerless and voters control what happens in schools, Stacy Davis Gates begs to differ:
“The union’s demands will hold the district accountable to its goals, she said, while using its power to compel more action.”
Unfortunately, she is talking about using that power to stop the climate from changing, not something as mundane as making sure children can read.