Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
Imagine if hospitals had 7% survival rate relative to a national norm (say, fatality rate for typical case study cohort=3rd grade level reading skills).
Difference between medical professionals (who would not, and would not be ALLOWED) to tolerate such anomalous outcomes and public-benefits-entitled teachers…
personal professional liability.
There’s your answer. Introduce civil litigation opportunities against teachers who commit professional malpractice as evidenced by bad outcomes (as it is in medical profession).
If kids almost literally everywhere are essentially failing in to meet “expected” achievement grade levels it says several things to us as a society: 1. It isn’t primarily the fault of teachers individually and goes to a deeper set of issues. 2. The teachers belong to numerous school systems where poverty generally is high. 3. Such school systems are populated to a greater extent with people of lower educational achievement. 4. The teachers there might well have been taught almost anywhere throughout their years of schooling, so its seldom possible that the problem was caused by a select few colleges… Read more »
The finger pointing is coming from inside the education establishment, blaming everything but themselves for obvious failure.
It would be refreshing to hear anyone in education come up with some ideas on how to fix the system, instead of telling us it can’t be done.
Well, Wirepoints clearly has shown us it can’t be done———-as is. ThE government runs the public schools and finances them. Its that entity that has to lead the charge if it expects different results. Firing teachers left and right based to a large extent on politically motivated charges will cause them to be replaced new, inexperienced teachers who by and large likely won’t do better and maybe worse if that’s the only thing done to change the educational system statwide. This whole set educational issues is a quagmire of other problems well beyond the teachers themselves in many cases.
Teaching methods have degraded over the decades as BS like common core, CRT and Social Emotional Learning has taken over the curriculum, replacing the three R’s, phoenics, rote memorization and rulers on knuckles for wrong answer. Thousands of years of education, employing the same methods and techniques that Aristotle used to teach Alexander the Great, and it’s all tossed out the window for the nonsense they teach today.
Maybe you could start by stop voting for the likes of Randi Weingarten to lead your unions. Teachers are voting for this nonsense in every election. Or is it just an accident that these types become union spokespeople?