CPS aims to help teens get COVID-19 shots. The teachers union wants a student vaccine goal met before fall classes start. – Chicago Tribune*

CTU President Jesse Sharkey said that while he is “not an epidemiologist or public health expert,” it is critical that the school board establish a targeted student vaccine benchmark. “I’m not suggesting I know exactly what that should be. But I think you have to be clear and say something like, ‘CPS intends to get 90% of eligible students vaccinated as we prepare to return in the fall.’ ”
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Streeterville
4 years ago

CTU and Preckwinkle are collaborators, working to defeat their common opponent: Lightfoot. You bet street crime rates have exploded due to unsupervised teens roaming streets at all hours day and night, seemingly unstoppable by CPD beat cops. Lightfoot is a coward, who fears the SJWs, without realizing that current politically-correct dynamic will assure that she’s a one-term mayor, likely to be replaced by Foxx. Of course Sharkey knows that Covid Vac mandate for CPS students is a non-starter; his goal isn’t resumption of school attendance, nor even “teacher health safety”. Sharkey, Preckwinkle, and Foxx are unified force single-mindedly seeking to… Read more »

debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  Streeterville

Hundreds of wildlings, as they were colloquially called on the former Second City Cop blog, were apparently out in force all around the Loop on Saturday and Sunday night, fighting in the streets, attacking citizens, throwing things at police and causing general mayhem at and near the Bean. Very little coverage of these quality of life issues in the regular media, it was buried in twitter feeds monitoring the Chicago PD public scanners. As for Lightfoot vs. The Machine, I’ve got my bag of popcorn and I’m enjoying the show. It brings me such joy to watch progressives fight each… Read more »

BLS
4 years ago

Truly disgusting that we are now pushing this on kids. Experimental medical treatment and no one knows how it really works and how effective it really is. New stuff coming out all the time. ZERO long term data! NONE. That’s all you need to know.

nixit
4 years ago

Already making excuses to delay in-person learning in the Fall. Meanwhile…

https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/

Last edited 4 years ago by nixit
Get our kids in school and out of politics
4 years ago
Reply to  nixit

Please hope everyone can take a minute and write our state senators about HB2789. The Dems want to close private schools when public shut down because the CTU teachers are lazy and don’t want to be reminded other teachers can work for a living. They are making the kids pawns and the parents captive. This has to stop now. Sponsor is Kim Lightford – no surprise there.

Rick
4 years ago

We know the vaccine is ineffective, so why get it? The proof of a defective vaccine is the mandatory mask wearing even after you get the vaccine! There is no upside.

BB
4 years ago

Lightfoot- Stand up to the CTU Thugs!!!!! Enough

Fur
4 years ago

Forced inoculation of children with an unapproved vaccine is criminal. I will not comply.

The True Believer
4 years ago
Reply to  Fur

Good idea , give the CTU another reason to lay at home in bed and teach. You are truly an idiot.

Last edited 4 years ago by The True Believer
Aaron
4 years ago

Forced inoculation of an experimental vax is a violation of Nuremberg code, Nazi.

The True Believer
4 years ago
Reply to  Aaron

Why don’t you stop talking insane?

Aaron
4 years ago

Because someone needs to voice actual facts instead of what the commie Democraps want us to think. Feel free to cite from the Nuremberg code how I’m wrong. Here is an example of insane talk: men can be women, women can be men, Elizabeth warren is a Native American, 81 million Americans voted for Biden, PizzaGate is about pizza, government doesn’t squander money, whitey is the enemy of America, and on and on. All democrap talking points and total BS.

anna
4 years ago

Aaron is totally right: The law is Clear: experimental medical treatments CANNOT be mandated. In referring to the Nuremberg code which outlaws the use of unapproved drugs on humans for experimentation, this same code was also codified in the US Code of Federal Regulations. ANY COMPULSORY COVID-19 Injection IS A VIOLATION of FEDERAL LAW. This injection IS NOT FEDERALLY APPROVED. IT IS EXPERIMENTAL. This drug has been issued EUA: Emergency USE Authorization, which is NOT the same as FEDERALLY approved drugs. Further, Businesses and schools that try to mandate injections on employers or students will be met with lawsuits .… Read more »

Last edited 4 years ago by anna
George P. Burdell
4 years ago

Say all the kids get the vax…. Think CTU will really go back to teaching? No. The answer is no. This summer the loonies will push boosters for the “variants”. This will never end. Better get your kids registered in a private or charter school or have another year of this.

debtsor
4 years ago

I don’t care what happens in CPS. In fact, I hope they don’t return in the fall. The more unsupervised teenagers running around in the streets all day and night, the faster Chicago will collapse, as tourism fails to return and businesses stay closed. There were over 100 teens fighting last night at Chicago’s most popular free tourist attraction, the Bean. Does Lori have the political will to ask the cops to disburse these teens back home to their parents? or is that not equitably?

The True Believer
4 years ago

It’s time to destroy the CTU by any means available.

debtsor
4 years ago

While this is a laudable goal, the CTU has longevity and has been around much longer than you or I have been alive. The best we can do is starve the beast into irrelevancy hopefully over the course over a generation.

Rick
4 years ago
Reply to  Fur

Forced inoculation of anyone is criminal. CTU members are now on permanent semi-retirement. Teachers spend every waking moment at work dreaming of retirement, now they have it with full pay and benefits just to do a few crappy zoom classes a day. Lightfoot is a helpless child, and the goalpost will forever keep moving.

anna
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick

The goalposts keep moving but the law on this issue is not.
Kids who are mandated to get the injection and then get sick will be on solid legal ground to sue the school.
see americasfrontlinedoctors.org

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