CPS, CTU ‘having better conversations’ about reopening but need an agreement ASAP, union says – Chicago Sun-Times*

“What you have to understand is that you can’t run the schools without the people who work in the schools, and right now, individual educators are looking at the situation and saying, ‘I’m being told to choose between my life and my livelihood,’” union president Jesse Sharkey said. “And as this continues, it’s not a way to build trust with the public or build trust with educators. It’s going to get worse, not better.”
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Heyjude
3 years ago

Does Mr. Sharkey understand that people have been working throughout the pandemic? That teachers can buy gas for their protest caravans and fly off to Puerto Rico because others are not sitting around whining about “choosing their life or their livelihood”? What a bunch of drama queens!

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