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Under the potential plan, students would be assigned to spaces with kids of the same age group and an adult who will supervise the children but won’t be an educator who could help with learning.
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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.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Hold on just one minute here…
It’s the “teachers job” to baby sit the kids. CTU members haven’t done any legitimate teaching in years.
And you would know about all that how? I may be wrong, but I’ll presume you are at least solidly middle class, probably college educated and likely to live in an area of similar families, income levels and values—maybe as urban resident. If that describes you your values are very different from the majority of students and families served by CPS teachers. For a student to be “educated” to your sense of the word his extended family, his best friends and he all have to see some practical reason for going through the effort of doing it. Typically they don’t… Read more »
This is how CPS is going to justify keeping SEIU workers on the payroll. The optics of having lower-paid SEIU workers onsite while the higher-paid CTU teachers stay home will be interesting.