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Teachers will distribute know-your-rights flyers starting this week, stage walk-ins and organize teams to monitor the area around schools. CPS did not immediately respond to questions about whether the school district is working on a remote learning plan.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The CTU should be told to sit down and to STFU! Their days of being involved with policy should be over.
Who cares. The outcome is the same. Poor teaching and results regardless of the method. Students have to be focused and involved to learn in a remote environment. Covid proved that only a small percentage of students have the drive, involvement and home supervision needed for it to work. Teach in school or remotely, CPS students will test poorly and be “processed” through. The only open item about this move is whether the teacher brings any value to a remote class…or, frankly even knows how to teach remotely. Guess we will need to spend a few hundred million on training… Read more »
No work no pay.
They would be working so they would be getting paid. It’s the students that would have the option of online learning. Looks like many here fail at reading comprehension. You are not at grade level Poor Taxpayer.
We saw how well that worked out during covid. NO!
The more SDG talks, the more she sounds like Kamala Harris. Speaks in word soup!
They love to talk about a “dictator “ in office, but, no one elected these clowns to call the shots. But, they believe they are in charge of everything. Blow up the system- it’s broke beyond repair.
So know public school teachers are political pawns handing out political information ? Also , if student is not in class no federal funds for that day.
This whole s**t show is a nightmare. It’s time for the CTU to go
Because they want to offer another learning option for kids that won’t show up to school? Should we ban schools from offering remote learning options during snow days? Would that be a total shit show? Should we ban corporations that offer employees the option to work from home if they are unable to show up to the office?
There are many things to be upset about when it comes to the CTU but this seems silly to get worked up for something like this.
I have a teacher friend who taught in the Miami Dade County public school system during covid. About 20% of her students just dropped off the grid with many never returning to in person schooling once restrictions were lifted. THe CTU cannot teach in person, even less so online.
Stacey doesn’t trust her kids going to the public schools. Putzger doesn’t trust his kids with the public schools. What has the CTU done in the last 5 years besides getting raises make me think they care about the kids. ZILCH .
You sound like a CTU member.
The last straw. Disband the CTU, negate their negotiating powers and begin hiring non- aligned teachers. If teachers don’t come in to work, let them go for abandoning their jobs. Now is the time.
Do you realize how difficult it would be to operate a high school with less than 6 assistant principals? Who’ll handout the free computers for remote learning?
Teachers would still come to work. It’s the students that would have the option for remote learning.
Also, you don’t get to disband a union or hire only non-aligned teachers. What make believe world are you living in?
Remote learning worked so well for the teachers they desire to play it again. Who can forget Sarah Chambers’, a member of the CTU executive board, poolside photo in the Caribbeans discussing her seafood meal plans during the last remote learning fiasco? The situation worked out so well for the teachers so it is no surprise that they clamor for it again. As for the children, once again, the teachers careth naught.
Well, yes, that’s one way to look at it. But, please think about the commitment—or lack of it—that signals how much their “customers” (parents and their children) care about the whole process as well while you’re at it. Without faithful and continuing daily active participation by either group the process is essentially a wasted effort, isn’t it?
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Point well taken. Something related I was recently discussing with one of my children who is in a non-teaching role within the education system. He said, condensed of course, “Dad how can the teachers be expected to teach the children to read and write when the parents themselves can’t read and write?” So, to fill in with your comment, the parents didn’t care when they were younger so why should they care now about their own children? I am not qualified to know how to rectify the situation but do recognize a lot of the complex problem that you pointed… Read more »
Pretty amazing that the children of slaves could learn to read and write when someone taught them even though their parents were illiterate. And that India had only 12% literacy rate at independence in 1947 but now has over 74%. How on earth was that accomplished when the parents couldn’t read?
You are confusing “reading at grade level” with literacy. Where is your evidence that children of slaves had higher literacy rates than public school children of today? Just another one of your lies motivated by your hatred of teachers and schools.
You are right, reading at grade level is not exactly equivalent to literacy. That would be a better point if the problems with reading at grade level didn’t start in 3rd grade.
My guess is the parents may have cared in the limited amount of slave children that learned to read and write
Maybe true. But the original point was that teachers couldn’t teach children to read if the parents were themselves unable to read.
It’s a fact that children of illiterates have been taught to read throughout history. The intentions of the parents is much more ambiguous.
I believe if you reread my post you will note that it carried an assumption, possibly incorrect, by me that the parents didn’t care when they were younger so why would they care about their own children. To me that is a very big part of the problem…not caring.
I agree that not caring is a problem. But your assumption that these parents didn’t care enough to learn to read when they were younger carries a huge implication.
The kids not learning today will be the parents of the next generation of kids who don’t learn to read. Ad infinitum until somebody figures out a way to teach these kids. Or should we continue to graduate kids who can’t read and blame the parents for the problem?
Personally I’m against the idea of free education for anyone who clearly isn’t invested in using it purposefully. That’s not to say I think “one size fits all.” Clearly people have numerous similarities, but what’s also true is they are unique in many ways as well. We need as a society to encourage where we can and reduce the urge for pounding people to be like products on an assembly line which are 99.9% the same as a result. If a kid is not an active participant we need to use a different pathway at public expense or bid him… Read more »
You bring up an interesting point namely should the special ed children be mainstreamed with the overall student population. Mainstreaming, if I understand it correctly, amounts to a “one size fits all” that some say works and others say doesn’t. I personally tend to be in the latter group feeling that many students are being held back by those with special needs in the classroom assembly line as you put it. Many do not agree with me on this. Another interesting point is your reference to the student that that refuses to be an active participant. Its my understanding that… Read more »
It’s a great campaign slogan, but the reality is that even with specialists and tutors and additional expenses such children are “left behind” all the time in every aspect of their lives. Any teacher facing the usual 25-or-more students in every class period can’t primarily teach to the worst nor best student there without essentially losing the rest big-time. Slogans are easy to sell but don’t necessarily reflect reality.
Interesting. We could do more like some Europeans, and integrate a more “vocational” track of schooling, so instead of trying to get every 9th grader to care about Beowulf, we have a track leading to advanced welding, machine tooling CAD/CAM/ 3D printing tech, construction, auto maintenance courses by the end of normal school.
Chicago’s better suburbs won’t think of their children in the ways you advocate. Nope, they want to hope their children will be upper stratus even if teachers grades say otherwise. What do those dolts know anyway, right?
Teachers grades say otherwise? They hand out A’s like candy these days.
Sure, the worker happiness odds are against any teacher who can’t produce winners— or at least give the impression of same. “You can handle the truth” mean anything to you?
I can’t handle the truth? The truth is grade inflation, widely reported. And the only way many of these students graduate and get accepted to college is the deceptive grading practices of the education system. Your idea of a “track” system like we had when you and I were in school is a good one, and has been proven effective. Despite rumors to the contrary, I don’t hate teachers. I only wish they would start advocating for change instead of defending the status quo. It amazes me that teachers don’t seem to recognize that aligning themselves with the demand for… Read more »
First, the comment I made wasn’t directed at you; it was directed toward helicoptering parents who cause all kinds of grief if any school feedback doesn’t reflect the unappreciated genius they raised. So, what do the school employees do in such cases? Most times they do what retail businesses do with customers in similar situations so as not to let the problem fester and lose business—placate. Eventually any teacher who thinks an average grade ought to be a C learns how not to face such inquisitions, raise the average grade to show that Lake Wobegone’s children really are all geniuses… Read more »
Not a mystery. It’s the universal solution to every problem in the schools- it’s the parent’s fault. I must be a slow learner, since it’s the same answer every single time.
Read that as “can’t” instead of can.
Happened in my downstate district too. Construction classes were eliminated but we do have new classes in things like violin.
As with most statistics, the 41% chronic absentee rate is deceiving.
Common sense would dictate that chronic absenteeism would be higher among older kids, and that does seem to be the case. AI tells me than in 2024 66% of CPS 12th graders were chronically absent. As expected, absentee rates are lowest in the primary grades. And yet 3rd graders do not read at grade level..
It doesn’t appear that the teachers are asking to work remote, only that students be given an option. They are asking for a remote learning option not a remote teaching option. Not defending remote learning as a viable solution but this request is no where near the same as the lockdowns. “As for the children, once again, the teachers careth naught.” If they didn’t care at all they would just go about teaching their day and not worry about the kids not showing up to class. While remote learning isn’t ideal it can easily be argued than it’s better than… Read more »
I had a college Professor that did just that. One very nice spring day I was the only student that showed up for class. She did her usual lecture that I interrupted once and asked her why she was going on when no one was there. She informed me that she was paid to lecture and she was lecturing. Incidentally I got an A despite having a B average. Later on I ran into her once and she told me she bumped my grade cause I showed up that one day and that’s how I got an A in College… Read more »
Sometimes 99% of success is just showing up. Good for you.
This cannot be for real.
The theatre kids stage a resistance. This is great comedy.
I hope it’s caught on film when a CTU dork resists a federal agent.
Right. Lazy a$$ CTU parasitic bovines working from home while gorging on Cheetos and mountain dew. That’s the dream life if you are a member of the CTU terrorist cabal.