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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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Remember, they’re Educators, not teachers. Educators have a noticeable spring in their step and a hand in some child’s pants.
It is a mistake to argue with teachers unions about what constitutes “correct” history.
The argument is that they have no right to make the determination. It should not matter what they think. Again, they are paid employees, nothing more.
Arguing their interpretation of history is a concession to them. It gives the false impression that they should in any way control what is taught.
Truth about Chicago’s history? Let’s start with Chicago’s long history of political corruption at city, county, and state levels, then pivot to long history of municipal worker unions essentially controlling city, county, and state politicians, dictating governmental laws, policies and programs that ultimately both bankrupt city and increase assessed taxes, fees, and fines to unsustainable degree of taxation on its middle-class population?
Ah I see, the teachers want to teach honest American history. So I guess they will have several chapters on the Democratic party going back before Lincoln and into the 60’s. As that party opposed Abolition; proceeded to segregate the south for another 100 years after the civil war and incubated the KKK. Get on those lesson plans CTU, there is a lot to cover.
Why are parents and children being bullied by the teachers unions when the union arbitrarily decides to teach their version of History and they decide what the curriculum will be?
Fire them all. Start from scratch.
Lori.
Fire them and start over! It cannot be much worse than now!
Hopefully they will be all out og jobs in next couple years as citizens with any sanity leaveChicago in droves!
Still waiting for the 1st CTU teacher shot by a student at a school where they turned down It PD! It’s going to happen!
They know everything will be tolerated by Lori, no need to worry about their job.
This implies that, up until this moment, CPS teachers have been lying to their students.
Teachers don’t seem to understand that they work for the people who pay their salaries, the community members who pay taxes. They are employees. They are paid to teach, not to dictate what is to be taught.
If you hire a painter to paint your home, he applies the paint that you choose. He does not tell you what color to paint your rooms.
Taxpayers have contracted for teacher services, not to be dictated to by teachers.
Parents who see this crap and continue to send their kid to school there are bad parents. Ultimately a parent is responsible for their kids education, regardless of externals like this.
Not everyone can just ‘pick & choose’ where to send their kid to school, so no, that is not the case at all.
you can in CO
These bullies are drunk with their own apparent power. That power derives from the ability to disrupt multitudes PLUS the history of caving in to their demands. Draw a line in the sand and lock-it-up until they capitulate. This will only work if the district cuts salary and benefits to zero and stands strong for as long as it takes. The teachers haven’t worked for about 18 months so another 6, 12 or 18 months of inept attempts to teach apathetic students isn’t going to do as much harm as implementing their demands. Each capitulation simply emboldens and entrenches them.
They won’t be denied telling your kids how much they hate them and an opportunity to get them to hate themselves.
Guilt shaming on steroids from majority white $six-figure-socialist$ ctu. What’s ctu going to do, who are they going to blame, in the next couple days when cps enrollment drops like a rock, especially amongst poor kids of color who they claim to champion @ +$27,000 per student/per yr?
No one is objecting to teaching a candid version of America’s history, warts and all. I never got the impression from my own education in the 80’s and 90’s that anyone was trying to embellish slavery, Jim Crow, or the plight of anyone who was oppressed in prior times. I was keenly aware of it, but I was also aware of the continued positive push for righting wrongs. It made me trust that most people want equality, and they actively support it. The objection is against teaching innocent white kids that they are “oppressors” because of the color of their… Read more »
now thats one solid comment right there, spot on.
“No one is objecting to teaching a candid version of America’s history, warts and all.” I object. Who gets to decide what is a wart? who gets to decide what warts are important and which ones are not? Marxist teachers in CPS? And furthermore, what other country on earth, other than Germany, teaches its students the ‘warts’ of its history? Does China teach about its warts? Does Japan teach about its warts? Does Iran or north korea or even England teach about its ‘warts’? We should be teaching that America is great, and downplaying our ‘warts’ and our faults which… Read more »
+1 this comment. The fact that we made some fake holiday called Juneteenth as statewide holiday in Illinois has never made sense to me. Slavery was always illegal in Northwest Territory states. Apologize for nothing.
I mostly agree with you. There are many days where I have this “scorched earth” feeling of exactly what you said, which is to “never give them an inch…” Because every time we concede a point in the interest of compromise, they get self righteous. My use of “warts” was meant to say that we should not downplay what happened. Personally, I think that more discussion of things is generally good. Yes, context is hugely important, and I think that is what is lost in the modern discussion of slavery and things that are a part of America’s past, as… Read more »
Well said! Bravo!
Fire them all. Would give the non-selective enrollment students a chance to be taught by someone who scored higher than 18 on the ACT…
shameful