Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
The city better get busy getting a lot ready to erect the St Dexter Reed statue.
Reed’s a martyr because they want to live in a society without police. ‘a society without police???’ you say, that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard! Well that’s kind of the way it use to be in most societies throughout history, where justice was private. The Anglo-Saxons had wergild where if you killed someone, you could pay a fine demanded by the family and it would all go away. And if you couldn’t pay the fine…well, they’d just kill you back. And that’s quite frankly the justice system the African-American community wants to return to.
Reed was awaiting trial for a previous firearms charge when he was stopped. Reed fired first and shot something like 17 rounds at police before police were able to stop him. It also looks like Reed got about 20G from the Paycheck Protection Programs for his “transportation” business. I wonder what he was transporting. Reed is not exactly citizen of the week material.