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.”
I’d take Mexican Independence Day celebrations over BLM (Burn, Loot, and Mayham). The businesses may lose a night of business, but at least they still have a business in the morning.
This is called a ‘straw man’ argument. The are more than two choices. There is a third choice and that is neither.
If Trump was president, he would send ICE vans to round up illegals en masse
A friend’s bar business downtown was down 75% on a nice Friday evening. So that’s supposed to be a good thing?
And yet Saturday’s Chicago Trib headline honors these weekend-long enormous car-caravan traffic disruptions as important “cultural heritage” celebrations, worthy of everyone’s respect and accommodation.
It’s not a permit-authorized parade down The Loop’s State Street.
It’s major inconvenience for all downtown and Near North residents and businesses.
It’s cause of disrupted ambulance, fire and police services.
It’s unfortunate huge traffic jam for all us other Chicago residents, not even mentioning the revelers’ car horn and motor noise, the auto exhaust and dope smell, and the littering.
Another example of sad-sack Chicago.
Agree completely. The Mexican / Hispanic spokespeople they trot out say it is just people peacefully celebrating whatever. The restaurants and businesses say they just lost major business on the best night of the weekend because the cops had to shutdown car access because all all the uncontrolled mayhem. Johnson fails businesses again. Funny the Mexicans celebrate independence so vociferously for a country they ran away from because they themselves voted for soft on crime and corrupt politicians over the last 50 years. They will run away from sad-sack Chicago after they are done destroying it too.
If you import people from the 3rd world, you become the 3rd world. This is cultural diversity in action! What do you mean you don’t love it?