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.”
SPLC and highly publicly-subsidized colleges have elevated legal sophistry to a highly profitable art, winning millions in Hate Speech litigation and fostering a Kafkaesque framework for determination of what is Hate Speech. I am suggesting that others emulate their successful strategies.
–If only to neutralize some of their power: rulings in favor of free speech will disarm their self-determined (Free Speech when they say it, Hate Speech when You say it) attacks on Free Speech Rights.
I once had a rock collection that had mica.
Practical reaction to Hate Speech (inciting violence) such as this is civil litigation; SPLC uses this to win millions for SPLC admin personal benefit. Illinois among other States have Parental Responsibility Laws which bring civil liability to parents of babies on college campuses. Litigate against parents of coddled free-ride babies attending University, as well as the babies themselves who will have collectible assets now or in the future. IRS outlines disclusion conditions which may strip tax-exempt status from non-profit organizations like Universities. Hate Speech tolerance/encouragement may arguably be just such an exclusion factor. LITIGATE against these hateful, violence-incenting students/professors/University Admins.… Read more »
Susan, usually enjoy your posts, they’re always well put and thought out, but please, knock off the “Hate Speech” crap. In this country, we have Freedom of Speech. Thankfully and I cherish it.
My point is: force the Hate Speech profiteers into the position of defending Free Speech, in court. With their own money at stake.
Susan, there is something basic you seem not to understand. You can’t litigate against hate speech because it is protected by the First Amendment, as it should be. Only if the speech rises to incitement of eminent violence is it not protected.
Eminent or Imminent violence?
A climate scientist is a professor at the Art Institute? Intellectually and morally bankrupt.
“Dr. Mika Tosca, a climate scientist…”
LOL – like Jesse Kelly says, why do all the various leftwing groups all share the same values? It’s because they are all fingers on the fist of communism: climate nutjobs, anti-israel hatred, BLM, progressives, it’s all the same thing. The ultimate goal is communism, to destroy. It’s all one in the same.
Why the apology? Tosca meant what was said.
Fire her.
Him
Her? Him? Which?