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.”
No sympathies. For two generations, they donated to colleges that spread hate, division and anti-gentile and anti-asian racism, while demanding that a special, favorable category for ‘israel supporter’ be carved out just for them. And now, like Casablanca, they are “shocked!” that 40 years of funding anti-white hatred has not exempted them from the ‘colonizer’ label. Like, sorry rich pronoun liberal, what did you expect? Did you really think that decades of anti-white indoctrination at college would not ultimately consume you too? These rich donors fed and reared the very system of hate that is now uncaged and looking to… Read more »
It isn’t only elite universities. It’s educational institutions from kindergarten to post graduate programs. Young people have been indoctrinated against the values on which this nation was founded.
I wish people could see what’s happening to our most important institutions, but many don’t. They believe we are the ones making a to-do about nothing. Sometimes, I question my own thinking on these issues. These past two weeks have been a real eye-opener for my very liberal Jewish friends and I’m beginning to feel hopeful now that they too are paying attention.