"Nothing illustrates the perversity of the 'equity' agenda and its hostility toward the exceptional and exemplary quite like progressive officials’ efforts to cut overachievers down to size for the imagined benefit of everyone else. Chicago’s chief social engineer, Mayor Brandon Johnson, is only the latest to join that crusade." 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.”
Reminder: Communism is when ugly deformed freaks make it illegal to be normal then rob kill all successful people out of petty resentment and cruelty. The ideology is all just window dressing.
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Marxism is the race to the lowest common denominator.
“Equity” is a race to the bottom-percentile of achievement, not a race to the top.
Where is a will there is a way.
When I was in HS in Champaign they did not offer calculus.
My Dad came to me and told me I was going to graduate early which I did. Then I enrolled at the University of Illinois and took calculus, physics, Intro to Engineering, etc.
From the article: “When it comes to crime prevention, illegal immigration, and a half dozen other hot-button issues, Chicago’s voters have proven themselves pigheadedly committed to a set of near-suicidal public policies. But the city is now drafting those voters’ kids into a grand experiment that is more likely than not to imperil their prospects for future success. Will the city simply absorb this latest assault on the social compact, all in the name of equity? We will soon find out…” Frankly, I’m not sanguine that many will challenge this “new normal”… the voters are overwhelmingly a bunch of uninformed/disengaged… Read more »
There is an interesting take on the voters, ” Joes & Sallys of Cook & the Collars” that you mention on a guest article over at John Kass’ website. Its defiantly worth a read here:
https://johnkassnews.com/there-are-no-victims-of-the-system/
As to the students I think you are spot on and the parents apparently could care less. Humans are not equal in all abilities and I can not understand why parents want all students equally unsuccessful but I guess the Joe’s and Sally’s of Chicago could really care less.
Dan left out his own participation in the grift! LOL Folks might actually get somewhere if people like Dan weren’t leading them into the gutter of despair. Look up how to lose and argument and do some reading. Eventually, you’ll discover the argumentum ad baculum, one of Dan’s preferred tools, and you will be enlightened.
He’s not wrong though \o/