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 only choice offered to medical professionals is to leave Illinois, if they are overwhelmed with burdens of: …forced servitude to new clients taking slots when old clients couldn’t even get slots, …net reimbursements below breakeven cost of doing business (other professions have little concept of the uncertainty of payment for services and the obligatory costs of unknown forward-going malpractice premiums), …clients blaming the medical professional for inability to obtain appointments within reasonable time frames. Pritzker, Illinois medical professionals hear you! They know they are considered deplorable by you! Be happy, you are successfully chasing them all away! (Of course… Read more »
You, deplorable, must pay $25,000 per year for your family of 4, with a $5,000 deductible.
But your illegal immigrant neighbors? They get socialized medicine for free, paid for by the tax payer.
Will the illegal immigrant ever get off the state medicaid plan? Probably not!
Will the republicans ever get off there asses and start demanding changes instead of just sitting by idle. I cannot stomach this state any longer, and yes I can move but at a cost.
Yes, this continuing, awful news we hear about what’s going on in IL continues to irritate us IL residents. I speak often of an IL resident’s threshold of pain. From what I read about COVID money drying up and what wonderful things IL has planned for us in the relatively near future, I think many of us will be crossing that threshold and scooting.
Imagine how cool it would be not to be hit over the head every day with awful IL news. We’d feel so much more at ease, content, etc. Like many IL residents, I have things keeping me in-state, but I continue to approach my threshold of pain.
Myql, I often imagine that. It’s very sad. Had you asked me when I was young what I would be writing about now, I would have imagined it would be about what next steps forward we could take in whole new, bright world in which we had progressed in most every way. Even more recently when the Berlin Wall came down I thought the world would be on a new path to prosperity and freedom. Instead, we’ve degenerated, having to defend the most fundamental values of Western civilization that took centuries to win.
Yes, Mark, things seem to be unraveling at a significantly greater rate than in previous decades. I think that feeling is more prevalent in IL than most states. As I grow older and have less years left, I’d rather not be continually inundated with the news of poor policy decisions and the results thereof. It seems my moving out of state may be more a case of when, not if. I see no light at the end of the tunnel in IL until, perhaps, after many years.
In my opinion the speed at which everything seems to be unraveling has its roots in modern technology especially the internet and devices like the cell phone/computers. In an instant most everyone in the world can communicate with each other on whatever comes to mind good and bad. It’s like instant gratification but with words not actions. When we switched from analog to digital the speed of our eventual downfall accelerated at breakneck speeds. The worst part is if we were to go back to our roots of communication before the internet chaos would ensue but if we don’t even… Read more »
No Comprende Ingles!!! Do I now qualify for the free stuff?