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.”
Because “pretending” is always a fun game for kids. Cowboy, Model, Astronaut. The costume is essential.
The entire Pritzker empire is shady. That family has been suing each other over billions for decades, and they’re off the charts in terms of strange behavior. Is it any wonder they decide to make gender bending their main agenda item, and aiming it at CHILDREN! This should be called out at the highest level and stopped. Frankly I don’t care what consenting adults do, though there is plenty of evidence they often don’t achieve happiness once they transition. Many often transition back! But when you target children, you cross a line. The program at Luries went radio silent when… Read more »
JB’s father died when he was 7 of a heart attack at age 50. Ten years later, his alcoholic mother killed herself in San Fransicko in 1982 by jumping out of the cab of a tow truck as it was towing her disabled vehicle, and she was run over. This of course has been sanitized on dickipedia as “a car accident” but it was suicide. The man was raised by nannies and distant relatives and strangers, many of whom I’m sure did bad, bad things to him, because his mother was an absent and drunk and twice divorced tragic figure.… Read more »