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The complaint asserts the curriculum and training programs create a hostile educational work and learning environment directed at white people. In the complaint and other supporting filed documents, Deemar has asserted District 65’s anti-racism programs and curriculum remind her and others at the school that they are white, “on a daily basis,” while at the same time assigning “exclusively negative characteristics to whiteness, such as racism, oppression, and evil.”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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But the judges are now corrupted in our state.
So we know the answer.
They claim there’s a teacher shortage yet they continue to alienate a significant portion of that talent pool.
Yeah, about 3/4 of the state that isn’t on the whacko left.
I suspect that most private-sector management folks with experience in dealing with hostile work environment issues will tell you that the list of things that government agencies and the courts have found to be a “hostile work environment” is very, very long. If you’re in an EEOC or IDES dispute that turns on how sympathetic one of these agencies is going to be toward an employee’s claim that they’re justified in feeling threatened or intimidated at work, you had better have your ducks in a row. Even so, still be prepared to loose. The private sector long ago learned that… Read more »
I’ve not worked in companies or the public sector. I do know that large companies have the advice of skilled labor lawyers and that their “orientation materials, policy and training” are under constant scrutiny and revision to conform to state & federal laws and that companies are fairly vigilant in disciplining major offenders of those laws. They are also fairly skilled at building and/or sanitizing files that can enhance their positions in litigation. Egregious violations are frequently settled with non-disclosure clauses. Public employer violations generally draw higher scrutiny due to open meetings laws and more coverage in the press —… Read more »
Yep, well said and exactly correct.
Your observations regarding how this sort of thing plays out in public employment are of a kind with what my wife and I have concluded when we compare our public-employee and private sector work experiences.
If this situation was reversed, if this schools administration was attempting to push the opposite ideas, it would be loudly quashed, and rightly so…!
The injection of politics into specifically education & LE has been an utter disaster…
The lefts term *stay in your lane* is a great description of what needs to happen here…
Schools – teach reading, writing, math, science & history absent any political messaging or virtue signaling…
LE – enforce the laws equally, without regard to race, gender, age, religion or political affiliation…
Would love to see an experiment where one state has no white people remaining? Would it survive? For how long? Perhaps one day Illinois will answer that question for us all.
Not a state,but Gary Indiana,Ford Heights,Robbins Il. for starters.
Take a look at Nigeria and the oil industry does not help much for the average person.
http://counterspill.org/article/nigerias-oil-brief-history
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/business-news/520849-number-of-poor-people-in-nigeria-to-reach-95-million-in-2022-world-bank.html
You can add Detroit to your list too.
Hope this divisive racism ends soon. It has been going on for a while.
I don’t know what’s so hard about this. Judge individuals individually. Strive to be colorblind. Anything else is racist.
That’s the problem Mark. It’s no longer good enough to treat people as equals. In fact, colorblindness is now considered racist.
What has happened in Evanston is a tragedy. In the 70’s, Evanston’s track coach and later athletic director, Willie May, a silver medalist in the 1960 Rome Olympics, was an exemplary man and leader who truly believed in treating people of all races both equally and well. Not only his athletes, but athletes from competing schools (and the Central Suburban League was largely white) had so much respect for him we collectively would have run through walls for him. He did more for integration than an army of apparatchiks.
All white people are racist,just for being white,remember the president says white supremacy is this countries biggest threat,not Putin with a itchy nuclear trigger finger,inflation, getting shot in Chicago
This will be a fascinating case to watch. Seems to me that any white employee or student in schools as obsessed with woke racialism as Evanston’s has a valid complaint about hostile environment.
Yes but it’s a crap shoot in court. You get a R judge who thinks woke creates a hostile work environment, or you get a D judge that believes the opposite. Biden has been putting entirely unqualified progressives on the bench now, it’s only a matter of time before complaining about wokeness is the same as racism itself and therefore a fire-able offense. The judiciary was the last bulwark against the cancer of wokism but even that is now crumbling. It’s not long before judges and courts decide that antiracism is part of the common law.