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.”
It is fair to question whether State-sponsored services can or will be rendered objectively by Jew-hating American KlanNazis. Will medical professionals be able to render objective care to patients who are not willing to hate Jews, if the medical professionals’ fealty is pledged to Hamas? This is an argument fresh in all minds today, as Caucasian policemen are assumed, by evidence of skin color, to be a threat to those without similar paint jobs who have dealings with police. Medical care has similar powers of life&death, and ability to restrict a body’s liberty. Medical care is rationed by the State,… Read more »