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.”
Hmm, if importing the 3rd world by the millions is the way forward we’ll all be rich.
A short drive through the back of the yards, little village, new city, highwood or round lake is a sad picture of an impoverished, third world barrio looking future. The interviewee fails to mention that previous generations *built* the neighborhoods they now live in, and they’ve been poor stewards, at best, and try to make their new neighborhoods feel like the old country. They’ll still remitting money home because America is not their home, Mexico is their home, they are economic migrants milking the US economy for free health care, they pay no income tax, they have no car insurance,… Read more »