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.”
Ah, the great social-levelling process at play. Same “woke” OPRF parents howl with anger when their children can’t gain admission to UoI Champaign-Urbana, or UW-Madison. Without Honors classes, without AP classes and test-cores, admissions process becomes problematic, and kids must settle for Northern, or DePaul, or Loyola 2nd and 3rd-tier schools. No bragging rights there. Many self-identifying “white-privileged” children will observe their POC classmates attain “Ivy League” prestige school admissions, often despite middling grades and scores. Many liberal OPRF parents, themselves product of elite colleges, slowly realize their children probably won’t gain admission to their favored “elite” schools. OPRF board… Read more »
Ironically, woke OPRF families are forced to send their kids to state flagships these days, often out of state, because the private universities have gone off the rails. They have a better chance of being admitted to the state flagship than the selective second tier schools that have chosen to flush their reputations down the toilet with wokeness. For your examples, DePaul and Loyola are nearly half affirmative action admit and while Depaul is 55% women, Loyola is over 66% female. The more prestigious the private school, the more woke the admissions standards . Little Johnny most likely isn’t going… Read more »
In recent years, white male B+/A- HS grads from our upscale suburbs are often shut-out of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and even Iowa flagship admissions. The 2nd-tier Midwest liberal-arts colleges will still take them, even Grinnell if full-pay. Loyola and DePaul will also reliably take them. A C+ white male upscale suburban HS grad has bigger problems. Northwestern and UoChicago no longer accept the B+ upper-middle class high-achiever Chicago suburban kid, without a big AA “hook”, except for Northwestern, as “big sport” player, or unless they’re a high-level “connected applicant”. And yes, high-level “connections” absolutely still buy admissions to both these… Read more »
Loyola and DePaul will reliably take the B+/A- white male but fewer and fewer are even attending these schools. Loyola is 2/3rds women! Yes they have a nursing college which probably skews this a bit but even Depaul is 55% female. They also seem to focus on the LGBTGP+ crowd, which is not what a normie straight white male is interested in. Thing were very different decades ago when I went to college, when I grew up during a smaller cohort of college bound students and colleges were less selective. I had the opportunity to attend U of C but… Read more »
It’s a race to the bottom for so many public schools. Don’t reward success. give everyone a medal. You are teaching these students to be mediocre performers for the rest of their lives.
This school has 26 AP courses and kids are going to Ivy League schools all over the country.
When all you see is race, you are truly and willfully blind
How dare that there are students willing to do the work to exceed and get a little recognition.
Parents need to get kids out of the public school system and send them to private or home school if possible. Take out a loan if possible. Higher education comes with a cost and so should public K-12. If parents cannot afford K-12 private (which is more than 1/2 the cost of public) how will they afford college?
To promote consistent equity policies, OPRF HS should allow all of its students to play on its football team.
Naturally punish the successful for the ones that are not. That’s the Illinois way to generate a population of undereducated individuals that only know one thing and thats how to vote for the Democrats on election day
My local high school district did this too, very quietly, they started with Honors English and now they’ve moved onto math now. This year they also prohibited freshman from taking AP classes. All in the name of ‘equity’ of course.
AP courses have become a farce. Schools encourage students to take who should not, so that school can boast x% are taking AP.