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.”
“This creates another challenge for our public schools who are already struggling to recruit good teachers in the midst of a statewide teacher shortage.”
How can we have a teacher shortage when I keep hearing how lucrative it is to be a teacher. I personally would not want to do that job but many people on this site talk about how the teachers are so greedy and barely work I would think they may want to apply.
I think many people would want to be teachers, unfortunately most of the public schools are not into teaching anymore, but progressive indoctrination. To be a teacher you need to jump through a number of certification hoops that are totally useless and a time waste. Then when you are a teacher you don’t even have any control over your curriculum, it’s all progressive doctrine. Best to home school or find an acceptable private school.
Student/teacher ratios have never been lower than they are today. Previous generations of teachers wish they had it as good.
Curious! Are private school teachers in Illinois required to “Opt” out of SS and Med when they get a job for the public school system? The years working for private schools are calculated toward SS and Med so why transfer 2 years of those benefits and possibly lose SS if they have to opt out. Answer seems that the pension will be much larger that SS. What if they go back to private schools a few years later. Do they then lose the pension? If they are not required to opt out do they pay into SS and Med? Does… Read more »
This is odd. For two years of pensionable teaching credit, a transferring teacher will have paid 2 years of SS/Med AND pensions. Does this teacher forfeit 2 years of private school service credit towards Social Security, even though they paid into it? It can’t be both.
I think a law was passed or may be still on the governor’s desk to allow private school teachers who switch to the public schools to buy-in up to two years of credit toward the public pension systems for teachers, that amount to include any money normally paid by the local school district as well as the usual teacher contribution. I don’t know that its true that such a newbie would automatically “lose” his two years of contribution credits in the Social Security System; perhaps that’s the case, but I doubt it. Even so, presuming he/she stays for a reasonably… Read more »