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.”
I’m glad to see people charged. Will they suffer any consequences for their actions?
I’m shocked and appalled they have time for such shenanigans stuffing mailboxes full of political advertising. I got one yesterday as big as a table! Asswholes!
Postal employees and teachers can always be found when defrauding the American tax payer is discovered.
Correlation and causation are not the same thing. You happened to mention two very large governmental work groups, and one might reasonably suggest the large numbers of employees there has a lot to do with whatever truth there is in your statement. Having more people in a particular type of employment brings the likelihood of finding more offenders or presumed offenders for nearly any crime you’d like to mention.
What do you expect James. These people think working for 34 years and then collecting a pension is fraud. Sad and pathetic how they try to steal from retirees.
Ha ha ha ha. Give me a break. We work for 35 years to pay for your retirement AND our retirement. If you were a teacher, you worked for 20 years and got paid for 35. (Summer off). Also, teachers teach BS. Ice free by 2020 was the chorus in the 90’s.
We think that fraud is collecting a pension paid for by those who can only dream of such largesse, while also having failed in the core mission of teaching. Sad and pathetic how they try to act as if they somehow deserve this taxpayer largesse, while having destroyed the education system. Aren’t we all tired of hearing that teachers were devoted employees who worked diligently and earned their meager pensions? Sorry, not buying it any more. “But but but we couldn’t help it, it’s not our fault, but keep paying us” seems to be the mantra now that it’s become… Read more »
Clearly you should have been a teacher. Its such a plush job without stress of any kind and so well paid. Why didn’t you do that? You must be stupid!
Why do teachers assume that the fact that not everyone is a teacher proves that their job is so much more difficult than anyone else’s?
Or maybe it’s true that anyone who isn’t a teacher is stupid. That seems to be the general viewpoint of teachers.
Sure, we all know that the “general viewpoint” has to be the right viewpoint. There are a ton of agreeeing points of view on this website. They must all be right, or maybe one stupid agreeing with another stupido doesn’t make the resulting agreement all that much smarter. Sh; don’t let that possibility get around. It may spoil the collective hubris.