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.”
Sick and Twisted Bastards
Sounds like a grunge band. And for our first song-Transgender Boogie.
The Pritzkers are one screwed up family. Seriously, they are a jar of mixed nuts.
It is being misdirected, as a typical Pritzkeresque tactic, away from the primary issue (how to get public money steered to private interests) to being a ‘social justice’ issue. The point isn’t child welfare, the point is: should society be forced to pay for fulfilling some one individuals’ heart’s desire? Everyone has heart’s desires. Achieving many still must be self-funded. Achieving a few, which can be monetized by Pritzkereques, can become ‘rights’ and thus force-funded by society. What is the defining feature of sexual identity which distinguishes it from any other self-identity (like being rich or an astronaut or thin… Read more »
Dear Deity – that pic of “Jennifer”…!!! “A motivating and driving force behind the Pritzkers’ family-wide commitment to SSI has been J.B.’s cousin Jennifer (born James) Pritzker—a retired lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard and the father of three children. In 2013, around the time gender ideology reached the level of mainstream American culture, Jennifer Pritzker [pictured, right] announced a transition to womanhood…”