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.”
You know you’re a fraud when the school you call racist and fascist is the school where you pay for your kid to get in
My parents sent me to a Catholic grammar school and a Catholic high school. The teachers were paid less than the public school teachers but I believe my teachers were more dedicated, strict, and caring. (I am not Catholic but a nondenominational Christian.)
For those parents who have the ability and schedule, homeschooling can also be an option.
If she was smart she would send her son to a private school OUT OF STATE. The first thing any student should be taught is how to get out of Illinois and better their lives.
PT,
Stacy needs to send her kids to Chinatown because she thinks skin color will improve educational their outcomes.
SDG is a filthy race clown liar and hypocrite, in a cheap shitty wig
Nothing new under the sun here. Public school teachers and administrators send their kids to private schools at a rate significantly higher than the public.
What do they know that us lesser mortals dont?
So do many elected officials who take money from the teachers unions.
Please don’t criticize her, 40% of CTU members also send their kids to private schools.
What I found remarkable about her reasons for sending her child to private school was that it was very compelling. Like most parents, she cares about her son and revealed – likely unwittingly – the downsides of sending a young black male into a non-selective Chicago public high school. And I hope the kid succeeds, including at soccer. Her comments make the case for school choice in a really persuasive way. Of course, it matters not to her that she has castigated others as racist for advocating for school choice. Her choice and comments go beyond hypocrisy, though. Brandon Johnson… Read more »
From Lewis to Sharkey to Gates the fake sudo-socialist/progressive shtick, where you claim to be “it’s all about the kids” while extracting highest $$compensated$$ big city teachers in nation bucks from taxpayers worked like a charm, the $bucks & bennies$ just keep coming and coming!!! If your any other public sec union you got to be jealous as heck. With president CTU/Stacy now exposed as just another phony, where’s mine hypocrite, the BIG question if your a rank & file CTU is…. will this make any difference when Stacy sits down w their own CTU/Brandon next year for even more… Read more »