It's like looking at life under a rock.
Posted on 09/16/2012 8:27:20 AM PDT by traumer
(Reuters) - Striking Chicago teachers fear that once they approve a new contract with the school district and end their strike, Mayor Rahm Emanuel will go ahead with dozens of school closings because of falling enrollment and poor academic performance.
The closing of schools and what happens to the teachers working in them has been a major issue in the bitter dispute, even though the disagreement over evaluating teachers based on standardized test results of their students has received more attention.
Urban school districts around the country are grappling with closing schools, including Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Washington, according to a study last year on school closings by the Pew Charitable Trust.
"If they fire us, we're done," said Rhonda McLeod, a special education teacher at Gresham Elementary and one of the union delegates expected to vote on Sunday whether to end the strike. "We're terrified. We don't need to be dumped to the wayside. We're not trash, we're teachers."
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Good, they should be concerned for their jobs, just like god damn everyone else.
If they would pass a law that they will enroll only kids who are U.S. citizens in their “schools”, they wouldn’t have this problem.
These are PRECISELY the schools that absolutely need to be closed. Where else do these Einsteins think their pay raises are going to come from?
Hey, CTU, “Be careful what you ask for, you might get it!” And now some of you will have to look for another job with Chicago Public School Teacher on your resume. Cue the haha kid.
No! No! Stay out on strike! Go crazy! Blame it all on a movie.....I don’t know.....TO SIR WITH LOVE?
So what do they propose? Just keep the student less school open so the teachers can collect a salary? Because in the normal world, when the business leaves, the employees don’t have a job in that place, but is free to move... wait, of course that is what they want!
If they would pass a law that they will enroll only kids who are U.S. citizens in their “schools”, they wouldn’t have a job.
You don’t need schools to speak ebonics.
It appears that they are going to close 120 schools and lay off a lot of teachers regardless and allow the principals of the remaining schools to rehire the laid-off teachers PRN and not based on seniority.
They are putting out the trash and the trash has every reason to be terrified, but I will believe it when I see it.
Why only 100k, why not 300k a year to fail the children as teachers as long as they are a government union?
So Chicago teachers have gotten to thinking of the unemployed as 'trash', apparently. This is playing the victim card way past beyond its range of applicability.
Welcome to the job market, ex-Chicago teachers. Considering how poor a job you have done as 'teachers', perhaps career changes are in order, also.
It's like looking at life under a rock.
The Feds. There will be school closings too but there will be a big big push for Fed funds. IMO this will be one of the key features of a second Obama admin. It will be Obamacare II but for schools. And anyone who tries to stand in the way will be demonized as waging a War on Children. The Pubbies will be like deer in the headlights.
If any city needed a voucher program it’s Chicago. $79,000 plus per teacher is very expensive child care.
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