Chicago Teachers Union Demands 30 Percent Pay Raise

Heritage Foundation ^ | June 12, 2012 at 3:00 pm | Lindsey Burke

[Sopater]

For a moment there, I thought you wanted all of them turned into pillars of salt...

I'm good with that.

[kara37]

I was pulled out of public school in the third grade for the same reason. My mother went to meet the teacher, and I was enrolled in private school the next day. That was also in the 70s

I remember my mother telling the Principal that she had a hard enough time making sure that I spoke correct English, and I sure didn't need a teacher that speaks it worse than a 4 year old.

I come from a long line of English teachers, and my mother is still quick to correct me.

[Milton Miteybad]

Hey...Chicago teachez...I got yer 30% raise hangin’ right heah. Come get it. ;-)

[Logical me]

That vote gives the union the ability to walk out of public school classrooms as children return to school this fall

Who cares. They are not teaching much of anything except acting like organized gangsters. Those not back in the classroom don't get paid.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Fire them all and replace them - it shouldn’t be too hard to find qualified teachers if you do not insist on a degree in “Education”.

The ones "insisting" are the lawmakers who are in the union's pocket. The taxpayers make no such insistence - but since when have their opinions mattered?

[Wurlitzer]

Come on folks, they deserve the raise. Have you ever tried to teach ebonics to a bunch of thugs who have no interest in learning? /sarc

How much will the 30% increase pension costs?

Anyone need more proof these communist union teachers (redundant) are doing their best to insure the Cloward & Piven strategy to collapse the system so “Fearless Reader” can fully implement his Marxist regime?

[Tex-Con-Man]

I suspect they will avert a “disastrous” strike by “settling” for the actual percentage raise they wanted in the first place. Negotiate...start high...

[dznutz]

Close the public schools let the children run wild in the streets, it can’t get any worse there as it is.

The schools are giant, government run daycare centers. They babysit for Mama while she is off getting her "hair did" and nails manicured. They feed the students breakfast, and lunch. After dismissal, they are running wild in the streets anyway. The high schools even have daycare set up inside the building for the babies of STUDENTS. The government is taking over the job of the parenting the children, and the real parents don't mind, as long as their purple visa "LINK" card gets charged up at the beginning of the month.

[Buckeye McFrog]

sort of like how when they had that doctors strike in Israel and the mortality rate went down...

[nascarnation]

Year round day care too.

We can’t let the poor kids starve in the summer.
http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/1716
I used the locator function and got 202 location just in the county where Indianapolis is located.

(don’t we pay the families to feed these little b@stards with WIC and EBT also?

[nascarnation]

Year round day care too.

We can’t let the poor kids starve in the summer.
http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/1716
I used the locator function and got 202 locations just in the county where Indianapolis is located.

(don’t we pay the families to feed these little b@stards with WIC and EBT also?)

[americas.best.days...]

your response is so quaint, i almost began to cry.

this is CHICAGO public schools. take a look at the’parents’
or more likely grandmother, and you’ll probably reconsider.

i wish it could be so,though.

go teachers union,go. DO IT!! the more traditionally
‘democrat’ institutions p*ss off the voter, the better, in the long run. disillusionment can cause one to look elsewhere.

[dznutz]

I think it is about time to hit the reset button.

[Altura Ct.]

Hell, I say give it to them and for that matter a $100,000 bonus to all.

[Chode]

[spawn44]

15% are good readers. I say fire all the teachers and just by books for the kids. Hell, they could do better than that on their own.

[laweeks]

There’s no way to stop this crap. The teachers’ union in cahoots with the criminal school administration have the public screwel systems pretty much destroyed. 14% proficiency?

Parents can’t help. Most inner city homes have only one parent, probably an unmarried woman who’s either on welfare and watches Springer/Maury all day, or she’s working somewhere desperately trying to feed a family that some male bastard(s) walked away from.

And then these morally corrupt teachers’ union thugs get in their fancy cars after school each day, drive home to their suburban homes, and work no more than 8 months of the year.

Disgusting. Out of control. Criminal.

[laweeks]

. . . and I'm not making this up, she said."I teaches English".

Wha' be wrong wi' dat? She larns' ar' choodren, don' she?

[laweeks]

just by books for the kids

just buy books for the kids (must be having public screwel flash backs!)

[laweeks]

I was told (in California) that I needed a degree in “Education” in order to teach High School.

I live in the Cleveland area and couldn't even get an interview with the Cleveland Public Screwels. Why?

1) I am "white."
2) I don't have an Education degree . . . just a Bachelor's Degree in History and Social Studies.
3) My 23 years of teaching at a family owned vocational school didn't mean squat either.

That same year, the Cleveland School system went to overseas to hire hundreds of Indian teachers, brought them over here, housed them, and today, there's not one left in the system between being beat up, robbed, raped, etc., within the schools themselves.

But . . . can't hire that "white" guy from the suburbs who doesn't have that "Education" degree.