All the kids need to do is recite from the little red book.
Posted on 02/08/2017 6:51:08 AM PST by TigerClaws
CHICAGO — Intense rhetoric between Chicago democrats and Illinois’ republican governor is nothing new, but some parents are upset it is now being played out in a letter sent home with their kids. Chicago Public Schools officials sent home a letter with all 381,000 students blasting Gov. Bruce Rauner and ignoring any role democrats may have played in the state’s budget woes.
The “Dear Parents” letter begins by stating “Governor Bruce Rauner, just like President Trump, has decided to attack those who need the most help.” Twice the letter accuses Gov. Rauner of “cheating” children. Once it says the governor “stole” from kids. The letter goes on to cite Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool’s often repeated claim that the governor broke a promise by blocking Chicago from receiving $215 million for city schools.
One CPS parent who contacted WGN wrote: “This is so inappropriate. How can he send political propaganda home?” The letter, paid for by taxpayers, does not mention democrats who have been in control of the city and state legislature for decades.
Government watchdog groups questioned the district’s decision to use such strong partisan language in a letter sent home with kids. “Invoking partisan politics – especially at the national level – is not the most effective way to build trust with parents and students,” said Sarah Brune of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform.
Gov. Rauner’s office released a letter of its own Tuesday. Illinois Secretary of Education Beth Purvis wrote: “Rather than cutting services and creating a crisis to help justify a campaign to raise taxes in Springfield, it would be helpful to everyone if CPS would work with all parties to enact a balanced budget package that includes comprehensive pension reform and a new and equitable school funding formula.”
Here is the letter sent home with students, which was provided to WGN by a parent on Facebook:
Also cuts down Trump on page 2 of the letter.
Shouldn’t they be sending home homework?
Heard yesterday (on Fox radio of all places) vouchers defined as “where tax dollars are used to fund private schools.”
It’s THEIR money, not yours.
Most of the money is burned by school districts on do-nothing jobs for the various cogs in the union machine.
We spend a ton and get poor results. Introduce competition. Shut down the schools that can’t cut it or let someone else run them.
MAGA!
Another leftist bastion funded by massive debt and our fiat currency, courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
Democrats are always Democrats first.
Teaching children?
That’s way down on their list.
If it was intended to influence those currently in the CPS and those previously educated in the the CPS they better have written something at the 4th grade reading level.
Everything on the left is politicized...there is NO other side...the Marxist have almost taken over....it is up to the parents to fight back for their children....
In other words, unless the governor supports turning the education spending spigot on full blast to pay for exorbitant teacher salaries and benefits, he is “attacking” and “cheating” children.
Half of the people that received the letter cannot read it anyway. I wonder if it was in English, Spanish and Ebonics.
Isn’t it illegal for school administrators to write politically charged letters to voters?
Look on the bright side - CPS may have just lit the fire that will their downfall.
All the kids need to do is recite from the little red book.
It’s Chicago. There are no laws.
Message is: “Your kids aren’t being educated by us, but it’s Trump’s fault.”
Check out the Town Hall article from the last few days - The Left Hates You.
Sums it up nicely - they think we are evil and they are justified doing anything against us - punching, lying, macing, and God knows what’s next!
IIRC, CPS is the most expensive school district in the entire country.
All the kids need to do is recite from the little red book.
I suppose the $50,000 spent on copies couldnt of been used for educating any of the children.......
Ha!
Mao, of course, wrote the actual “Little Red Book” for communists ... and members of the Obama administration.
FIRE SOMEONE
Completely inappropriate letter sent home with students. Those responsible should be fired, but, I'm not holding my breath.
In the case of Illinois,it looks to me like they had all those years with Democrat governors creating problems (& in some cases going to prison) & then getting a Republican governor so he could be saddled with the problems they’d created.
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