Posted on 10/17/2019 7:59:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike on Thursday as 27,000 educators began picketing near schools at 6:30 a.m. The strike leaves 300,000 students unsure of when they will return to school.
The union listed thirteen demands on its website, which include salary raises for all school employees, smaller class sizes, and hiring more support staff such as teacher’s assistants.
“Our students deserve smaller class sizes. They deserve nurses. They deserve social workers. They deserve bilingual educators,” special
education teacher Linda Perales told CNN
School social worker Emily Penn said teachers face a continuing struggle to work in neighborhoods with socio-economic difficulties.
“Our students suffer from trauma. They suffer from so many things they need help coping with,” Penn commented, adding that some students even face the threat of death “by suicide and by guns. This is a fact in Chicago.”
75 percent of Chicago students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and many depend on schools to provide meals. Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Janice Jackson said schools will remain open during the strike to provide “breakfast, lunch, and supper,” but that school buses will not be running.
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700,000 a year and 2 students sounds fair.
Sounds like what these students “deserve” are PARENTS!!!
If people in Chicago decided to home school the city would be taxing them for doing so.
How about demanding positive teaching results and actually demanding teachers are not ignorant dimwits? Half of them can’t even form a coherent sentence.
“schools will remain open during the strike to provide “breakfast, lunch, and supper,” but that school buses will not be running”
So throw the children to the wolves as they run the ghetto gauntlet to get the “free” food. Liberals always sacrifice the young on the altar of politics.
How about we just replace them with weasels?
“Our students suffer from trauma. They suffer from so many things they need help coping with,”
How about turning off TV and social media? Replace them with reading literary classics or being introduced to music and art and the outdoors and other such activities.
Maybe teachers’ pay should be according to how well their students do academically. Ever since the Department of Education was established in 1979 and the teacher unions became a controlling factor, the American educational system has been in a free-fall. Check it out. It is a matter of record.
tie the pay to the academic success of the student.
This is beyond pathetic.
Chicago teachers , how should I say, are tragic. With those unteachable kids, Chicago teachers have become sort of mob organization that every other two years blackmail Chicago residents for more money
At the core, it’s liberalism
Headed for online schools.
…..large government school districts are corrupt and have become so anti American that they should be closed and restructured.
In Texas, we have “Independent School Districts” by the hundreds. They are usually geographically defined by towns and cities. “Control” therefore of each school rests in local elected school boards with some being very small. LARGE urban school organizations/districts are CORRUPT and should be disbanded. I hope Trump get’s around to this and closing the NEA permanently.
This is tough. Isn’t the city of Chicago broke, and the school district broke?
I guess we aren’t supposed to ask about student achievement or educational outcomes, in deciding whether teachers and others deserve a raise, even if the money for raises can be found. Some subjects are verboten.
300,000 divided by 27,000 = 11.11 students per “educator”. D’oh, the humanity...
Maybe they should invest in a few food trucks .
How would academic success be measured?
Higher pay for teachers isn’t a bad idea... as long as better teachers replace the current ones.
“schools will remain open during the strike to provide “breakfast, lunch, and supper..“
Words fail me.
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