[telstar12.5]

Good, they should be concerned for their jobs, just like god damn everyone else.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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.

[Menehune56]

...falling enrollment and poor academic performance....

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?

[NonValueAdded]

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.

[blueunicorn6]

No! No! Stay out on strike! Go crazy! Blame it all on a movie.....I don’t know.....TO SIR WITH LOVE?

[autumnraine]

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!

[Beowulf9]

You don’t need schools to speak ebonics.

[Uncle Chip]

"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."

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.

[MaxMax]

Things were so much easier when it was all about race. Now they've gone and complicated
everything and made it about money. No,, wait.

[A CA Guy]

Why only 100k, why not 300k a year to fail the children as teachers as long as they are a government union?

[Post Toasties]

"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."

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.

[martin_fierro]

It's like looking at life under a rock.