Posted on 09/08/2022 10:48:50 AM PDT by simpson96
Mike Flannery of Fox 32 said when he posed questions to the Chicago Teachers Union about empty schools described in a recent Wirepoints article, a union official cursed at the group.
Flannery recently interviewed Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski and mentioned that somebody from the union verbally expressed disdain for the organization.
"When I mentioned your group Mr. Dabrowski, Wirepoints.Org, a person who speaks for the union said, on the record, I could say their response was f*** Wirepoints…and they didn’t use ‘f’, they used the full word and we do look forward to hearing from defenders of the system,” Flannery said.
In its report, Wirepoints stated that “Teachers union power politics, weak administrations, and absent political leadership have left Chicago Public Schools with a glaring and intractable problem: increasingly empty, failing schools." It also mentioned that out "Of CPS’ 478 stand-alone 'traditional' or non-charter, non-contract schools, one third of them, 150, are less than half-full, according to CPS.” The most empty schools, according to Wirepoints, are those that are barely 5% to 25% full and have poor educational performance on a statewide level. Despite the poor attendance figures, the Chicago Teachers Union has justified keeping the schools open.
“It’s why taxpayers should demand real school choice in the form of vouchers," Wirepoints reported. "Take Manley High School. It’s a glaring example of just how far CPS and CTU are willing to go. The school’s capacity? 1,296 students. The number of students now? Just 64 – 4.9% of available seats. Douglas High School? Capacity 888. Seats filled? 44. Uplift High School has a capacity of 720 seats but only 55, or 7.6 percent, are filled. The list goes on.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagocitywire.com ...
Bingo.
Teachers Unions do not care about Teachers.
Teachers Unions do not care about Children.
Teachers Unions do not care about Education.
The only care about Big Brother. They love Big Brother. That's all they know.
The teachers union has basically said the same thing to students and their parents.
The collusion between the teachers union and the CDC said the same thing
The collusion between the teachers union and the Justice Department said the same thing, calling parental resistance, urban and 'domestic terrorists'.
The union is looking out for itself, and NOT education !
school choice is the answer
a black conservative leader should make it a primary issue and put the black vote in play
Kim Klacick would fit that role perfectly. She’s the young woman who ran for Congress in Baltimore. Her ads were great.
Chicago’s racism against black students is fully apparent in what its elites have done to the Chicago Schools:
Wirepoints stated that “Teachers union power politics, weak administrations, and absent political leadership have left Chicago Public Schools with a glaring and intractable problem:
increasingly empty, failing schools.” It also mentioned that out “Of CPS’ 478 stand-alone ‘traditional’ or non-charter, non-contract schools, one third of them, 150, are less than half-full, according to CPS.” The most empty schools, according to Wirepoints, are those that are barely 5% to 25% full and have poor educational performance on a statewide level. Despite the poor attendance figures, the Chicago Teachers Union has justified keeping the schools open.
“It’s why taxpayers should demand real school choice in the form of vouchers,” Wirepoints reported. “Take Manley High School. It’s a glaring example of just how far CPS and CTU are willing to go. The school’s capacity? 1,296 students:
The number of students now? Just 64 or 4.9% of available seats.
Douglas High School? Capacity 888. Seats filled? 44.
Uplift High School has a capacity of 720 seats but only 55, or 7.6 percent, are filled. The list goes on.”
Teachers Unions do not care about Teachers.
Teachers Unions do not care about Children.
Teachers Unions do not care about Education.
They only care about Big Brother. They love Big Brother. That’s all they know.
Thanks for posting this reality, which is not really breaking news about our wretched public schools in AmeriKa!
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These days: The AFT MAXIMIZING remote learning quote, “I did not become a teacher to die from COVID!”
Perhaps on this point forward all statements from any union representative (not necessarily member — the parasites in charge) ought to be immediately discounted as a pack of lies until proven otherwise.
And, why waste your time listening to known lies?
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