Posted on 06/30/2025 9:32:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) president Stacy Davis Gates recently said that “all children belong to” the union.
Seriously. For real.
According to the Daily Caller, Gates trashed President Trump for diminishing the power of teachers’ unions during a recent City Club Chicago event, going so far as to characterize Trump’s education agenda as a “re-litigation” of the Civil War. All while complaining about the failing state of Chicago schools.
Gates told the crowd, “The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe.” Gates then mocked parents who might disagree by saying “CTU thinks your children are its children.” She added, “Yes, we do. We do.”
No, they aren’t. They aren’t, Gates.
That view is the opposite of reality. Parents are in charge of their kids. And they pay you clowns to teach them well and respect them. Nothing less. You no more own other peoples’ kids than you own other peoples’ homes, cars, or spouses.
And what the hell is “re-litigating the Civil War” supposed to mean? Might I remind Gates that the Republican Party was founded in large part to oppose slavery, and northern states (the Union) fought to banish it. By contrast, Democrats of the 1800s thought they owned their slaves, just like Gates and her ilk think they own your kids today.
The failing state of Chicago schools is not hard to fathom. “Liberal” policies virtually guarantee that outcome. (See also: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, etc.) Too many of today’s teachers just want to have sex with kids.
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This is how communists think. Yes, they are coming for your children.
What is it going to take for people to take their kids out of government run schools?
They certainly don’t think they belong to the parents.
Do they get to vote in the union elections? This might get interesting....
I AM MORE GRATEFUL EACH & EVERY DAY THAT I WENT TO A ONE ROOM SCHOOL-—NO UNIONS.
HIGH SCHOOL WAS STAFFED WITH VERY GOOD TEACHERS—NO UNIONS.
Not that I rexpect much from Republicans but this would be the perfect time to renew the call for school vouchers and tax cuts for parents who home school their kids or send them to private schools.
Parents can send the bills for their children to union members to quickly show the union doesn’t own any of the children.
Well, that’s all good but...market forces help.
Look up Mackenzie Price and Alpha Schools. She’s in Austin.
Bit pricey at the moment but the basic idea is cheap and effective.
Teachers will become almost irrelevant.
Unless the parents rise up, this person is correct, Chicago’s children belong to the union.
Typical commie union thug thinking. That’s why unions suck. Then and now. They think all worker bees belong to them.
Another angry, urban black woman heard from.
The most ‘educators’/(indoctrinators) have is ‘in loco parentis’ power: ‘in place of the parents’.
They are mistakenly arrogant if they think they have replaced parents. They are employees.
I was educated mostly by nuns and brothers, and they had a union — sort of.
Wow. That Zoltan guy sure has emboldened his fellow Communists to show their true colors.
All children...except hers
So? Does the school tax also belong to them too?
Where in Chicago do I send my children’s medical bills and when will Chicago pay for their student loans.
That’s because the LGBTQ____ pushers can’t reproduce; they have to recruit. Thanks to teacher unions who “own” the kids.
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