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Chicago Teachers Union Demands Schools Close Monday Due To Weather
CBS Chicago ^

Posted on 01/05/2014 1:54:20 PM PST by matt04

The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding that CPS close all schools due to the extreme cold that is forecast for Monday.

“Right now, CPS and the City of Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management are sending confusing and mixed messages to the public about what to do,” said CTU President Karen GJ Lewis in a press release. “We believe common sense would dictate that CPS should close schools with at least 10 inches of snow already on the ground and a record-breaking low temperature of -10 degrees forecast for Monday.”

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Schools throughout the Chicago area have announced school closings for Monday, including Northwestern, DePaul and the University of Chicago. CTU says CPS should close Monday too.

“We expect nothing less when it comes to paying attention to the well-being of the children and teachers we serve,” Lewis said. “In light of the forecast, sending children to school in such dangerous weather conditions shouldn’t even be an option for parents.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; globalwarminghoax; teachers; teachersunions; unions
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Maybe have movie day and show "A Inconvenient Truth."
1 posted on 01/05/2014 1:54:21 PM PST by matt04
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To: matt04

Is it supposed to get warmer Tuesday in Chicago ?

What the point then...wooly up and get ta skol chillins !


2 posted on 01/05/2014 1:59:00 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: matt04

The schools should be closed. It would be ridiculous to send small children out (or even older children) with what we are facing here in Chicagoland, weather-wise on Monday. You won’t catch me going out, as I am older and not an idiot.


3 posted on 01/05/2014 2:00:04 PM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: matt04

I live in Richmond, VA. Just the threat of snow closes the schools! Then, everybody buys bread and milk. (only a small exaggeration)


4 posted on 01/05/2014 2:06:20 PM PST by kdot
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To: matt04

I guess asking politely is out of the question for a union?


5 posted on 01/05/2014 2:06:45 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: matt04

bttt


6 posted on 01/05/2014 2:09:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: matt04

Funny,
I’d like Chicago schools closed - permanently - because the teachers are IN that foul union.


7 posted on 01/05/2014 2:10:40 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: kdot
Then, everybody buys bread and milk.

One of modern life's funniest rituals !    d:^)

8 posted on 01/05/2014 2:11:52 PM PST by tomkat
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To: matt04
I live 28 miles from downtown Chicago. 15 mile from O'hare field. Weather Channel is calling for -16 at 7am, -17 at 8am, -18 at 9am. With windchills at -43 to -46. Though I delivered papers, when I was a kid, in temperatures like that
(in 3 feet of snow...both ways...in the middle of the summer...and I liked it),
It was my job and I was dressed for it (somewhat). We're talking 404,000 kids. A lot of those kids will be walking to school.

We're talking a lot of kids from "deprived" neighborhoods, where people don't have an ounce of common sense and need the government to come along and wipe their noses for them.

Its probably best to not have classes.

But should still have schools open, in case some don't get the word, or need a warm place to go.

9 posted on 01/05/2014 2:11:53 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: flaglady47

We just received an e-mail and a telephone call from the Naperville School District (203) that the District 203 schools would be closed on Monday, January 7, 2013. But then, it gets colder out here than by the lake.


10 posted on 01/05/2014 2:12:23 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: matt04

I suspect the schools would be closing anyway. The union is just grabbing a headline.


11 posted on 01/05/2014 2:13:51 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kdot

In the Lehigh Valley (PA), they’d sometimes close schools because of extreme cold and snow and the ski resorts nearby would be standing room only. What a joke!


12 posted on 01/05/2014 2:15:00 PM PST by randita
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To: flaglady47
as I am older and not an idiot.

You are correct.

We must remember the DEMOcratic DEMOgraphic of Chicago.

404,000 kids....with mostly idiots for parents.

13 posted on 01/05/2014 2:15:11 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: flaglady47

Bunch of wimps, when I went to grade school in Arlington
Heights we walked all the time, sometimes the snow
would be piled up on either side of the side walk to
where it looked like walking down a white hall way.
I remember having our Halloween parade around the play
ground in snow 3” deep.

Course things were different in “those” days.


14 posted on 01/05/2014 2:15:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: matt04

Why not? Kids will miss nothing worthwhile. Only BS is on the current agenda.


15 posted on 01/05/2014 2:15:46 PM PST by mulligan
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To: tomkat

Then, everybody buys bread and milk.

One of modern life’s funniest rituals ! d:^)


Here you go. Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU


16 posted on 01/05/2014 2:16:03 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: Da Coyote

17 posted on 01/05/2014 2:16:43 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: tomkat
One of modern life's funniest rituals !

My ritual is to buy my groceries a month's worth at a time and keep about a two week buffer. While everybody else is running around in a panic, I'm watching snow pile up on the truck.
18 posted on 01/05/2014 2:21:01 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Before cell phone cameras, a sign at the women’s restroom entrance at our Wal-Mart read “Closed due to plumming.” Thank God watermelons weren’t in season.


19 posted on 01/05/2014 2:21:10 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people's than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: matt04

It’s okay for the commie ‘RATS to demand a “shutdown”. Let the Republicans try it and their *** is grass.


20 posted on 01/05/2014 2:21:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you like your ObamaCare, you can keep your ObamaCare. I'll pass. PERIOD!)
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