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 teachers 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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Is there a more whiney, helpless, overpaid, useless, troublesome group of democrats than the teachers unions..unless it’s all the other democrat public unions.
I don’t think online schools would work...they need PARENTS who care
You are so right.
They’ve already got a program in place to reduce class size.
How many killed last weekend?
But they will.
Not only do they get 3 squares a day - but on Fridays, the ‘students” get back packs loaded with food to take home for the weekends.
Comparing test results by teacher is not the way. Some teach academically gifted kids; some teach average ability kids, etc.
Comparing the progress of students during a given year with each student's progress in prior years is a way. What computers do best is crunch huge quantities of numbers. Think if the students in Teacher A'a class made on averate 0.7 year's progress while those same students the previous year made 1.1 year's progress and the year before that they made 1.0 year's progress. That data would give valuable information about which teachers are actually having students learn and which are not.
When deficient teachers are exposed, they could get help with improving or be pushed to find another career.
Anyone getting a raise needs to pass at least a 4th grade spelling test and be able to read and write cursive.
300k obamy kids legally skipping school and hanging out on street corners selling drugs.
breakfast, lunch, and supper,
Indeed it works that way for California,I know a 3rd grade teacher that makes $135,000 a year and still wants more greed and lazy go hand in hand.
What are the parents spending their foodstamp money on?
“How about demanding positive teaching results and actually demanding teachers are not ignorant dimwits? Half of them cant even form a coherent sentence.”
BTTT !!!
No one really cares as far as white liberals go, any bleating from them will be the usual shrieks about conservatives so their fellow democratic voters don’t give them the stink eye. Of course no one bothers to ask the POCs stuck in that system what they think of white liberals, that is not who we are.
Cool. That makes it easier to steal everything out of the computer lab, the science lab, the band hall, the gym and every other unsupervised room.
They deserve charter schools and home schooling.
If Trump really wanted to fundamentally change America he could do one simple thing which is in his power: ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION and send the money to the States, or better yet, the local Counties.
Yeah - their students deserve parents who do some parenting and teachers who are more concerned with teaching instead of telling them they “deserve” all this other crap.
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