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Elizabeth Warren calls for 'everyone in America' to support Chicago teachers strike
ABC News ^ | 10/22/19 | Meghan Keneally

Posted on 10/23/2019 1:20:17 AM PDT by Libloather

Sen. Elizabeth Warren lent her voice to teachers striking in Chicago on Tuesday, addressing a rally of teachers as they called for smaller class sizes and better pay.

"I’m here to stand for everyone one of the people who stand for our children every day. Everyone in America should support you in this strike, and the reason is when you go out to fight you don’t fight for yourselves: you fight for the children of this city and the children of this country," Warren said.

"The eyes of this nation are on you... for you to show how the power of standing together is the power of making real change in this country," the Democratic presidential candidate said.

Warren’s appearance in Chicago comes as the strike reaches its sixth day, and the third school day where teachers were not in classrooms.

"I believe in public education and I believe it is time in America to make a new investment in public education and I've got a plan for that," Warren said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; strike; teachers; warren
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To: Tax-chick

Just fire every damn one of them and shut the doors, then send the kids home.


21 posted on 10/23/2019 5:05:57 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Libloather

Anyone remember the Wisconsin protests in 2011? I bet this turns into the same thing.


22 posted on 10/23/2019 5:10:08 AM PDT by Snook79
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To: Dusty Road
School systems such as Chicago's are what they are because the general public is willing to pay absolutely any price - as long as they don't, personally, have to write a check - to keep the "free" daycare centers open.
23 posted on 10/23/2019 5:16:54 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Libloather

Public schrewls teaching sexual perversions, socialism and anti-Christian principles. Eff em.


24 posted on 10/23/2019 5:24:16 AM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I could fix this very quickly. Kill the union, give every teacher a 25% raise, and the teachers share costs for their health and retirement benefits. Give bonuses to teachers whose students excel.

This kills the politics and ensures teachers have skin in the game.


25 posted on 10/23/2019 5:26:18 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: Libloather; Impy; chicagolady; SERKIT; PhilCollins; seekthetruth

Early Chicago WLS am 890 talk host Mancow ripped her a deserved new one on todays 10/23 show. If you live in the midwest his show is a must listen to and offers a hope for change in Illinois and Chicago


26 posted on 10/23/2019 5:27:36 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting fobills are nr the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: Libloather

Before she was out bribing for votes, Warren was for charter schools. Democrats must forget we have video tapes.


27 posted on 10/23/2019 5:34:01 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: tflabo

Yes, I’m all for the strike. The less time students spend in Public School, the smarter they will be.


28 posted on 10/23/2019 5:34:33 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Steve Van Doorn

If they are looking for me to support any kind of a public worker’s strike, they better keep looking.


29 posted on 10/23/2019 5:52:13 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: mewzilla

Their so called public servant feel it’s owed to them. All of it.


30 posted on 10/23/2019 5:57:37 AM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: JayGalt

Chicago “educators” mainly abuse the children through crappy teaching and indoctrination. Someone living in that LIB hell hole should turn them in to the DFS. Their going on strike would be a plus for the children. Pathetic but expected.


31 posted on 10/23/2019 6:44:52 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reefucation Camp???)
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To: Libloather

How about we support the students, instead, and abolish teacher unions?


32 posted on 10/23/2019 6:54:32 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Libloather
The teachers unions:

- Contribute to liberal politicians,

- Refuse to provide students with a productive education,

- Use "class size" to expand the number of dues paying teachers and administrators.

- Use the schools to promote anti-American, Godless, socialism.

33 posted on 10/23/2019 7:07:47 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Nifster

Is their product improving???
Not by any standard you should see the California failure rate too.


34 posted on 10/23/2019 8:27:44 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Libloather

I’m glad I gave up teaching and went into the Army 45 years ago. I did not then and do not now believe that teachers should never ever go on strike.


35 posted on 10/23/2019 9:01:42 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Libloather

Reminds me of another memorable opinion - when Peter Strzok opined that Hillary Clinton “should win 100,000,000 – 0”


36 posted on 10/23/2019 9:14:18 AM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: Vaduz

It’s so awful.


37 posted on 10/23/2019 3:38:14 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mosesdapoet; Libloather; Impy; chicagolady; SERKIT; seekthetruth

On about Aug. 25, Mayor Lightfoot should have offered a 2% raise. If the teachers didn’t approve by Sept. 25, they should have been replaced by substitute teachers.


38 posted on 10/24/2019 5:42:19 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: rrrod

I went to a one room grade school.

14 kids
8 grades 1 teacher with 2 years of college.
NO UNION teachers
Local property owners were the school board.
They examined & approved all of our textbooks.

High school I had classes that consistently had 33-35 students.
ONE teacher—because WE ALL SPOKE ENGLISH
We were respectful of those teachers & the overall conditions.

The worst ‘bad ass’ kids in the high school had ‘ducktail haircuts’ & smoked. Maximum of problem.

Trucks in parking lot hd guns on racks in cabs during hunting season. NEVER a problem.

I will put MY education up against anything these kids are ‘learning’ today.

We also were taught REAL math-—Cursive writing—and hoe to cook & sew. Shop classes were productive.


39 posted on 10/24/2019 3:53:12 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: PhilCollins

Can she fire them? I don’t think she can.


40 posted on 10/26/2019 2:03:50 AM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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