Posted on 01/27/2021 8:20:23 AM PST by rktman
The Chicago Teachers Union continues to stage a standoff with City Hall after the union voted to reject in-person learning on Monday. The Board of Education had required K-8 teachers to return to schools so they could be prepared for a return to in-person learning on Feb. 1. But because the CTU didn't comply, the city has announced a delay to the teachers' start date to Wednesday in order "to resolve our discussions without risking disruption to student learning.”
Chicago Public Schools explained how remote learning is putting strains on students, both in terms of their education and finances. The delay, they explain, has been most detrimental to minority communities.
“Students in over 130 private and parochial schools and over 2,000 early learning centers across the city have been safely learning in their classrooms since the fall, and we must provide that same option to our families who, through no fault of their own, have been unable to make remote learning work for their children,” Chicago Public Schools said. “We’ve seen grades, attendance, and enrollment drop significantly for many of our students in recent months, and the impact has been felt most by our Black and Latinx students.”
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Fire and police unions should demand that they be treated as well as the teachers, and be allowed to work remotely from home.
/S, hopefully not needed, but in these degenerate times, you never can tell.
..... Gee ..... How did we not see this comming ....Especially since Dr. Jill Biden is a Teacher’s Union activist .....
A friend of my nephews is a teacher at an American Indian boarding school in Oregon. He teaches high school advanced math. He has not been to school since last March, but still draws a full salary. I presume he is online teaching, but don’t know.
Don’t pay these lazy assed teachers one more cent for making parents work, try to find sitters and also teach their kids when they are dead tired!
Why to you think teachers have so much time to stay up and protest at night? Teachers are Antifa members. Over half arrested in Oregon are teachers. And they don’t lose their jobs for arson and looting!
The Chicago Public School Teachers have no plans to return to the In Person Classroom until September 2021.
The Teachers Union runs the City of Chicago - what they say is law.
“...be allowed to work remotely from home.”
They are, it’s called defunding so they can’t be paid, are laid off, so they are looking for a job on the web.
wy69
I meant “work from home and get paid” because they are essential employees like the teachers.
Try fighting a fire from your desk. Not effective.
Neither is the teachers’ refusal to go to the schools.
It used to be that unions pretended to work. The Chicago teachers aren’t even pretending.
On the bright side, every day a kid is not in school is another day when he or she might escape constant exposure to propaganda, bullying, and stultifying boredom. Schools haven’t changed in 100 years. It’s way past time for some progress and innovation, but that won’t happen as long as government has a stranglehold on education.
How about “DEFUND THE NEA!”. Works for me.
Send the kiddos to school. The ey don’t care if the teacher is not there.
I’m sure all the kid’s mommies voted for Biden, so shad up.
WUT? In chiraq? 😂 As usual they want it both ways.
This is a great time to push for Homeschooling and to show parents what their money actually goes to-a bunch of overpaid, lazy leftists. Every parent should be screaming for lower taxes at the next school board meeting, but most of them probably don’t pay federal taxes to begin with.
Homeschooling will probably be banned. Religious reasons? Probably not.
Of course there have been no major school shootings since they closed the schools...what are the ‘false flaggers’ going to do?
They can try, but if enough people resist, having footage of kids being forcibly removed from the homes won’t go down well to most Americans.
“How about “DEFUND THE NEA!”. Works for me.”
That was tried by Trump last year. The U.S House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee strongly rejected President Trump’s fourth consecutive annual budget request to eliminate both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) by instead appropriating $170 million in funding for each for fiscal year FY 2021! This represents an increase for both agencies of $7.75 million each over the current FY 2020 funding level of $162.25 million.
At this rate, soon they will be able to make a bust of everyone in the US after we die.
wy69
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