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CPS classes canceled Wednesday after Chicago Teachers Union votes to refuse in-person schooling
CHICAGO TRIBUNE ^ | By TRACY SWARTZ, GREGORY PRATT, DAN PETRELLA and TATYANA TURNER

Posted on 01/05/2022 12:07:34 PM PST by nikos1121

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said Monday he’s “not going to give up” trying to reach an agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union that averts a districtwide move to remote learning amid a spike in city COVID-19 cases. “I visited six schools today, and our network chiefs were visiting schools across the city. And one of the things that we saw was just significant differences across schools,” Martinez told the Tribune before describing some schools that recorded low staff and student attendance and other schools with opposite experiences. “When I saw that today, it just, for me, confirmed that we need to have a solution that’s at the school level, where we can be nimble, where we can respond to what’s happening.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; chicagoteachers; chiraq; education; unions
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Will be interesting to see how Biden and company responds.
1 posted on 01/05/2022 12:07:34 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Pay us to sit at home. Or else.


2 posted on 01/05/2022 12:08:52 PM PST by servo1969
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To: nikos1121

Why does anyone stay in Chicago?


3 posted on 01/05/2022 12:10:20 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: nikos1121

They like sitting on their fat asses at home while getting a check. Tax payers should refuse to pay them.


4 posted on 01/05/2022 12:11:19 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: nikos1121

Perfect experiment.....

The teachers are afraid. I’ll assume that all, if not most, are vaccinated. So, make the offer......Kids do it remotely. Teachers have to report to their school and teach their classes from their classroom.

Be interesting to see how they would react to that.

If it’s about safety, they should fear nothing with that setup.

But, they’ll protest against that because they want to get paid, while at home, wearing their pajamas.


5 posted on 01/05/2022 12:12:27 PM PST by qaz123
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Teaching schrool?


6 posted on 01/05/2022 12:13:33 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: nikos1121

Chicago schoolteachers are some of the highest paid in the US with a generous retirement package that exceeds the salaries of most that are working.


7 posted on 01/05/2022 12:13:40 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: WKUHilltopper

Pay them ZERO.


8 posted on 01/05/2022 12:13:49 PM PST by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: nikos1121

If they’re all vaccinated, what’s the problem ???????????????


9 posted on 01/05/2022 12:14:28 PM PST by Mopp4 ("It is a cruel world, Herr Hauptman. You said it yourself.")
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To: servo1969

How does that differ from “teachers go on strike?”
“Workplace rules” in all union contracts are agreed to by the employer.

So they don’t “feel like” following them. Violation of contract.


10 posted on 01/05/2022 12:14:35 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: vetvetdoug

About the 100 million federal dollars paid to make the schools safe to teach in?

90% of the teachers are vaccinated.


11 posted on 01/05/2022 12:15:07 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: qaz123

Isn’t that how it’s going to be done? You think the teachers are going to be teaching from home?

The vote, I hear, was overwhelming.


12 posted on 01/05/2022 12:16:18 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Teachers have got a taste of working from home and will need to be dragged back to school kicking and screaming.


13 posted on 01/05/2022 12:17:14 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: qaz123

RE: they want to get paid, while at home, wearing their pajamas.
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All those Karens at home looking casual.

Can you imagine Congress doing that, too?
Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Rashida Tlaib and even Jerry Nadler BEFORE their makeup is on?


14 posted on 01/05/2022 12:17:45 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nikos1121

The CTU and the NHS have a lot in common...


15 posted on 01/05/2022 12:18:42 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: nikos1121

They should give them 1 day to decide to come back and then fire them. All. Replace them with people who want to work. There are plenty of those people still out there.


16 posted on 01/05/2022 12:19:11 PM PST by NicoDon
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Too bad Chicago doesn’t have a mayor.


17 posted on 01/05/2022 12:20:31 PM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: frank ballenger

I was born in Chitown.

I have never, even going back to older Daly, seen the City NOT giving in to the unions.

AS a result, pay increases for bus drivers, police, teachers etc. keep going up up up.

The unions NEVER lose these disputes, because I don’t recall a mayor forcing the issue with a threat to sue them for breech of contract.

So, now you have this mayor saying this action is illegal, and she will take action.

She won’t.


18 posted on 01/05/2022 12:20:51 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: qaz123

I forgot where, but that was discussed back in 2020. Set up a camera in each class room, teachers live stream their lessons and can get full use of any needed classroom items to teach. They refused saying it was too dangerous, even with a mask on as other teachers would be in the building.

I’m willing to bet some are so scared they will teach remote from FL.


19 posted on 01/05/2022 12:22:06 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Why does anyone stay in Chicago?

To get paid for not working?


20 posted on 01/05/2022 12:23:08 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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