Posted on 11/30/2024 5:29:09 PM PST by george76
‘Why is it that all we hear from CTU is demands for more, but we never hear anything from the union about what its members owe the taxpayers (and parents) of this city,’ city newspaper asks
Chicago public school teachers continue to demand high raises – despite 41 percent of them being deemed “chronically absent” from work.
The Chicago Tribune editorial board recently criticized the Chicago Teachers Union, which continues to negotiate for a new contract. Initial versions had demanded free abortions, transgender surgeries, and even weight loss drugs.
State records show 41 percent missed 10 or more days of work during the 2023-24 school year, the Tribune reported. (This does not include summers and other generous paid days off, as the Tribune noted).
The demands would cost $10 billion in the next four years
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“So it’s fair to ask as CTU continues to make outrageous demands of city and state taxpayers, what exactly are Chicagoans getting for the $30,000-per-student they are currently paying, the highest per-student investment in Illinois,” the board wrote. “Why is it that all we hear from CTU is demands for more, but we never hear anything from the union about what its members owe the taxpayers (and parents) of this city?”
The newspaper acknowledged the school district serves many low-income students. It has done a good job of encouraging students to be in the classroom and not skip school.
“As most of us have experienced in our lives at some point, a great teacher can make a monumentally positive difference in a child’s future,” the board wrote. “But to have that opportunity, teachers need to be present.”
“And in Chicago showing up is the least we should expect from our very well-compensated public-school educators,” the editorial board wrote.
The problem does not personally afflict union president Stacey Gates, who sends her son to a private school.
Gates has previously pushed back against criticism of the union’s lavish demands by blaming it on conservative racism.
The city of Chicago is almost, if not entirely, run by Democrats. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is a defund the police supporter and teachers union organizer.
“Conservatives don’t even want black children to be able to read,” she told local radio station WBBM in June.
She also claimed there is an “oath” conservatives take that includes opposing educating racial minorities.
No wonder the kids sit around all day poking cell phones and pondering their genitals.
She also claimed there is an “oath” conservatives take that includes opposing educating racial minorities.
Oh, the secret oath, how do they know about that?
Honey child, that was the democrats.
I've noticed quite a few teachers are beyond morbidly obese.
Years ago teacher absences and substitutes became a big issue in the town in Ct where I lived. People began to complain at school board meetings. So one big brained teacher wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper saying, don’t blame us for missing work, your children make us sick. Suffice to say her letter wasn’t well received.
remember who used the covid money to vacation in the tropics
Teachers’ union boss warns union members not to post vacation pictures and other details on social media of covid / spring break vacations.. days after the union voted overwhelmingly to not return to the classroom until their demands are met..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940688/posts
Can we outlaw public unions?
Kids don’t need teachers, they are raised and taught by TikTok and YouTube 24/7 nowadays anyway.
Teacher absences include sick days (CPS teachers get 10 of those paid) and personal days (they get three paid). They also can take additional time off for bereavement, parental leave and such. When all of those types of absences total more than 10, teachers are recorded as chronically absent.
As a registered nurse in a busy acute care hospital,calling in sick 6 or 7 days would warrant a warning...and we work with very sick people.
Those mayoral quotes are amazing.
But the absenteeism demonstrates part of how far our culture has fallen. People used to pride themselves on not missing work. The dominant ethos for our younger generations now is to take as many sick days as possible off, including for “mental health days” if somehow they don’t have enough days of the sniffles or other perceivable ailments.
Welcome them all back to school with a pep session. Have a teacher rollcall and then fire the no shows in front of the student body. Good life lesson the classroom can’t provide.
The teachers union members chuckle when they hear people say the Teamster union is the strongest union in the country.
You want votes you have to look in the right places numbers matter.
The termination of federal funding will motivate the locals to put an end to this nonsense. Go DOGE!
I’ve read 200 languages are spoken in the chicago school system. It’s all about helping the third world invaders.
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