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Posted on 04/12/2026 8:32:21 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A tangled political fight over whether Chicago’s public schools will hold classes on May Day is coming down to the wire, confusing tens of thousands of students and parents.
The influential teachers union, an ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, wants educators to participate in protests in the nation’s third-largest city on May 1, coinciding with workers’ rights rallies worldwide. But the newly named leader of Chicago Public Schools has rejected the pitch to cancel classes.
The standoff has created uncertainty for the families of more than 315,000 students.
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Come on teach. DO YOUR FRIGGIN JOBS AND KNOCK OFF ALL THE COMMUNIST PARADES AND RIOT CLOWN SHOWS.
Don’t the teachers get enough days off already? Most of them only work 9 or 10 months a year.
Add that to the contrived Student Walk Outs as they play act protesting ICE.
They don’t teach anyway so what difference would it make?!
I hate how Samsung and others have special discounts only for Servicemembers AND teachers, as if the two are in any way equivalent.
Try to imagine just how much harm comes to those 315,000 children daily.
By old school union standards, the Chicago teachers' union is not really a union. Because union leadership and "management" have interlocking directorates and serve the same master (the Democratic Party).
May Day is significant both as a celebration of spring and as International Workers’ Day, honoring labor movements and workers’ rights.
I know how I will and always have celebrated May Day....
May Day, celebrated on May 1st, has deep pagan origins rooted in ancient agricultural rituals. It is believed to have originated from various festivals, including the Roman Floralia, the Celtic Beltane, and the Germanic Walpurgis Night. These festivals were dedicated to ensuring fertility and the return of summer, with traditions such as the gathering of wildflowers, setting up Maypoles, and dancing around them. The modern observance of May Day includes various customs, such as the crowning of a May Queen and the setting up of decorated May trees, which reflect these ancient pagan traditions.
Opening the pool today to be ready for Summer as it is so short here in Detroit. :)
I liked May Day when we lived in Hawaii, where “May Day is Lei Day”. Beautiful!
PS: Screw the unions.
Deep State doesn’t care.
Kids are just the grist for Deep State’s diploma mills.
Right? Ya have to be a worker first in order to celebrate communist International Workers day. The CTU represents everything that is wrong with teachers union. School achievement test results are abysmal yet these Marxist clowns parade around pretending to be exploited workers. Sick.
Fine, give ‘em May Day off - and tack on *two* extra working days at the end of the school year, then watch them howl.
By the way, other than the Democrat party itself, the Chicago Teachers Union is the single institution most responsible for turning the city into a Detroit-version shiite-hole. The CTU will turn out in mass in the city’s primaries (which almost nobody else votes in) to support whoever will push their current desires - cushier pensions, higher salaries, more support staff, whatever. Their candidate - no matter how incompetent (see for example the current dough-head in the mayor’s office) will then win the general, because there’s no real GOP opposition any more. That’s how we end up with a school system consisting of things like Douglas High School (as of 2024, 65 employees, 64 total students, none of whom can read at grade level), and a city as a whole equally corrupt and inefficient.
Are they teaching the children L’ Internarionale?
Fine. Give them May Day off.
Also, every other day in May, and Sept.-April also. Hire people who want to do their jobs.
This would give Chicongo children one more day of safety remaining at home and away from the “learing schools”.
I have never had a problem with labor unions.
The free market can sort those out.
Public employee unions, yes.
There has been a lot of decline in the last fifty years.
Public employee unions is as big a cause for that as any I can point to.
Holy Bolshevik Revolution, Batman!
Yes, to truly celebrate it, one must do the slow dance around the tree at midnight.
Meanwhile George Soros and Neville Roy Singham and arguing over who can fund the largest demonstration, the Bolsheviks or the Maoists.
I have my own reason for celebration. We adopted a dog from foster and needed to select a nominal birthday for him. He’s a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Chesapeakes are red, and May Day seemed a natural choice
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