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If Chicago public school teachers strike, public education could be undermined
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 30, 2012 | Mary Mitchell

Posted on 08/30/2012 5:35:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 08/30/2012 5:35:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Public Education - just another sink hole.

There should be no such thing.


2 posted on 08/30/2012 5:39:39 AM PDT by Darteaus94025
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They should all be fired and replacements put to work from the college grads who can’t find jobs because the unions ave priced everything out of sight.

No one is forcing them to work at the school. If they aren’t happy they can move along.


3 posted on 08/30/2012 5:42:23 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Public School education would be undermined if there were no teachers in the classroom? Who’d have thunk?


4 posted on 08/30/2012 5:42:48 AM PDT by mort56
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Chicagoans are fed up.

They are fed up with high gas prices and boarded-up homes. They are fed up with rowdy teens, gangs, shootings and homicides. They are fed up with schools that warehouse kids but don’t educate them.

Obama's America - "Chicago is an example of what makes this country great." - August 12, 2012: Barack Obama comment at Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, Illinois.

5 posted on 08/30/2012 5:43:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Maybe they’ll vote in reform like a Scott Walker to fix the mess.


6 posted on 08/30/2012 5:45:40 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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If I remember correctly, Chicago Public Schools decided to lengthen the school day because of the ABYSMAL student performance, and the teachers countered with a demand for a 30% pay raise. So when Andrea Parker, a teacher at Curtis Elementary School on the South Side says “We want all our teachers respected ,” and “They work hard for our kids every day;” respect = money .

At least we know its all about the kids.

7 posted on 08/30/2012 5:46:13 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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“They are fed up with rowdy teens, gangs, shootings and homicides.”

Sounds to me like Latrina, Femali, Raetheon & Neldrake aren’t learning anything positive anyway. So what’s the big deal if they shut down the schools? Could be a money savings.


8 posted on 08/30/2012 5:47:11 AM PDT by henkster (We're the slaves of the phony leaders...)
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Headline? I doubt it.

They will learn a little bit more about why public sector unions shouldn’t exist.


9 posted on 08/30/2012 5:49:48 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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10 posted on 08/30/2012 5:50:35 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Anybody ask Rahm if this strike will affect the school his kids attend. No it won’t. Rahm, Obama and the rest of the hypocritical urban liberals “choose” good private schools for their kids and herd the minority masses into failing public warehouses.


11 posted on 08/30/2012 5:51:42 AM PDT by allendale
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...and how is closing degenerate public schools and not having to pay these incompetent school teachers bad?


12 posted on 08/30/2012 5:54:54 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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.....”Rahm, Obama and the rest of the hypocritical urban liberals “choose” good private schools for their kids and herd the minority masses into failing public warehouses.”

Obama blocked vouchers to Sidwell Friends, vouchers that had been in place for D.C. students. But his daughters attend.


13 posted on 08/30/2012 5:58:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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CPS teachers and the union have a good scam going here. The kids who fail to learn under their tutelage are used to show how much more money is needed. The kids who learn in spite of them are pointed to as their success. Damn Karen Lewis and every one of their incompetent asses (and Karen’s multiple ones).


14 posted on 08/30/2012 5:59:17 AM PDT by aruanan
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the kids would be better off for a while


15 posted on 08/30/2012 5:59:17 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ..
Hey, yeo! Chi-town Education? Wez like it just the way it is... and we'll whack anyone who opposes that--

And Barack, my man, wez... got your back, too!

16 posted on 08/30/2012 6:02:19 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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Chicagoans are fed up. They are fed up with high gas prices and boarded-up homes. They are fed up with rowdy teens, gangs, shootings and homicides. They are fed up with schools that warehouse kids but don’t educate them. Yeah, but are they fed up enough to vote corrupt dems out of office? That's the real question..
17 posted on 08/30/2012 6:02:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (Homeland Paranoid Insecurity: Making the country safe for liberal elites...)
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If Chicago public school teachers strike, public education could be undermined

Since public education has become nothing more than a platform for progressive theology, this would be a bad thing......how?

18 posted on 08/30/2012 6:02:45 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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Why would he want to punish his daughters by making them attend school with more common folk?


19 posted on 08/30/2012 6:03:16 AM PDT by Pecos (Double tap: the only acceptable gun control)
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"I teaches English."

- Chicago public school teacher answering a reporters question.

20 posted on 08/30/2012 6:03:33 AM PDT by JPG (Make it happen.)
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