Posted on 08/30/2012 5:35:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Maybe CTU President Karen Lewis is just rattling her saber by announcing the teachers union has filed a 10-day notice of intent to strike.
....Parents with children in Chicago Public Schools should definitely be putting together an alternative plan given the rhetoric from the union.
“CPS seems determined to have a toxic relationship with its employees,” Lewis said at the news conference. “[T]hey attempted to ram a poorly-thought-out longer school day down our throats . . . It has been insult after insult after insult.”
Now that Lewis has taken the next step toward a showdown, I’m betting there will be drama.
But a strike would not just be devastating for the mayor, teachers, students and parents.
A strike could further undermine public education in this city.
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.
....Increasingly, parents in these struggling communities are discovering options to public education.
That is why thousands lined up to attend the “New Schools for Chicago” fair last spring — desperate to send their kids to a “charter operation.”
The children who are being left behind are the most vulnerable.
So if Mayor Rahm Emanuel has to skip most of the Democratic National Convention next week, then so be it.....
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Public Education - just another sink hole.
There should be no such thing.
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.
Public School education would be undermined if there were no teachers in the classroom? Who’d have thunk?
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.
Maybe they’ll vote in reform like a Scott Walker to fix the mess.
At least we know its all about the kids.
“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.
Headline? I doubt it.
They will learn a little bit more about why public sector unions shouldn’t exist.
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.
...and how is closing degenerate public schools and not having to pay these incompetent school teachers bad?
.....”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.
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).
the kids would be better off for a while
and we'll whack anyone who opposes that-- And Barack, my man, wez... 
got your back, too!
Since public education has become nothing more than a platform for progressive theology, this would be a bad thing......how?
Why would he want to punish his daughters by making them attend school with more common folk?
- Chicago public school teacher answering a reporters question.
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