Posted on 06/20/2013 5:59:34 PM PDT by raptor22
Education: The president of the Chicago Teachers Union charges that racism and "rich white people" are to blame for the immense financial and educational crisis facing the Chicago Public Schools.
Tbe Chicago Public Schools (CPS) represent everything that is wrong with public education in America. They are in thrall to the unions that run the system and bankrupt it through bloated salaries and pensions while too many of the students trapped inside graduate as functional illiterates, if they graduate at all.
Poor academic performance generally, a huge budget shortfall and poorly attended schools in declining neighborhoods recently forced CPS to close 49 schools in an attempt to close a $1 billion budget gap. But according to CTU President Karen Lewis, the root cause is not the lack of educational competition or the inability to fire or reward teachers on the basis of student academic performance.
In a speech Wednesday before the upscale City Club of Chicago, Lewis asked, "When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos — no matter what the parent's income or education level."
She decried members of the "status quo, the people who are running the schools and advising the mayor on how to best run our district, know what good education looks like because they have secured it for their own children in well-resourced, public and private institutions."
As we have noted, the unions run Chicago schools and seek to preserve the status quo of a virtual education monopoly. Lewis has fought the use of any objective analysis of teacher performance despite the fact that just 15% are proficient in reading and that four of 10 CPS students do not graduate from high school.
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No that was Gov. Jennifer Granholm... :-)
Rich in calories?
Don’t look er in the eyes mate, she might chaaage!!
Practicing line dancing to get a job at the IRS.
Why doesn’t a “union”, who is supposed to “protect the workers”, do like all the other unions USED to do, and BLAME THE SCHOOL BOARDS!!
The OLD days, it was ‘management’ vs. ‘unions’.
What happened??????????
Now, if there are “rich white people” at the top of the school boards, then THAT is where the problem lies, for their financial woes.
Another bigot in “power”.
School boards are packed with former union educators.
I agree. Rich white people like Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Gore, Sr, Owen Josephus Roberts and on and on.
I am stunned by the stupidity of this woman. One has to assume that she probably believes what she is saying. Ugh.
I come from a family of liberals and was one myself until I taught in NYC public schools as a young man. What initially made me convert was seeing how this “blame everyone but myself” was so widespread, and how it was this attitude - not race, not money - that was the biggest obstacle in the way of anyone getting a good education.
Yes I have to say it...Dean Wormer paraphrase:
“Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life Ms Lewis”
To follow through on her logic, rich “black people” or “rich fill-in-the-blank people” can’t teach “white kids” or know what’s best for “white kids”. What a racist nutjob she is.
What compels a "rich, white person" to sit and listen to racist screeds like this?
Why invite her? Why give her a forum? Why listen to her? You know what you're going to get: The blame.
One look at the picture of this dirigible wannabe, and it all becomes clear what’s wrong with the public school system!
I never see these teacher unions out protesting the Govt. about unemployment in the private sector. The “it’s for the kids” and using children at their protests are all about their own benefits (pension and insurance).
Molon labe buddy.
You’re making my eyes hurt!!! :O
You’re kidding right?
She is following a well proven formula; she is playing to the audience.
This is exactly what Chicago expects to hear. This is the city that elected Rom Emanuel, Obama’s socialist pit bull ballerina, as mayor
Come on now, the chilrun need the proper environs for learning all about black history month...
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