…obviously because striking Chicago teachers aren’t being paid enough for the job they’ve been doing.
I blame Bush. And Republicans in general. Whose hatred of education sometimes accidentally rubs off on Democrats in broke-ass Democratically controlled cities, forcing them to hate education, too.
Participation trophies all around!!!
What’s the deal with the charter/magnet schools in Chicago? Are they on strike as well? Having one school district for a city as densely populated like Chicago seems kind of silly.
The daughters Obama went to some sort of crackerjack experimental school that is affiliated with the University of Chicago, Arne Duncan and Bill Ayers. I wonder if it’s out on strike, too.
It would seem that little has been asked for much in pay and benefits. Traditional?
“Well, sweetheart. Ya know what? You don’t have to do it.” — Chris Christie
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They’re all wearing red shirts. Do they even know what a Redshirt is?
Greetings:
You forgot to blame the Catholic parochial school system which has been providing better educations at lower cost for about the last 150 years thus undermining the sensitive egos of public school teachers across the land thus forcing those teachers to provide a poorer product at higher costs. And there’s the smugness of those who don’t mind using their own discretionary income to properly educate their children while still bearing the full tax burden of educating everyone else’s children.
That’s probably why the CAtholic school system never gets mentioned in all these articles about public schools’ inability to educate their students.
Yeah, but can they make babies and shoot people? Those are the growth industries.
nicely played mr. ryan:
“We stand with the children and we stand with the families and the parents of Chicago because education reform, that’s a bipartisan issue. This does not have to divide the two parties. And so, we were going to ask, where does President Obama stand? Does he stand with his former Chief of Staff Mayor Rahm Emanuel, with the children and the parents, or does he stand with the union? On issues like this, we need to speak out and be really clear. In a Romney-Ryan administration we will not be ambiguous, we will stand with education reform, we will champion bipartisan education reforms.
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h/t Weasel Zippers
“They’re all wearing red shirts.”
Red state?
As an 87% female workforce, and one that is nearly half African American and Latino, the Chicago Teachers Union know what their students need.
yea right @ $75,000/yr
the Chicago Teachers Union know what their students need.
Which is apparently not the ability to read, write or do math.
What in the holy fuck does that even mean?
Or graduate High School.
Flashback: 39% Of Chicago Teachers Send Their Kids To Private Schools
My father was one of those teachers, despite the fact that our local public schools were worlds better than the ones he was teaching in. Of course, the federal government wasn’t making everything better at the time…
What in the holy fuck does that even mean?
that they can keep producing vegas, pintos and volts
“They’re all wearing red shirts.”
They’ve sided with the Bloods against the Gangsta Disciples?
Dios mio. Listening to some of those teachers speak, it’s quite obvious that grammar is not a concern of the schools in Chi.
Or anywhere else, leigh. Back in the 80s in AL, the citizens tried to institute a so-called “competency exam” before graduates from the state colleges’ education programs could teach. It was a test not quite as hard as the 8th grade level.
None of the colleges had a 100% pass rate. However, the “historically black” colleges had passing rates below 50% while the rest of them had passing rates over 90%.
Naturally, they found a black, Democrat appointed federal judge (Myron Thompson) to declare 8th grade literacy “raaaaacist” and forbid the test.
30,000 teachers on strike, and 350,000 students out of school as a result.
Exercise for the reader: Chicago Public Schools has an average class size of _____ students per teacher.
Show your work please. CPS teachers get partial credit for not using crayon or attempting a people’s takeover of the testing center.
That’s a really succinct and powerful condemnation of women, blacks, latinos, and unions. Way to go, Gloria!
The answer would be “42” Darth. First, because the answer is always “42” and second, because you didn’t really think they had only one teacher per classroom, did you? For every teacher they’ve got to have a substitute teacher to take up the slack when the teacher is busy doing union stuff, doesn’t feel like coming to work (it is a government job after all), or is on vacay (because you can’t expect teachers to take their vacations during the summer, that would hardly be fair). Then you need a teacher’s assistant for the teacher and another for the substitute teacher.
This is how unions operate. If everyone was unionized we’d have full employment! Of course absolutely nothing would ever get done…..
I’ve never understood the clamor for smaller class size. Didn’t most of us over 50 folks have parents that went to one room schoolhouses where the teacher had first through eighth graders? We always had classes with more than 30 kids in them when I was in school. In the primary grades teachers taught combination classes of first and second greaders or second and third graders in the same class. It’s rather an insult on the smarts of the teachers and the students that the teachers can’t keep track of more than a handful of kids and students that they need so much hand-holding.
They defeat their own argument for smaller classes and more teachers and teacher’s aides when we produce that unhelpful data showing that 40 years later, not only can’t Johnny read, write or do math. This is probably the driving force behind the strike and the wish to do away with testing.
yeah, but they used to be able to whack you with a paddle when you got out of line. now they have to bribe kids with cheetos to go back to class from a third grade assembly.
Yeah, I was going to mention that, but figured I was being long-winded already.