Posted on 09/11/2012 2:54:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Members of the Chicago Teacher's Union have gone on strike, shutting down the third largest school district in the country with over 404,000 students now in disarray.
Chicago's teachers have the highest average salary in the country at $76,000/year and according to the Mayor's office, the financial side of the $400 Million deal is done. 4%/year raises have been agreed to, taking them to $88,900/year by 2016.
The Mayor's office stated that:
"The two remaining stumbling blocks involve re-hiring laid off teachers from schools that get shut down or shaken up and a new teacher evaluation process that the union says puts far too much weight on student test scores."
So while 404,000 students are missing school, the real issues are accountability and union job protection.
Chicago is not really different from Wisconsin, but while it is only 90 miles away, it is a universe away in its political realities. The city has seen the same economic straits as most large cities in the country and yet at a time when everyone else is cutting back and trying to get by, the Chicago Teacher's Union, who have already been financially sated, wants more control with less accountability.
....Whether it is for gross misconduct by teachers or for regular evaluations and student testing, the union expects to remain unaccountable. In Chicago, standardized test results are destroyed almost immediately after the tests are scored. They have it down in Chicago. No Atlanta scandals there........
...Chicago's teacher union is symbolic of much of what has gone wrong in our country. Self-interest, cronyism, corruption and sloth when our children need the best we have to offer, are completely and utterly unacceptable. The Chicago strike defines what is wrong while the Wisconsin reforms point to a possible solution....
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By insinuation she is admitting that the teachers are not doing their job. What a pathetic blob.
Even Al Capone could have run things better.
He would make them an offer they dare not refuse.
At least the kids will be spared the communist indoctrination for a few days or weeks until a “just compromise” can be worked out.
sorry but a teacher should make about 25K a “year”, they only work til 3, they “work” with kids, not adults, they get snow days, Thanksgiving, Spring, Winter and Summer breaks.
The schedule alone is enough “pay”. This 88K stuff is just absolute garbage.
yeah but now the “dads” feel “trapped” in marriage and need to be free to act like dogs with their wienies hanging out
I agree completely. This stinks to high heaven. A dogmatically liberal labor union in a city with an erstwhile member of the Obama administration decides to go on strike during an election year, throwing the entire city into chaos and threatening its children?
Just waiting for Obama to step into a phone booth to put on his costume so he can fly in and save everyone. When you don’t have any accomplishments, you have to invent them. Romney better be ready to counter this. I’m pretty sure it’s coming.
Give collective bargaining to government employees in a non-competitive setting and this is what you get - “the tail wagging the dog”. Fox did a very good piece on municiple bankruptcies which showed the major cause of collapse was employee salaries and benefits. In each case the municiple employee was paid more than the civilian counterpart. Here’s another example of citizen abuse by employees.
Is twinkletoes paying ANY Chicago property taxes yet?
Is twinkletoes paying ANY Chicago property taxes yet?
She probably lives in the suburbs.
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