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Chicago Teachers Vote to Continue Strike
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 09/16/2012 5:24:13 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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It's not about us, it's for the children......
1 posted on 09/16/2012 5:24:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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Per AP, rahmn is going to file lawsuit to end strike.


2 posted on 09/16/2012 5:26:30 PM PDT by scbison
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Good. The more they piss off the parents, the more unlikely a democratic high turnout will occur(I think).


3 posted on 09/16/2012 5:26:30 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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Good. Stay out until Novemeber 8th, you dopes.


4 posted on 09/16/2012 5:27:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes, it’s for the children — because the schools are so bad that every day the kids don’t have to attend, their IQ goes up 2 points.


5 posted on 09/16/2012 5:27:08 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: Travis McGee

I happened to be downtown when they were marching in their little red shirts. You should have heard the stuff I was shouting at them while they marched. Haven’t had that much fun with my clothes on for quite some time.


6 posted on 09/16/2012 5:29:02 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Fight to the death you poor overworked starving Chicagoans!


7 posted on 09/16/2012 5:29:12 PM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: Sub-Driver

Vouchers. Fire ‘ em all!


8 posted on 09/16/2012 5:29:49 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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He should start hiring people who want to teach....remember Reagan and the controllers....these teachers probably have tenure....well fire them anyway with out pay...they have the highest pay for teachers in the U.S. I am told....come on parents....start your own schools with real Teachers!


9 posted on 09/16/2012 5:30:45 PM PDT by yoe
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The strike upended a district in which the vast majority of students are poor and minority. It also raised the concerns of parents who worried not just about their kids’ education but their safety. Chicago’s gang violence has spiked this year, with scores of shootings reported throughout a long, bloody summer and bystanders sometimes caught in the crossfire.

The district staffed more than 140 schools with non-union workers and central office employees so students who are dependent on school-provided meals would have a place to eat breakfast and lunch. But most parents refused to leave their children at unfamiliar schools where they would be thrown together with kids and supervising adults they may never have met.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/16/chicago-teachers-union-delegates-could-end-strike-at-meeting/#ixzz26gMmQ7Yv


10 posted on 09/16/2012 5:31:14 PM PDT by kcvl
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They have teachers wearing Che t-shirts like he was some sort of hero. These kind of “Teachers” these children can live without


11 posted on 09/16/2012 5:31:46 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yoe

Hire me!


12 posted on 09/16/2012 5:32:07 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: nascarnation

13 posted on 09/16/2012 5:32:50 PM PDT by Tamzee (The U.S. re-electing Obama would be like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceberg again.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good for them! I hope they stay out until the folks get wise to their tactics and move to outlaw the union.

As soon as the union feels threatened the strike will end.


14 posted on 09/16/2012 5:33:05 PM PDT by Ben Mugged ("Life's tough..... It's even tougher if you're stupid." John Wayne)
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Let’s move!


15 posted on 09/16/2012 5:33:05 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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Totally unacceptable.


16 posted on 09/16/2012 5:34:27 PM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (We the People are coming!!)
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Union thugs. While I don’t believe any of give two beans for Rham - he is a communist jerk. And in some ways, we might even be gloating that he is getting a taste of his own medicine. But that being said - as bad as the students of the Chicago Schools perform - the only thing worse is what these selfish teachers are doing.

It is criminal what the Teacher’s Union is doing.


17 posted on 09/16/2012 5:34:30 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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In a statement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the teachers and the union for failing to end the strike and said he plans to file an injunction to force the strike to end and get kids back to school.

“I will not stand by while the children of Chicago are played as pawns in an internal dispute within a union. This was a strike of choice and is now a delay of choice that is wrong for our children. Every day our kids are kept out of school is one more day we fail in our mission: to ensure that every child in every community has an education that matches their potential,” Emanuel said.

“I have instructed the City’s Corporation Counsel to work with the General Counsel of Chicago Public Schools to file an injunction in circuit court to immediately end this strike and get our children back in the classroom.” the mayor said. “This continued action by union leadership is illegal on two grounds – it is over issues that are deemed by state law to be non-strikable, and it endangers the health and safety of our children...While the union works through its remaining issues, there is no reason why the children of Chicago should not be back in the classroom as they had been for weeks while negotiators worked through these same issues.”

http://touch.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-72335035/


18 posted on 09/16/2012 5:34:34 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Sub-Driver; All

19 posted on 09/16/2012 5:38:04 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Emanuel, your filthy leftist Party has continually embraced the greedy socialist unions. Enjoy what you have created or join with the American taxpayers and children and FIRE ALL OF THEM! Then hire some people who can teach kids and are not afraid to be evaluated. The only people who fear appraisals are the incompetents.


20 posted on 09/16/2012 5:38:09 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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