Posted on 04/09/2011 11:06:50 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
In a trend that worries charter school operators, teachers at 12 of Chicago’s charters have formed unions over the past two years, and the Chicago Teachers Union is seeking to organize all 85 of the schools.
Union leaders say the growing charter movement is changing the landscape of public education and, with its disdain for unions, could leave teachers without a strong voice on issues like working conditions, teacher evaluations and curriculum.
Administrators and operators are battling back, arguing that unionization could undermine the basic premise of the charter school model: that they are more effective because they are free from the regulations and bureaucracies that govern traditional public schools.
Unionization of charter schools is a major step for the Chicago Teachers Union. Though charter teachers in other cities have formed unions, Chicago is one of the first where the public school system’s major union has directed the effort, according to the American Federation of Teachers.
The unions at the 12 charter schools are affiliated with the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, which is a joint program of the C.T.U., the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers. At eight of the schools, teachers have contracts, at two they are in negotiation and at two they are fighting to be recognized by their school administrations.
“At some point, we would like all the charter schools to be part of C.T.U.,” said Jackson Potter, the union’s staff coordinator.
There were no charter school unions in 2008, when the Chicago Teachers Union formed its Charter Outreach Committee to knock on doors and help charter teachers organize.
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“Why can’t the unions leave this alone. Why destroy a possible hope for American education?” ———
To ask these questions is virtually to answer them. Teachers’ unions are not about educating children; they are about additional financial support of Democrat politicians and the overall socialistic aims of the Democrat party.
So let them ruin those schools. Then maybe, just MAYBE, some blacks will figure out how bad the rat party is. Blacks who view their kids as a welfare meal ticket won’t care, but others will.
Go ahead, unions. Make our day.
The unions are just like the mob. What they’re doing is analogous to Tony Soprano picking a thriving little business that is having no problems and talling the nowner “You need protection, I’ll provide it, and you’ll pay me X dollars per week.” Business owner says “I don’t need your ‘help’.” Next thing that happens is his windows are bashed in and he gets a beatdown from Tony’s boys. Then Tony comes back and says, “See, you need protection. Now pay up.”
But there’s nothing fictional about it. That’s the way the mob opoerates and that’s the way unions move in.
So let the ghetto dwellers find out what it’s like to be pushed around by these peop;le. Maybe some will have a change of heart.
Lol, that should be “telling” and “owner”. (shooing away new pup from keyboard).
Precisely right, succinctly stated.
Chicago charter schools take 99th percentile kids and turn them into 80th percentile kids. Chicago non-charter public schools take the rest and turn them in to dropouts.
Public “education”has nothing to do with education. It never did. Public schools were established to indoctrinate and regimentize the general population. They serve the same function in very other society. Notice the rich don’t send their children to that system. The sole purpose of public education is to brainwash the peasants and turn them into docile servants. For the most part it works.
You are sort of lucky. They will turn out great but will still be living in a country of feral thugs raised and brainwashed in public schools. Teach them how to shoot and skin leftists.
/half-joking...sort of...I don’t know
Any funding source not immediately in the control of
the beneficiaries (i.e. students’ parents) is susceptible
to takeover, be it a union or other entity. The separation
of school and state the only thing that can prevent this.
Sorry to read about this.
Some of my union reps were at last Monday’s local pro union rally holding signs saying “We are one!” Now I’m confused. Can someone explain to me how we are one, yet celebrate our “diversity” at the same time? Words mean things.
I think it’s a Progressive thing. Command and control. Amassing power and wealth for those who wish to rule.
A thinking, informed, well-educated populace kinda gets in the way of that.
Charter schools should shut down when certified. Students will go elsewhere for a couple of years until an entirely new charter school opens in that location. Follow the Walmart playbook.
Both my kids went to public schools. Both my kids also had private tutors to teach them what the schools wouldn’t.
The parents elect those Democrats, so screw them. (shrug)
While Hispanics (illegal aliens) are making inroads in the inner cities, "inner city children" are for the most part of African ancestry.
The Democrat party was dedicated to the subjugation of people of African ancestry at its founding two centuries ago, and remains dedicated to the subjugation of people of African ancestry today.
They have no more chance of changing that than the leopard does of changing his spots.
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