OH NOES!
TEACHERZ IZ BEING TREATED BADLY!!!1!!eleven!
The median income in the US is about 50K a year. THe average income of Chicago teachers is over 70K a year.
Teachers who are not accountable to anyone.
School dropout rates are near 50%
Its nearly impossible to get rid of a bad union teacher
They don’t work three months out of a year.
If they do get summer jobs their income, of course, increases.
Money they pay in union dues finances the campaigns of liberal hacks.
This is all- as others have commented- Kabuki. Rahm couldn’t just give them what they wanted because he would look like the scumbag he is. He had to let them go on strike so he could say “They’re holding our children hostage!” (Not his, mind you, they go to an expensive and exclusive school. Don’t want them to mix with the wetbacks and schwarzes in the public school) Now that they’ve had a couple days of strikes they’ll “Come to an agreement”. And he’ll be able to say ‘They had me over a barrel, this was FOR THE CHILDREN!” And he’ll claim victory because he gave them only 20% instead of the 30% they asked for, but since the system is already stone broke, they will be unable to foot the bill, so guess where your taxes will go? Oh, and one of the things they’ve already given up is the right to cut pay or benefits if the budget isn’t there to provide them.
When criminals fight with criminals over YOUR paycheck, guess who wins? Everyone but you.
Horsewhipping would be a kindness, I’m telling you,
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You mirror my thoughts. Teachers unions should be outlawed.
I noticed in the one picture I saw of their picketing that they were all wearing red t-shirts. How appropriate.
And when the taxes are raised and the revenue is still insufficient to cover the promises? Financial meltdown and chaos.
Let’s go to our checklist. Meets or exceeds the goals of the radcial-leftist Cloward-Piven scheme? Check.
Its too bad they can’t just stay on strike. The kids would be better off playing video games.
” and one of the things they’ve already given up is the right to cut pay or benefits if the budget isn’t there to provide them!!!!”
Let’s hope that when this goes to Chapter 9 that changes.
The median income in the US is about 50K a year. THe average income of Chicago teachers is over 70K a year.
Irrelevant, since cost of living is based on local conditions, not the national median.
(Which is why teachers in Kansas City should and do make less than ones in Silicon Valley…)
However, the apt-comparison version – using the Chicago area median – is even better, since IIRC from the reports the median income in Chicago is more like 46-48k.
Exactly, Sigi. And the ones making $46-48 don’t get all summer off with pay.
There are a few videos over at this post at Ace of Spades.
One lists 5 facts, including the 46-48K Sig mentioned, and this one: the parents of 85% the school-kids in the failing system are making less than $30K per year. Worth a look.
I noticed in the one picture I saw of their picketing that they were all wearing red t-shirts. How appropriate.
Not just red shirts, try red Che shirts…..
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/09/11/alinskyites-on-the-march-chicago-teachers-show-their-true-colors/
I keep telling my teacher friends that all this activism coupled with lousy test scores and poor graduation rates is just going to send people to charters and home-schooling.
If teachers would STFU and get back in the classroom and TEACH rather than babysit and indoctrinate, and if administrators would get behind them and enforce discipline, and if parents would actually take an active hand in their children’s education, they’d all be a lot better off.
And so would we.
The problem is that most of the teachers and administrators in Chicago who are capable of doing as you suggested are already doing it private schools or suburban public schools where the parents care. And the parents in Chicago who care about their children’s education are doing everything they can to send the their kids to one of those schools.
Truer words are seldom spoken.