Chicago Parents Moving Kids to Catholic Schools After Three Years of Union ...

[SVPete]

Chicago Parents Moving Kids to Catholic Schools After Three Years of Union Nonsense

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/chicago-parents-moving-kids-to-catholic-schools-after-three-years-of-union-nonsense/

Catholic schools are the best. I’m not just saying that because I’m Catholic. They are literally the best.

I’ve chronicled the hell the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has put parents and students through for the past three years.

The 2019 strike disrupted a school year, followed by COVID. CTU didn’t want schools to open in August 2020.

That’s when a lot of parents explored Catholic schools.

Christina Castro, 36, said she enrolled her three children in Catholic schools where they’re thriving. ...

At least some homeschooling parents might quibble that first paragraph, but unlike many Progs, our senses of humor have not been surgically removed. That quibble aside, between union shenanigans and CRT and the predictable consequences of allow males who "identify" as trans into girls' restrooms, I do think PSs will be drastically changed.

[Eupher]

Chicago Parents Moving Kids to Catholic Schools After Three Years of Union Nonsense

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/chicago-parents-moving-kids-to-catholic-schools-after-three-years-of-union-nonsense/

At least some homeschooling parents might quibble that first paragraph, but unlike many Progs, our senses of humor have not been surgically removed. That quibble aside, between union shenanigans and CRT and the predictable consequences of allow males who "identify" as trans into girls' restrooms, I do think PSs will be drastically changed.

Your comment prompted me to do a tiny bit of digging on the overall strength (or decline) of teacher's unions. I found this link.

Not surprisingly, blue states tend to have the strongest teacher's unions. Presumably in these states, unions are stronger than the parents whose kids they are teaching -- or perhaps better said, the unions are stronger than both the teachers themselves and the parents of the kids who are being taught.

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/how-strong-are-us-teacher-unions-state-state-comparison

Local government (public sector) workers (police, firefighters, public school teachers) are less unionized than they were, which is just fine with me. Let's hope that trend continues. This next link is clearly pro-union, but it tells the story about the trend.

https://www.the74million.org/article/union-numbers-rise-modestly-across-u-s-despite-decline-among-local-government-workers/

[Ralph Wiggum]

Your comment prompted me to do a tiny bit of digging on the overall strength (or decline) of teacher's unions. I found this link.

Not surprisingly, blue states tend to have the strongest teacher's unions. Presumably in these states, unions are stronger than the parents whose kids they are teaching -- or perhaps better said, the unions are stronger than both the teachers themselves and the parents of the kids who are being taught.

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/how-strong-are-us-teacher-unions-state-state-comparison

Local government (public sector) workers (police, firefighters, public school teachers) are less unionized than they were, which is just fine with me. Let's hope that trend continues. This next link is clearly pro-union, but it tells the story about the trend.

https://www.the74million.org/article/union-numbers-rise-modestly-across-u-s-despite-decline-among-local-government-workers/

A misnomer about the strength or lack thereof of unions is that everyone indeed joins the union.  And in some states, there is no powerful and strong teachers union.  Sure, in major lib cities such as New York/Chicago/LA/Boston, they probably wield power.  But elsewhere there is no such stigma or pressure to join a union.