Hey Chicago Parents: Buck Up!!

[Ausonius]

I cannot be too specific here, but my wife is grading competency tests for a certain state, where - obviously - the Leftists in the state educational bureaucracy have force fed the answers to the public-school teachers in advance.

This example is an exaggeration - but only somewhat!  Imagine grading a test on the Civil War, where the question is "Why did the North invade the South?" and that you are allowed to accept only 3 possibilities:

1. The South had lots of open land for farming.
2. Southerners had poor schools and were uneducated.
3. Southern cities were small and room for Northern factories.

You wonder: "These answers are not even close to being right!!!"

And then you look at these tests from assorted school districts around the state: and the kids have these terrible statements as their answers!!!

Let's just say that the real question and answers are uncomfortably close to being brainwashing propaganda for the MAObama administration.  

My wife became ever more scared when she contemplated the consequences of what had obviously happened!

Chicago public-school parents and all parents need to revolt and demand a revolution: close down the Departments of (Mis)Education on all governmental levels and take the half-trillion plus in tax dollars and return it to parents to spend on those schools which actually educate and develop thinking human beings rather than robots for MAObama administration.

[vesta111]

A little comparison, if I may:

Chicago Teachers:
$76,000 year average salary plus benefits.
16 percent payraise offered (and rejected) in latest contract
Union representation to negotiate/demand better working conditions, pay, benefits, etc.
180 instructional days per year (average 6 hours per day)
Paid vacations and holidays, including summers, Christmas, etc.
Generous retirement packages guaranteed by contract.

Military member:
$30,000 year salary, assuming you're at least an E-5 over 4 years.  If you want that $76K, you better be in the senior O-4/O-5 range.
1.7 percent payraise for 2013.  Take it or leave it.
Don't like your working conditions?  Clean the sand outta your vagina, ruck up, move out, you ****ing *****!
No union representation--AYFKM?
Working conditions: -40 to +140, everything in between.
30 days of leave per year (and how many people outside training commands actually get to USE that leave?)  Other than that, 100-hour weeks ain't uncommon.  And yes, they CAN take away your birthday.
Retirement plans subject to change at the whim of the administration in power (Tricare premiums, anyone?)

Dear Chicago Teachers,

Quit ****ing whining and get the **** back to work, not that we'd notice considering the shitty product you've been turning out for decades now.

Most teachers I know or have known get the summer off and get a job of some sort.  Now each day the teachers are on strike will like snow days eat into their summer time as they must as Sparkey says Educate the kids for 180 days. If this strike goes on for a month then this means 20+ days into summer for them and the kids.    

This will screw up any summer plans for kids that get jobs on vacation as well as the teachers.  Now this adding an extra hour a day may be a way around the problem.  20 extra hours a week lots of monkey business can be done with that math to bring them to the 180 days. Shorten the Hollidays off by one day here and there.

You can bet the teachers will not loose on thin dime on this deal.  All has been worked out on how long the teachers can stay on strike and scare the pants off the parents.----Could be adding an extra hour a day going from 6 to 7 hours a day will come in here and the reason the Teachers Union did not have a fit when it was augmented.

They can break the days into 1,260 hours at 7 hours a day and make up a good bit of time.  By the end of this week I betcha the Union gets what it wants and perhaps a bit more.

[BlueStateSaint]

By the end of this week I betcha the Union gets what it wants and perhaps a bit more.

Yup--I can see Rahmbo "lying down" for the teachers.

[RobJohnson]

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10021315059

newblewtoo (374 posts)
3. Apparently no one in the Democratic Party in Chicago

nor those on the premiere DemocraticUndergroud website gives a flying fig. That says a lot about who we have become.

Actions speak louder than words people. Not even K&R's for such an important issue.

Over my years here on DU I am constantly amazed that important topics such as this sink like a stone while more mundane are a buzz with endless chatter.

Look, squirrel! Guess it just doesn't matter. Poverty and injustice have become a way of life to be accepeted I guess.

oh my.....

[Duke Nukum]

Chicago shows the failures of first of all, putting one's self and children at the mercy of government and then compound that stupidity by accepting corruption and graft as "the cost of doing business."

That being said, RB Texla is a piece of crap.

I thought DUmmies were the Compassion Set?