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Chicago Teachers Strike 2012

Thank god those teachers managed to suffer through with only a total cost of $74 million to the tax payers. Now those kids who suffer with poverty can finally get a leg up in life because the teachers will get paid (whether or not they teach anything). I was very concerned that they might have to suffer through an evaluation to average $76,000 with $7,600 in raises coming over the next few years. Those kids sure got a great deal!

Of course, since the only points of contention were directly related to the quality of the programs being taught and whether or not the kids had the best tools available, we should have known the children could come out ahead.
 
Rahm Emanuel is in serious trouble politically. He just alienated a major constituency of his political base. And they will not easily forget it.

And how do some of you teacher-bashers explain that quite a few children joined the strike?
 
Rahm Emanuel is in serious trouble politically. He just alienated a major constituency of his political base. And they will not easily forget it.

And how do some of you teacher-bashers explain that quite a few children joined the strike?

I'm not a teacher basher, although public sector unions are a plague, but I would say that it's hardly a winning argument that the undeveloped minds that these teachers are supposed to influence might have been confused about what was actually at stake.
 
WOW, you are a truly clairvoyant. What is your next prediction…the sun will come up tomorrow? Don't throw your arm out of socket pattin' yourself on your back.

Or did you really believe we thought it would go on forever…:lamo

Insults aside; I read and listen. Someone along here didn't believe me when I said it would be over. So . . .
 
And how do some of you teacher-bashers explain that quite a few children joined the strike?

You can get children to join anything, so that is not a very good argument. However, the parents did not join.

So where do you think Chicago should cut to pay for this?
 
You can get children to join anything, so that is not a very good argument. However, the parents did not join.

So where do you think Chicago should cut to pay for this?

That's a very good question. The money has to come from somewhere.
 
You can get children to join anything, so that is not a very good argument. However, the parents did not join.

So where do you think Chicago should cut to pay for this?

When will you stop beating your wife?
 
I'm not a teacher basher, although public sector unions are a plague, but I would say that it's hardly a winning argument that the undeveloped minds that these teachers are supposed to influence might have been confused about what was actually at stake.

You underestimate our youth.
 
That's exactly what's happening. It's a concerted effort by America's business plan being carried out by the greedy and supported by the ignorant.

yep, and just like America, when and if it falls, so will every country hanging onto our butts grabbing for whatever aid they can get. When one union takes a dive, all others will follow suit at some point in time. And like countries, whether or not they want to believe it, they are all connected at the hip via the internet. One big brick ripped out of the foundation and so goes the wall.
 
What kind of teachers are needed to improve the Chicago school system?



 
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