The Chicago Public School Teachers Demand 30% Raise

[dellinger63]

Well the teachers decided to strike, not because of money (they’re offered a 16% pay raise) but because of the job evaluation process. The board wants to grade 45% of teachers performance based on their students’ test scores. Get this, the teachers union thinks that would lead to more cheating.
Numbers behind the scene reveal how pitiful the Chicago school system is. 21K teachers to teach 400K students or one teacher for every 19 students. A $5.1 billion total budget divided up between 400K students comes to $12,800.00 per student. And the pie in the face caveat is CPS graduates just over 50% or its high school students with a good portion of its graduates needing further work to enter college. The teachers were asked not to picket schools acting as day care centers and they responded by picketing those schools using drums to disrupt any meaningful activities going on inside.

CPS is simply a microcosm of what’s wrong with government getting involved in anything but governing. Schools need to be schools and not restaurants and day-care centers.

For the sake of the students both present and in the future we need to provide school vouchers at the least. Better yet, privatize the entire school system and let private/parochial schools do what they’ve been doing all along.

Performance-based jobs are rampant with cheating.

Riot is the google queen. She'll find some stories about teachers fixing test scores.

The revolution is televised. Chicago gets what it deserves. One of the most corrupt cities in the world.

[OldDog]

Meanwhile, the city’s 118 charter schools are not affected by the strike.



It has been suggested that the union may be going on strike for the sole purpose of allowing Obama to intervene and settle the labor dispute, painting him as a uniter, or perhaps even as being tough on unions. This is Chicago, after all.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by OldDog

It has been suggested that the union may be going on strike for the sole purpose of allowing Obama to intervene and settle the labor dispute, painting him as a uniter, or perhaps even as being tough on unions. This is Chicago, after all.

I laughed. Hysterically. Oh, Freepers and their conspiracy theories ...

[lord007]

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-d...icient-reading

..Poor kids..pay the teachers more..I know i could not live on 76k a year

[Thepaindispenser]

So Riot you endorse a system where public sector unions bribe Democrat politicians who are then supposed to sit across the table and represent us hard-working taxpayers but instead give away unsustainable benefits?

This has been going on for years but was kept under wraps by the greedy, selfish Union members and the filthy, corrupt politicians. Thankfully the age of the Internet has exposed these crooks.

So according to your theory, then you shouldn't have had any complaints about the Iraq War. After all George Bush and all of those Democrat members of Congress who voted for the war were all elected by the American people. You should never have a problem with any corruption, incompetency, waste, and cronyism since these politicians were elected by the people. No wonder why you love Obama so much!

[Thepaindispenser]

The second highest paid teachers in the country want a 16% raise and less evaluations. If you vote Democrat then you are approving four more years of catering to greedy, selfish people who have easy hours, great vacations, incredible health insurance and pensions which they contribute nothing or very little towards, airtight job security, and early retirement while they poison the minds of our youth with their outdated and failed self-serving agenda and trash us hard-working taxpayers who pay for their easy lifestyle.

By the way 39% of these hypocrite, selfish, greedy teachers send their own kids to private school.