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Look at it this way.
If you’re with the Chicago Teachers’ Union which is demanding $145,000 salaries, free abortion and weight loss surgeries (and do they ever need those) and money for migrants and ‘green schools’, it’ll help if your voting base can’t do math.
And Chicago teachers have been doing their part.
Here’s the ‘$50 billion contract’ that CTU, whose former official, Mayor Brandon Johnson, is in the driver’s seat, wants.
CTU wants massive pay raises, stipends and additional personnel – all of which are within the traditional scope of bargaining. It also wants the city to create new housing, levy new taxes, construct new parking garages, undertake new environmental initiatives, divest pension funds from fossil fuels, fully fund infertility and abortion care for members, subsidize weight-loss surgery and drugs such as Ozempic…
Meanwhile here’s the ‘good news’ that Chicago ‘educators’ are celebrating.
In math, 19% of Chicago third through eighth graders were proficient on the IAR’s 2024 test, a 2 percentage point increase from the previous school year. During the spring of 2023, 17% of elementary school students were proficient in math, but in the spring of 2019, 24% of students were proficient.
What happened between 2019 and 2023? CTU forcibly shut down schools so its members wouldn’t have to work and could get so fat and so promiscuous that they would need taxpayer-subsidized Ozempic and abortions.
But when 4 in 5 students can’t do math, they’re more likely to vote for a CTU dominated city government that will rob them blind to pay for the Ozempic and abortions.
Disadvantaged says
Is it possible the teachers are not proficient in math or English as well? Remember, the standards for being a teacher has declined as well. It seems to me that the salaries should be lowered to a level that baby sitters are paid in today’s market. I believe $7 an hour would be an adequate hourly wage for a teacher.
Another question is why does it take twelve years to educate a child? It should not take any longer than ten years at most, seven years for grade school and three years for high school.
Kasandra says
Didn’t you hear? The poor (see also, catastrophic) academic performance of students in blue cities is because Republicans want to keep them ignorant. Yup, that’s the latest excuse.
CowboyUp says
I saw that, from the teacher’s union president. Racist Republican white supremacists have a secret weapon to accomplish that. They just make sure democrats like her and mayor brandon are in charge so ignorance and illiteracy are assured.
Disadvantaged says
That can’t be because under President Johnson Great Society programs, America spent two trillion dollars over the next thirty years to help the minorities do better. That figure is from an article I read many years. ago. Am I to assume that the American government wasted two trillion dollars and has nothing to show for it. If that is the case, I want my Federal Income Tax money back that I paid over those thirty years. I was robbed by my own government.
Mickhorn says
“so its members wouldn’t have to work and could get so fat and so promiscuous that they would need taxpayer-subsidized Ozempic and abortions.”
Petty? Greenfield? How dare you suggest such a thing…..
Algorithmic Analyst says
One thing I finally realized is that most people don’t have a brain which can do math easily. Since math came easily to me, I just assumed it came easily to everyone else.
Jeff Bargholz says
It doesn’t come easily to everybody, Big Guy. I was very good at it in grade school but my scumbag teachers were able to pound it out of me.
Now I’m an ignoramus. Math is very easy but you’d be surprised at what people can beat out of you.
CowboyUp says
I found I was a natural at geometry, and had to work at algebra. I didn’t see what algebra was for, until years later. I was doing art for a sportswear company that did a lot of verical arch lettering. It was all by hand, and I was trying make the spacing and letter placement on the arch easier and predictive. After playing around with it for a while I realized much of what I was coming up with was algebra.
Jeff Bargholz says
“Ozempic.” I had to look that up.
It seems bad to me, and I do homeless and crazy chicks. What do I know? I did…..again…..today…..a chick who says she’s a lesbian. She’s going to come by tonight.
I’d force feed her Ozempic if it meant getting laid.
I know, I’m bad but I can’t deny my nature.
Algorithmic Analyst says
I think Ozempic is dangerous. Various side effects, such as stomach paralysis. Not for me 🙂
SPURWING PLOVER says
Get back to Educating the kids and not Brainwashing them with this CRT Climate Change load of Poppycock, Balderdash
JamesHalifax says
Amazingly enough….the “proficiency scores” in math correlates pretty closely to the number of white and Asian students in these schools.
CowboyUp says
Unlike the private sector, where the employer has to make a net profit before anybody gets a raise, the Teacher’s union can just demand raises, regardless of economic conditions, or their performance. Their contract already has colas triggered by inflation, so this raise is just gravy. For them, the economy is doing fine and bidenomics is ‘working.’ It helps that they are negotiating with their former president for their raises.
I’d give them their environmental initiatives, but they wouldn’t like it. No new parking garages, they shouldn’t be driving. Even EVs are climate killers that use petroleum products. It would also help with their obesity. School and administrative facility (and why not ALL government facilities, since it’s so important?) thermostats set at 65 for heat, and 80 for AC, so they can demonstrate their climate virtue, rather than just signal it.
Steve Kardas says
There is no ” bargaining” with the unions. The decision has already been made behind closed doors to give them everything they want.. Any public discussion or input is just theater. This is not just happening in Chicago, it is happening all over America. The system will continue to spew out young adults unable to read analytically or do math. An uneducated and ignorant populace is the plan because they are much easier to rule over. Leftist are deeply evil bunch. and know exactly what they are doing.