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Chicago Teachers Union Wants Pay Hikes,
Lower Standards, Abortions, LGBT Training
and Migrant Accomodation in Latest $50B Demand

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Posted By: DW626, 5/5/2024 5:00:28 PM

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has many demands in their latest salvo in negotiating a new contract with the public schools system. While the union’s demands have not been made public, Fox News reports a leaked document “sheds light on the eye-popping demands.” The $50 billion they are asking for includes a 9% wage hike, fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities, and a myriad of LGBT-related requirements. According to Fox News, the total base tax receipts for the state of Illinois last year were $50.7 billion.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: marbles 5/5/2024 5:07:01 PM (No. 1712526)
Lower standards? To produce dumber indoctrinated sheep ?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: wilarrbie 5/5/2024 5:09:20 PM (No. 1712527)
Any talk of actually educating students competently to grade levels in there?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 5/5/2024 5:11:32 PM (No. 1712530)
And what about their students? (Crickets)
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mifla 5/5/2024 5:19:49 PM (No. 1712535)
Is reading, writing, and arithmetic any where in the agenda? Didn't think so.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: itsonlyme 5/5/2024 5:22:14 PM (No. 1712537)
May 5, 2024 "Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ audacious plan calls for members to bank at least 9% wage increases each year through fiscal year 2028." "Gates’ plan also calls for teachers and counselors to be paid a stipend of $1,000 per student per semester when they are assigned a number of students above contractual limits and a retirement bonus of $2,500 for employees with more than 30 years of service." "But the union also wants more taxpayers' funds to go to migrants in its far-reaching plan – earmarking $2,000 to be given to each migrant to help with academics, transportation and mental health counseling." "Additionally, it wants the board to adopt policies that would prohibit any member from being compelled to tell parents when a student rejects his or her sex, according to the documents" Oh, one other thing........... "Last school year, the district spent more than $21,000 per student, far above the national average of $14,347, according to census data." That is all for today.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Scribelus 5/5/2024 5:33:34 PM (No. 1712542)
“Education”, at every level, holds our children and young adults as hostages. It is a racket.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 5/5/2024 5:37:05 PM (No. 1712545)
It is as if they are writing a handbook on how to increase home schooling of kids who have decent parents.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: jalo1951 5/5/2024 5:43:08 PM (No. 1712547)
Lower standards? You can't go much lower than stupid unless it is stupid plus. IQs in negative numbers perhaps. Who in the hell do they think they are? I was in education, my husband was in education, my son is in education. This kind of nonsense has to end. America is on the brink of being taken over lock stock and barrel. Will someone please call these fools out? None of these so called demands has a damn thing to do with education. What is happening to our country?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: watashiyo 5/5/2024 5:59:35 PM (No. 1712551)
Fire them all and abolish the liberal socialist union.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Hazymac 5/5/2024 6:25:13 PM (No. 1712566)
You want, you want, you want? Show some positive results in your students' learning and maybe you won't get what you deserve, which is to get fired.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Illinois Mom 5/5/2024 6:26:49 PM (No. 1712567)
How about NO PAY until one half of the students can do grade level Reading and Math. Then deduct pay for the half that fail. If you have a blackboard and chalk and your students cannot read or write, how DARE you call yourself a teacher.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: erod111 5/5/2024 6:35:39 PM (No. 1712573)
50 billion? With a "B"? Hey, let's just skip the pay raise and keep the status quo. Maybe in the future they are more amenable to reasonable demands.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: philsner 5/5/2024 6:42:53 PM (No. 1712578)
As the cliche goes - will the last person out please turn off the lights.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: paral04 5/5/2024 6:55:06 PM (No. 1712582)
Maybe Chicago should outsource their schools to a company that focuses on the kids and not the teachers benefits.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 5/5/2024 7:01:50 PM (No. 1712589)
In return, they pledge to have as much as half of the student population learn the alphabet all the way to C.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: smokincol 5/5/2024 7:22:00 PM (No. 1712595)
I guess the commies figured that the best way to destroy our country is through devastating the education sector + kindergarten though college and their plan is working
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Reply 17 - Posted by: JayD 5/5/2024 7:25:13 PM (No. 1712597)
Getting out of Illinois is the best thing I ever did.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: BirdsNest 5/5/2024 8:10:29 PM (No. 1712606)
The people in Hell want ice water too.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: JHHolliday 5/5/2024 8:15:26 PM (No. 1712610)
Eventually the law of economics will catch up with this sort of outrageous demand. Then they will scream for a federal bailout that we have to pay for.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: downnout 5/5/2024 8:17:41 PM (No. 1712613)
What? They didn’t demand Lamborghinis?
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Reply 21 - Posted by: mc squared 5/5/2024 8:44:45 PM (No. 1712621)
Think of the savings if they just shut down the school system. Who would notice?
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Reply 22 - Posted by: SkyKing1222 5/5/2024 8:52:03 PM (No. 1712625)
Speaking of Hell 18 I believe there is a special place there for GWB. He ran on school choice, which was one of the first things he didn’t do.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: MickTurn 5/5/2024 10:11:06 PM (No. 1712640)
Tell you what Unions, You are ALL FIRED with extreme Prejudice. We'll get Veterans to teach our kids, you can all go to HELL!
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Reply 24 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/6/2024 12:03:02 AM (No. 1712659)
I have no sympathy for Chicago. They have their mayor, the Obama library, and now they can give the teachers their demands.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Vaquero45 5/6/2024 1:56:57 AM (No. 1712670)
When did all the teachers in America become Communists and homosexuals?
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Strike3 5/6/2024 3:29:54 AM (No. 1712683)
Too bad that Chicago is flat broke and in debt. Maybe they could defund the police to make up the difference? Then the teachers could demand combat pay on top of their other silly pipe dreams.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Trigger2 5/6/2024 5:17:47 AM (No. 1712717)
Demonrats will see to it that the union gets everything they want. Meanwhile, the citizens will be working toward educational freedom.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: BarryNo 5/6/2024 7:37:43 AM (No. 1712759)
It's outlived it's benefits. Dissolve the union. Fire teachers who aren't teaching. Start over one's that do.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: Venturer 5/6/2024 7:56:20 AM (No. 1712772)
Teachers who want me to pay for their abortions??? What kind of people are teachers?
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Reply 30 - Posted by: franq 5/6/2024 8:07:31 AM (No. 1712781)
Just pay them to stay home. The kids would be better off.
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Reply 31 - Posted by: ironchefw 5/6/2024 8:17:38 AM (No. 1712791)
Who begs for LGBT training?
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Reply 32 - Posted by: broken01 5/6/2024 8:35:04 AM (No. 1712801)
Sorry CTU but the children of your fair city are stupid enough. You should not be allowed to keep making them stupider.
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Reply 33 - Posted by: rochow 5/6/2024 9:49:07 PM (No. 1713289)
Lower standards? Do any of them know how to speak English? How much lower can we expect? Not showing up every day? Chewing gum, eating and reading the paper whilst 'teaching' a class?
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