There are good teachers and their are bad teachers. There are good parents and there are bad parents. Unfortunately in Chicago there are mostly bad teachers and bad parents. The teachers union only makes it worse and bad teachers are protected and the benefit plans have bankrupted the city. The public teacher union needs to be dissolved...along with most other public sector unions. It's for the children!
Privatize them all. Hand out vouchers and let kids and parents choose. Valparaiso has moved to a voucher system and the public schools are regenerating from within, hiring the best teachers they can and begging students to return. There are a lot of good teachers in CPS. It takes a special type of personality to be able to handle a classroom and properly instruct children Without these special people the kids don't stand a chance. Unfortunately, the CPS has a dark side with broken schools, administrators, teachers, students, and parents. These people can't be removed from the current system, but if the system is changed, it may improve. And that is the only chance for some of these kids to become productive citizens. These negotiations can't be just about money. First of all, there is none. If you became a teacher just to collect a paycheck, your in it for the wrong reason. Some of these kids are rotten to the core, but most just want to grow up and be kids. Most teachers want to teach and inspire. And the taxpayer wants a system that works. If that means we need to change the system, then change it.
It's already happening. Rahm wants the teachers out, to be a non-factor. The system is on its way to being a system run by private business, paying less to teachers, with the behaviour problems and special needs kids left behind in neigborhood schools. Watch it happen -- this is even where the schools are good. What Emmanuel is doing is not a plan, it's destruction. What happens when the private business decides not to be in the education business anymore? What happens when the private business sells its interest to another private business? I don't think anyone is thinking this through, but then that's all about the money, too -- taxpayers will be paying less under this system, and will put the self-appointed North Side King in office for years.
That is a long chain of what ifs..... and if thens.....really unlikely that the private sector (who you obviously fear so much MPots) is going to take over such a huge bureaucratic mess that is the CPS...it is a sinking stinking ship of liberal snafus, dead ends, regulations, and lowered expectations, as well as the largest baby sitting club in America..And by the way I share your concern for Rahmbo staying in office but he was not "self appointed" - he was voted in with a very comfortable margin of victory by the voters. They may be having buyer's remorse about now though....
For the record, I have no fear of the private sector. My dad was in partnership in a business for most of his life, but there is a difference between a private business that, say, makes something that people need, like shoes, or beer, and an investment vehicle (like Bain Capital). Many of these charter schools are investment ops, and a media conglomerate can just come along and buy up a large number of them (and yes, it has happened elsewhere already). Also for the record, they don't HAVE to run the schools, just their own -- the CPS board will be in place to take care of administrative tasks citywide. If there was an actual plan in place that we all knew about, that would be one thing, but he's just attempting a fiat, closing good schools with the bad, and selling it as taxpayer relief. Re Rahm, I, too, hope the voters have had enough, but I doubt it.
Work it out with Rahm? He has no interest in working anything out but what he wants. That's it. When you combine Emmanuel, who's basically a son-of-a-bitch, with Karen Lewis, who is, sorry to say, not the brightest light bulb in the box, it was always a recipe for disaster. Rahm is being given a free pass by all reporters and by anyone else in sight. 30% rise in homicides? Not really his problem. Strike? No problem -- teachers wanted it. I personally hate the guy.
The unfortunate fact is that the CPS is now a minority school system almost exclusively. Nearly 90% of the students are minorities and statistically those people have lower incomes and in certain neighborhoods. While it does employ a large number of white teachers it is still largely controlled and for the minorities in Chicago. The CPS teachers make good money compared to truly "working families" in Chicago. They should be lucky to have these jobs. Yes most of the teachers in Chicago are good. But most everyone who has a job does their best. Now is not the time to ask for more money. A- most of the taxpayers are certainly not getting a raise. B- we dont have it. They will come off poorly. And frankly I dont care if they get ANY raise - because I dont have kids in the CPS. My kids go to Catholic Schools. Only my taxes go to the public schools to pay for the minority kids.
if you only knew exactly what is going on at cps it should sicken you all and would want your tax money back. this is a system of testing only. when they do go to merit raises no one will get a raise ever. how about a 1200 page PDF on evaluations, 3 hour power point presentation. they aren't going to teach any body anything. cps is going to be a baby sitting service and 3 meals a day cafeteria . at your expense. indoctrination centers is more like it. they will get exactly what they want and God bless us all.......
There are good teachers and their are bad teachers. There are good parents and there are bad parents. Unfortunately in Chicago there are mostly bad teachers and bad parents. The teachers union only makes it worse and bad teachers are protected and the benefit plans have bankrupted the city. The public teacher union needs to be dissolved...along with most other public sector unions. It's for the children!
ReplyDeleteThere are many good teachers in CPS. Lets not attack them all.
DeleteI didn't say "all", I said "most". I am guessing your weak reading comprehension skills are because you had one of the many bad ones.
DeleteIf there is a strike, we will be able to see who the good ones are when they show up to cross the picket lines to teach the children.
Privatize them all. Hand out vouchers and let kids and parents choose. Valparaiso has moved to a voucher system and the public schools are regenerating from within, hiring the best teachers they can and begging students to return.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of good teachers in CPS. It takes a special type of personality to be able to handle a classroom and properly instruct children Without these special people the kids don't stand a chance. Unfortunately, the CPS has a dark side with broken schools, administrators, teachers, students, and parents. These people can't be removed from the current system, but if the system is changed, it may improve. And that is the only chance for some of these kids to become productive citizens.
These negotiations can't be just about money. First of all, there is none. If you became a teacher just to collect a paycheck, your in it for the wrong reason. Some of these kids are rotten to the core, but most just want to grow up and be kids. Most teachers want to teach and inspire. And the taxpayer wants a system that works.
If that means we need to change the system, then change it.
It's already happening. Rahm wants the teachers out, to be a non-factor. The system is on its way to being a system run by private business, paying less to teachers, with the behaviour problems and special needs kids left behind in neigborhood schools. Watch it happen -- this is even where the schools are good. What Emmanuel is doing is not a plan, it's destruction. What happens when the private business decides not to be in the education business anymore? What happens when the private business sells its interest to another private business? I don't think anyone is thinking this through, but then that's all about the money, too -- taxpayers will be paying less under this system, and will put the self-appointed North Side King in office for years.
DeleteThat is a long chain of what ifs..... and if thens.....really unlikely that the private sector (who you obviously fear so much MPots) is going to take over such a huge bureaucratic mess that is the CPS...it is a sinking stinking ship of liberal snafus, dead ends, regulations, and lowered expectations, as well as the largest baby sitting club in America..And by the way I share your concern for Rahmbo staying in office but he was not "self appointed" - he was voted in with a very comfortable margin of victory by the voters. They may be having buyer's remorse about now though....
DeleteFor the record, I have no fear of the private sector. My dad was in partnership in a business for most of his life, but there is a difference between a private business that, say, makes something that people need, like shoes, or beer, and an investment vehicle (like Bain Capital). Many of these charter schools are investment ops, and a media conglomerate can just come along and buy up a large number of them (and yes, it has happened elsewhere already). Also for the record, they don't HAVE to run the schools, just their own -- the CPS board will be in place to take care of administrative tasks citywide. If there was an actual plan in place that we all knew about, that would be one thing, but he's just attempting a fiat, closing good schools with the bad, and selling it as taxpayer relief. Re Rahm, I, too, hope the voters have had enough, but I doubt it.
DeleteFor the record also, I think a voucher system like the one in place in Valparaiso would make a lot more sense, on the face of it.
DeleteThe teachers are making a horrible mistake. They should try to work it out with Rahm.
ReplyDeleteWork it out with Rahm? He has no interest in working anything out but what he wants. That's it. When you combine Emmanuel, who's basically a son-of-a-bitch, with Karen Lewis, who is, sorry to say, not the brightest light bulb in the box, it was always a recipe for disaster. Rahm is being given a free pass by all reporters and by anyone else in sight. 30% rise in homicides? Not really his problem. Strike? No problem -- teachers wanted it. I personally hate the guy.
DeleteThe unfortunate fact is that the CPS is now a minority school system almost exclusively. Nearly 90% of the students are minorities and statistically those people have lower incomes and in certain neighborhoods. While it does employ a large number of white teachers it is still largely controlled and for the minorities in Chicago. The CPS teachers make good money compared to truly "working families" in Chicago. They should be lucky to have these jobs. Yes most of the teachers in Chicago are good. But most everyone who has a job does their best. Now is not the time to ask for more money. A- most of the taxpayers are certainly not getting a raise. B- we dont have it. They will come off poorly. And frankly I dont care if they get ANY raise - because I dont have kids in the CPS. My kids go to Catholic Schools. Only my taxes go to the public schools to pay for the minority kids.
ReplyDeleteI hope Mayor Rahm fires every one of those teachers. They have committed educational malpractice. They deserve nothing.
DeleteI hope you and everyone at your workplace get fired, too. You deserve nothing.
Deleteif you only knew exactly what is going on at cps it should sicken you all and would want your tax money back. this is a system of testing only. when they do go to merit raises no one will get a raise ever. how about a 1200 page PDF on evaluations, 3 hour power point presentation. they aren't going to teach any body anything. cps is going to be a baby sitting service and 3 meals a day cafeteria . at your expense. indoctrination centers is more like it. they will get exactly what they want and God bless us all.......
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