Chicago Teachers Union’s Radical, Ludicrous Contract Demands for Lots of Cash and Even More Wokeness
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is currently negotiating a new contract with the public school system, with audacious demands that have been leaked to the public. Among these demands are substantial wage increases for its members, with a proposed 9% increase each year through fiscal year 2028. This would result in an average salary of $144,620 for teachers by the 2027-2028 school year, which is more than double the median household income in Chicago.
The union is also seeking additional benefits such as a $1,000 per student per semester stipend for teachers and counselors when they are assigned a number of students above contractual limits, as well as a retirement bonus of $2,500 for employees with more than 30 years of service.
In addition to these financial demands, the CTU is also calling for a range of social justice provisions. These include 100% coverage benefits for abortion care and fertility treatments, $2,000 to be given to each migrant to help with academics, transportation, and mental health counseling, and the conversion of unused school facilities into housing accommodation for migrants.
The union also wants workers and educators to be trained annually on LGBTQ+ issues and mandates that every school in the district has at least one gender-neutral bathroom. It also wants to prohibit any member from being compelled to tell parents when a student rejects his or her sex.
These demands come at a time when only 21 percent of the city’s eighth graders are proficient readers, according to the last Nation’s Report Card. The CTU’s demands have been criticized for being far outside the scope of traditional bargaining, with concerns that funding them will require a significant overhaul of finances and new revenues, meaning more and higher taxes for residents.
The negotiations are taking place under the influence of Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has deep ties to the CTU and received significant funding from teachers’ unions during his campaign. The outcome of these negotiations will have significant implications for the city’s finances and the education of its students.
If I am hired to teach students programming languages, I expect parents to prepare their children to be well-nourished for learning to take place. Abortions, sexual orientation, migrant issues, birth control pills, and so on will not be discussed in my computer programming class because they are distractions from our goal to prepare students for employment as qualified computer programmers. Personal issues involving students should be handled by parents and not teachers.
ReplyDeleteAbortions are the murder of unborn babies and should not be a part of requiring teachers to endorse it in the classroom. Birth control methods and pills are not a part of the curriculum and should be discussed with parents, not with teachers. The issue belongs with parents and their children and not in the K to 12th grade curriculum.
ReplyDeleteToo much is expected of teachers, yet complaints are made when students are not math and reading scholars.
Teachers are trained on methods of teaching courses in the curriculum as well as treating all students with dignity and respect.
Provide teachers with computers, books, and educational resources to allow them to do a great job of teaching students and allow parents to do a great job of caring for their children to allow learning to take place.
I will repeat that students who are well nourished nutritionally will have great memory and are able to any subject you present to them. Students who are fed junk and inadequate nutrition will have a brain that will malfunction and not allow learning to take place. Race is not the issue, it is nutrition that makes the difference. Do the research on how the body works.
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