We’re not talking about getting rid of an election, though. We are talking about adding one. The Chicago school board is apparently appointed right now.
How recent is your experience? Because as someone with kids in CPS schools for the last 20 years, that doesn’t match my experience. The cops are very visible and present in our schools. Too much so, in my opinion.
Ok, that answers that. So you’re just completely out of date then. Or somehow you never figured out as a sophomore in high school that it’s fucking stupid to reward kids who don’t want to be in class by telling them they can’t be in class.
Sorry, I thought they were doing nothing but “Drugs are bad” speeches. Make up your mind.
That’s true. On the other hand, our appointed school board sucks, and is chosen by a mayor with an axe to grind, and we really don’t need those people determining our children’s education.
Perhaps what we need to do is change the *way *school board elections are run. Perhaps we can, for example, schedule them on report card pick up nights, at the schools. So at least the parents who are minimally interested in their children’s education (as evidenced by, they’re the ones who show up to report card pickup) can get involved in the selection of the school board. Give us a pamphlet about the candidates to read (give each one 200 words to deliver their pitch) while we’re sitting in the hallway waiting to talk to the teachers and let us vote on the way out.
Please cite your knife wielding teen strung out on PCP claim, or anyone sane person claiming it was “anarchy”?
While I cannot imagine you do anything substantive in finance, you must know that these banks have been successfully sued recently in many cases where the financial instruments they sold were misrepresented to buyers. The CTU arguing it needs to be done in this case is neither unprecedented nor unrelated to their charge. They feel the city was defrauded and has unfortunately decided to make teachers and students pay for their stupidity/lack of due dilligence/naïveté. It’s pretty understandable they would argue for a solution that might mitigate some of that damage, and that such a request has nothing to do with the things you intimated it does.
There’s no question that Laquan Mcdonald had a knife and was under the influence of PCP. Maybe the policeman used excessive force, that’ll be up to the courts. It’s still anarchy to block entry/exit from innocent businesses just so some social justice warriors can show their ‘outrage’
I know that after the financial crises, big banks were less popular than a child molester caught sacrificing puppies. Many did settle lawsuits since lawyers can easily smell blood in the water.
There is certainly a question. PCP can be detected in a urine screen for at least a week after its effects have worn off, and much longer in some cases.
I’m not in Chicago and so I have no dog in this fight, but it strikes me as weird that the Teacher’s Union would stick their nose in a police issue. They probably should just stick to teaching issues
It’s not a question. Everyone agrees that Laquan McDonald’s toxicology screen showed up positive for PCP, and that he had a 3 in pocketknife.
Most of us are simply surprised to find out that having PCP in your system is a crime worthy of an immediate death sentence without a trial. 16 times.
Great, so please provide a cite that he was strung out on PCP at the time he was shot? More importantly, why did the city give his family 5 million dollars before they even filed a lawsuit if he was so clearly a threat as you seem to be intimating? Do you think every person shot by the cops gets millions of dollars?
Again, it’s not anarchy by any reasonable definition.
Even if I buy this, why shouldn’t the city sue if you think they could win since banks are hated?
It is a teaching issue for many reasons as has been explained multiple times. You don’t have to agree with their logic, but don’t pretend they are comparing apples and hand grenades.
If the schools are full of police (which, based on the comments upthread, appears to be the case), then that is a teaching issue.
That’s not anarchy, buddy. It’s a protest. The kind where, in the grand American tradition of such things, The People exercise their right of free speech by peaceably assembling to petition the Government for redress of grievances. Does any of that language sound vaguely familiar to you?
It doesn’t even matter what they were protesting about, or how justified it may or may not have been; ‘Shoppers and business-owners mildly inconvenienced’ is not only not ‘pure anarchy’, it’s not any kind of anarchy at all. The fact that you disagree with the protestors also isn’t particularly relevant, although personally I think it’s a shame that your frequently-expressed concern for ‘innocent businesses’ doesn’t extend to innocent people.
Blocking entry and exit to a business isn’t protest, it is trespassing. They’re not peaceable assembling to petition for a redress of grievances. They’re being assholes for the sake of being assholes. Each one of those shitters should have been arrested.
The innocent businesses are at least contributing to the economy of the city. The 17 year old juvenile delinquent was on his way to being a career criminal. Even juvenile delinquents have rights, however, and the officer should be tried for excessive force. I’m sure his ‘mother’ will be at the trial dressed to the nines and probably driving a brand new car.
Aren’t comments like this usually prefaced with, “I’m not a racist, but…”.? Or did you just decide to not bother camouflaging your intent?
The anarchists stormed into Macy’s yesterday during their walk off the job protest.
Getting back to the purpose of this thread, the CTU needs to completely denounce Black Lives Matter and all the assorted protests. Otherwise, that union needs to be broken.
… because?
The bastards have authorized a strike. This won’t end well for the CTU.
http://www.ctunet.com/blog/ctu-strike-authorization-96-5-percent-yes
Reducing standardized testing? Hell no. Sorry, but you’ll actually need to teach hard facts , not math appreciation or such nonsense .
Again the Teachers’ Union is sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong. Homelessness ? Immigration policy? And by the way , unemployment isn’t at crisis level. It’s at 5% , the natural rate of unemployment.
Restorative justice programs? Um no, how about spending time teaching and abandoning the social justice warrior nonsense.
There’s going to be a lot of pissed off taxpayers in this city should this strike threat be any more than saber rattling.
This statement is so fundamentally wrong that it earns the designation of “not even wrong”.
Teachers’ unions should focus on teacher’s issues. Not education issues; teacher’s issues. That’s why they exist. If you want to talk about education issues, go to a PTA meeting or a school board meeting or schedule a meeting with a school principal or something.
Nobody teaches “math appreciation.” Teachers don’t even choose their own curricula. Most believe too many tests waste classroom time, and don’t fairly measure what kids really learn.
Typical - you don’t agree with them so you want to destroy them.
What the union says or does is none of your business unless you are a member.
In essence, you demand that the union support bad ideas that don’t work, and ignore things that directly affect them and their students (like homelessness, and the police). Good luck with that.