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rahm would be smarter if he did like they did in RI (Rhode Island) and fire them all, get rid of the union, then rehire the good teachers
Who do you think they are going to hire to replace them? Most good teachers are already hired for the year. School has already started in my district and they still have vacancies. At best, he'll be getting people others didn't want to hire. Believe it or not, good teachers are hard to replace.
That said, the strike needs to end and everyone needs to get back to school.
Who do you think they are going to hire to replace them? Most good teachers are already hired for the year. School has already started in my district and they still have vacancies. At best, he'll be getting people others didn't want to hire. Believe it or not, good teachers are hard to replace.
That said, the strike needs to end and everyone needs to get back to school.
The teachers feel the union sold them out and that they could get a better deal still.
Who do you think they are going to hire to replace them? Most good teachers are already hired for the year. School has already started in my district and they still have vacancies. At best, he'll be getting people others didn't want to hire. Believe it or not, good teachers are hard to replace.
That said, the strike needs to end and everyone needs to get back to school.
How about all the teachers who can't find work because too many crappy teachers aren't retiring? A lot of schools have also let teachers go because there is no money...
Trust me there would be decent teachers coming out of the woodwork if those Chicago teachers were fired.
You have to respect Emanuel for the way he is handling this. He seems to care more about doing what is right than doing what is best for his image. If Daley was still in office there wouldnt be a strike. He would simply give the Union everything they demanded, then pawn the costs off onto future generations. He did that for a while then left office and left the other guy a mess to clean up.
The teacher's union and the city tenatively agree to a contract over the weekend. The contract offered guaranteed 2%-3% pay raises for the next 4 years, along with pay raises for time served and additional education. The city agreed to hire 600 additional teachers to cover the longer class days, allowing the teachers to keep their less than 6 hour class day. (Chicago currently has a 5.5 hour school day- the shortest in the country, and yet the Chicago teachers are some of the highest paid in the country.)
The union president called it a "good contract" over the weekend.
And then today the union announced it was going to continue the strike because according to the union president:
ETA: I have to say, it was refreshing to see the union president flat out say that it was all about how much the teachers could get from the taxpayers. She dropped all pretense of the strike being "for the kids."
Very good, Master of Populism, Rahm has to face reality and go against the union. It's easy to be a populist when you don't have any responsibilities, isn't it?
....39% of the teachers send their kids to private school. WHY? Every answer I come up with leads me to the same answer, because they feel the teachers in a private school, are doing a better job.
Sad.
WHY? Every answer I can come up is that they know that private schools can pick and choose who they admit. Therefore, their childrens' education will not be hindered by the disruptive and sometimes criminal kids they have in their public school classrooms.
Probably the other 61% would also send their kids to private school if they could afford it. It has nothing to do with the quality of public school teachers...it's about the learning environment.
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