Again? Chicago teachers union mulls strike to block return to classrooms

[Counselor706]

The Chicago teachers union is gauging members' support for a strike to force a return to remote learning amid a COVID-19 surge just as students are set to return from winter break.

Earlier this week, the union issued a survey asking its members what actions they would support to “force CPS to improve its COVID safety measures,” including participation in a “citywide work stoppage.”

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Bonus from 2/4/21...Chicago teachers refuse school return — even after $100M spent to keep schools safe

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Let's aks Pecky again about that idea that teachers' unions aren't a problem with public education.

 

[pecksniff]

Their position is not surprising -- teachers who have to teach in-class are at higher risk of infection even than police officers.

 

[Rotadom]

I keep waiting for positive news out of the Trumplican camp.

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[BidudeinWi]

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Bonus from 2/4/21...Chicago teachers refuse school return — even after $100M spent to keep schools safe

Fire ALL of them! Enough already!

 

[Counselor706]

Chicago Teachers Union on verge of strike for virtual teaching during COVID-19 surge

Most schools nationwide are supposed to return students to the classroom this week as Christmas break ends. But Chicago teachers could upend the city's plans for in-person learning with a strike over what they say are unsafe working conditions because of a surge of coronavirus cases.

The Chicago Teachers Union will vote Tuesday on whether its more than 25,000 members will refuse to go to work in person on Wednesday and demand that they be allowed to phone in to their jobs virtually. According to WBEZ-FM, 80% of the 8,000 members who attended a CTU virtual town hall Sunday evening did not want to work in person in Chicago Public Schools under current conditions.

The union has been foreshadowing a strike for days. Last week, the union surveyed its members asking if they would "support a district-wide pause and temporary shift to remote learning." They also polled members on whether they'd be willing to "participate in a city-wide work stoppage" if the union's demands are not met.

Studies have shown that viral transmission for COVID-19 in schools is "extremely rare" and that schools can reopen safely. Additionally, virtual learning has been demonstrated to negatively impact student performance, with math and English test scores plummeting in Chicago Public Schools during the pandemic, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

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[Sean Renaud]

Fire ALL of them! Enough already!

You won't be able to replace them.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

You won't be able to replace them.

This. That would really shut the schools down. The teachers are trying to keep the kids learning as best they can.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I think it stands as testament to how undereducated many of these people are. Business owners big and small are having one helluva time finding enough cashiers, warehouse workers, and other essential workers. If those minimum and near minimum wage jobs are difficult to fill how much harder is it going to be to find people with college educations? Looked it up, around 35% of the nation and it rises to 48 if you count some college. Which really doesn't tell us a great deal. What is it I keep hearing from the right? Something about underwater basket weaving, gender studies, Screen writing just off the top of my head don't count? Cus that's gonna narrow your field and that's without talking about the ones already in teaching, medical, law, politicians so on and so forth.

I mean I feel comfortable I might able to handle some 2nd or 3rd graders as long as I had the codex for history. Math is easy that far down, science isn't hard and I'm really good at English but anything above that? You might as well let them watch the Magic School Bus.

 

[Rotadom]

I keep waiting for positive news out of the Trumplican camp.

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Nothing yet

 

[contrifan32]

Their position is not surprising -- teachers who have to teach in-class are at higher risk of infection even than police officers.

So there is something unique about the classrooms in Chicago? Or is it the students of Chicago that has colored the teachers (and union hacks) decision to hold in class teaching while the rest of the state schools and country are back in the classroom?

 

[Sean Renaud]

So there is something unique about the classrooms in Chicago? Or is it the students of Chicago that has colored the teachers (and union hacks) decision to hold in class teaching while the rest of the state schools and country are back in the classroom?

That's a pretty bold assumption that they must be colored, and unions saved and built this country. Half the problems we have today can be linked directly Reagan busting up the unions.

Though the answer is a combination of who knows, if its JUST Chicago surely there are enough schools that are nearish to get them to. I suspect they are either the canary that went for everybody or there is something special.

 

[pecksniff]

Half the problems we have today can be linked directly Reagan busting up the unions.

Well, also to unions in their traditional form becoming nonviable through deindustrialization. Service-sector unions are a novelty.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

It's a long road around the government school nonopoly, but it's becoming clearer bythe day that it's a road that must be taken

 

[LukSkyFokker]

It's a long road around the government school nonopoly, but it's becoming clearer bythe day that it's a road that must be taken

You're not qualified to teach in Chicago or Arlington, VA.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It's a long road around the government school nonopoly, but it's becoming clearer bythe day that it's a road that must be taken

Only if you only want the rich to be able to even read, write and do basic arithmetic. Otherwise the government "monopoly" is the only viable path. You knew that already though.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

You're not qualified to teach in Chicago or Arlington, VA.

Alas, true. I don't have the bullshit ed classes. Despite years of calculus and beyond, I can't teach so much as basic math in a government school.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Only if you only want the rich to be able to even read, write and do basic arithmetic. Otherwise the government "monopoly" is the only viable path. You knew that already though.

I'm sure that the East Germans told the same lies to their unfortunate prisoner-citizens, and even declared that, if they took down the wall, people would leave!

If government schools are doing such a bang-up, job, why do so many want to leave?

 

[pecksniff]

It's a long road around the government school nonopoly, but it's becoming clearer bythe day that it's a road that must be taken

Private schooling is really not a viable alternative for the whole of society.

 

[Counselor706]

After they piled up at dropboxes, many CPS students' COVID-19 test rendered 'invalid'

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'm sure that the East Germans told the same lies to their unfortunate prisoner-citizens, and even declared that, if they took down the wall, people would leave!

If government schools are doing such a bang-up, job, why do so many want to leave?

What does that have to do with a thing?!

 

[LukSkyFokker]

What does that have to do with a thing?!

He just bullshits and hopes no one notices.

 

[LittleDixie]

LET THEM STRIKE.

STOP PAYING THEM WHILE THEY ARE ON STRIKE.

This whole "I don't want to work but I still need to get paid" shit is idiotic. No work, no paycheck.

 

[Sean Renaud]

LET THEM STRIKE.

STOP PAYING THEM WHILE THEY ARE ON STRIKE.

This whole "I don't want to work but I still need to get paid" shit is idiotic. No work, no paycheck.

I don't really care if they get paid or not. Eventually someone has to stand up to tyrants and kings. The moms and dads who use teachers as free day care are gonna change their minds DAMN fast if the teachers keep up for more than a few weeks.

 

[Cubantripod]

The teachers are trying to keep the kids learning as best they can.

You're insulting your own intelligence. You know you don't even believe that.