If You Look At What Chicago Schoolteachers Are Striking Over, You Can See Why People Are Furious
Public school teachers declared a citywide strike today to protest the contract offered to them by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office.
They haven't done so since 1987, and it's instantly polarized the city.
While many support the teachers' move...
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Well, it seems from the related videos that they are clearly not striking over pay rates, nor are they striking over lack of tissues, pencils(#2) notebook paper, or elmer's glue! No, it's that damned "accountibility" issue again! Jeeze, why do they INSIST on keeping us to some "Standard" that requires us to actually educate the kids????? WTF! Someone PULEEEEEASE stop the madness of accountability!
Read this article carefully, folks! Unions have to leave the government sector ASAP!
This is hard to believe that Rahm didnt have something to do with this strike.His main backers are the unions.
I'm a teacher and I understand and support being held accountable for doing my job. I may not be able to make a star student out of EVERY child, but my students grow and show progress. I've seen what happens to kids with crappy teachers-it's horrible. So please, hold us accountable, and FIRE those crappy teachers.
I believe it's more the WAY they measure accountability. The eval tool is faulty. Most evaluations are subjective, however, to include a large percentage of how a student does on a test---a test which THEY receive NO grade for, thus really don't care about...onto the teacher's evaluation is concerning. I don't teach math or reading, but how the students perform on those tests will show up as 20% of my 'grade'. As a teacher with over 25 years of experience, and high rated evaluations...this concerns me. I agree...make us accountable...always thought I was. Just make the method fair.
If they wish to state that they do not want to be held accountablefor the students to actually learn, then it's the same as saying they do not want their jobs anymore, just the paycheck and benefits. This attitude is a perfect reason to fire all those who chose this strike option, and hire private sector teachers who really want to help children learn. Show them and their union thugs the door.
this is all being orchestrated by the demoncrats...
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