UPDATE FRED Disgruntled: “People, not profits” in Little Village. « Fred Klonsky

“People, not profits” in Little Village. « Fred Klonsky:

Disgruntled.

by Fred Klonsky

Fred,
How much time do you think parents can take off to watch their kids? Summer camps are closed (and cost money.) This wasn’t scheduled like holidays and summers are. And the parents are paying taxes for their children to be taught by teachers who already make $76,000 a year and just turned down a 16% raise because they don’t want to be evaluated. In this day and age of job uncertainty, unless parents are unemployed, how much can they risk their jobs for these selfish job-secure teachers?

 - Joanne

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Joanne,
Facts are stubborn things.
Clearly what is most important to you is that someone watches your kids. Great for you. But that’s not a 

Ten minute drawing. Bipartisanship.

by Fred Klonsky

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“People, not profits” in Little Village.

by Fred Klonsky

The school’s Resident Artist William Estrada silk screens “People Not Profits” t-shirts on the picket line at Telpochalli public school in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. Photo: Susan Klonsky.