Klonsky, Dillon, Brown and me: Conversation regarding leadership, communication and membership of the Illinois Education Association
Part of continuing conversation among retired teachers, activists and bloggers Fred Klonsky, John Dillon, Glen Brown and me. This conversation is cross posted on each of our blogs.
Mr. Rogers gave valuable adult lessons to children, parents, teachers, and all of us.
“I like to be told
If it’s going to hurt,
If it’s going to be hard,
If it’s not going to hurt.
I like to be told. I like to be told.”
If it’s going to hurt,
If it’s going to be hard,
If it’s not going to hurt.
I like to be told. I like to be told.”
Active and retired teachers in Illinois and across the nation are besieged with attacks on basic teacher rights, salaries, working conditions, evaluations based on the scores of classes they never taught and students they never had in class, pillaging earned compensation (present and future pensions), and much more.
The technical ability to mass communicate today has never been better or easier. Are teachers being told what they need to know by their own leadership?
Illinois and Chicago have two separate teachers’ union leaderships. Chicago has the Chicago Teachers Union led by Karen Lewis. Illinois has the Illinois Education Association led by Cinda Klickna…
With SBI in court, which cuts earned income for retired teachers while continuing to mandate that teachers pay 9.4% and more into a system which is intentionally robbed (underfunded) as a quasi-legalized form of wage theft, Klickna and IEA send automatic Klonsky, Dillon, Brown and me: Conversation regarding leadership, communication and membership of the Illinois Education Association | Reclaim Reform: