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Friday, February 17, 2012

FROM CHUTZPAH TO MOLLYCODDLING « Teachers Fight Back

FROM CHUTZPAH TO MOLLYCODDLING « Teachers Fight Back:

FROM CHUTZPAH TO MOLLYCODDLING

Nice to see some teachers with chutzpah for a change instead of legislators and education administrators. The Chicago Teachers Union is asking for a 30% raise over two years because the administration is mandating an extra 90 minutes of instruction next year. The C.T.U. also wants class size reductions and several other items. Wow, how refreshing.

Just heard from a friend who is a teacher in an upper middle class Chicago suburb. The administration in her district just offered the teachers a salary freeze for three years and other demands. This came after months of negotiations. Let’s see if the teachers out there are going to accept that. Hope not!

The teachers union in my local district just voted 1,013 to 30 to give the union’s bargaining team the authority to