Saturday, September 15, 2012

Who gets hurt from the Chicago Teachers Strike?

        Who really gets hurt during the Chicago Teachers Strike? The Answer is simple its the kids. During this Strike whose educating them? Seriously, these Teachers only care about their pocketbooks and not the kids they are supposed to be educating.          They need to have their pay based on results of their hard work and not the I been here X amount of time. If you look at the statistics for Chicago its pathetic.          Of all the 4 th grade students being "educated" in CPS, only a shocking 15 percent are proficient in reading. Merely 20 percent of the school system's 8 th graders are proficient in math, well below both state and national levels.       Most depressing, as Reuters reports, barely 60 percent of the public school's students graduate high school "compared with 75 percent nationwide." Can you honestly say with these numbers these so called educators really deserve a raise? Imagine this a Chicago School Teacher without benefits added makes $75,000 a year. A academic school Calender is for 180 days so, that means that a CPS School Teacher makes $52/hour. Does this make them look greedy or what? Why does teachers at a school system that makes this much have results at such a low level?

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