Now that is the way to hold a protest!

Chicago regains it's labor roots, at least for one day.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

+ - / x 1.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

This really is a beautiful thing.

I'd be nervous about some bomb throwers in the crowd if it wasn't filled with so many young hotties.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

What's so great about the protest?

Young hotties sound promising

Getting 3 months off a year and getting done at 330 has to be hell on a person.

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Not sure if serious...

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

half and half... Teaching other people's kids is hard work but when I see my teacher friends posting bullshit statuses about being off all summer, I lose some sympathy.

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You shouldn't let that Facebook stuff deter you. I'm very close to a couple of teachers. Theirs is a job that truly not everyone can do. And the teachers who really take the time to care...they're more important than people realize.

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Anyone can teach, it's just that not many people can be any good at it.

Those that are lazy pieces of shit usually get to tenure and get even worse, just now they can't be fired for being bad at their job.

Well yeah, it's true that there's good and bad in every profession. But I'd never try to downplay the importance of teachers.

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Revolution has always been incubated in the student/teacher class. Maybe a few of these young people are getting their first taste of labor struggle and it activates them

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Don't look at this as an us v. them struggle.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I used to be a "them" and I had the chance to go through a labor/contract dispute my first year at a school I taught it. It left me a bit cynical on the matter.

For those that disagreed with the Wisconsin governor, maybe now they wish someone could fix the Chicago Public School Teacher's Union like they did in Wisconsin.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Have you heard about those schools where the teachers fix the test scores?

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Because of course this strike is all about money. You know with thoughts like that , Im surprised you didnt get an 11% raise.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

If the teachers were smart they would get a college gig.

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you are severely misinformed.

Add in the time you spend at home working on next days lessons,grading papers , yeah easy job.
Not to mention the hooligans that are there. Remember the teachers last year that where attacked by their students?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I can't support any organization that would have this as it's president:



She seems like the stupidest laziest fuck that could ever get such a high position. Everytime she speaks I want to drive my foot through my TV.

I'm as pro-Worker as it gets, but I hope Rahm crushes this thing so bad, that the teachers drag this fat bitch out on the street and light her ass on fire.

I don't think that the main problem in the CPS is the teachers. I also don't think anything in the CPS will improve by paying the teachers more money.

To me, this whole things is an exercise in greed by both sides. Neither side gives a shit about improving the school system.

It would be nice if things weren't based on one test.

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I haven't followed the specifics. They've been offered an 11% raise? 16%?? But they want more benefits too?? And many of them are huge 300+ lb cows out picketing???

maybe about 45%-50%.

i'm guessing it's the part about performance evaluation that bugs them. I don't blame them on that count. evaluation won't be done in a meaningful way but rather "take a spin on test score roulette."

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

The state wants schools to install evaluation tools for teachers that hey have not finished making yet. Wit the new evals, tenure means a lot less. In fact two bad evals in a 7 year period can get you fired. Unlike under the old system where you basically could not. You can also keep a teacher lower on the totem pole if they have better evaluations when districts have to riff people. Which is how it should be. Teachers who are bad and lazy need to be fired. Most districts chose not to becuase it cost more money in legal fees than the risk of forgetting one document or procedure and having to star the whole process over.

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I hope Raum keeps a hard line and puts these teachers on the spot. Do your job or get shit canned. Screw that tenure BS.

Right, good idea. As long as the teachers get to pick and choose which high performing students they have in their class I dont see that being a problem.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Something has to be done...