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You almost wonder why these people don’t mail themselves into Mason for the Stupid People of the Week. This one, however, earned her own special place.<\/p>\n
Meet Stacy Davis The teachers\u2019 union is in the process of negotiating a new teacher\u2019s contract with the public school system, which calls for an extra $50 billion in funding. The massive increase is being proposed to cover wage hikes as well as other demands. For instance, the money would be used to provide fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities and a host of LGBTQ-related requirements and training in schools.<\/p>\n Last year, the total base tax receipts for the state of Illinois was $50.7 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So is she asking for all of it? I suppose we should be grateful if she’s leaving that last $.7B for the rest of the state?<\/p>\n Only 21% of the city\u2019s eighth graders are proficient readers, according to the Nation\u2019s Report Card, which provides national results about students\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n Davis Gates touted having her children in public schools in 2022. She said it helps to “legitimize” her position within the union and that she could not advocate on behalf of public schools if that were not the case,\u00a0according to NBC Chicago.<\/p>\n However, in 2023, Davis Gates placed her teenage son in a private Catholic high school in the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Pandering for publicity” anyone?<\/p>\n The Illinois Report Card recently released a report showing Chicago Public Schools spent $29,000 per student, and the teachers in the district are among the highest paid in big cities.<\/p>\n However despite high pay, the report showed that 43% of the district\u2019s teachers are chronically absent each school year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You would think, having gone this far, she could hardly get worse? Never, ever bet against a liberal educator saying something mind-boggling.<\/p>\n “Conservatives don\u2019t even want Black children to be able to read,” Davis Gates said. “Remember, these same conservatives are the conservatives who probably would have been championing Black codes, you know, during reconstruction or thereafter. So, forgive me again if conservatives pushing back on educating immigrant children, Black children, children who live in poverty, doesn’t make my anxiety go up. That’s what they’re supposed to say. That is literally a part of the oath that they take to be right wing.” Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n THIS is what is helping to run the schools? Seems to me the resistance she is hitting from conservatives who oppose her union requests is more along the lines of “we WANT kids to read – and you teachers are failing us.”<\/p>\n I guess I missed the session where we had to take oaths…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Y<\/del>Gates, the President of the Chicago Teacher’s Union.<\/p>\n