Nearly 25,000 schoolteachers to go on strike in Chicago monday

[Wafflajizzles]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/9/chicago-teachers-to-strike-after-talks-fail/57720772/1

stuffs massive dawg. It's supposed to put about 350,000 kids, or something like that, out of school. The last strike of these proportions in chicago was 25 years ago, and that lasted 19 days. More recently, I think detroit had a strike for similar reasons.

I guess this is a good time to discuss what guys think about the way teachers are treated and how teaching is treated as a profession as a whole, along with this strike in particular....

Any thoughts?

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[RedGajin]

oh gog i hope it spreads one state up

[BanishedLetters]

OMG PLEASE LET THIS APPLY TO ME

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLESAEEAG;NGHSHJLSDFM,J /YLK

[_Rave_]

i hate how powerful teachers' unions have become

like jesus christ, they're teachers, not doctors.  they aren't supposed to choose their own salary

[Wafflajizzles]

OMG PLEASE LET THIS APPLY TO ME

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLESAEEAG;NGHSHJLSDFM,J /YLK

Are you in a CPS controlled school?

Otherwise, NOP

(I am though, tee-hee)

[Slate521]

i hate how powerful teachers' unions have become

like jesus christ, they're teachers, not doctors.  they aren't supposed to choose their own salary

you're such a richard.

Teachers are far more important than doctors; because they create them.

[Wafflajizzles]

i hate how powerful teachers' unions have become

like jesus christ, they're teachers, not doctors.  they aren't supposed to choose their own salary

There are quite a bit of issues with their contracts outstanding though, it isn't just about pay.
They are essentially being forced to work an extra hour for free after mayor Emanuel pushed that through last couple o years, aswell as the removal of classroom size caps, which could mean that instead of 20-30 kids in a class it could be up to 40-50.

[RedGajin]

you're such a richard.

Teachers are far more important than doctors; because they create them.

my 5th grade english teacher did not create any doctors
thats the dumbest thing ive heard all day

[fred da kiko]

you're such a richard.

Teachers are far more important than doctors; because they create them.

>implying elementary school teachers make doctors
>implying elementary school teachers do anything
>implying anything in elementary school is useful.

i learned four things in elementary school that i still use. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Elementary school is just daycare with some work thrown in, the only useful teachers are high school science/math/history/english teachers and college professors.

[Wafflajizzles]

>implying elementary school teachers make doctors
>implying elementary school teachers do anything
>implying anything in elementary school is useful.

i learned four things in elementary school that i still use. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Elementary school is just daycare with some work thrown in, the only useful teachers are high school science/math/history/english teachers and college professors.

Everything does it's part. If your dumb small gradeschool ass didn't learn any of the above mentioned skills you'd probably be shoveling stuff out of gutters instead of cohesively replying on an internet forum.

You can't loving sprint from from 2+2 to Algebra. Not how it works.

[BanishedLetters]

Are you in a CPS controlled school?

Otherwise, NOP

(I am though, tee-hee)

oh, stuff

:(

[Wafflajizzles]

oh, stuff

:(

Now you'll have to do all your Calculus and Geometry ANYWAYS!
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[Slate521]

Oh, we're talking about elementary school teachers.
I revise my point.

High school teachers and college lecture professors make doctors.
Elementary school teachers provide a foundation for such things.

[fred da kiko]

Everything does it's part. If your dumb small gradeschool ass didn't learn any of the above mentioned skills you'd probably be shoveling stuff out of gutters instead of cohesively replying on an internet forum.

You can't loving sprint from from 2+2 to Algebra. Not how it works.

that doesn't matter, they taught me four things and the rest was filler. they might as well had a loving janitor watch after me while he mopped the floor for the rest of the time and it wouldn't have turned out differently.

[Slate521]

that doesn't matter, they taught me four things and the rest was filler. they might as well had a loving janitor watch after me while he mopped the floor for the rest of the time and it wouldn't have turned out differently.

What about the ability to read?
The ability to write?
The ability (rhyming) to type?