Here is what the Chicago Teacher's Strike is About..It ain't about money...
In 1993 I was attending a teacher's meeting at the high school in the Chicago Public Schools that I was teaching at. An administrator was outlining a plan for us to do during homeroom/division classes. I said that the plan was not feasible and was unlikely to work, simply because we did not have enough time during homeroom/division. "It just isn't going to work" ......So the administrator steps away, and the principal steps up...and says...
"Stu, you don't do anything with your homeroom anyway..what are you complaining about"...in front of 65 of my fellow teachers...So, I got up and said, " You are wrong, I try very hard to work with my students, and give a lot of time to them in addition to homeroom..you are wrong for saying that."..So I stood up to the asshole. (I did not use any bad language, just what I just quoted. No one had ever stood up to this guy before in front of a meeting of faculty) Now I was tenured, and certified, but the union had a contract with the board that states in order to get rid of a tenured, certified teacher on a certain numbered postion, (which I had) that the administration of a school had to prove complete incompetence and lack of character and ability ..or something like that.
The principal had gotten rid of a couple of "new" people that didn't have tenure or a certified position..I had 20 years in and he couldn't even try .(the fact that I had given several thousand extra hours to that those students who I deeply cared about, meant nothing]
That contract is what this is about...Anyone who thinks different is uninformed as to what unions are about. This principal would have gotten rid of me as soon as he could, he was that kind of person. But there was a union contract and he couldn't even try.
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