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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) It could come from elsewhere in the Chicago budget or from increased or different taxation. We already have a freakin water bottle tax. I think they're running out of ideas for ways to tax us Chicagoans.

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This is crazy. Have any of you read the book "In the Garden of Beasts?" Detailing the life of the ambassador to Germany and his family with him before and during the beginning of the third reich? Even Hitler knew better than to actually do anything to the embassy, he just did everything bad AROUND it. Im almost certain if the ambassador would of been harmed in any way it would definitely have been an act of war.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 10:27 AM) I don't understand your post, though. Your friends are CPS teachers that are anti-union but are out there on the streets? Like Balta said, the mortgage has to get paid. They dont get a cent if they stay at home and watch Jerry Springer. Get a little bit of strike pay and look like your supporting the cause, its win-win

ive read that in certain unions, strikers are given strike pay in order to try to compensate for not getting paid by their employers. Is this true of the CTU? If so, it would help explain why a lot of my anti-union CPS friends are downtown dressed in red and smiling for the camera with $300 sunglasses on.

Im no political science expert like ss2k or balta, but it just seems to me that the only thing keeping the children of the CPS from getting these things that every student should have is the benefits/pension plans that are sucking up all of CPS budget? Are there any states in the US where teachers cant unionize? id like to see if im talking out of my ass or if it would really make a difference.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 09:30 PM) It would be very difficult to replace 30,000 teachers who have not prepared for any sort of lesson plan into the classroom. Unless we are talking about a severely prolonged strike. It would suck at first but the outlook would have to be better for the long term wouldnt it? I cant imagine how much money the city would save, which could then be placed back into the education system in the form of Air conditioned rooms, smaller classrooms, etc. I dont know im talking out of my fantasy ass right now.

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Is it possible for the city to just hire non-union teachers instead of having to deal with the CTU?

I have no clue what goes on inside these unions, are these teachers getting paid while being on strike?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 07:52 PM) he can easily live in Chicago on 75k a year. Shoot ive been doing it on 15k a year while being a broke student since ive been out of the Army. 75k a year and i would feel like this

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 07:06 PM) Do you have the requisite skills, a masters degree and a teaching certificate? Could you also live near your actual place of work on that salary? (quick cost of living calculation says that $40k in Chicago buys what $31k buys here using CNN money's calculator) Ask me that again in about year and ill be able to say yes sans the masters degree. My CPS friends that only have Bachelors degrees and are teaching 1st-3rd grade live very comfortably and often brag about purchasing an absurd amount of material things on the weekends at the mall, they also have swanky apartments in lincoln park. Ive had to help them grade papers when i did student observation hours with them and the entire process took about 20 minutes (for 1st-3rd grade work).

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 05:46 PM) Can we just fire them and get this over with? ill step in and work if they dont want to. i could live with 40k and the summer off, i dont need a contract either.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 03:23 PM) I'll be happy when the public sector unions are gone. yeah maybe then property taxes will go down and I'll actually be able to comfortably afford living in a decent neighborhood

So Romney and Walker are with Rahm, and Obama is with Rahm against the union. The Mayans were right....

Ill admit, im not sympathetic towards the teachers' cause because like some of you, I have friends/family in the CPS and we see/hear about their work week/weekends almost daily. I find it hilarious that my CPS friends that just 3 months ago were bragging about being in Paris for the summer, and going shopping literally every weekend for new Tory Burch purses at Old Orchard mall, are taking pictures of themselves downtown with the rest of the oppressed teachers.

I was a Junior in high school sleeping in my Auto Shop class. When it happened the principal spoke over the loudspeaker and told the teachers to all turn the TVs on. I saw one tower burning with a hole in it and then about 5 seconds later another plane hit the second building. The teacher then gave us a speech about how if this is found to be the acts of a foreign country or terrorist organization that we are the generation thats going to be asked to fight back. Then there were rumors on the news that a plane may be headed towards the Sears Tower, which was where my dad was working at the time. I freaked out and I bolted out of school even though the school told the teachers to keep the students in class. I remember walking home as fast as I could and all of a sudden i heard an airplane fly right over me, which made no sense since the news stated that every plane in the U.S. had been grounded. So i started to run home and once i finally got there I opened the door to find my pops in the living room standing up and watching the news. He told me that downtown was evacuated a while ago and that everyone was safe. I dont think ive ever felt such a feeling of relief/extreme anger at the same time before. The feeling that my dads life was in danger, or was at least threatened by whoever did this. That feeling stayed with me forever and was a driving force towards me joining the army. For every Al-Qaeda member on the list we were given that was destroyed on my unit's watch during my time overseas I would always looks back on that day and how i felt knowing that I could've lost my dad forever.

Alright now its getting ridiculous, on my way to class there were redshirts walking on to irving park trying to disrupt traffic while holding up their signs and banging on drums. Is this really how we're going to act now? Some professionals they are.

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For s***s and giggles on iirc.niu.edu I looked at the scores for Audubon Elementary School in Roscoe village because I remember the years when Roscoe Village was a far cry from the Roscoe Village neighborhood that exists today. With each year of gentrification in the neighborhood the scores that Meet and Exceed the Illinois Standards Achievement Test as a school have gone from 55% to 93% from the years 2002 to 2011. So yes there is something to be said for students that come from low income households.

http://iirc.niu.edu That's the tool I've had to use for my Educational Foundations classes at Northeastern. These are the stats... District Summary Avg. Teacher Salary $71,236 Avg. Teacher Experience 13.7 Years Instructional Expenditure Per Pupil $7,946 Operational Expenditure Per Pupil $13,078 Low Income 86%

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 10, 2012 -> 03:55 PM) I think the Fire has kind of got it right. $7 for front row seats on stub hub = more beer money :headbang :headbang

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 10, 2012 -> 01:20 PM) It's unfortunate that all labor isn't represented so that they can't be trampled by management without a say. Then we can borrow from China to pay every worker in the U.S.'s crazy pension and benefit plans.

From working 7 days a week for 15 months straight in Iraq to working my buns off for the kids and then having the whole summer off to take an epic break. I'd say I chose the right major.