Chicago teachers union chief faults “rich white people” for city’s education mess

Chicago teachers union chief faults “rich white people” for city’s education mess. Other people’s money is not enough to pay us what we want so other people gotta pony up more. And she made a baseball analogy: “When the Cubs lose a game they don’t call for Wrigley Field to close down. They don’t want the entire team dismantled.” Yeah, but they also don’t pay the same people more money for losing. They fire the manager and hire better players. Check it out.

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  • Why do they need a bunch of schools?00 The parents don'twant anyone to tell t h eir kids . What to do, and are not enthused with education anyway, as evidenced by their unwillingness to work with teachers and administrators who ARE trying to teach.

  • So, what is this cow proposing? That we just give all the money to black people, and let them do whatever they want with it?

    Lady, we have been doing that for 40+ years, and look where it has gotten us. It has gotten us people like YOU supposedly leading the children. Time to cut our losses. If white people can successfully educate our own children (by getting them the heck away from people like you) then we surely could do a better job with YOUR kids than you have. So send US all YOUR money, and lets just see what happens, OK?

  • Butt ugly fat communist cow is screaming because they already squandered all the money they extorted from all those "Rich White People". But lets go to the well again by whipping out the race card, and see if we can't guilt them into giving us some more, seems to be her only plan.

  • Our corrupt government including several on the right want to stay in power by using drones, as in a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with (vote for) the queen bee (their providers), to produce more drones and queens that will colonize our larger inner cities and support our corrupt government.

  • It's not the union and its unrelenting pursuit of more money and protecting inept teachers fault is it?

    These ass holes see it as always somebody else's problem, never one that they've created. Roll all the way back to Johnson's war on Poverty. Until the passage of these two fantastic bills the black families where strong. Now they are not and virtually all black families are headed up by women and most are the grand mothers. It's time to admit that this has been an utter disaster.

    I'm sick and tired of it always being that some how it's those of us who are whites fault for the failings of others. Man up, stop whinnying about how tough it is. No one gave me and many others a damn thing. We had to earn it.

    • Admitting they were wrong?

      We both know that is an mpossibility. The blacks and other "oppressed classes" need to figure it out like the black politician from Louisiana did.

  • Hey Karen, fat, Marxist and stupid is no way to go through life. Ms. Lewis is a toxic combination overt racism and class warfare. The public employee unions in Chicago have learned nothing (they're probabably incapable of learning anything) and they are going to pull another Detroit. Let's make some popcorn, sit back and watch as the Windy City becomes the bankrupt, dying city.

    And we wonder why the Obamas never vacation in Chicago.