Chicago teachers want a 40% increase, smaller group classes & re-hire of fired teachers?

Only 15% of 4th graders in Chicago are proficient in reading so what does that say about the job teachers have been doing? If a child can't even read proficiently by 4th grade, what does that say for the 8 years going forward in the rest of their education. That says 85% failure. A 4% raise per year is not deserved. Replacing a lot of losers seems to be in order.

I think part of the problem is teachers belonging to a union that believes in more and more and more.......along with many of the students know they will pass their grades because the teachers are told to pass them because the administration don't want higher failure rates. The teachers should be screened by testing teachers and then testing students with standard tests.

What the unions and demorats do is cave to each other which ends up making the students the losers.

I think the American people dont realize the unionized teachers, police, fire, federal state county & city workers are the socialist leaches that are bankrupting our economy

Even FDR said that government workers should not be allowed to unionize. I think either that should be the case or their unions should not be allowed to contribute to political campaigns. You can have all sorts of regulations on campaign finance, Oh that's OK, but even if you consider restricting unions "rights" to contribute to campaigns, that's a First Amendment violation.

i assumed I did till i chanced on a pair of previous college photos on the internet, they did no longer look something like I remembered them. I known some previous classmates with no worry yet no longer the teachers.

I think Rahm

should see what the gov of wisconsin

did

and do the same thing

romney/ryan

The should all be fired. Absolutely SELFISH.

I think I should move to Chicago and be a scab for $60,000

They all need to be fired

I think you don't know WTF you're talking about.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2012/0910/C...

They're being offered 16% over four years. Nowhere in the article does it say they're asking for a 40% raise.