Posts tagged Chicago.

Chicago teachers strike! Here are the facts, and why this is bigger than Chicago

socialismartnature

I’m not in Chicago BUT I PROUDLY stand with Chicago teachers!

via @TheRealTPayne

Teachers have reported having as many as 42 students in one classroom…” but Mayor Emmanuel was quoted: “Class size isn’t the issue.” HOW in the world can someone EFFECTIVELY teach 42 children (with various learning styles) in a classroom?

0 ♥ 9.10.12

TWITTER is censoring #OccupyWallStreet, USE #OWS tag instead —pass it on people, REBLOG!

source reblogged 19 ♥ 10.6.11

thehipsterprototype

'...It takes some effort these days to remember that the United States is still one nation. It doesn’t feel like one nation when a company like Amazon, with such resources to its name, treats vulnerable people so badly just because it can. Or when members of a presidential debate audience cheer for a hypothetical 30-year-old man to die because he lacks health insurance. Or when schoolteachers in Chicago cling to their union perks and resist an effort to lengthen the hours of instruction for children that the system is failing. Or when an activist publicly labels the U.S. military, recently made safe for open homosexuals, a “San Francisco military.” Or when most of the television pundits go on with prefabricated scripts to eviscerate their rivals, instead of doing us the honor of actually thinking. The more I travel, the more I observe that Americans are becoming foreigners to each other. People in Texas speak of people in New York the way certain Sunnis speak of Shiites, and vice versa in New York. Many liberals I know take for granted that anyone conservative is either racist or under-informed. People who run companies like Amazon operate as though it never it occurred to them that it could have been them crawling through the aisles. And the people who run labor unions possess little empathy for how difficult and risky and remarkable it is to build something like Amazon. What is creeping into the culture is simple dehumanization, a failure to imagine the lives others lead. Fellow citizens become caricatures. People retreat into their own safe realms.'

thesmithian:

the story about one of Amazon’s warehouses, here.

reblogged 46 ♥ 9.24.11

First Graders Handcuffed At Chicago School, Told They Were Going To Prison

The Chicago Tribune reports that LaShanda Smith filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of her son, who she claims was one of several 6 and-7-year olds excessively punished by a security guard at Carver Primary School on the South Side.

The school allegedly authorized on-campus security to discipline disruptive first graders, Fox Chicago reports. The children who were considered disruptive were then allegedly handcuffed for an hour and sent to an office, where they were told “they were going to prison and would never see their parents again,” attorney Michael Carin told the Tribune.

reblogged 183 ♥ 9.3.11