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Chicago’s Big Education, Inc. The teachers’ union’s outsize power comes at the expense of students, parents, and taxpayers.
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On Super Bowl Sunday, the Chicago Teachers Union announced its intention to return to the classroom. Finally, Chicago’s 347,476 public school students can receive the same in-person instruction that many private and parochial students have already been receiving throughout the pandemic. Why does this seem like such a big achievement?
Other “essential” workers such as grocery clerks, doctors and nurses, and package-delivery workers haven’t enjoyed the same luxury of working remotely and they’ve kept doing their jobs without the generous pay and benefits earned by Chicago’s public-school teachers.
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When a group of parents embarked on a failed attempt to rename Chicago Public Schools’ Agassiz Elementary three years ago, the pushback was about money and name recognition.
Those who opposed a change understood Louis Agassiz was a Swiss American biologist who promoted eugenics, the belief that some characteristics and races are inferior to others and should be bred out of humanity. But many couldn’t look past the approximately $20,000 it would take to change signs and merchandise, or the positive associations with the school’s name that proud parents would lose.
This year, after the country’s strongest racial justice protests in half a century, those excuses weren’t acceptable anymore, said Tina Holder King, a parent representative on the Agassiz Local School Council who, with other parents and community members, has pushed for a name change.
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