Audience: Parents, Students, Teachers, Admin, School District Employees
Key Points: A teacher in Chicago is writing about why the teachers need to go on strike. He talks about the social injustices that are facing the Public Schools in Chicago at the moment and pushing for a change in what is happening. He wants the children of the school district to have access to the same things other school districts have. Some of the access topics were art, PE, and sex ed among others.
This is an interesting article and highlights the power that groups of people can have. I am always skeptical of unions and would need to look into this deeper to form a real opinion on this exact situation. However the questions asked in the article (listed below) are great questions that as educators we should all spend some time thinking about.
ReplyDeleteSo I ask all of you to engage your own students or your community and ask these questions:
Does corporate-led education properly serve students? What’s good about it? What does community-led reform look like?
How should students' needs be represented when the future of the district is being bargained?
How should Chicago students be involved in the upcoming strike? How can you best learn from it?
I applaud this article for pointing out that teacher strikes are quite often about more than pay raises and days off. Working in an understaffed classroom myself, I can only bite my tongue when people say that we don't need to give the schools more money, they just need to know how to manage their money better. From a student's point of view, they don't care about that, they care whether they are getting everything they need. And they aren't.
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