A birds eye view of torturous destruction

Bendintheriver

If you want to know what the destruction of our country looks like, the very essence of killing our democracy, see the following.

The schools are failing our children in Chicago. The black community in particular is being dumbed down at a rapid rate as their schools are failing at an alarming rate with scary consistency. The democrats were given millions by the teachers union so what did they do? They re-upped their contract with the unions and gave all the teachers 15% raises over 3 years. Not only is this flat out racism on display, it is bribery, rewarding your friends for hurting our children, flushing taxpayer dollars right down the drain, it is dooming those kids to a life of just pure shit and struggle. If every state and city did what democrats have done to all their strongholds like Chicago, it would equal the destruction of our country over time.

Look at the stuff they unions put in their contract. Most of the pork didn't get passed because citizen groups became aware and started getting pissed. If that watchdog hadn't been there I am pretty sure the Chicago taxpayer would be proving free homes to teachers.

Way to support more failure you rats.

In Chicago, the Union Wins Again - WSJ

It tells you something when a dismal public school system negotiates a costly contract and the general sentiment is, well, it could have been worse. Such is the depressing news from the Windy City, where the Chicago Teachers Union has landed a roughly $1.5 billion agreement that sentences the city’s children to four more years of the failing but still expensive status quo.

The tentative contract isn’t yet final, but teachers are expected to receive 4% cost of living raises the first year and as much as 5% a year in the next three, according to the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Sun-Times.

That adds up to more than 16% more for teachers in addition to the raises that teachers also get for years of service. Average teacher salaries are about $96,000, according to CPS. The contract also adds at least 800 more employees—er, union dues payers—including librarians and teaching assistants.

But the outline is as notable for what’s apparently not in it. Items from the CTU wish list that didn’t make the cut were demands for affordable housing, carbon neutrality by 2035, an all-electric bus fleet, cash to asylum seekers, Chicago Transit Authority passes to all employees and students, and a program to help teachers buy homes, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.

Those shoot-the-moon demands hurt public approval for the CTU while test scores have remained in the basement and the number of students in the district is shrinking. CPS had an enrollment of 325,305 in 2025, down from 361,314 in 2019, according to Wirepoints.

But the CTU and its affiliates spent more than $2 million on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s election and threatened to strike. The contract battle saw Mr. Johnson try to force the Chicago schools into taking a high-interest loan, smear now-departing CPS CEO Pedro Martinez, and see the school board quit. The union still got its money, but as usual the losers are the students.