Huberman to Destroy Schools
Not that they weren't on the verge of collapse anyway, it's just that someone is giving them a couple of good kicks to see what falls off the rotting corpse:
The Chicago Board of Education today granted schools chief Ron Huberman authority to lay off teachers and increase class sizes, a procedural move that was met with fierce resistance from union groups.
It may all be a show though:
- The threat of class sizes of up to 35 students next fall has loomed for months due to an estimated $600 million budget deficit for Chicago Public Schools. However, more than half of the deficit comes from state cuts to education funding, which could be restored when Springfield passes a final budget.
Either Shortshanks is running a bluff, counting on Springfield to come up with the dough at the last minute, or he's making Huberman the stalking horse for a full scale attack on the Teachers' Union.
Right now, we figure it's door #2, the full scale attack. And he's got the perfect tool to carry it out - a non-educator who's managed to move from city job to city job, collecting pay raises every step of the way and leaving nothing resembling progress in his wake. Even the BreakingNews headline names Huberman as getting "the OK" to launch the offensive.
And why not? Shortshanks dragged a whole bunch of unions back to the table after the No-lympic failure for concessions, he's ordered managers and exempts to take anywhere from 12 to 30 to 40 days off, he won in arbitration with the FOP, so why not see what he can wring out of the teachers? It's not like anyone gets hurt except minority children - and they probably would have gotten shot anyway.
Whichever way it goes, Daley is making Huberman radioactive for any sort of elected office, which might be another part of the plan.
Right now, we figure it's door #2, the full scale attack. And he's got the perfect tool to carry it out - a non-educator who's managed to move from city job to city job, collecting pay raises every step of the way and leaving nothing resembling progress in his wake. Even the BreakingNews headline names Huberman as getting "the OK" to launch the offensive.
And why not? Shortshanks dragged a whole bunch of unions back to the table after the No-lympic failure for concessions, he's ordered managers and exempts to take anywhere from 12 to 30 to 40 days off, he won in arbitration with the FOP, so why not see what he can wring out of the teachers? It's not like anyone gets hurt except minority children - and they probably would have gotten shot anyway.
Whichever way it goes, Daley is making Huberman radioactive for any sort of elected office, which might be another part of the plan.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
55 Comments:
Huberman will be the next Superintendent...wait and see. Everywhere he goes he lays people off and blames it on the pensions. We are next.
Da Mayor is very Machievelian
When I was a kid going to public school in the 60’s and 70’s the class sizes were well over 40 kids each. The problem isn’t how big the class size is; it is how disciplined the children are and how competent the teachers are. We don’t seem to have either in our schools today do we.
I always love a teachers strike because then the mob of dysfunctional social rejects the Board of Education employs puts themselves out on public display on picket lines and we get to see them in the harsh light of day.
It’s ugly, always very ugly.
How many billions are wasted on the little mutts year after year.
Best case scenario: fire all but one teacher and have all the kids watch him/her on a tv, like the video judge. Think of all the money the city will save. You could have Harvard and Princeton professors teaching these shitheads and nothing would change without the parents help.
The whole human race is based on intelligence to survive. The police have come in contact with a lot of stupid people. With that said, now the City of Chicago is going to mess with a system that teaches kids some smarts preparing them for the future. It is also a political move to break unions. Now we are really moving backward here and time is of the essence seeing as many of us do, a lot of stupid people becoming more stupid and more violent. I am ashamed to be a Chicagoan, associated with all this I have told.
I suspect Huberman will emerge at sometime in the future as a Mayoral candidate. How will his many gaffes in judgement be whitewashed as to appear he's actually competent at running any of the agencies he's headed? CTA was left in tatters, and it appears that the Chicago Public Schools are about to crash & burn.
The new Teacher's Union president-elect doesn't appear to want to play footsie with Luberman or Shortshanks either, and is demanding a full accounting of the budget. It's all about to get real interesting. And who knows what additional dirt the Reader will dig up regarding School Board shenaneghans? The reporters there clearly have every intention of digging further into Lubie's lies and incompetence.
I hope Hubberman's parents are proud of him.
it sounds like the teachers are ready to strike back if huberman starts to take jobs away--- the fall semester may not start until october, make babysitting arrangements now..... the teachers union is huge and has struck before... marilyn stewart backed us when we marched on city hall when the olympic committee was in town--- this new lady who beat out stewart sounds like she is taking no shit... could be an interesting fall for the cps.....
daaaaaaa.....duuuh...i tol' youse to never mention da'lympics on dis web sight no mores....i'm gonna hafta finish dis here bottle o' gin and i'm gonna be pissed off in my city hall tomorrow.daaaaaa...
Huberman knows as much about the schools as he knows about everything eles, THAT IS NOTHING.
Now what would the sensible thing to do when you have a $600 million budget deficit? If you guessed give them a 4% raise that wold add another $800 million to that gaping hole of a deficit you would be right.
But in the budget that $800 million line item wold be balanced with an equal $800 million influx of capital from a bond issue. Yes, get out the municipal charge card to pay for that raise in hopes of buying labor peace.
Let's hop the new teacher's union president isn't being bought. Take the raise and still shove the layoffs and class size increases up Huberman's ass. File that lawsuit!
And how the hell is it that an openly gay man who never raised or educated any children of his own and has no teaching credentials is the best one to run one of the nation's largest school systems?
Of course! He is covered with the contents of daley's asshole! His head fits up there nicely.
Whichever way it goes, Daley is making Huberman radioactive for any sort of elected office, which might be another part of the plan.
The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.
It sure didn't take long for the new Chicago Teacher's Union President to get in Hubermans face. Mabye the FOP can learn a few things from her.
I hear that police exempt will be taking up to 60 days off next year. Ouch.
The class sizes doen't affect high schools as much. Elementary schools are babysitters for 'single parent' kids and those mamas make their kids go to school.
Look at a school like Prosser Career Academy High School by Grand and Central. They have a student absentee rate of nearly 20%....so, if you have a class of 35, you're going to be missing 7 students a day any way....making the classes 28 students/per class........and, Prosser's Principal kenneth Hunter could give a shit less if he has kids absent, all he cares about is attendance the first two weeks of school to get his state monies he can squander away..........and, tardies which are 'supposed' to turn into absences disappear at Prosser
And, at a Harlan or a Fenger, their studnet absentee rates are hovering near 35%...so, their 35 students a class is more like 23
Looks like a "game of chicken" between Huberman/Daley and the teachers union. Haven't seen any discussion regarding lay-offs from school adminstration staff, and I've heard there is an administration staff person for every teacher, a ratio of 1:1, though administration has little to do with student scores, achievement, graduation rates, etc.
Working for Daley in a senior administration is a delicate balance between loyal service and self-preservation. Those loyal department heads rarely see long-term career benefits from their fealty. Taking "bullets for Daley" doesn't pay; you eventually get pushed out and cold-shouldered: Gery Chico, Forrest Claypool (no significant political "bounce" after service), or "sink like stone" like Julia Stasch, Steve Schlickman (still an outcast), etc. The guy who served as Park District's head in early 90s was a professional appointee charged with massive lay-offs of Park District workers; he eventually fled without forwarding address.
Huberman may seem "teflon" now, but it's unlikely that Daley will continue to protect and reward him when school situation because overwhelming negative from a mayorial re-election viewpoint. Problem is there isn't a strong alternate candidate for Daley for next mayoral election.
If there is a CPS strike this fall, then Daley will panic.
There is always the big cost cutting method that nobody talks about: only legal residents get the free education paid for by the taxpayers for the taxpayers. Lots of maney saved, no jobs lost.
Now there is a platform for a Mayoral candidate.
If Daley was serious about undermining the teachers union he would have backed Meeks proposal for vouchers. He did not. Vouchers, and the competition for education dollars is the only thing incompetant teachers fear.
With all these honor students getting themselves killed, the need for teachers decreases.
Huberman is funny, what with his 2-3 "work sedans". He is basically the fall guy for schools.
Lets not forget how many people freeloading off the government in Chicago that DEMAND a FREE education for their 8 kids and pay ZERO taxes.
I didnt get 2 free meals a day in school. How much does that cost the city?
It should be simple, you pay no taxes.. you get no services.
Ape City will fall!!
Hubie's next stop is Washington. Bet on it.
The Teachers Union Has Always Been A Very Strong Group. I Would Welcome The Teachers Union Officials To Take The Slots Of The Dead Beats In FOP.
Huberman Really Has His Work Cut Out For Him. Those Ladies are LOUD and TUFF. They Won't Take No For A Answer.
PS: Have A Nice Day ??????
SCC, I really like the Machiavellian way you think. If you ever retire from the police, you have a second career waiting for you as a political consultant.
'And who knows what additional dirt the Reader will dig up regarding School Board shenaneghans? The reporters there clearly have every intention of digging further into Lubie's lies and incompetence.'
But the Trib, Sun-Times, and TV Stations will strap on their industrial strength knee-pads and rewrite the Daley handouts.
stop busing that will save a few hundred million.
stop giving cps kids an atm card that has 280 $ put on it every month,
so they can spend it on whatever they want that will save many millions
As "progressive" as Chicago can be, I don't know that it's ready for a gay mayor, so I don't know that he's a real threat for anything real big.
why are they building new schools all over the city for the illegals kids? more of "our money" wasted! we have no money, have to layoff teachers while gayboy luberman tools around in how many cps paid cars?
2 more years ARIZONA here we come fuck this cesspool of sanctuary city bullshit! no more daley and the 50 cowrads, + all the lying madigan members and no more faln terrorist little louie G the asshole!
the score :
police 2%
aldermen 6%
huberman 17%
teachers 4% maybe ?
I think i need the fop to tell me it's fair again.
The schools sucked when there was plenty of money, they suck when there is no money.
Can't blame Huberman for all of this, I hate him too, but plenty of blame (Blago, Quinn and the Legislature) to go around.
Just wait, in time Daley will make Ron our Superintendent. You heard it here first.
IF CPS and the Teamsters strike together WATCHOUT!
Daley is DONE!
"Probably would've been shot..."
ROTFLOL!
o/t no none zero gas pumps open on the south side last night on 1st watch. really adds to the safety issues.
"Huberman to Destroy Schools"
Hey, cool. We destroy airports, then destroy other people's towns to build more airports. This makes perfect sense.
Once that's done, I wonder what his next job will be.
"When I was a kid going to public school in the 60’s and 70’s the class sizes were well over 40 kids each."
Yup. The day was longer, too; school let out at 3:15 PM.
"I always love a teachers strike because then the mob of dysfunctional social rejects the Board of Education employs puts themselves out on public display on picket lines and we get to see them in the harsh light of day.
"It’s ugly, always very ugly."
--6/16/2010 12:29:00 AM
Boy, is that ever the truth. The few men who seem to work in this female-dominated field are -- well, talk about pale and sickly. Like something you'd expect to see gnawing its way through a wet old mattress, something that runs when you hit the light switch.
Gah.
i hope they strike!
This is Huberman's CPS version of the "doomsday" CTA scare.
Makes the big CEO bucks for threats at whatever agency he happens to be an expert in.
Speaking of 40 kids in a classroom:
Hire the old nuns from the 60's and 70's who ran the catholic schools with punches to the head and whacks to the knuckles. You'll learn, trust me.
Make 'em wear plaid uniforms and clean white shirts and ties and sit strait in desks that all face the teacher. None of these "pods" and groups of kids facing each other.
Make the entire school go to mass and pray and behave or you get whacked and a phone call to the parent(S). Before each day, stand up and say the pledge of allegiance, and say your prayers that God will help you learn. Everyone adds in an extra prayer for someone's sick sibling, parent, uncle or grandparent. Learn how to spell and write cursive like there is no tomorrow.
Join the scouts after school and get involved with the intramural sports.
Those were the good ol days, long, long gone.
Whichever way it goes, Daley is making Huberman radioactive for any sort of elected office, which might be another part of the plan.
Not if DALEY keeps double promoting the young lad at higher paying spots.
What a resume he has to have!!
"why are they building new schools all over the city for the illegals kids...2 more years ARIZONA here we come fuck this cesspool of sanctuary city bullshit!"
--6/16/2010 11:41:00 AM
Ariz. Lawmaker: Stop Automatic Citizenship
State Sen. Proposes Bill That Would Deny U.S. Citizenship to Children Born in Arizona to Illegal Immigrants
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories
/2010/06/16/politics/main6588179.shtml
No more "anchor babies" to use to pull in the whole 57-member extended family for benefits...
CPS teachers are nothing but the highest paid babysitters in the world! Unlike us however they have a union with balls and power.
So, where the hell is all the cash that Daley stashed away for the Olympics?
Meanwhile, when my kids reached school age we're moving out of the city. Nowhere is perfect, but I refuse to continue to pay my tax dollars into the black hole that is Chicago and get so little in return (shitty schools, overworked cops, crappy public transit, awful roads).
I'll say this -- Europeans may be taxed like crazy, but at least they get something for it. We're taxed like crazy and get crap.
Huberman is gonna be given what he wants, which is Police Superintendent. JW is on the way out.
Anonymous said...
The schools sucked when there was plenty of money, they suck when there is no money.
Can't blame Huberman for all of this, I hate him too, but plenty of blame (Blago, Quinn and the Legislature) to go around.
6/16/2010 12:14:00 PM
The CPS system has sucked for at least the last 40 years, perhaps longer. (That is just how far back I can remember)
The teachers do not matter, when the schools are filled with kids who have no desire to learn.
There is no incentive for teachers to teach or for kids to learn. Drop out, get pregnant(or vice versa), here comes a bunch of cash for you.
Sectio 8, WIC, Link, etc, etc. Just like grandma and mom, keep the cycle going.
Hire the old nuns from the 60's and 70's who ran the catholic schools with punches to the head and whacks to the knuckles. You'll learn, trust me.
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I think they're dead.
"...stop giving cps kids an atm card that has 280 $ put on it every month, so they can spend it on whatever they want..."
--6/16/2010 10:17:00 AM
Say what?
You gotta be kidding.
Huberman to destroy schools! Hasn't he already done that?
could be an interesting fall for the cps.....
6/16/2010 02:28:00 AM
Season? Or consequence? Or both?
I think they're dead.
6/17/2010 01:21:00 AM
Naw. They were too tough to ever die. The legend lives on and on. Paul Bunyan and his ox Babe cowered in their presence!
WHEN DO U SEE DONAHUE ON THE TUBE IN A RAGE!
DOES HE PUT LAWSUITS IN?
HIS COMEBACK IS WE R GOING 2 ARBITRATION. (WE NOW KNOW THATS RIGGED)
SO ANY FUTURE FOP REPS WHO WANNA BE THE BIG DOG IN THE SUIT TAKE SOME LESSON ITS A SAD DAY WHEN A GRAMMAR SCHOOL TEACHER HAS MORE BALL THEN A POLICE OFFICER.
Hire the old nuns from the 60's and 70's who ran the catholic schools with punches to the head and whacks to the knuckles. You'll learn, trust me.
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I think they're dead.
6/17/2010 01:21:00 AM
Not if you didn't separate the head. You DID remember to separate the head, RIGHT!
Ooops, sorry. that was Zombies again. Never mind.
I hope the teachers realize that this is their ONE chance to dominate. They need to tell their teachers to start saving and prepare for a strike. Daley cannot afford a strike this fall with the Election right around the corner. A strike would mean kids in the streets every night and thus an expectation of higher violence. No education AND increased violence is a receipe for disaster come election time...
The teachers union hasn't had a strike in 25 years. There is no one left who even knows how to organize one. Signs, media interviews, who goes where, money saved for strike pay, all of this is in complete disarray. There is no way they are going to strike. They'll just take what the city offers.
Daley has successfully pacified them, just like he has pacified our "union" and every other city union.
The next step is to start offering benefits to the majority (pay) at the expense of the minority (layoffs). Once the union members are pitted against each other, the union is finished.
There is no one better than Daley at destroying unions. Pacify, split, and destroy. It happened with the police the moment officers started accepting management positions in hundreds of different "units" with no consideration for senority or other contract protections. Low and behold, now all management positions are straight up political appointments and Daley is in total control of every facet of the police department.
He is the master. We are the fools. The teachers union will soon be as dead as ours is.
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