Uh...What Now?
- The new chief of Chicago Public Schools wants teachers to visit students at home, even in violent neighborhoods.
WLS-TV in Chicago reports that Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard said at a Thursday news conference that "our students go there every day. Why can't we?" Mayor Rahm Emanuel also was at the news conference.
Brizard says teachers and staff should each be assigned about ten home visits to students each year. Chicago public schools have about 430,000 students.
Is this guy truly that much of a dumbass?
First up, the teachers aren't going to do this for free. Their time is worth money, perhaps not as much as they think it is, but it's certainly worth something. Many teachers don't live in the neighborhoods they teach in, but you want them to burn extra gas on their days off to "home visit" certain students? If we recall correctly, your School Board just voted to disregard contractually negotiated raises while jacking up executive compensation. You're also wanting them to work longer school days this coming year. Anyone else see the danger ahead?
Second, how can we put this politely Jean-Claude? There are certain neighborhoods where some of these teachers are going to stick out like a sore thumb. And if they stick out, they are going to get hurt. Some might even get hurt badly. There are neighborhoods in Chicago where we wouldn't even think of wandering without a gun, a partner and a radio. And you expect teachers to just show up there on their own time? Are you insane?
Home visits and the like are no substitute for poor parenting and outright neglect. It's almost like this asshat and the mayor are deliberately provoking the teachers into a job action. Even old man Daley wasn't that dumb. Teachers aren't like auto workers, truckers, dockworkers or any other union members. Teachers are sympathetic strikers and they end up affecting large voting blocs.
First up, the teachers aren't going to do this for free. Their time is worth money, perhaps not as much as they think it is, but it's certainly worth something. Many teachers don't live in the neighborhoods they teach in, but you want them to burn extra gas on their days off to "home visit" certain students? If we recall correctly, your School Board just voted to disregard contractually negotiated raises while jacking up executive compensation. You're also wanting them to work longer school days this coming year. Anyone else see the danger ahead?
Second, how can we put this politely Jean-Claude? There are certain neighborhoods where some of these teachers are going to stick out like a sore thumb. And if they stick out, they are going to get hurt. Some might even get hurt badly. There are neighborhoods in Chicago where we wouldn't even think of wandering without a gun, a partner and a radio. And you expect teachers to just show up there on their own time? Are you insane?
Home visits and the like are no substitute for poor parenting and outright neglect. It's almost like this asshat and the mayor are deliberately provoking the teachers into a job action. Even old man Daley wasn't that dumb. Teachers aren't like auto workers, truckers, dockworkers or any other union members. Teachers are sympathetic strikers and they end up affecting large voting blocs.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
76 Comments:
Does Rahm know how to pick them or what? He's 0 for 2 so far.
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
Where is his village?
OT: A very small portion of the truth comes out.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-city-releases-911-tapes-of-calls-about-north-ave-beach-problems-20110623,0,1256456.story
I'm not the biggest fan of Chicago school teachers but this is too much. CANCEL a CONTRACTUAL RAISE? Now have them go play kumbaya with some of the dregs of our city?
We need drug testing for the policy makers of the board of ed cuz they're obviously smoking something.
dont forget they cant arm themselves either
Way to create a diversion away from the executive pay issue with this non-sense.
Which reminds me. What happened to everyone should "have some skin in the game" when it comes to shared sacrifices? Raises?
Hoo-ray for me and eff you right?
CPS is such a joke. I am Cpd. My mom taught at various CPS schools for 34 years. To this day, she has students visit her, take her out to lunch, and call her. All of them tell her what an impact she has made on their lives. She retired in the early 2000's, when students started throwing things at her during class, calling her names and swearing at her. No disciplinary action was ever taken toward any of these little shits. One day, a basketball player failing out of her English class told her that she should go work at mcdonalds, where she belongs. My mother has two advanced degrees and has done the right thing in every way for her entire life.
She walked away after that school year and never looked back.
Home visits for a person like her, who loved teaching, would have made her excited because she loved her students and her craft.
I can just see today's typical CPS student setting her up to be carjacked in the worst of circumstance and have the door slammed in her face in the best. No thanks. Our teachers deserve much, much better.
isn't this what social workers are paid to do?
Jean-Claude Damn! He's an Idiot!!!!!!
SCC: "And you expect teachers to just show up there on their own time? Are you insane?"
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I think he nuts. I saw it in him the first time I saw him on the TV.
Maybe the city should assign six CPD Officers and a CPD vehicle to accompany each teacher when these visits are made.
If it's good for the Ald. Burke it's good for our teachers.
"'our students go there every day. Why can't we?' Mayor Rahm Emanuel also was at the news conference."
Who's "we," motherfucker? Do you mean the "we" that don't have a CPD bodyguard detail? Lead the way, jag bag!
"Teachers are sympathetic strikers and they end up affecting large voting blocs."
Let's hope that they can put a quick and permanent stop to this nonsense.
"Home visits and the like are no substitute for poor parenting and outright neglect."
You hit it right on the head there. Personal Resonsibilty has never been a top priority. 50 Years of government handholding has set them back a hundred years. Like every ethnic group that set foot on these shores, they need to find their own solutions w/ o Uncle Sugar lighting the way.
Jean-Claude Bizzardo!
It's done at those stupid UNO schools who are given every chance to succeed and given newly constructed schools paid for by taxpayers money and run by for profit companies. they hire scab teachers who can't find real teaching jobs and are desperate enough and dumb enough to work there. they are fired if they report criminal activity by students. CPS gives big money in hopes these charter schools exceed in order to bust the union which is their longterm goal. However UNO and other charter schools have high teacher turnover and sh!t test scores despite being given less kids per class.They want real CPS teachers to follow their lead hmmm let's see.... At 35 kids per class twice a year=70 visits in In 270 school days. Do they really hate the profession that much? Plus add a longer school day to that.
This guy must be smoking crack.
Instead of laying more of the burden on teachers, why not lay SOME BLAME!
Blame the shitty 'parentin and lack of responsibility of black fathers. Yes, black fathers.
For Christsakes, call it like it is!
And here's an idea--if you want public aid, then your ass, or someone in your home shows up to pick up garbage or rake the parkways--hmm, what a novel idea! Make them work, or at least contribute something to society!!!
WTF already. Our nat'l debt is already 70% of our GDP. In ten years it will be over 100%. WTF!
The evil triad, right here in Chicago. Ballerino, McGump and Island Boy.
Brizard is smart enough to keep his children away from the "yutes" formerly known as daleys CPS students who are always turning their lives around after they had died in ghetto warfare !!!!
Pass the Kool-Aid please !! yawn !!!!
Since when is it the teachers' responsibility to visit students' homes? And do what? Make them a snack? Read them a story? Tuck them in?
Where's the ACLU? Isn't this some sort of civil rights violation? Uninvited guests sent by the school board? Again, to do WHAT?
Teachers are not social workers you nut bag.
Another assinine idea spawned by the evil cabal of our leaders.
Hey! You first!
I know a bunch of teachers and I wouldn't send them into those snake pits that those pigs call home---I hate thinking of them traveling and spending time in the schools but the homes...no.
The parents need to put down the bags of Fire Cheetos and Grape Pop or beer and go to the school--how about putting a little effort into having kids.
Why do home visits when all the students who need extra help are all downtown robbing people, they won't even be home. Maybe we should set up a study table at the red line station at Chicago Ave.
Karen gonna whoop some ass on this one.
---not a cop
I have no trouble teaching during the CPS mandated PD time. Of course, does this mean all the crony consultants won't get a pay day. I do have an issue giving up teacher directed time on institute days because those are often the only time we can meet to plan or clean. Also, do something about the multi million dollar grade book system the CPS implemented -- IMPACT. Not user friendly, slow and clunky. Also, final grades for high school students were due on 6/9 -- Of course, school ended on 6/17. Thus, attendance took a dive for those last days. Ridiculous and a waste of instructional time. I'll also do home visits, so long as the district promises two things (1) safety, as there's no way I'm traversing some parts of North Lawndale without security and (2) coverage of CPS insurance when off school grounds. While were at it, how about building time into the day for PE for all students, more than a 25 minute lunch, and a resource period for students. Oh yeah, demanding more from teachers when you eliminated teacher raises while giving yourself more money than your predecessors seems like a silly thing to do, Brizzard.
If this is the model you want to follow, CPS is really going to be a failure
UNO NETWORK ELEM CHARTER SCHOOL - CITY OF CHICAGO SD 299
Is this School making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)?
No
Has this School been identified for School Improvement according to the AYP specifications of the federal No Child Left Behind Act?
Yes
Is this School making AYP in Reading?
No
2010-11 Federal Improvement Status
Choice SES
Is this School making AYP in Mathematics?
No
2010-11 State Improvement Status
Academic Early Warning Year 2
something is wrong here with UNO
2000 49.5% Black 49.7% Hispanic
2010 4.9% Black 93.5% Hispanic
When I was growing up, if I needed a teacher's help I either went to school BEFORE class started, or stayed AFTER class ended. And magically, it always worked and if I put in the extra time so would a teacher. I can't imagine it's any different these days. Why the hell would we want to cater to these kids anymore than we already do by making the teachers come to then? This is obnoxious.
Get ready. We will be escorting teachers to these homes. The officers working Operation Protect Youth, which is a joke anyway, are being ordered to follow 5 food trucks all day long to the ghetto to watch them hand out free lunches. That's 5 two man cars and a Sergeant down for 8 hours a day five days a week for the whole summer to be private security for a program initiated by Michelle Obama and her friends. My guess is it is costing taxpayers $25000 a week Couldn't these officers be used for something better? Especially if we are so short on the street.
Little Rahmulous would love to see the teachers strike so that he can push his charter school agenda even further up the taxpayer's asses!
This whole administration is completely full of shit. I hope the teachers strike over this bullshit and the fact that they got screwed out of their raises while the top executives at CPS are getting pay increases. How's that for shared sacrifice?
Aren't you glad you voted for hope and change? The democrats are nothing but communist subversives out to steal what they can as they destroy this country. Anyone listening to their lies and not working against them deserves what they get.
This Haitian goof is on some serious voodoo bullshit. And Rahm was there looking like Satan just agreeing.
strike,strike,strike only now they need 75% of the membership to approve it.
the once great united states of america is full of dumbasses!
this guy jean claude blizzard(whatever his name is)doesn't even have to live in this shit hole via an exemption from da maya and he expects his peoples to visit da ghetto- this mf is smoken crack
Take the problem kids away from mama and the hood.Send them to a "boot camp" akin to the CCC camps of old, teach them discipline and educate them. Take the monthly payments away from mama and she will not have anymore kids. The only way to salvage thugs.
Wonder how the CPS supernintendo will spin this when miss white 22-year old new teacher gets raped in a stairwell while visiting her students? Since she'd be doing this on her own time, I guess CPS washes their hands of it.
This guy is high! I need his drugs! I need all their drugs!! They are NOT doctors of education AND parenting. In the event they get to go into these "homes", they will find no parent and if they do....they will be on drugs and incoherent to have any kind of conversation with anyone. Besides, the teachers can carry, because.....those liberals will not let us have conceal carry. Gee, have the parents come to a parent teacher conference, no? Take attendance and then show the school chief and Rahm the results and then have THEM go to those "homes" and seek out the missing parents.
It does not take a village to raise a child........it takes a parent that cares.........it takes parents to have an interest to their children's success! The more I try to listen to these CPS people and the mayors...the more I am glad I sent of son to a Catholic school and those years! Why are they so successful?......because they have rules and they carry them out, too.
Time to leave the city for Montana...
UMMMMM.... My daughter is a cps teacher. I have seven words about your idea. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS?????????
Regarding Brizard, SCC asks, "Is this guy truly that much of a dumbass?"
Not in the least. In fact, quite the opposite. He clearly is playing the role that Emanuel hired him to play: savage attack-dog, teacher antagonizer and union buster.
Emanuel, in his quest to win the White House in 2016, is obviously attempting to tap into voter anger with public-sector unions, bitch-slap Chicago's unions into submission (starting with the CTU but eventually expanding to FOP and others), and make himself look like a strong leader who's tight with a tax dollar and who won't take crap from govt employees. And the teachers and the coppers and the firefighters and the laborers are his whipping boys.
Perhaps Brizard should go to St. Sabina and make a speech. Worked for McCarthy, eh?
..don't worry, this wont last long. First sign of apprehension on the teachers face will begin when the cockroaches are climbing into her briefcase, to be taken home later. Maybe to be followed by a robbery and rape, done by the students older teenage brother and his boys. End of home study. Sounds like bringing the chicken to the fox lair.
What if I don't want them in my house ? Some of these teachers are arrogant a holes who I can barely tolerate at conferences let alone over tea. Will these visits be a mandatory thing that parents have to allow? Not all parents will want this.
Is this what $250,00 buys you these days, Buzzard is bustin' loose, as in busting the CTU.
Jobs at a charter school earn a teacher 1/3 of a CPS teacher and have to clean toilets, sweep rooms, babysit after school, weekends and bring their own cleaning & school supplies. Complain, report a crime, identify a special needs kid. You're FiRED!
All about money!
Blogger: Table at Redline Great idea!, they can pick up there homework on the way to their wildings on the Mag Mile :)
"You can't get these ghetto breeder parents to attend a parent teacher conference..so I'll make the teachers go to them!"
Rahm
Is it me or is their something really strange about Brizard. He just seems to have that smooth sweet con artist way about him. Soft spoken, at least in public, and very very cunning. I could almost feel his greasy hand in my back pocket taking my wallet. Where did Rahm find this guy? Is this the best we can get for our money? I don't think so.
CPD and CPS members may have their differences, but if they go down it is over for us.
The CPS union is the strongest in Chicago this is a test for the mayor if he can take them out FOP does not have a chance.
We need to stand together not based on our view but because we are all UNION workers.
Why not expand this great plan. Have every ALDERMAN visit every taxpayer in their ward each year and tell us why we are being raped by the politicians! Have the Mayor do 50 Town Hall meetings to explain to the voters why he lies so much. Never happen!
Home visists by CPD teachers? I say yes with only these conditions. ALL CPS teachers will be given a carry and conceal permit for life from the state. They will all be issued Glocks and an AK47 with plenty of ammo. They will be escorted to each house by at least 2 CPD officers. Thank you.
Time and a Half Teacher Home Visit Overtime Program.
$$$$ Love the idea already $$$$
I have no trouble teaching during the CPS mandated PD time. Of course, does this mean all the crony consultants won't get a pay day. I do have an issue giving up teacher directed time on institute days because those are often the only time we can meet to plan or clean. Also, do something about the multi million dollar grade book system the CPS implemented -- IMPACT. Not user friendly, slow and clunky. Also, final grades for high school students were due on 6/9 -- Of course, school ended on 6/17. Thus, attendance took a dive for those last days. Ridiculous and a waste of instructional time. I'll also do home visits, so long as the district promises two things (1) safety, as there's no way I'm traversing some parts of North Lawndale without security and (2) coverage of CPS insurance when off school grounds. While were at it, how about building time into the day for PE for all students, more than a 25 minute lunch, and a resource period for students. Oh yeah, demanding more from teachers when you eliminated teacher raises while giving yourself more money than your predecessors seems like a silly thing to do, Brizzard.
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What is:
1. CPS mandated PD time?
2. Teacher directed time?
3. Institute days?
4. Grade book system?
5. IMPACT?
6. A resource period?
My father was a CPS teacher and I have no idea what you're talking about. You have to remember, if you want people to be on your side, you have to educate them and it would help if we knew what the heck you were referring to. Obviously, these are not terms used outside the teaching profession, so it might help us to help you, if you clarify.
Is every political apointment in this shitty an asshole?
This is the dumbest thing I ever heard. What? Do ya want teachers to understand what its like to get robbed at gunpoint? Or to know what its like to have a GSW? Because that's exactly what will eventually happen. Its the ghetto. There's a reason why you just don't go there unarmed.
I have a better idea! Maybe the parents should visit the school every once in a while and talk to the teachers about their crotchfruit.
To my "Honor Student"
Hey Homie,
Just picking up some MGD!, Irish Rose! and some Harold's Chicken and I'll be at the crib. Don't mind my friends in black they're just the SWAT.
Not only are the lying fucks not paying a contractual raise, which I suppose could be justified given the pathetic state of city and state finances, but the hypocritical motherfuckers give the clouted do nothing executives raises which flies in the face of the lies they just spewed.
And the media just eats this shit sandwich with a smile and a thank you.
If the teacher's are made to go into these areas of high crime...call for a police escort. If they refuse to give you the ability to defend yourself, then use the police. The working, contributing people of this society deserve to feel safe and protected.
I teach in an outlying suburb, where all students live in walking distance. Yet we have a few kids who 'ride the bus'. Not a school one, mind you, a CTA one. I don't think anyone lives at their in-district 'address'.
Besides that, remember the we are MANDATED REPORTERS. That means we MUST call DCFS if we suspect abuse or neglect. There are some parents out there that DO NOT WANT us to visit, we might see or suspect something.
They will NOT be allowed into my home.
I will not play along with this nonsense.
WOOOOO!
Ol' Voodoo Slick-Daddy seems like he's definitely picking a fight with the teachers on this one...
And just to show how divorced from reality he is, he's saying that when he was teaching, he did home visitations...
Ahhh... Nothing like somebody trying to compel people to pretend to give a shit as a condition of employment... Or else.
Don't blame the teachers one bit for telling Voodoo Daddy to go to hell with what he's trying to sell.
And Rahm was there looking like Satan just agreeing.
6/24/2011 07:15:00 AM
He is really creepy looking if you ask me, and the cartoonist for the (Trib I think?) has captured his 'aura' perfectly. Dark and disturbed.
But you know what? Most teachers are liberal democrats, so hey, enjoy the 'hope and change'.
Enjoy the expres train to hell.
Wonder if the teachers will have a special police detail. Whadya think?
---not a cop
This Haitian goof is on some serious voodoo bullshit. And Rahm was there looking like Satan just agreeing.
6/24/2011 07:15:00 AM
Then keep hoping Rahm really pisses him off and he sticks pins in all the right places!
whats this....chgo remake of 90s movie dangerous minds??? who plays meg ryan?
This City deserves it's own reality show.
---not a cop
visits include hazmat suits and decam booths?
@ 6:40 am -I've never heard of Operation Protect Youth - is this a glorified food stamp program????? And Michelle "not proud of her country" Nobama started this crap??? Oy.
Teachers aren't social workers or babysitters.
This city is fucked.
The same ilk that have basically destroyed the Black family now demand that someone else cater to them.
What is:
1. CPS mandated PD time?
2. Teacher directed time?
3. Institute days?
4. Grade book system?
5. IMPACT?
6. A resource period?
My father was a CPS teacher and I have no idea what you're talking about. You have to remember, if you want people to be on your side, you have to educate them and it would help if we knew what the heck you were referring to. Obviously, these are not terms used outside the teaching profession, so it might help us to help you, if you clarify.
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I am a CPS parent and know what it means. One does not have to be a teacher to know, just an involved parent such as myself.
I have a better idea! Maybe the parents should visit the school every once in a while and talk to the teachers about their crotchfruit.
6/24/2011 11:47:00 AM
I want to visit and visit often but the principal wants it to be an appointment so the visit could be staged I presume.
I am a CPS parent and know what it means. One does not have to be a teacher to know, just an involved parent such as myself.
6/24/2011 08:15:00 PM
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Yay for you. Keep it all to yourselves then. That's definitely the way to win over the very people who could be of assistance to you.
I am a CPS parent and know what it means. One does not have to be a teacher to know, just an involved parent such as myself.
6/24/2011 08:15:00 PM
so, how about a little sharing here?
1. CPS mandated PD time?
Time that the CPS makes us take professional development from their big $$$ outside consultants.
2. Teacher directed time?
Time set aside for teachers to work on classroom cleanliness and curricular needs.
3. Institute days?
Days students are not in attendance but teachers are.
4. Grade book system?
Online grade book that tracks student assignments and grades.
5. IMPACT?
multi-million dollar grade book software that often does not work or works very slowly. More $$$ given to CPS vendors.
6. A resource period?
Time for a student to work on college applications, meet with teachers or counselors, or complete homework assignments.
stupid parents make supid kids. why is it that private schools pay teachers less yet they score higher.the reason being that we give a shit about our kids future and they DON'T. fuck you mayor, put it on parents to civilize those kids before you try to educate them.. bitch
After the CPS teachers finish their mandated home visits, maybe they could patrol the beaches and Michigan Ave. as part of their job.
Yeah. Right. I really wanted to go behind the lines to visit my honor students when I taught at St. Harper of the Ghetto, Academy for Young Ladies and Gentlemen in Englewood.
Especially my favorite, Phelonius A. Salt. His sister Aggie was a piece of work, too.
Since our new Mr. Mayor was not endorsed by any of the cities' unions and won handsomely without our support, he will attempt to shit on each and every one of us. Those without pensions and health insurance elected this asshat( love that word, Second City Cop) and Penny Pritzker and other billionaires provided him with ALL the financial support he'll need for the rest of eternity. Billionaires, in turn, get to control public policy through their tax dodging Not-For-Profits such as Penny's "The Fund." The mayor's actions are all about UNION BUSTING and PRIVATIZATION OF EDUCATION so that Rahm's pals can make even more money. It's immoral to use kids in this way, but these narcissistic egomaniacs will stop at nothing to feed their insatiable greed.Brizzard got $30,000 for moving expenses-check his contract-are you kidding?? and left behind a lawsuit. The teachers in Rochester are dancing a dance of joy to get rid of this disrepectful piece of shit who kisses the filthy rich ass of Ely Broad and his Broad Foundation School for Superintendents. Several states are now teaching Creationism in place of Evolution -this is only the beginning of a corporate takeover of education including what is taught in Public, yes, PUBLIC Schools.
What a nut job. I actually met him--he observed me teaching. The emperor is , indeed, butt naked in the room. We are entrenched in yet another initiative designed to improve minority test scores and narrow the achievement gap...any yet, research shows that this gap is fully in place by 3rd grade. Not much we do in high school can raise those scores. Birth through age 5 is critical. And home visits?? If we were honest, we would acknowledge that the lowest performing kids need to be pulled from the home and educated in a residential setting. Old-school orphanage style. We already feed them breakfast and lunch, provide bus cards, provide free dental and eyeglasses, and in some cases, free medical at in-school clinics. High percentage have LINK. Complete institutionalization is the next step, and probably the only logical solution. In 25 years, mothers need only give birth-the state will take care of the rest.
6/25/2011 11:21:00 AM
thank you.
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