Lewis Kicks Rahm's Ass Again
Up until about 5:30 P.M. yesterday, the CPS administrators and Rahm were keeping the schools open, not to educate, but to babysit.
Most sensible parents had already decided to keep their kids home. Even the University of Chicago Lab School that teaches the mayor's kids had decided to close over the weekend. There was even an article in the Tribune that had Karen Lewis, head of the teachers union, calling for schools to be closed.
As a result, Lewis looked like she was making sense, while Rahm (and Rahm's people) dithered:
Most sensible parents had already decided to keep their kids home. Even the University of Chicago Lab School that teaches the mayor's kids had decided to close over the weekend. There was even an article in the Tribune that had Karen Lewis, head of the teachers union, calling for schools to be closed.
As a result, Lewis looked like she was making sense, while Rahm (and Rahm's people) dithered:
- As the region braces for brutal sub-zero cold, Chicago city officials have one brief bit of advice: Stay inside.
“If you can stay indoors, please do so,” Gary Schenkel, executive director for the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, told reporters Sunday. He added: “Everyday activities may not be feasible.”
That was probably the last straw - everyone stay home....except the kids. A brilliant bit of theater that would have left egg all over Rahm, so of course, it had to be done. Nice to see someone is thinking.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
67 Comments:
Really, really hoping Rahm's plane coming back to Chicago tomorrow gets redirected to Atlanta, due to WEATHER.
chicago strikes an iceberg while the man on the fifth floor leans out the window waving his dick at the ctu and the children -- while shouting 'i'm the king of the world'
then he gets bitch slapped
Rahm's not even in the country, much less the state. He's in Asia.
Many suburban schools and private city schools made this call on Saturday. Why would the city, who is all for the children even think of having school in frostbite conditions? That this was even open for debate is crazy.
Its all Public Relations in a garbage can..see how much will stick. Politics folks the Dumbocrats way.
This mayor does not need to get re - elected. He's screwed with CPS and CPD to much and has ruined a good thing. As mentioned before, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Rahmie the Commie is so concerned for the children that he wants to risk their safety to make sure he keeps them safe.
Does that make sense? Well, it's a socialist thing. You wouldn't understand.
In the face of a Polar Vortex and the teachers union, even da mayor will cave. Too bad, because da mayor war right to start with. In Alaska, Canada and Siberia tomorrows conditions are just ordinary winter and the kids manage to go to school. There is no such thing as weather to cold to carry on normal business/school, there are just people that are not dressed properly for the weather.
Our Glorious Leader will keep the children warm! The Glorious Leader can never be wrong!
Meanwhile, in other communist countries, North Korea executed its number two. It is not know if their Glorious Leader Kim Jong Un had his uncle Jang Song Thaek executed by anti aircraft guns or fed to a pack of dogs.
http://news.yahoo.com/kim-jong-un-fed-his-uncle-to-120-starving-dogs--report-145303810.html
Ain't communism grand? Aren't you glad the people elected a socialist so that we can start down that road?
Sun Times Bulletin CPS will be closed Monday and Tuesday.
Not that Rahm's heart thawed out or anything.
He didn't want anyone asking questions while he was attending a Madras School in Indonesia and kids froze their tongues to lightpoles on Safe Passage Routes.
Stay tunes for our next report on the Dreaded Cabin Fever Killings.
Remember it's all about the children....just ask asshole Rahm.
Emanuel is in Indonesia with his family for a cultural enrichment vacation.
He freaked out at the clusterfuck going on back home about the snow.
Barbara Bird Bennett now on launching pad. T minus.......
No worries for Rahm. He is in Tahiti rubbing sun screen on himself.
The real reason CPS is closed is not because of the weather, it's because CPS couldn't find enough substitutes for all the teachers who called into their new automated system (www.aesoponlone.com) to take off on Monday. Reports are the system went down with all the calls coming in.
Also, it has to be really hard for CPS teachers and administrators to drive in from the suburbs, IN, & WI to teach in Chicago, something nearly 30%-35% of them do. Many teachers are either grandfathered with the old CPS residency policy or they work in special 'need basis' subject areas, which allows them to live outside Chicago.
(Did you know PE is a 'special need basis' subject area? Think about those PE teachers when you're paying your tax bills and they drive out of Chi-raq to their nice cozy homes in Aurora, Antioch, Elmhurst, Schaumburg, Evanston,etc. and taking their $72K-$90K salaries with them to spend in other communities' economy and their kids go to real schools.)
However, there's a boatload of CPS staffers who break the residency policy and CPS does nothing about it. There were 265 complaints of residency violations reported in the 2013 CPS Investigators Report, by far the most of all the complaints and accounting for 18.1% of all complaints. Yet, only 3% (8 staffers) of those complaints resulted in staffers being nabbed for a residency violation.
And, what does CPS IG James Sullivan say about this? Sullivan says CPS is short the manpower to check on all the complaints. But, if you know Chicago, most residency compliants get lost somehow, just like the Vanecko evidence.
Here's the report:
http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Documents/OIG_FY_2013_AnnualReport.pdf
Anonymous said...
In the face of a Polar Vortex and the teachers union, even da mayor will cave. Too bad, because da mayor war right to start with. In Alaska, Canada and Siberia tomorrows conditions are just ordinary winter and the kids manage to go to school. There is no such thing as weather to cold to carry on normal business/school, there are just people that are not dressed properly for the weather.
1/06/2014 02:07:00 AM
The thing to do then is to send your kid to school in Alaska, Canada or Siberia. They would get a better education than here.
Karen Lewis really needs to run for mayor. She would destroy Rahm.
While rahm is nice and toasty warm, out of the country! While the city is shutting down rahm relaxes! A true leader! What happened to Southwest Airlines? Attempted to fly the other day told delayed for days, employee said labor dispute,many did not show up for work! Guess the guys that work at the bottom can show the billionaires at the top who really matters! Bottom line if the workers are abused the top elite catch a cold, you can only dump on the workers so long until worker say no more! Happens everywhere, we are getting tired of the powers that be dumping on us!
If Karen Lewis did not make such racist comments in the past she could beat rahm easily, female, black, yes shoe could win, but her mouth diminished her chances, wonder if anyone else out there could be rahm and his crew of billionaires who support him? Any other mayor would of cut vacation short and made their way back to the city, but rahm obviuosly does not care as evidenced by his extra long vacation, and to think this country is not good enough for him to vacation in!
JUST A CITIZEN: We had "snow days" when I was kid (in the 60's). I think when it's 35 below effing zero the kids can stay home and HARK the parents can watch them for the day. The communist leaders of this country are repulsive and pure evil.
Fuck you to the jagoff boasting about children attending classes in Alaska, Canada and Siberia. You do not know what you are talking about asshat! Check a weather map: in some major cities in Alaska, the temperature is currently warmer than it is in Chicago. Did it also ever occur to you that people in the Great White North are better equipped to deal with extreme weather?
It has been reported that it was warmer at the South Pole yesterday than it was at O'Hare Airport. I cannot believe that there are fools who want the schools open in these conditions.
Where is our absentee mayor?
Rham co. are total asshole's does it surprise anyone that this little freak is totally incapable of doing his job? Anyone voting democratic next 2000 elections has their head up their ass.
What will the entitlement people do when their kids don't get their two free meals a day( sometimes 3) and free babysitting? ...... Nothing.they don't get up till 3pm.
Rahm will force the charter teachers to go and babysit the childrens.
Here's our take on the situation -- Barbara Byrd Bennet is trained in the corporate "no excuses" style of "ed reform."
http://windycityteachers.blogspot.com/2014/01/thanks-karen.html
Karen Lewis for FOP president!!!
Where was his hatchet woman Byrd- Bennet? Come out, come out wherever you are?
Common sense is a rare commodity.
Karen Lewis should run for mayor I Would girbuo
One of the reasons they wanted to leave the schools open is most of the parents in the ghetto don't feed their children and the school is the only place these kids get a meal. It's a shame that the only time these kids eat is at school. That being said it's not society's responsibility to feed your kids. It's the parent's responsibility to ensure their children have enough food in order to survive. If the only reason you send your kid to school is to eat and to get them out of your hair then you shouldn't have kids in the first place.
In Northwest Indiana the Sheriff declared a state of emergency and ordered all residents to stay inside, all roads were closed.
At least the stuttering idiot was around in these things to make sure we checked on our ants and knuckles
If the asshole mayor can't buy Karen Lewis off, she could set him up to be defeated in the upcoming election. We should all get behind her and support whatever she does.
Maybe the routes of Safe Passage weren't shoveled. And who was going to shovel the routes? CPD, CFD and STREETS and SAN. that's who! That's why they cancelled classes. Lol!
Seems like kids go to school in other parts of the world that routinely have severe winter conditions. Why can't the kids in U.S. go to school?
OT - Well, well, well. His royal majesty is finally back from his vacation - oops I meant business trip. He's finally getting around to addressing his subjects at a 2:30 pm press conf. Better late than never most say. Kind of like closing the barn door after all the animals have gotten out. A real lack of leadership is being shown during one of the worst winter starts in a long time. People are noticing more than what Tiny thinks. He certainly does not put the people of chicago ahead of himself. When are side streets going to be plowed and salted? The city has not handled one winter storm yet with any capability. Piss poor service and I'm not blaming the snow truck drivers. They take their orders from above.
Can't wait til this guy gets the boot in 2015. Hey news media. Why are you so quiet about where the Mayor has been? Doesn't anybody feel he should have cut his business trip short and hightailed it back to town? Oh yeah, I forgot he has all those capable staff members running things in his absence. The taxpayers did not elect them. They elected you, tiny, and you need to get your ass in gear and start providing better service. You got the boot out of Washington and city hall is next.
Can see him leading off at 2:30 about his very important business trip but he was in constant touch with his staff blah blah blah....... Save it. It's all about you and what you want. Similar to a tyrant.
Sorry for the rant. Must have a slight case of cabin fever.
She still socialist race baiting liberal. Only thing she's got going for her is that her Union can strike and try to force the Cities hand
Anonymous said...
In the face of a Polar Vortex and the teachers union, even da mayor will cave. Too bad, because da mayor war right to start with. In Alaska, Canada and Siberia tomorrows conditions are just ordinary winter and the kids manage to go to school. There is no such thing as weather to cold to carry on normal business/school, there are just people that are not dressed properly for the weather.
1/06/2014 02:07:00 AM
Hey dumbfuck check out a map; Chicago isn't Alaska, Canada, or Siberia so this is not the norm and therefore the proper procedures and infrastructure to combat this type of severe cold isn't in place. Frostbite can set in as little as 10 minutes in these conditions so while it might not be a bad idea for a moron like you to be out there so you can't reproduce and pollute the planet, it is a bad for kids going to school or standing outside waiting for a bus.
if Rahm runs for election, and wins, he will win, with 40% of the vote, with about 25% of the total electorate (meaning he gets about 16% of all registered voters); he claims a big victory.....most voters stay home...and life goes on
We could stand united if we wanted to but have to many kiss asses who want their spots or overtime. So we will never be united cause people are greedy. Not to say we don't all need the extra money,but we will never get what we want or need being divided.
Also remember Mayor Bilandic when the snowstorm came and the streets were screwed up then. The media was relentless. Now Rham is here and they kiss his ass. Well fuck you news media you all suck, and same to Rham.
He said that he was in constant communication for the folks back here. I do not fly that often, do they have wi fi on the flights back from Jakarta? Otherwise, he is out of touch for about 13 hours.
To all you officers who are on the street, thank you.
There is no victory in this just common sense.You are people who know
first hand how dangerous conditions are outside.
To the haters bitching about teachers who live outside the city I would like to point out a lot of 125,000 a year suburban teachers make the commute from boys town to the burbs every day.
"Seems like kids go to school in other parts of the world that routinely have severe winter conditions. Why can't the kids in U.S. go to school?"
Don't get stuck on stupid! It is a miracle that any of the CPS students live long enough to reach adulthood. The students are overwhelmingly poor minorities from non-traditional single parent families, if you can call their inattentive mothers parents in anything other than the biological sense of the word. Nobody is dressing these children appropriately and sending them out the door with brown bag lunches. The CPS feeds the children.
More to the point, the CPS could not find sufficient substitutes to staff all of the classrooms on Monday as almost everyone had called in sick or to use a personal day. You want the kids to attend school without any adults present to provide supervision.
Chicago set its all-time record for cold today, breaking marks set 113 years ago, and some of you are acting like it was mild snow flurries.
I'm of the opinion that nobody in the City or CPS wanted to call school off because they were afraid of the Mayor and being on the receiving end of one of his tantrums. The Mayor was airborne and was incommunicado, as soon as he was able to be reached, they called him and let him give the thumbs up or thumbs down.
Micromanagement at it's finest.
I'm no fan of the mayor, but , so what , he went on vacation. He was at the press conference on the coldest day we can remember. Not like he's still away. -17 and he's here. No real story here. And Karen Lewis is an embarrassment . Silly, ultra left slob.
Watched the Sunday a.m. press briefing. Interesting. Everyone talking about Rahm micromanaging the crisis from Indonesia; no CPS representative there. Barbara Byrd Bennett going around the City firing up school boilers apparently. Kind of turned off by Schenkel's "the Mayor's only interest is that of How the residents of Chicago, blah, blah, blah....."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/06/Judge-Throws-Out-Chicago-Gun-Ban
Anonymous said...
"To the haters bitching about teachers who live outside the city I would like to point out a lot of 125,000 a year suburban teachers make the commute from boys town to the burbs every day."
1/06/2014 06:26:00 PM
So, you're saying it's okay for CPS teachers living in the suburbs (along with WI and IN) to not make it in to work in Chicago because they only, ONLY, make $75K-$90K??? I'm not sure of your point.
If CPS teachers living outside Chicago were that great of teachers, they would be making those $125,000 salaries in places where they live. Places like: Naperville, Park Ridge, Niles, Arlington Heights, Morton Grove, etc. Instead, CPS kids get suburbanites who can only hoot and holler, bang on buckets, and say, "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Rahm Emanuel has got to go."...then, they drive or take the Metra back to where they live and suck more money out of Chicago taxpayers.
If all other city workers HAVE to live in Chicago, so should CPS teachers and administrators.
Rham made a comment at his press conference (a reporter questioned his vacation/absence) His response was that his family didn't feel like he was on vacation with them because he was constantly on the Phone being updated by every department..,, .,, boo f'in hoo! You are the mayor of the third largest city in the US of A.... Your family reaps plenty of benefits from that. No one gives a sh*# if your family felt u weren't on vacation them. Wish a reporter would have called him out on that!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I'm no fan of the mayor, but , so what , he went on vacation. He was at the press conference on the coldest day we can remember. Not like he's still away. -17 and he's here. No real story here. And Karen Lewis is an embarrassment . Silly, ultra left slob.
1/06/2014 07:43:00 PM
His flight landed just before the press conference. I'm sure he was toasty warm and well-rested after his 20 hour flight home.
The press conference should have happened two or three days ago. But because of his micromanaging everything, his staff is afraid to make a move without his ok. Nothing wrong with taking a vacation as long as your staff can make decisions without fear of retribution. That is not the case here with this administration. The looks on all of their faces at the press conf. Says it all. They have already been berated by the boss and the stress was showing.
Schenkel's arrogant comments on Sunday' press conference about "the importance of education here in the city" backfired.
Smug smartass answer to a legit question sent the phone lines and on line blogs afire - insiders say schenkels bungled handling of the press conference has Rahm furious and that's what forced him to cancel schools...
To save face, Rahm immediately cancelled schools a second day to come across as a caring leader and a parent, not the pompous prick he really is!
Goodby Gary.... Search is on for a replacement !
Why should a government tell you where you have to live?
My point is that Property taxes in
Chicago are reasoniable.But because of the high taxes in the burbs many teachers want it both ways :cheap taxes,but high salaries so they live in Chicago but work in the suburbs.
Before you heap praise on Karen Lewis, remember that she is to the left of Mao, is a race-baiter, and hates the police. In this case, the enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend.
"if Rahm runs for election, and wins, he will win, with 40% of the vote, with about 25% of the total electorate (meaning he gets about 16% of all registered voters); he claims a big victory....."
In 2011, Rahm Emanuel was elected Mayor of Chicago with the lowest popular vote total of any winning candidate in almost a century. It is worth noting that in the 1919 mayoralty race, there were five general election candidates, including three major candidates (the incumbent mayor, the incumbent county clerk and the incumbent state's attorney).
Emanuel bought the election in 2011. Voter turnout was apathetic. Tiny Dancer probably spent about $45.00 per vote.
Anonymous said...
"To the haters bitching about teachers who live outside the city I would like to point out a lot of 125,000 a year suburban teachers make the commute from boys town to the burbs every day."
1/06/2014 06:26:00 PM
So, you're saying it's okay for CPS teachers living in the suburbs (along with WI and IN) to not make it in to work in Chicago because they only, ONLY, make $75K-$90K??? I'm not sure of your point.
If CPS teachers living outside Chicago were that great of teachers, they would be making those $125,000 salaries in places where they live. Places like: Naperville, Park Ridge, Niles, Arlington Heights, Morton Grove, etc. Instead, CPS kids get suburbanites who can only hoot and holler, bang on buckets, and say, "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Rahm Emanuel has got to go."...then, they drive or take the Metra back to where they live and suck more money out of Chicago taxpayers.
Do you think a teacher just goes to one of those high paying suburbs, fills out and application and gets one of those jobs. Guess again. Sometimes there are 300-500 applications for 2 oe 3 openings. Trust me if those teaching jobs were available, plenty of CPS teachers would want them. Now they just claim they want to help the city children when in fact there are no other jobs
Anonymous said...
Karen Lewis really needs to run for mayor. She would destroy Rahm.
1/06/2014 07:27:00 AM
Where does all this love for Karen Lewis come from. Have you lost your minds?
Anonymous said...
If the asshole mayor can't buy Karen Lewis off, she could set him up to be defeated in the upcoming election. We should all get behind her and support whatever she does.
1/06/2014 12:37:00 PM
You want to be indebted to Karen Lewis? Listen to her ideas and a few speeches. Her strength comes from the teachers being allowed to strike
hey, Rahm......why not just resign?....it's not like anyone would miss you....
I am calling "bullshit" on the Sun-Times for lauding Rahm on the snow removal efforts. Driving through the North side today (Wards 40 and 50) and the side streets are almost impassable. Not one of the side streets had been plowed or salted.
The aldercreatures for these two wards are O'Connor (Rahm's floor leader -- ha) and Silverstein.
how about Karen lewis for fop president!!!!
Do you think a teacher just goes to one of those high paying suburbs, fills out and application and gets one of those jobs. Guess again. Sometimes there are 300-500 applications for 2 oe 3 openings. Trust me if those teaching jobs were available, plenty of CPS teachers would want them. Now they just claim they want to help the city children when in fact there are no other jobs
1/07/2014 10:23:00 AM
You're right on point and CPS gets the leftovers who bitch and moan about being underpaid at $72,000 when the parents of Escobar, DeShawn, and Maria are just getting by on $30,000 or less salaries. A lot of CPS teachers, many Euro Trash, complain how lazy, uncivilized, undisciplined, and slow their students are and they have no idea what's it like to be one of these kids and know what goes on in their neighborhoods, especially when many of the entitled CPS teachers were raised and live outside Chicago.
How the fuck does Ms. Youngperkyass know what's it like to be one of his students when the only times she comes to Chicago, besides work, is for pub crawls on Lincoln Ave. or going to Cubs games?
Karen Lewis is right as you need teachers living in the students' communitiies to know what they're going through on a daliy basis. Yet, she does nothing to persuade her teachers to move to Chioago.
"Karen Lewis is right as you need teachers living in the students' communitiies to know what they're going through on a daliy basis. Yet, she does nothing to persuade her teachers to move to Chioago."
Apart from exempt positions (like special ed.), most ordinary classroom teachers in the CPS are subject to residency rules.
Karen Lewis will whip his skinny little ass when she runs for Mayor.
"Apart from exempt positions (like special ed.), most ordinary classroom teachers in the CPS are subject to residency rules."
1/07/2014 05:40:00 PM
It's more than Special Education, here's the lowdown:
The Chicago Board of Education's residency policy was established to:
Enhance the quality of performance of duties by employees who, as residents of the City, have an increased personal stake in the progress of the Chicago Public Schools and more awareness of conditions existing in the system.
Increase the likelihood that employees residing in the City will have contact with community leaders and citizens through public school and community activities.
Minimize absenteeism and tardiness among employees.
Provide economic benefits to the school system from local expenditure of salaries and the payment of local sales and real estate taxes.
Exemptions to the Residency Policy for Special Needs Areas
Newly hired teachers who are certified/endorsed in subject areas deemed special needs may apply for a waiver to the residency policy, provided they are hired to teach in a special needs area of education. Such individuals must complete and submit an application for exemption to the residency policy within 31 calendar days from the original date of hire.
If granted, exemptions will be valid for three (3) academic years after the employee's date of hire and may be renewed for subsequent three (3) year periods, provided that the employee continues to be employed in a special needs position.
Areas Assessed as Special Needs:
Special Education Teachers
Mathematics Teachers
Science Teachers
Guidance Counselors
School Nurses
Reading Teachers
Bilingual Teachers
Physical Education Teachers
School Psychologists
Speech Pathologists
ROTC
Sign Language Interpreters
Occupational & Physical Therapists
Health Service Nurses
World Language (Exclusively: Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Latin, Farsi)
I understand the hostility to Karen Lewis given her hard leftist politics and her advisors, but remember that during WW2 the USA allied itself with Stalin to defeat common enemies. In the short term if Lewis is the only one who can hammer Rahm, I would support her in that fight. The enemy of my enemy may be my friend, at least temporarily.
Okay, I can understand CPS allowing staffers in almost all of the special need areas to live outside the city. Even ROTC. But, counselors and PE teachers. THAT'S RIDICULOUS!!!
Didn't CPS layoff over 100 counselors and over 100 PE teachers prior to this school year? Where's the need to let them to continue to live outside Chicago?
Wow
I guess I struck a nerve with my post about teachers residency. There seems to be so much
hostility to the fact all CPS teachers do not fall under the residency rule. Truth be known CPS
receives about 48% of its funding from local taxes the rest comes from outside the city in the
form of state and federal money. In my suburban district 86% of school money comes from local real estate taxes. In 1984 my in-laws paid $ 450 dollars in property tax for a two flat in Sherman Park,
while my little suburban house cost me $ 3,500 the same year.
To those who think the best teachers are in the burbs I would like to say so are the best students.
it is not hard to be successful in the classroom with kids actually raised by parents who teach them
right from wrong. I know of no suburban district with a residency rule.200-500 teachers applying for one job is an accurate statement, but the person who gets the job is usually related to a school board member.
P.S. The two flat in Sherman Park was sold for a pittance in 1986, immediately converted to an illegal four flat for 22 people. It went into foreclosure in 1987 and burned to the ground in 1990.
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