Richmond Parents and Taxpayers, Welcome to Chicago Public Schools
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20 responses to “Richmond Parents and Taxpayers, Welcome to Chicago Public Schools”
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RVA’s City Council and School Board members are very vocal during their campaigns about supporting equity and unions. I can’t wait to see the city get eaten alive by unions demanding more and more benefits until the city collapses ala Chicago. And that collapse won’t take too long, they’ve been on the glide path for quite a while.
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As Steve wrote above, the left is better at expanding government than conservatives are at shrinking it.
Conservatives have real lives. Professional progressives do not. Fact of life.
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That’s because the Right has never shrunk it, or even held constant.
The Left is better at expanding government than the Right is at promising to shrink it.
More succinctly, the Right is way much better at promising than doing. Same effect, and no need to even mention the Left.
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The police and other direct city employees won’t be far behind, and despite the expressed intention of city council to limit the scope of their contracts, once the teachers get something that broad it will follow for them. I watched the AFL-CIO get up in Senate hearings this year and kill bill after bill that came over from the House to put some limits on the scope of public employee contracts. This will have more to do with making Virginia a totally blue state than any voting change they implemented.
No, wait, the impact of this will be greatly magnified by moving local elections to November rather than in the spring, so the local employee union turnout drive and campaign spending will line up with offices higher up the ballot. Election day is now a government employee day off, too.
They are good at this. They do more to secure their political strangle hold in one or two sessions than Republicans could accomplish in a decade of fumbling.
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Your last couple of sentences reflect some of my recent thinking: the Democrats certainly made the most of those two years in control of both the General Assembly and the Governor’s office.
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The difference between a small government world view and a large government world view is efficiency at shaping government in your image.
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See my response to Baconator below.
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Very much so. Agree or disagree on the merits of the new laws, but Democratic Party leadership in the General Assembly certainly achieved many things in a short time.
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One of several things that supports you view is that the press has been silent on this. Not a word about the differences between City Council and School Board views on union negotiations. Certainly they will not read about it in VaNews tomorrow.
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Steve, I don’t live up there. Do you think Richmond has the tax base to support this?
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Richmond does have a strong tax base but squanders it.
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Don’t forget how union dues will be divided amongst REA, VEA, and NEA to always elect a union and teacher friendly school board who will then crown superintendents. Nowhere on the radar will the interests of students and parents be considered.
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Like requiring hoops through which to be jumped? Witness signatures comes to mind. Gerrymandering. Those sorts of things.
Hey! It’s a negotiation. “Promise her anything, but give her Chanel.” Sound familiar?
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Let unions start charter schools and see if anyone would send their kids to a union run school if they had alternative choices.
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Aside: The economy created 678,000 jobs in February.
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Good, we are almost back to 2019 levels regarding participation rate and the like.
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Yep, nearly done with the Trump recession… phew…!
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“Eric the half a troll Matt Adams • 13 minutes ago
Yep, nearly done with the Trump recession… phew…!”Trump did a lot of bad things, an economic contraction resulting from a global pandemic wasn’t one of them.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/313070/trump-economic-ratings-no-longer-best-class.aspx
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Nearly. I’m sure whatever you reply to “content unavailable” is definitely more accurate than what isn’t available.
Hey, about those “agressive ads”, don’t enter the article by hitting “x comments”. It takes you to an ad. Hit “continue reading”.
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Speaking of teachers, apparently Zelenskyy’s movie, in which he plays a teacher elected president when he complains about corruption in the government, is being rereleased.
Based on his success as the real president, we should elect Kevin Kline from “Dave”, a movie with a similar plot.
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