As I write this story Monday, Chicago waits with bated breath to see if Mayor Rahm Emanuel will muster the fortitude to dip into his precious TIF piggy bank and extract the few hundred million or so of your property tax dollars to give public school teachers a nominal raise and avoid another strike. Barring any late-breaking agreements, teachers have been told to strike come Tuesday morning at 6 AM.
Belle’s a 28-year-old rookie first-grade teacher at a low-income public school on the south side. Basically, she was just figuring out how to get to the lunchroom, and she’s already going on her first strike.
At least bankers seem to be flourishing in the age of Rauner and Rahm.
Good to see someone’s making money from public education.
Now she finds herself the only adult in a class of 28 kids. Apparently, Chicago has millions of dollars for that basketball arena, but no money for a teacher’s aide in Belle’s classroom.
