Speaker 1: For almost two weeks. A teacher strike is cripple to
Speaker 1: schools in Chicago. The Chicago Tribute and Editorial Board complains
Speaker 1: that over three hundred thousand children have been locked out
Speaker 1: of classrooms because the union wants to show their new
Speaker 1: progressive mayor, Laurie Lightweight who's the boss. A teachers union
Speaker 1: is demanding billions in spending on top of the eight
Speaker 1: billion dollar education budget. Mere Lightweight says the city just
Speaker 1: doesn't have the money. Meanwhile, the children are suffering. Aside
Speaker 1: from missing weeks of class and liberal inductrination, student athletes
Speaker 1: have been hit pretty hard. Rules say that they cannot
Speaker 1: compete if schools not in session. Many of them have
Speaker 1: already missed important competitions that could have led to scholarships.
Speaker 1: Now those opportunities are not going to come back. So
Speaker 1: for a bunch of low incomes Chicago students, their college
Speaker 1: dreams may be over. Chicago Teachers Union Vice president Stacy
Speaker 1: Davis Gates admitted that there is nothing will be able
Speaker 1: to say to any student athlete to make it better.
Speaker 1: It sucks, she said. The Chicago Tribune editorial board really furious.
Speaker 1: They slammed the union for taking an unreasonable position in
Speaker 1: the strike, and for such a lame apology to the
Speaker 1: affected kids. It's really unusual for the media to attack unions, folks,
Speaker 1: but this time the teachers crossed the line. It's so
Speaker 1: obvious that they're all about themselves and not for the children,
Speaker 1: that even fellow liberals can't defend them. Never thought I'd
Speaker 1: see this day.