Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates told a radio station host that conservatives do not want Black children to be able to read.
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates told a news radio host that conservatives do not want Black children to read, adding that it is 'part of the oath they take to be right wing.' In an interview published on WBBM News radio’s site on Sunday, the station’s political editor, Craig Dellimore, spoke with Davis Gates on 'At Issue,' about the union’s contract demands. Some of the demands included social justice issues.
Conservatives don’t even want Black children to be able to read,' Davis Gates said. 'Remember, these same conservatives are the conservatives who probably would have been championing Black codes, you know, during reconstruction or thereafter. So, forgive me again if conservatives pushing back on educating immigrant children, Black children, children who live in poverty, doesn't make my anxiety go up. That's what they're supposed to say.
The incredible demands are being made despite its members delivering underwhelming results for its students. Only 21% of the city’s eighth graders are proficient readers, according to the Nation’s Report Card, which provides national results about students’ performance.
However, in 2023, Davis Gates placed her teenage son in a private Catholic high school in the city. 'She is the poster child for what it means to be part of the teachers union,' Schilling said. 'They’re all hypocritical. The leaders of the teachers' unions, almost none of them, send their kids to public schools, and they know that these are failing public schools and putting their kids in these schools means that they won’t be that smart.
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