{"id":117991,"date":"2021-02-04T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117991"},"modified":"2021-02-04T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:27:47","slug":"enough-is-enough-chicago-mayor-demands-teachers-return-to-work-in-fiery-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enough-is-enough-chicago-mayor-demands-teachers-return-to-work-in-fiery-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Enough Is Enough\u2019: Chicago Mayor Demands Teachers Return To Work In Fiery Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenough-is-enough-chicago-mayor-demands-teachers-return-to-work-in-fiery-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1224393902.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears to have reached the end of her patience with the Chicago Teachers Union, which pushed negotiations on whether Chicago teachers would return to in-person instruction into another day, effectively delaying the start of classes until next week.<\/p>\n<p>In a fiery speech Thursday morning, broadcast live on most local news networks, Lightfoot demanded that teachers reach a deal with the Chicago Public Schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough is enough,\u201d Lightfoot demanded, citing \u201cfailing grades, depression, isolation\u201d among students, whom she says \u201ccannot afford to wait any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready to welcome our students back,\u201d Lightfoot said. \u201cFrankly, they have been ready for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve extended ourselves beyond measure,\u201d she continued, citing a $100 million investment in creating safe classrooms.&nbsp; \u201cWe need our kids back in school. We need our parents to have that option. It should not be that CPS parents are, of all the schools in our city, the only ones that don\u2019t have the option for in-person learning. It cannot be that a public school denies parents that right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd let me emphasize again, remote learning works for some, it absolutely doesn\u2019t work for everyone \u2013 not by a long shot,\u201d she added, getting emotional.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the city\u2019s leading officials, Janice K. Jackson, the CEO of&nbsp; Chicago Public Schools, and Dr. Allison Arwady, the city\u2019s public health commissioner, also weighed in, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/02\/04\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-teachers-schools-reopen\/\">per Reason Magazine<\/a>. \u201cJackson said that she didn\u2019t think any company or employer in the private sector would tolerate the sort of behavior teachers are engaged in, while Arwady pointed out that all available science supports the safe reopening of schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CTU has resisted nearly every effort to open schools to in-person learning and is now demanding that all teachers be vaccinated before children are allowed to return to classrooms and, according to a document outlining the union\u2019s stipulations, that teachers who live with individuals \u201cvulnerable\u201d to the coronavirus be allowed to work from home indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll employees with medical risks, who are primary caregivers for family members with medical risks, or who have household members who have medical risks\u201d should be allowed to teach virtually, ostensibly until the pandemic is at an end \u2014 a goal that may never be reached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot return to in-person instruction until we have made more progress with the district on CDC-based health metrics, allowing educators with medically vulnerable family members to continue to teach remotely, and addressing real equity needs for the vast majority of our students \u2014 particularly Black and Latinx students who continue to learn remotely,\u201d CTU said Thursday in an open letter to interested parties.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what the \u201cequity needs\u201d CTU is referring to are, but the union has suggested that community organizations must receive grants and that police officers, who are hired to provide safety and protection in select buildings, must be removed from schools before students can safely return \u2014 two issues that have little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot said Thursday that CPS has already invested millions in protecting schools, and so far, those investments, she says, have proven to be effective at protecting both teachers and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me remind you of the over $100 million dollars in mitigations that CPS has invested in our schools to make them safe. They have included: ventilation, testing, health screenings, face coverings, enhanced cleaning, and other in-school safety measures,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCPS had three weeks of successful implementation of these mitigation plans in our schools, that was until the CTU blew up and created chaos that we are now enduring,\u201d Lightfoot concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Talks on reopening schools are set to resume Thursday. The start of in-classroom learning, which was scheduled to begin for most K-8 students on Monday, has now been pushed back to next Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears to have reached the end of her patience with the Chicago Teachers Union, which pushed negotiations on whether Chicago teachers would return to in-person instruction &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892655,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4387,4201,4910,4602,5309,4605],"class_list":["post-117991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chicago","tag-demands","tag-enough","tag-mayor","tag-return","tag-teachers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}