By: Kenya Byrd, Lexi Roseberry
In the 2012 fall strike in Chicago, IL, over teacher’s salaries and healthcare budgets; the teachers are causing more harm than good. There are many negative effects of the strike than positive. Many people would support the decision of the teachers, but I oppose. There are three specific reasons why I object: dropout rates raise, crime and violence, and the city loses money.
Schools rely on teachers to take care, teach, and develop a career in each student. So when they refuse to do their job and the students aren’t going to school nor learning, they’ll begin to not care about the aspects of learning. So have a booming and economic building city the future generations that will soon be the rising job corps, not in school learning and enriching their brains with the knowledge they need to obtain to go to college and broaden their horizon of opportunities. Drop outs are the fall of the cities around the country or even the world.
As the dropout rates rise, crime and violence would rise as well. Chicago has a high rate of crime and violence from all different ages. With the parents of adolescent's ages approximately 5-20 that are at work doing what they have to do to support their families, while the children could be doing anything, including theft, murder, fights, riots, public indecency and so on. Chicago, and other cities that have the same beliefs of that of the teachers in Chicago, can't afford to have a rise in crime and violence.
The rise in crime and violence is making a money issue in the city of Chicago. Now since the strike, there are many more deaths which are causing families to pay money for funerals, hospital bills, and many more other things. Now days, money is hard to get and hard to keep. The increase in crime and violence is taking away so much of the city’s money and they can’t afford for that to happen. Another thing is that Chicago is not the richest place and teachers and their salaries can prove it. Since the whole protest, the city has been losing more money than it has ever had. The city and its people are losing money, and so are the teachers are too. Since the teachers are on this strike, they have not been going to work.
All of these are causes and more are building up and are starting many more issues. The question is, What will they do about it? Will they try to stop it or just ignore the situation? Will they listen to what those people or those teachers have to say or will they let the situation just build up? No one knows just yet but something is needed to be done. If there is no action taken upon the situation, more teachers won’t go to work and more people will be on strike. It could cause a domino effect in other states that have the same issues as well, for instance like our own Chamblee Charter High School, we have the same issues that the Chicago teachers are protesting, bad working conditions, pay cuts, unreasonably large classes, and salaries based on standardized tests but in Georgia it is against the law for a strike, even if they have a deep passion of it.
In the 2012 fall strike in Chicago, IL, over teacher’s salaries and healthcare budgets; the teachers are causing more harm than good. There are many negative effects of the strike than positive. Many people would support the decision of the teachers, but I oppose. There are three specific reasons why I object: dropout rates raise, crime and violence, and the city loses money.
Schools rely on teachers to take care, teach, and develop a career in each student. So when they refuse to do their job and the students aren’t going to school nor learning, they’ll begin to not care about the aspects of learning. So have a booming and economic building city the future generations that will soon be the rising job corps, not in school learning and enriching their brains with the knowledge they need to obtain to go to college and broaden their horizon of opportunities. Drop outs are the fall of the cities around the country or even the world.
As the dropout rates rise, crime and violence would rise as well. Chicago has a high rate of crime and violence from all different ages. With the parents of adolescent's ages approximately 5-20 that are at work doing what they have to do to support their families, while the children could be doing anything, including theft, murder, fights, riots, public indecency and so on. Chicago, and other cities that have the same beliefs of that of the teachers in Chicago, can't afford to have a rise in crime and violence.
The rise in crime and violence is making a money issue in the city of Chicago. Now since the strike, there are many more deaths which are causing families to pay money for funerals, hospital bills, and many more other things. Now days, money is hard to get and hard to keep. The increase in crime and violence is taking away so much of the city’s money and they can’t afford for that to happen. Another thing is that Chicago is not the richest place and teachers and their salaries can prove it. Since the whole protest, the city has been losing more money than it has ever had. The city and its people are losing money, and so are the teachers are too. Since the teachers are on this strike, they have not been going to work.
All of these are causes and more are building up and are starting many more issues. The question is, What will they do about it? Will they try to stop it or just ignore the situation? Will they listen to what those people or those teachers have to say or will they let the situation just build up? No one knows just yet but something is needed to be done. If there is no action taken upon the situation, more teachers won’t go to work and more people will be on strike. It could cause a domino effect in other states that have the same issues as well, for instance like our own Chamblee Charter High School, we have the same issues that the Chicago teachers are protesting, bad working conditions, pay cuts, unreasonably large classes, and salaries based on standardized tests but in Georgia it is against the law for a strike, even if they have a deep passion of it.