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A contract that protects queer & trans students and ensures affirming, inclusive curriculum is what our students deserve. CPS rejected our proposals, but our fight continues. CPS must commit to protecting our kids and our schools in writing.

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LogicForAll1 year ago

Your students deserve to be taught to read and write and not to be indoctrinated into sex cults Pendulum is swinging back to common sense

Harley Kesselman1 year ago

What happened to actually teaching kids how to read and write ?

Angela Van Der Pluym1 year ago

This is why I will never send my future kids to Chicago Public Schools. I want them to excel at reading, writing, and arithmetic. CTU wants them to read Gender Queer. We are not the same

P. Rae of ChicagoRED🇺🇸🧚🏿1 year ago

Just reach the children how to read and count! Geesh!

WYUSMCCOP1 year ago

Illinois needs statewide school choice.

Chicago Boss1 year ago

You guys are all a bunch of morons. The best thing for Chicago students is for the union to be broken up and allow school choice.

Pericles1 year ago

I am a "big player" in the black community and they are tired of their kids being taught wokeness and transgenderism instead of reading and writing

RightSideRobert1 year ago

How about having the students know how to read and do math? That is the real way to protect them. Stop the identity politics and try teaching.

Political Corruption Exposed - Illinois1 year ago

You support the chemical castration and genital mutilation of confused adolescents. Against the will of parents. There will be Nuremberg like trials to adjudicate this barbarism in the future.

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