The sun-times reports Chicago Public Schools is waiving certain residency and fair pay requirements to aid in hires as schools reopen. CPS is a Chicago district of Chicago students and should be staffed by Chicagoans.

Next. $15.00 should be a minimum wage for Chicago. What kind of message does this send to our students’ futures? “Your education is actually only worth minimum wage.” …Minimum wage with no benefits. The wages of substitutes and aids should already be increased to begin with!

This is too much against our school administrators, who are now being burdened with the task of coordinating a severely disorganized and thrown together solution to a problem they were thrown into,

This is insulting to our teachers whom are facing an institutional aversion to their detailed experience and dedication to our students, whom again, instead of receiving a greater commitment, face greater detachment,

And our parents, who trust their generations to us,

And our students, for too many reasons to list.

The protocols being adjusted are not simply check boxes on a paper.

They are there for legal protections.

They are there for moral and ethical obligations.

It is us who are invested in our city and it’s education.

And certainly Enough of us are also behind on our rent.

All CPS employees and staff, permanent or temporary, should go to a Chicagoan.

They are our schools in our neighborhoods of our students.

We act like it. From us who serve on the elected school councils to the principals we hire to administer our schools, we act with responsibility.

The district should too.

Hey other LSC members, what do you think?

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