Time for a reality check on the Chicago Teachers Union

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The overarching boast of CTU and most teachers unions is that they advocate for children. If that were the case, CTU would support a longer school day and year, more school choice for parents and kids, prohibiting teacher strikes, instituting merit pay and eliminating tenure. It would support more flexibility for principals and deeper teacher evaluations.

A union that advocated for children would move swiftly to get rid of bad teachers. It would be outraged by and proactive about addressing a sexual abuse scandal within Chicago schools, a widespread problem exposed last year by a Tribune investigation that found police had investigated 523 reports of children sexually assaulted or abused inside Chicago public schools from 2008 to 2017. That’s an average of one per week. Most of the cases had been swept under the rug. The series focused largely on failures within the administration of CPS — and criminal misconduct by some of its educators.

The rent-seekers are in control of education in Chicago.