Others Celebrate “Take Your Child To Work Day,” Chicago Celebrates “Keep Your Child Out Of School Day”

So the president of the CTU has a kid in private school, while she plots to have children enrolled in public schools, involved in a useless protest;

Milt Harris ——Bio and Archives--March 27, 2026

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Teachers' unions are a cancer on America. They are a blight that never stops taking. That is not an easy thing for me to say; my daughter has been a teacher of second- and third-graders for 14 or 15 years, and I have attended and assisted her with things like pumpkin carvings, book readings, etc. She is the best teacher I have ever been around. You may think I'm biased, but the time she puts in outside the classroom is unbelievable. She and teachers like her spend more time, money, thought, and planning than anyone will ever know.

Easy or not, teachers’ unions have way too much power and influence. Their decisions affect the lives of America’s youth, and on far too many occasions, those decisions are politically motivated and detrimental to the educational process.

In one of the more outrageous examples, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) filed a petition asking Chicago Public Schools to allow students to be absent on May 1st so kids can join the union's one-day strike against Trump.

Union vice president Jackson Potter tried to dress this farce up as a learning experience: "Teaching our students what civic action looks like requires more than textbooks."

This moronic nonsense is part of a nationwide push – organized by socialists, anti-ICE activists, and open-borders........

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