Inflammatory rhetoric from Chicago Teachers Union staffer about "this yet-to-United States of America" and more in latest CTU Speaks podcast

CTU member at 2012
Occupy Chicago rally

I just finished listening to the latest CTU Speaks podcast, it's titled "Lies of Learning Lost." It's a tough listen--but luckily you have me to suffer through the awful offal for you. The National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for elementary students plummeted in the latest round of testing, which many people predicted would be the effect of the long COVID-19 lockdown. 

When you are a leftist, bad results are never your fault.

And the Chicago Teachers Union was one of the most vociferous opponents of re-opening schools after those lockdowns. 

Instead of CTU Speaks co-host Jim Staros being teamed with Andrea Parker, in this episode onetime aldermanic candidate for the 37th Ward, Tara Stamps sat in. She described her position as a "virtual instructional coach and building mentor program" staffer for the Chicago Teachers Union.

After a discussion of what the show's guest called "lab schools," I guess that means private schools, Stamps sets forth this zinger: "But again, because black life, since we arrived to these shores in this yet-to-United States of America, has ceased to matter--unless a profit can be made. Enter--charter schools and the prison-industrial complex. So we [meaning they, I assume] can make money off of the suffering of black life--then it's relevant."

That passage can be found at the 31-minute mark of the podcast. Oh, watch out for a couple of cuss words too, so if you are listening at work, or if there are little ones nearby, watch out.

My God, I feel so sorry for Chicago's school children. 

Earlier post: 

New Chicago Teachers Union president on "institutions, individuals" that have "had hundreds of years to deprioritize the needs of everyone except for wealthy white men" regarding education