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A Chicago Public Schools teacher was struck by a car Wednesday morning while picketing during the strike's third day, police said.
Police News Affairs said a male teacher was picketing at 8 a.m. near a school at the intersection of Western and Chicago avenues when he was hit.
The man was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in an unknown condition.
It's not known whether the driver was injured. The identities of the driver and teacher have not been released.
Police say the incident is under investigation.
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About 29,000 Chicago Public School teachers walked off th job on Monday after the Chicago Teachers Union and the school board failed to negotiate a new contract. The two sides plan to meet again Wednesday as thousands of teachers picket outside schools across the city for the third day.
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Now this is what many will label REAL NEWS !
Hard hitting, pointed and factual.
Meets the criteria for every great , no not great, outstanding news story .
If your not smart enough to get out of the way of a car, what makes you smart enough to teach kids?
Maybe he was a Driver's Ed teacher.
I hope more of thes worthless teachers get hit. They are a drain on the city and obviously dont care about the children. Can you say KARMA.
Karma's a real b****.
All that education and what did the teacher learn. A lot I hope.
1 down28,999 more to go
Where's the elderly dementia ridden drivers when you need them. A few accidents will make for more good news.
This is what you get when you think you are more important than everyone else and can block traffic to prove your point. They have the right to protest and strike, but they don't have the right to interfere with my ability to get to work.
This guy was obviously not a physics teacher because he failed to remember that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Mass equals might, car 1, teacher 0.
Well, isn't this a lovely bunch of nasties. Since the story says the incident is under investigation, how can anyone assume who was at fault? Just perhaps, he was hit intentionally. Would not surprise me especially with the comments above!
And this would be a bad thing?
They are just puppets...are you one? Some one is succeeding very well at playing us ALL against each other, are we ready to wake up yet? Why do you think this is worse in Chicago than anywhere else? The most effective and established sphere if influence. Do you really think Rom going there was random? It will continue to grow.
Run all those GREEDY FAILURES posing as teachers! Fire them all!! City should sue for BREACH of contract!! Get a court order to order them back to work. Make their union pay dearly!!
Shame on those greedy teachers trying to get books for their students! Did you even read their requests? The majority are about being able to better educate children!
You betcha, it's all about the kids, huh! Wrong. Read it again Enma. The strike is really about teacher pay increases and not wanting their job security tied to their performance. The other side issues you mention are just sprinkles on the cupcake to entice people like you into thinking this strike is something noble. It's the SOP for union thugs to distract people from their greedy demands.
Enma3 you should actually read the articles the sticking point are on benefits and teacher evaluation. has nothing to do with books
Are you an overpaid, underperforming, self centered teacher from this district? Seems like it Enma.
I bet that teacher was glad the ambulance drivers weren't on strike.
They should line them all up and run over'em with a Mack truck!
Should have backed over him a few times too.
That's terrible. I hope the drive is OK.
We need 29,000 elderly drivers with dementia to go to this school district asap.
Senators, if anybody, need to know and uphold our Constitution. It doesn't create second class citizens whose rights are second to others. DOMA is clearly unconstitutional, and will hopefully, God willing, be overturned by the courts. For these elected representatives to push it because of their belief system, they need to resign. They are in forfeit of their oath to support and defend the Constitution. Listen, you are free to practice your religion and hold whatever beliefs you want, but the Constitution requires that you do not foist them on others. To do so dishonors all those who have defended our Constitution, some with their lives.