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Reader Thanks Chicago Tribune for 'Objectivity'

In the growing public relations war in the ongoing teacher contract negotiations between the Dist. 86 board and Hinsdale high school teachers' union, a Darien resident thanks the Chicago Tribune.


By ROGER J. KEMPA

Thank you, Chicago Tribune, for the reminder that school board works for property owners and parents, not the teachers union. Today, both public and private sector employees would appreciate a 1.7 percent raise in pay, and that means an increase in take-home pay. Common sense still rules over convoluted logic expressed through the National Education Association by Hinsdale 86 spokesman Mike Palmquist as stated to the Tribune, "Under the board's current offer, the take-home pay of nearly every teacher would be reduced." Such delusional reasoning, given an average 2012 teacher salary $105,494, given a teacher strike vote when offered 1.7 percent, serves only to awaken the sleeping silent majority of voters in District 86.

Roger J. Kempa
Darien, IL 


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