By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org

CHICAGO – While Chicago teachers hold public education hostage in the Windy City, many of their own children are enjoying uninterrupted instruction at some of the city’s finest private schools.

Because 94.1 percent of Chicago school employees are paid well above the city’s median household income level, they can afford to send their children to top private schools that refuse to allow labor issues to corrode their classrooms.

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Studies show that more than 20 percent of public school teachers nationwide choose to enroll their own children in private schools, according to a blog from Breitbart.com’s Dana Loesch. In Chicago, the study found 39 percent of teachers send their kids to private schools, Loesch wrote.

That’s not surprising, considering that EAGnews found the city’s top-paid teacher in 2011 took home nearly a quarter-million dollars, and 1,500 Chicago school employees break six figures. Nearly everyone who works for the public school district makes more than the total income for the average Chicago household, according to Census data.

Chicago teachers send their children to private schools because they’re the best schools. They provide structure so students can focus on core academics without distractions like picketing teachers. We think it’s great that Chicago teachers make the best educational choices for their children, but it’s brazenly hypocritical when they force the cancellation of classes in taxpayer-funded schools.

It’s hard to believe these teachers are demanding more pay and benefits from the very people they’re exploiting. It’s difficult to understand how the children of public school teachers deserve opportunities that public school students don’t have.

All Chicago children deserve an equal opportunity for a quality education – one that follows the private school model of putting students before adult labor issues.

We believe the Chicago Teachers Union needs to learn that lesson in a bad way, and we’re doubtful that the city’s schools will improve very much until it does.