Changing the Status Quo
For my class Rhetoric, we are learning about many different Rhetorical situations and used many rhetorical devices. We have been to many places all over Chicago and we've been all over Chicago visiting different places to find rhetorical situations that we can relate to the class. For this Action Project we have to pick a timely topic and write an op-ed about it. For my Op-ed I picked the 2019 CPS strike. For this Op-ed I am on the teacher's side. I found it difficult to get between 650 to 750 words because I found that everything I wrote was useful to write my op-ed but finally found something I could remove to get the right amount. After finishing I realized I enjoyed writing this and that I found out a lot about the strike that I didn't know from doing this Action Project.
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On October 17 all CPS schools were cancelled and the teachers went on strike. While Chicago and CPS are figuring out a deal for teachers and students, all CPS students don't have school for the time of the stick. While students are home or out doing their own thing I have to attend school. I am a junior attending GCE lab school which is a private school so the strike doesn't affect me in any way but I see everything that's going on. Being a teenager is still in school.
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I personally think the teachers are doing the right thing by protesting and it doesn't make sense why people would be against it and I want to change the people that are against these strikers opinions. When the teachers strike it shows that they care not only about them selves, but the students too. They're asking for more things for the benefit of the students than they are for themselves. Lots of people think that teachers are on strike for themselves but they also want counselors, therapists, and nurses every day.
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It doesn't make sense to have a nurse once a week because if a student gets sick on one of the days that the nurse is absent then the kid would have to be sent home or just stay at school. This is not right because the student would just miss school because there's not a nurse to help out. CPS is also asking for more teachers so fewer kids can be cramped in a classroom.
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I talked to one of the teachers from Skinner north and she said that all the police and firefighters don't really acknowledge the teachers and people that are striking. She said she thinks that the city told them to not give the strikers attention. I think that this is crazy because if Chicago did tell the police to not acknowledge the teachers that means that they really against them because there is no other reason for them to treat them like that.
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In A miniseries, Episode 1: Why a teacher's strike is bad for Chicago they say “Thousands of students spent Thursday hanging out at schools with no teachers, or hanging out at home with no parents. Raise your hand if you think they spent the day mostly reading, studying and writing? Now, raise your hand if you think they spent most of the day watching TV, playing video games and trading Snaps? The lost learning — the disruption of every student’s routine — is especially harmful to kids on the bubble. CPS students who come from struggling communities with unstable home environments stand to lose the most, the longer the strike continues. But make no mistake. All kids, no matter their socioeconomic backgrounds, are losing crucial learning time in the classroom.”
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It's true that CPS students are losing a lot of valuable time that they can be in classrooms learning but It's also crazy to me that because of all the strike all activities after or in school are cancelled. This includes sports. For many people, sports are important and people could be missing a big chunk of the season because of the strike. But don't get me wrong because if the teachers were not striking then schools would for sure not get more teachers, a nurse every day, and a counselor. I think no one's thinking about the long run besides the teachers and everyone thinks they not doing to achieve something in the long run.
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How can we solve this strike? We don't want to be figuring out a deal for a month while students run around the city. If I was a CPS student I would be striking with the teachers. I would be striking with them because any support they get makes them more powerful. If I am with the teachers it shows that I care and want more teachers so class sizes could be smaller and counselors so if a student goes through something they have someone to talk to and help them with whatever there dealing with.
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My sister attends Whitney Young which is a CPS high school and I asked her what she thinks about the strike and she said “I like that i'm not in school and I get a break for a while and i'm glad that the teachers are striking for us too by asking for more staff. I think it's smart that there thinking about missing these days for us in the longer run. She also talked about how Chicago has the money but doesn't want to give us any. She said Chicago wanted amazon to come here for its jobs, but CPS is offering the same thing which is to have more teachers in the schools.
For my Op-ed I want to publish it on the Chicago Tribune. I want to publish it there because right now they have many episodes of saying why the strike is bad for Chicago and mostly for the students. I would want to put my op-ed in because it's the opposite of what their talking about and would be different from what they're doing.
In paragraph seven in the third sentence, I'm showing pathos because I'm saying what I feel about the teachers and myself if I was a CPS student. In paragraph eight in the last sentence that is logos because these are facts that she read about and that are known by people in Chicago. In the four paragraph I show that I am credible to talk about this topic so that is ethos.
In my first paragraph I explained the background information and why the strike is happening which is context. In my second paragraph, the first sentence is the purpose of this op-ed which is to change the anti-strikers opinion. For my last rhetorical device is in my first sentence in my seventh paragraph. In that sentence, i'm expressing doubt which is called Aporia.
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