This Week In Education: Media: Sentimental (& Inaccurate) Turnaround Coverage

This Week In Education: Media: Sentimental (& Inaccurate) Turnaround Coverage

Media: Sentimental (& Inaccurate) Turnaround Coverage

by Alexander Russo

Last week it was the nice principal in Vermont. This week it's the nice lunch ladies in Chicago. The vivid but really sentimental story is from Chicago Public Radio and is focused on the lunch ladies at Deneen Elementary School. In the piece, beat reporter Linda Lutton takes a tour around the cafeteria and notes that there are seven lunch ladies at the school, all of whom have to apply for jobs now. Plus a beloved school security guard. I don't mind the story's focus on the disruption and collateral damage that