Warren: Breakfast of Champions? Not at School
When Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new Chicago Board of Education swings into action, they should not mark the occasion with a private dinner.
They should breakfast together in any of several thousand elementary school classrooms. There, they’ll get a small window onto the mess they inherit. Bring antacids and a nutritionist.
A “Breakfast in the Classroom” program approved by their predecessors is completing its mandatory rollout. All that can be said with certitude is it has shortened instructional time in a system with the shortest day and year of the nation’s largest top 50 districts.
“It’s a mess,” said a North Side elementary school principal who declined to be identified because of concern
