Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Just up the lakeshore from Chicago....

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Just up the lakeshore from Chicago....:

Just up the lakeshore from Chicago....

New Trier High School

Rahm Emanuel continues to turn the longer school day/year issue into a bloody war, battled out with the union in the media. But a few miles up the lake shore, in Rahm's home town, the same issues are resolved quite differently.

Winnetka is among the nation's wealthiest communities. New Trier H.S. is often referred to as one of the nation's best.. It has graduated such notables as Emanuel and Donald Rumsfeld (yuck!). It's not that they have discovered some new great way to teach their students in Winnetka. The curriculum is fairly