The Company You Keep
Just going to pile onto the much-made observation that the CTU strike has awakened something across the land. People understand what this is about; they really do. Before this action, you'd see some bullshit in the press, like this piece written by some choady fellow from Arkansas, and there'd be very little commentary after it. But now you see all kinds of people jumping in to say something nice about teachers and about how much they support the CTU.
So I thank Rahm Emanuel for picking a fight with Karen Lewis and the teachers she democratically represents. It's going to be helpful next year, when he's trying to close 100 neighborhood schools and open 60 charter schools--- for people to remember that Rahm's ideas are the ideas of the far right, of the arch-conservatives, and that he's in bed with everyone from the EAG to the birther Donald Trump. Every time I see one of these Fire the teachers! Open charter schools! bromides in the press, it's either written by some pimply white person from the suburbs* or from someone out of state, or from someone paid by Sam Zell or funded by Bill Gates, or from someone paying himself an obscene salary to run obedience schools on the public dime, or someone flying in from Aspen with the grifter son of Marian Wright Edelman in tow.
So I thank Rahm Emanuel for picking a fight with Karen Lewis and the teachers she democratically represents. It's going to be helpful next year, when he's trying to close 100 neighborhood schools and open 60 charter schools--- for people to remember that Rahm's ideas are the ideas of the far right, of the arch-conservatives, and that he's in bed with everyone from the EAG to the birther Donald Trump. Every time I see one of these Fire the teachers! Open charter schools! bromides in the press, it's either written by some pimply white person from the suburbs* or from someone out of state, or from someone paid by Sam Zell or funded by Bill Gates, or from someone paying himself an obscene salary to run obedience schools on the public dime, or someone flying in from Aspen with the grifter son of Marian Wright Edelman in tow.
When you look at the people trying to make the neighborhood schools better for all the kids in all the
Meanwhile, Over On The Fringe
Look what Rahm's far-right, non-Chicagoan allies in the legislature are up to. I may be mistaken but I believe that if you polled the four legislators in the article, not a one of them would even agree that evolution happened. These are the folks Rahm runs with---- super uninformed charter zealots.