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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

8-5-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:








Video from last night’s Hinsdale board meeting. Skoda goes off the rails.
. In my earlier post today on Hinsdale District 86, I reported on the “axe incident.” This is video last evening’s board meeting. Tea Party activists had distributed emails warning that the teachers planned to bus in outside agitators to disrupt. What is telling in this video, besides Mr. Skoda’s over the top crankiness, is that he really believes the audience is laughing at the picture. He doesn







In Hinsdale, Tea Party takes an axe to their teachers.
Tea Party Hinsdale school board member Claudia Manley. Hey folks. Keep an eye on those local school board elections. Out in Chicago’s western suburbs the Tea Party extremists who were recently elected to the Hinsdale High School District 86 are in full battle mode over what should be normal contract bargaining. Instead it has been turned into a holy war on the teachers union. We’ve been following


8-4-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Changing Chicago’s political landscape. Your homework assignment.It wasn’t very hard for us to fill the Logan Square house with people to hear CTU President Karen Lewis speak. We could have doubled the invite list. We were only limited by the size of Mike and Susan’s living room. “This is not an annou