Reply #35: look, a lot of oxen were gored. they deserved to be gored.

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the system before daley and duncan was so corrupt that they didn't even keep the buildings clean. roofs leaked, windows were broken, kids were not fucking fed.
arne duncan is not very from "the business community". his magne cum laude harvard degree is in sociology. he spent his childhood in his mother's very successful afterschool program which was in a poor, poor poor neighborhood, and was full of poor, poor, poor kids. the teacher's union never got over having someone who didn't have a union card being appointed to be their boss. it is sour grapes. it is bullshit.

and as far as parents, if you have never been on a big city parent council of any kind, you do not know what overblown ego and colossal stupid are. they are magnets for some of the most disturbed people i have ever met.

i have 5 kids who have been through the chicago system over the last 25 years. i don't need to drum up some link to some blog to tell you what happened here. this arne bashing is pure, unadulterated bullshit. the difference between now and then is day and night.