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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

School Tech Connect: Our Terrible, Terrible Mayor

School Tech Connect: Our Terrible, Terrible Mayor:


Our Terrible, Terrible Mayor

This sad episode remains one of the strangest episodes of the past year--- the night Rahm's paid protesters showed up at Crane High School to pretend to support the closing of that institution and the dispersal of the neighborhood kids.

While I was mad at these people--- particularly after they picked a fight with the students--- I also realize that we're living in desperate times (for many), and $25 is $25.  These poor people, many hiding their faces as they filed past me--- how sad for them.  How sad for all of us. There was a lot of love in that auditorium but God knows there was a lot of shame, too.

Anyway, if you were there that night, you too would have decided that there would never be anything that Rahm