"In less time than it takes to boil an egg" Chicago closes 50 schools.

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73. i'm not defending him personally. if he moved in next to me, i would burn my own house down

to get out. he is a jerk.
but i think daley lost his taste for hard choices in about his second term, and things like this are left to clean up. i respect people who are willing to stand up, like he did, and say- i take the heat for this. but this needs to be done. nobody ever likes you when you make unpopular decisions like this- right or wrong-and it takes a jerk like rahm to say- i don't care. don't like me. i think this is right, and important, and i'm getting it done.

i've had to do that. i admire people who not only can do it, but who just jump right on to the next one.
i think it is long past time that somebody took ahold of this school system. i hope this doesn't become a poison grudge match to make it fail.
but this is chicago....