Chicago’s Choice: Closing 50 Schools But Spending $100 Million On Basketball Arena

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57. Exactly correct...there's plenty to criticize in the school closings

Unlike most of the shouters here, I walked the line with the CTU and my daughter, who goes to CPS, during the strike.

Plenty to criticize in Rahm's education policy - which is neoliberal and incredibly destructive, but this deal isn't related in the least bit, except for ignorant fanatics. Most of the people here don't know shit about the (Daley) plan to revitalize parts of the Loop through a focus on higher ed. They don't know anything about DePaul, Roosevelt, Columbia College, Robert Morris, any of it. Hell, most of these people don't even know what "the Loop" is. They're mad at Rahm. He called them stupid or something, so they're mad. They know they're supposed to be mad, and blah blah, the usual stupidity.

Plenty to be angry about in the school closings. Rahm is wrong about that, 100%. Or 95%. Some of those schools have no enrollments. You know what Daley said five years ago, everybody: "The day we decide school policy based on gang territory is the day we've given up the city." People cheered that. And he's goddamn right about it.

But most of you wouldn't know, since you don't know fuck all about the city of Chicago, supposing you've ever even stepped foot into it.