Beware the Arne
with bonus “flintyness"
[the former leader of Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan,] new U.S. Secretary of Education used a Feb. 10 stop at Wakefield High School to push for support of the president’s economic-stimulus goals. ...
You better listen or he’ll demonstrate some more of that “Chicago flinty toughness.”
Hundreds of students have allegedly been beaten by teachers, coaches and staff at Chicago Public Schools. 2 Investigator Dave Savini continues his ongoing investigation involving the illegal use corporal punishment. ...
Arne’s brought his ...associates, too.
Peter Cunningham… a Chicago Public Schools spokesman will serve as an assistant secretary for communications and outreach in the Education Department.
Cunningham is well connected in the Chicago political world, where his communications firms clients included the public schools, David Axelrod’s firm and Ariel Investments, founded by Obama friend and fund-raiser John Rogers. He also worked as a speechwriter in Mayor Daley’s city hall.
Sometimes I just don’t understand the world. Here in CA, if a teacher says “Nii!!” to a student, she gets marched off to Siberia; over there, you can whup the bejabers outa the little vermin, and everybody’s just fine with it.
On the other hand (as they say), I’d be willing to bet that the assault-on-teacher rate is a heck of a lot lower in Chicago than it is here.
Posted by ZZMike on 02/13/09 at 03:37 PM
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