"You've got a mouthful of gimme, a hand full of much obliged."
-Clarence Williams, "Gulf Coast Blues"
The
difference between the lowdown character in Clarence Williams' "Gulf
Coast Blues" and the striking Chicago Teachers Union is that the
teachers don't bother to offer a "much obliged." For the past three
decades, Chicago's mouthful-of-gimme education elite has singlehandedly
done more than any other school system in America to insure that the
city's students will never rise out of poverty through gaining a
meaningful education.There's something like karmic justice involved here. Illegally elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel, along with Barack Obama and former Chicago education czar and now U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, is faced with the perverse clash between the leftist teachers' union all of these characters blindly love and Emanuel's, Obama's, and Duncan's leftist "philosophy" of education. Both are purposely committed with malice aforethought to do exactly the opposite of what a true education philosophy should -- which is to say that they're designed to reduce students to placeholders in the classroom with no hope of receiving the skills they need to succeed in a real-world capitalist economy while making sure that the professionals who keep them in this position continue to do so.
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