To gain some perspective on the teachers’ strike that just ended, I thought I’d fire up the old time machine and go back to 1980—January to be exact—when Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You” topped the charts.
And still the Tribune‘s editorial writers opposed the strike and blamed it on the union. Apparently, the Tribsters wanted teachers to work for nothing.
Neither! Some unnamed Tribune editorialist wrote that beaut in 1967, when “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees topped the charts. Proving that the more things change, the more the Tribune keeps manufacturing heartless editorial writers like Stepford Wives.
It’s a pathetic shame and a civic embarrassment that it took a freaking strike to force Mayor Lightfoot and her CPS appointees to agree to address overcrowding and understaffing in our poorest schools.
On the other hand, c’mon, Madame Mayor, you won in a landslide. You should have let it go months ago.
Nothing against white north-side liberals—you might say I am one myself.
