His loathsome behavior toward–and the consequent haircut administrated him by—Chicago’s public school teachers sure didn’t, shall we say, teach Rahm Emanuel a lesson.
Emanuel is not anything remotely resembling a legitimate public servant—he is a corporate lobbyist, pure and simple, and he’s been highly paid (as in campaign funded) by the charter school industry.
Rick Perlstein on the Nation blog contextualizes Emanuel’s draconic, unilateral school-closings as
“shock-doctrine stuff—an announcement utterly rewiring a major urban institution via public rationales swaddled in utter bad faith, handed down in a blinding flash, absent any reasonable due process. Though Mayor Emanuel is learning that the forces of grassroots democracy can shock back too. And boy, does he have it coming.”