If I’m looking on the bright side—which, of course, I always am—the latest skirmish involving Mayor Emanuel’s policies for the schools is a lot less contentious than his last one.
I’m talking about the ongoing fallout over an op-ed in the Sun-Times on May 9 that was written by Troy LaRaviere, principal of Blaine, a grammar school in Lakeview.
His essay exploded like a bomb. Within hours, thousands of principals, teachers, and parents were e-mailing it back and forth as if to say, finally—someone on the inside dares to tell the truth!
For his part, Mayor Emanuel assured Chicagoans that he’s always appreciated voices of dissent and differences of opinion—which must have come as a surprise to that guy who once received a dead fish from him.
That’s actually not a bad line, John.
By then Kupper didn’t really agree with what he’d said either. “I regret my reckless remark and offer Dr. Berry my public apology,” he wrote in a statement to the Sun-Times.
