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Originally Posted by filtherton
Your premise was that the nominee was unqualified because he failed to improve Chicago's public schools.
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I would not have selected him based on his failure to actually improve the schools to a level that would make Chicago schools competitive with other school systems. I know he took on a big job, my point is give him time to prove he can actually accomplish something of note. I say reward results.
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You had absolutely no real reason to think that he had failed to improve Chicago's public schools because you could produce absolutely no real data even comparing meaningful changes in school quality during his watch. All you could do was repeatedly assert that you wouldn't send your kids to a Chicago public school.
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You don't accept my knowledge, experience or the information I provided. Do your own homework, if you conclude Chicago schools are good, so me how you came to that conclusion.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
How's this, ace - I'm very seriously sending both of my kids to the local elementary school instead of Catholic school like we planned. That's because the school is quite good and offers a variety of programs and has excellent teachers.
Pretty much torpedoes your theory, doesn't it?
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No.
Chicago is a great city in many ways. There are a lot of good hard working people in the city and some of the schools are excellent. However on a whole the school system has been a failure relative to other school systems for decades.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
Actually, I think Blago's nomination of Burris was pretty shrewd.
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I think it further illustrates the lack of conviction on the part of Democrats. State legislators failed to act and Blogo simply exercised his power to appoint. Burris is a safe pick and should be seated, I doubt anyone expects that Burris would either run for reelection or gets reelected if he ran, so they should let him serve out the term. The state should be represented by two senators. Burris is going to tow the party line, I am not sure what the problem is, other than the fact that Democrats got caught up in their own empty rhetoric.