Nov 25th - Pol Comm - Teachers Union Pres Comments

I just love it when the lefty, liberal, big government socialists make it so easy to point out their hypocrisy.

Last month while speaking at the 4^th Annual NW Conference on Teaching for the Social Justice (wonder if “teaching for Social Justice" just means that it is OK to revise history as necessary to support your position), Chicago Teachers Union (if you do web search CTU apparently is the acronym for both the Chicago Teachers Union and the Cannabis Training University) President Karen Lewis not only “bullied” the US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, an Obama appointee, because of  his lisp, she also seemed proud to admit that she had  “self-medicated” with “lots of weed” while in college.

I don’t really care whether or not she used drugs while in college, but I do care when someone representing a teachers union get up in front of an audience that contains kids, and sounds like she is proud of her previous illegal drug use.

All the teachers unions have come out strongly against bullying yet she gets up, again in front of an audience containing kids, and says that Arne Duncan must have been educated int a private school because if he had been educated in a public school he would not speak with a lisp. It is really rich that this black woman who heads a union,  is making fun of a Secretary of Education who was appointed by Obama and who previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools, appointed by Chicago Mayor Daley.

Arne Duncan attended the prestigious University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. His father was a psychology professor at the University of Chicago. About half the students at the school are the children of University employees.  Later Mr. Duncan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. For Ms. Lewis to suggest that Mr Duncan would not have a lisp had he attended a Chicago public school is ludicrous, it is more likely that he would not have survived to graduate.

Union officials are not bothered by Ms. Lewis's comments, instead, "union officials blasted the release this week of the “edited clip” as the work of “right-wing, anti-public education advocates".

You can watch a video of her comments at http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/8831372-418/ctu-president-karen-lewis-jokes-about-us-education-secretary-duncans-lisp-her-smoking-pot.html