This is the woman leading the walkout of 26,000 public school teachers in Chicago. Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, is a loud-mouthed social justice radical whose Big Labor racket would rather abandon 350,000 children to the streets than accept merit-based pay,
teacher evaluations, and a 16 percent pay raise. The school board had already caved considerably on the unions demands, but as the Chicago Sun-Times put it: From the get-go, the union seemed intent on striking.
Last night, Lewis mocked public charter schools that are defying the strike and doing their jobs as not real schools.
Derision is her specialty. Her tirades at teachers confabs are infamous. Dont feel sorry for her when she moans about Mayor Rahm Emanuels bully tactics and trash mouth. Lewis has one of her own. Here she is bragging about smoking weed in college, cracking homophobic slurs about Education Secretary Arne Duncans lisp, and whining about teachers being demonized at a social justice conference:
Pity McCarthy didn't get to finish the job of clearing the S.O.B.s out.