About Damn Time

It's seems that Groot's testicles finally descended:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago Public Schools will move forward with plans to reopen schools on Monday, despite ongoing objections by the teachers union and a large group of aldermen.

  Further, CPS CEO Janice Jackson said staff members who don’t show up — as about half failed to do this week — will be deemed absent without leave “and ineligible for pay going forward.”

  “This is not a measure we take lightly,” Jackson added.

  Members of the Chicago Teachers Union took issue with assertions that schools are adequately equipped and ready to open, with one calling Jackson’s comments about docking pay “heartless.”

Heartless? Groot takes the high ground (for the first time):

• But the mayor, emphasizing the safeguards in place for students and staff, contended Friday that remote learning “is not sustainable, not over the long term, because it does not serve every student equally, especially those students who are younger, who require additional help and support and simply don’t have access to a sustainable learning environment.”

  “We are doing everything we can to place safety in this pandemic at front and center of what we are doing ... but we need to forge forward,” Lightfoot said.

Because somewhere along the line, somebody smarter than Groot, told Groot she is the mayor of ALL Chicagoans, not just the CTU ones, at least 10% of whom don't even live in Chicago.

And then there are the unreported studies and surveys that show inner-city schools have an online "attendance rate" well below 30%. Why isn't the media looking into those?

Groot's voting base is getting royally screwed in this student-hostage power play.