A disappointing first year for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson – Wirepoints
Nearly one year ago, Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s removal from office. In her place was Brandon Johnson, who promised a more inclusive approach to building a “better, stronger, safer Chicago.” It hasn’t turned out that way. Today, there’s little disagreement that Mayor Johnson has disappointed on most key issues. On crime. On policing. On migrants. On education. On governance. Even on foreign affairs.
Exactly, world cultures should be important when teaching. Except that I don’t think it means what they think it means. Let’s make sure that when teaching arabic, students learn to use all the cultural and idiomic references to Allah and Mohamed sprinkled throughout the language; or when learning mandarin, make sure we teach them pinyin(romanization of chinese sounds rather than characters), which is how Chinese are learning their own language. Let’s also teach the cultural deference to never say ANYTHING bad about the communist government, or else you disappear for a while. My favorite though is spanish world culture –… Read more »