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"  That is what used to be North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. (It&amp;#039;s condos now, of course.) My father worked there, as a teacher and as an administrator, for more than 30 years. (His office used to be that window next to the last red door on the left.) It was a good school that drew its students from tough neighborhoods. My father loved his work, and the kids loved him.  I am not flexible about this. If you want to look tough at the expense of public-school teachers, you are a snob or a coward, or perhaps both. Every member of this MSNBC panel that Digby found, including all the liberals and all the Democrats thereon, can bite me, seriously. If I have to read one more smug, Ivy League writer from Slate talking, as the big strike goes on, about public-school teachers as though they were unruly hired help, I may hit someone with a fish. Let Matt Yglesias do 20 percent more work for four percent less pay and see how he likes it. The idea that, say, &amp;quot;Chuck&amp;quot; Lane cares more about &amp;quot;the kids&amp;quot; than do the people walking the picket lines in Chicago is damned near close to obscene. Anyway, I&amp;#039;m out there today in the Windy City. Thanks for your patience with the light post-convention blogging this week. Tell you what I see on the ground. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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