I've sat on our local school board for many years. Education is paramount in my mindset. Union vs board there are always opposite ends of the spectrum. Generally you meet in the end somewhere towards the middle. For a lack of a better analogy it is like a game of Chess. But this with Chicago wasn't about a new contract, it was about the sides adding/extending the contract one more year, they had a turbulent year, both sides. And out of nowhere the teachers are asked to take a 7% paycut. Ouch. I hate stuff like this because it ramps up the tension.
My DD went to her University to study math and statistics, she is very good at it, came naturally from her Dads gene pool. She has been teaching and tutoring fellow students for many years, has a talent for rephrasing examples when students are not grasping. She wanted to be a Math and Statistics High School Teacher but quickly looked at the pounding teachers are taking these days. She went to work for a very old University instead. The pay and the tone of the value of education is very different at the University level overall. I genuinely worry about the caliber of teachers going into the field of educating our youth when asked to do more for less each year, it is just disingenuous.
And no, it is said that Presidential Libraries are funded privately though there was some major maneuvering to deed over land to parks to deed over for the library. I think it will be good overall for Chicago to have such a draw even if the library lands on open park land near or at University of Chicago. The Lincoln Library is quite the draw in central Illinois but then again I have a great love of books so yes I am bias.
Rant over.
But that restaurant , brings back those memories, of sitting in the backseat, looking around mom and dad's heads. While eating something yummy.
), but I do have friends that will share their bounty when everything ripens at the same time. That's another reason why I remember (years ago) how much I enjoyed eating at the Garden Grill in The Land pavilion at Epcot. They had grown the veggies and harvested fresh that day--YUM!
