Ispent 35 years teaching high school social studies in South Side and West Side schools. I retired 20 years ago, and, sadly, the same social conditions that made learning harder for students in less affluent neighborhoods still prevail. The wealth gap has grown, disinvestment in poor areas remains the same, and the scarcity of social services and of access to healthy food and the crime level that citizens of certain neighborhoods must endure remain pretty much as I found them when I started teaching at Simeon Vocational 55 years ago.

I find it laughable that the Tribune Editorial Board takes Brandon Johnson’s remarks in favor of “socialism” and uses them as evidence that Johnson is in cahoots with the Chicago Teachers Union to promote some nefarious agenda ( “Brandon Johnson says the qui

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