as the biden administration says schools should be open they are closed for a third consecutive day in the windy city. hundreds of thousands of students remain at home in the nation s third largest school district as the stalemate between the chicago teachers union and city hall drags on. john kass, a former columnist with the chicago tribune and now gone on his own and the host of the chicago way podcast. great to see you. i read your stuff every day. when i was reading about the chicago teachers shutting down the union and the schools, this part caught my eye quoting here. what these children and their families have suffered at the hands of the leaders of this broken political system that runs broken government schools is morally indefensible. as they are pushing for remote learning many at-risk teenagers are left alone to be alone in