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"I'm Really Living The Life Over Here" - Hot Mic Catches Illinois Profs Gloating..

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Mark Glennon

If you haven't taken two minutes to listen to the hot mic audio first published by West Cook News, do so.

It's a candid display of how pleased ideologues are about how they have captured the education establishment.

The two on the audio are Ralph Martire and Gina Harris, both professors at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and both on the Oak Park and River Forest High School board where the recording was made.

Martire is a major figure in Illinois, with frequent media appearances and op-ed publications. He served on Gov. JB Pritzker's transition Finance Committee and is executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a public union advocacy shop.  He played a major role drafting Illinois' school funding formula.

Harris is teacher and an Illinois director of the National Education Association – a teachers' union, and a member of the NEA's Black Caucus. She's also Human and Civil Rights Committee Chair at the Illinois Education Association, an NEA affiliate.

On the tape, Martire says he's glad Harris is teaching at Roosevelt because she fits in so well, to which she says, "I mean, it's all social justice. All day, every day I get to talk about all the things I love all the time."

"All day every day," responds Martire.


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