I'm pretty certain that I would rather be warming myself with the heat from a dumpster fire than live in many parts of Chicago or condemn a single child to the Chicago Public Schools.
And since Brandon Johnson, the current Mayor of Chicago, is a product of the horrifically corrupt Chicago Teachers Union—an openly Marxist organization that gets involved in every issue other than educating children—he is basically a two-fer. He is a Marxist running one of America's biggest and most important cities into the ground, and an architect of a public school system that is destroying the lives of thousands of children every year.
If Satan sent a demon to run a city, he would act not much differently than Johnson.
We are all depressingly familiar with Chicago's crime problem, about which both Johnson and Governor Pritzker just shrug. But in many ways, the crime crisis pales in comparison with the larger problem of Chicago's horrific education system, which is systematically ruining the lives of generations of kids who are condemned to attend schools that don't teach them how to read or write, but which is very successful in teaching lawlessness and resentment.
Wait, why in the world does the Chicago Teachers Union have a "recording studio" with a pool 1,000 miles away in NEW MEXICO? pic.twitter.com/xWjVNRuE4u
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) November 17, 2025
The system exists to spend money, not educate children. As far as I can tell, it doesn't even try to educate students. During the pandemic, the CTU fought mightily to keep the schools closed and claimed that any effort to open schools was a racist conspiracy. The union regularly promotes Marxism.
remember when? @CTULocal1 pic.twitter.com/YMDXTuSQQK
— Caroline Downey (@carolinedowney_) May 5, 2022
And, like most Marxists who are in the Nomenklatura, they are extremely good at looking out for themselves. All that money goes somewhere, and it sure isn't to the classrooms. Instead it gets spent for the benefit of the teachers and their union leaders, who know how to skim the cream off the top.
These government-run institutions are sentencing children to a future without opportunities. pic.twitter.com/mjpNYDKuDM
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) November 24, 2025
In a place like Chicago, only the barest pretense of serving the taxpayers is necessary in order to dip your beak in the river of money that flows to public purposes. Mouth a few words about "caring" and "the children" and you can do whatever you want, the children be damned.
Read the full article by @MizellPreston:https://t.co/TL6XtJEIgy
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) November 24, 2025
And damned they are:
A scathing report from the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that the school system spent a staggering $14.5 million in "excessive" travel expenses in FY 2023 and FY 2024 combined.
The report comes as data shows that just 30.5% of students in grades 3–8 were proficient in reading, and just 18.3% of students were proficient in math in the spring of 2024.
"It is a sad commentary on just how far our city has fallen and how bad the leadership is," Chicago pastor Corey Brooks told Fox News Digital. "These individuals believe that spending money on themselves benefits our educational system more so than spending it on the children who so rightfully deserve it."
"In our neighborhood, there's a 6% reading proficiency," Brooks added. "And now you're talking about the overall for Chicago being 30%, that is something that needs to be spoken by everyone who is in power."
The teachers in these districts will trot out all the excuses you can imagine for their horrific failure to educate children.
"We teach in 80 thousand languages." "There are so many foreign students." Yada yada.
Except...they also support, even fight for, the policies that created that mess in the first place, and relatively small percentages of the money every reach the classroom. There are schools that remain open despite having almost no students, leading some to spend two to three times the inflated Chicago average. The whole point is to spend the money, not help the students.
Test scores and academic performance have continued to drop, while education spending has continued to rise – with most of the spending on payroll. Since 2012, education spending has increased by 97%, while reading proficiency has decreased by 63% and math proficiency by 78%.
About three-quarters of CPS students can’t read at grade level and even fewer can do math. Faced with that, what is the Chicago Teachers Union leadership seeking in its new contract? It is pushing a lengthy list of costly demands that have little to do with improving the academic performance of students and everything to do with politics.
These costly demands include housing for homeless students and families, $2,000 stipends for migrant students, subsidies for weight-loss surgery and drugs, more time off and environmental initiatives such as an electric school bus fleet. Their climate and social justice demands are political issues best decided by elected leaders rather than union bosses who are quick to strike and bargaining with their former co-worker.
There may be no saving Chicago as it is currently run, and since Canada is run by people who firmly believe that diversity is our strength and that Americans don't know how to run our country, I suggest we let Canada give it a go.
Chicago would add about 30% to Canada's GDP, so if its dysfunction could be solved by being a part of a country that is so much better at being kind and multicultural, it should be a great deal for that country. It would be a win-win for everybody involved, right?
Personally, I would be willing to make the sacrifice. It's true that American tax revenue would go down initially, as we could no longer tax the wealthy and the major corporations based there, at least at the same rate.
But I suspect that many of the latter would come back across the border and settle in Texas or Florida, as with many of the high earners. Canada is less business-friendly. But perhaps not. Canada runs things so much better than America, and all those Chicago liberals wouldn't have to deal with Bad Orange Man.
Let's try it. Maybe a good 20-year lease to start.
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