Quotes: Schools Chiefs As "Human Shields"

School chiefs, like police chiefs, are not mere administrators... they are human shields, buffers of skin and bone standing between the mayor and bad news. - Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass on rumored firing of Chicago schools chief Jean Claude Brizard (a move I argue against here)

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[Sarah]

The analogy has become painfully true. And really, the mayor has only himself to blame here.