At a time in our state when hand wringing over everything that’s wrong and contemplating the flaws in our navel is all the rage, we should give pause and give thanks for one aspect of how we operate as a state. That is, how we peacefully negotiate teacher collective bargaining agreements.

Chicago recently ended its 11-day strike of some 25,000 educators affecting 300,000 public school students. It is hard to overstate the enormous burden the strike placed on children, their parents and, in no small measure, their grandparents in an overwhelmingly minority and economically disadvantaged school district.

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