representative for the chicago teachers union and he talked to me about why these absences are mattering. here s what he said. when you drop your kid off, a parent is expecting to have a teacher there that they know to go into a building that they trust, where everything is working. but today, we drop kids off at some schools. some schools don t have heat. there is rodents in places. the teachers aren t there. they are being taught or a stranger is in front of them, sometimes security guard. people who weren t qualified to teach kids. putting aside the heating issue and the rodent issue because, obviously, has nothing to do with covid. what about the point that he is making that kids could be going to school and there s there s it might be a security guard teaching them who is not qualified, um, to be a teacher? that that if that is what your kid s being offered in person, that that s not okay. well, i think the point of our lawsuit is that the union has engaged in illega