As a young man in Chicago, I can tell you that sometimes, being listened to is all you need. It can open the door to a whole new way of being. In elementary school I got bullied a lot. When I came into high school I didn’t want to go through that again, so I made myself a loner. The…
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New Leo principal wants your time, cleaning supplies to help all-male school
When the freshman class arrives at Leo Catholic High School on Wednesday, it’ll be greeted by Shaka Rawls, a new principal with an impressive pedigree, beginning with a diploma of his own from Leo. The building, though, will feel far from new — shopworn and outdated and, to hear Rawls tell it, pretty dirty. “We’ve probably got 20-year-old dust in the school,”…