By Susan Jones
November 15, 2011

(CNSNews.com) – The head of the Chicago Teachers Union — addressing a teachers’ conference in Seattle last month — joked about spending her college years “smoking lots of weed” and “self-medicating” — then apologized because “there are kids here.”

“I wasn’t supposed to say that, right? Too late,” Karen Lewis says in a YouTube video that was picked up by an education blogger and Chicago newspapers.

The Chicago Sun-Times noted that Lewis is a former standup comedian. In the YouTube video, she also makes fun of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s lisp, and wonders if he was “self-medicating” at Harvard University:
“He was an athlete, so he might not have been self-medicating, but I wouldn’t count on it,” Lewis says. “You know he went to private school,” she says at another point, “because if he’d have gone to public school, he’d have had that lisp fixed. I know, that was ugly, wasn’t it? I’m sorry.”

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