I guess now that she's a lame duck and can't face any more political repercussions from challenging the unions, Chicago's outgoing mayor Lori Lightfoot has decided to speak her mind when it comes to Randi Weingarten's rehabilitation tour.

Lightfoot's Chicago was among the cities most hurt by policies keeping kids out of schools, with teachers making impossible demands before returning to work. And now Lightfoot is sounding off (now that it's too late).

Here's some of what Lightfoot said to CNN:

Chicago Public Schools demonstrated that it had implemented a number of Covid-19 mitigation measures to make it safe for kids to return to the classroom, Lightfoot said, but "the union needed to work with us and they never did that."

"Schools are about children. We demonstrated over and over again that our schools were safe. We put $100 million into retrofitting classrooms, making sure that they had the PPE, making sure that every single classroom had filters to make sure that the air was safe. Deep cleaning of every single building," she said. "But fundamentally, we know that where children learn the best and where they are safest is in the classroom, and in-person learning, and none of our parents signed up to be homeschoolers. And the learning loss is real."

If Lightfoot thinks you're being unreasonable... well that's something.

To be fair, if you paid attention to things at the time, Lightfoot and the unions were never able to see eye-to-eye.

Chicago teachers fought like heck, even against the wishes of Democrats, to keep their paid vacation going forever.

You'll remember it was the Chicago Teacher's Union that tweeted, then deleted, that the push to reopen schools was "rooted in White Supremacy."

Because everything I don't like is racist!

But even Lightfoot knew there was no coming back from this disastrous decision by health officials and draconian policies promoted by the teachers' unions.