If you were hoping that some presidential leadership would help end the Chicago teachers union strike, prepare to be hopeless. Asked for comment on the strike, President Obama’s press secretary Ben Labolt told The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein: “Playing political games with local disputes won’t help educate our kids, nor will fewer teachers.”

The strike is the first for Chicago’s teachers since 1987, when kids missed a full month of school. “Teachers unions have too often made plain that their interests conflict with those of our children, and today we are seeing one of the clearest examples yet,” Mitt Romney said earlier today.

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