Chicago Public Schools officials say they weren’t aware of how many schools remain named for slaveholders until shown the Sun-Times’ findings. They also say they didn’t realize before being asked about those findings regarding the nation’s third-largest public school system, in which nine of 10 children identify as Black, Brown or indigenous, that schools named for white people outnumber those named for African Americans by a ratio of four-to-one, Latinos by nine-to-one and indigenous people by more than 120-to-1.
There’s so many real issues with CPS, primarily the sexual abuse scandals, the union consolidation of power over the leadership, the pensions, the abysmally low test scores, the culture of poor performance. If they want to change the name of a school because its named after a white dude that legally owned slaves hundreds of years ago, I say go for it. But don’t expect me to be sympathetic to any of your other plights when you focus your energy on the least important and most inconsequential issues. The article even laments that “No one even knew the schools were… Read more »
Freddy
5 years ago
It never ends. Let’s just blame Adam and Eve and be done with it.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
this will educate more kids no doubt
There’s so many real issues with CPS, primarily the sexual abuse scandals, the union consolidation of power over the leadership, the pensions, the abysmally low test scores, the culture of poor performance. If they want to change the name of a school because its named after a white dude that legally owned slaves hundreds of years ago, I say go for it. But don’t expect me to be sympathetic to any of your other plights when you focus your energy on the least important and most inconsequential issues. The article even laments that “No one even knew the schools were… Read more »
It never ends. Let’s just blame Adam and Eve and be done with it.
Blame only Adam, Eve was a victim of the white male patriarchal colonial capitalist hegemony!!