“There is like a lot of fighting going on,” said Dereon, a freshman outside school last week. “Almost every day. Like five a day, probably,” student Cameriya added. Some Simeon students worry that conflict is pushing teachers away. Cameriya’s drama club teacher just quit. “It was only her last day because of the school, because of the kids and the community around it. She was like … she is done with CPS.”
Five fights a day in a high school building is crazy. But hey, CPS won’t arrest these kids, they won’t suspend these kids, they won’t even punish the kids for fighting. because equity!
What you are describing here more likely has been caused by the courts and congreemen who decreed at least some 50 years ago that education is a legal RIGHT for people of a certain age rather than a publicly supported privilege. In prior generations students were more often expelled from school. In modern times that almost never happens. Instead, they are given alternate attendance arrangements in the same school or a satellite and the resulting alternate assignments for a few days or maybe a week at most. Miscreants who receive this “slap on the wrist” from school administrations seldom “change… Read more »
The Paraclete
4 years ago
Hmmmm….what’s the plan? It’s secret. CPS! Nobody wants to play gun battle. Lori will address the root cause, obviously systemic racism.
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.
Five fights a day in a high school building is crazy. But hey, CPS won’t arrest these kids, they won’t suspend these kids, they won’t even punish the kids for fighting. because equity!
What you are describing here more likely has been caused by the courts and congreemen who decreed at least some 50 years ago that education is a legal RIGHT for people of a certain age rather than a publicly supported privilege. In prior generations students were more often expelled from school. In modern times that almost never happens. Instead, they are given alternate attendance arrangements in the same school or a satellite and the resulting alternate assignments for a few days or maybe a week at most. Miscreants who receive this “slap on the wrist” from school administrations seldom “change… Read more »
Hmmmm….what’s the plan? It’s secret. CPS! Nobody wants to play gun battle. Lori will address the root cause, obviously systemic racism.