City must help CPS support students through violence, mental health crises, schools chief says – Chicago Sun-Times*

Said Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, “What our students tell us is they feel safe in schools, but they struggle with feeling safe in the communities.” Even when the Chicago Park District puts on programming, for example, some children have said they fear walking to the park alone.
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Ataraxis
3 years ago

Why can’t all children in the city enjoy a life like the children of politicians?
Shouldn’t politicians try to make like life better for the most vulnerable in the city; the elderly, the handicapped, and all the children?
Instead politicians only seek to make like better for lawless, violent criminals.

P.T. Bombast
3 years ago

The list of “musts” grows longer. Eradicate COVID, stop climate change and forest fires, assure honest elections, By all means pass a law. Then use all leftover money from the Obama center for transforming Chicago students to embryo phi-beta-kappas who have enough to eat, well-adjusted and getting early admission at their top-10 school of choice.

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