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"No one knows — not even the city of Chicago —who these kids are. Within the last decade, including the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, Chicago Public Schools lost 70,000 students. Some may have moved. Some may have gone to private schools. But the number of CPS middle and high schoolers missing 18 days or more of school shot up during the pandemic and has remained high..."
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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.
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No matter their upbringing, most teenagers eventually decide whether they’re going to become hard-working, solid citizens who contribute to the betterment of society, or bums.
These people may have missed out on stable home life and decent school, but society will need to address this issue somehow and likely through Law Enforcement. Allowing this to happen because of some societal or parental failure is wrong. It certainly is sad that these people are incapable of functioning in society, but the rest of society should not have to adapt to their problem. Law Enforcement and courts should address this issue by removing these people from society. Once that begins…the behavior of some will change to adapt to the new reality. Unfortunately the tax payer will endlessly… Read more »
As my dad has always said: it starts in the home.
Does it? Or does it start with an education system that has pushed progressive policies and ideas for decades, resulting in the parents and problems in the home we see today?
Who forgot them? First of all their parents. Second, the dysfunctional black culture. Third, a city and press corps that has given them a pass for 60 years because of something none of these kids ever experienced. But hey, let’s forget about all that and blame it on everyone else that works every day and makes sure their children are doing what they are supposed to. If these teen takeovers aren’t poster material for the failures of progressive ideas, I don’t know what is.
It is hard to recognize this group as “children” when they commit serious adult crimes. Chicago has long played the sympathy card for the oppressed and underfunded while CTU teachers, administrators and politicians continue to collect a paycheck and more importantly, of course, their pension check. It is the Chicago way not to hold anyone accountable and to just throw taxpayer money at endless committees and NGOs decade after decade.
If California can get momentum for a new governor and LA mayor, certainly chicago can do better as well.
Chicago’s can’t do any better because the demographics of Chicago will never again produce a Mayor Daley or even a Rahm Emanuel.
Los Angeles is even weirder, having become relatively more conservative in the last decade as progressive, fed up with the city, moved to traditionally conservative Orange County, and changed the demographics there too, leaving the city behind to become more conservative. Again, it’s all relative though as Karen Bass & that random city council member together will get over 50% of the vote.