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Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski joined WXAN radio host Will Stephens to discuss how Chicago leaders, administrators and teachers are failing students horribly by keeping dozens of near-empty schools open across the city. Chicago Public Schools is shrinking in enrollment and yet there is still a school-closing moratorium in place.
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There is fear that the closed school might become a successful Charter school, without a union.
Here’s the rub: Will people move into (or stay in) a neighborhood without a school? A closed school in a bad neighborhood is a real estate albatross. No one wants to rezone the school to light industrial (which would create jobs, thereby draw residents and their school-aged children) and the side street location is not viable for commercial usage. All that’s left is a community center or some un-profitable co-op. I say convert closed schools to SRO’s. All these folks complaining about school closings are the same ones complaining about housing. Let’s see if they like a dorm-like apartment in… Read more »
Nix, I defy you to show me a Chicago real estate listing which touts Chicago Public Schools as a selling point.
Lincoln park !!!
This is a good video on parental rights in schools
https://www.c-span.org/video/?522339-1/discussion-parental-rights-educational-system
Fewer students means fewer teachers are needed in that school. It will be refreshing to see CPS do some long-needed downsizing.
Downsizing class sizes have been the life saver for the teachers and of course we know that the parent Karen types fully agree because their little succor angel needs individualized help
Look to Kansas City to see where this all goes. The schools in KC were the beneficiaries of a federal judge’s ruling imposing billions of new taxes to pay for upgraded schools, all under the guise that desegregation would accelerate. Unfortunately it was a complete flop. Segregation increased, test scores declined and higher compensated only entrenched non performing teachers. The plaintiff in the case – an odd case because no plaintiff initially was readily available as the case started out as the school system as a defendant- was a spirited attorney activist. In the 2000’s he became a member of… Read more »
Interesting analysis of the infamous KC situation but I’m not convinced today’s ideologues will ever come to any realization. Sometimes, your country (or school system) goes full on Bolshevik for 70 years, and there’s not a dang thing you or anyone else can do about it. CPS and the CTU have gone down that ideological road and there’s no turning back.
Debtsor – I concede your points. But there are large physical plant high schools in Chicago running at 5 percent capacity. It is not beyond comprehension to think that number will grow to 15 or so schools. Look at Hirsch – a school in the 70’s with an incredible state championship basketball team and an enrollment then of 2000. Great band, school spirit, the typical high school experience. It is has 100 students now. It makes no sense on any level to have these schools continue, especially as they will continue to grow. At some point even the most ardent… Read more »
The plight which these children face is horrifying. Until the unfettered births in these single parent homes is eliminated, there’ll be ‘No School’ able to rehabilitate these poor children. Open them, close them, re-staff them…. it matters little.
The problem is the single parent, not necessarily the ‘unfettered’ births. I am privileged to be friends with a family (2 involved parents) of 8 children. The children went to school with mine and ALL 8 of these stellar young people were National Merit Commended or Finalists. And yes, it was a private school. But, as I say, ‘unfettered’ births was not the problem.
I’m a single parent of 2. I work 2 jobs to put my children in private school because I refuse to let them go to CPS. Covid opened the eyes of many, the teachers union does NOT care about the children only themselves. They want to get paid to do nothing. Closing schools would mean laying off teachers. CPS lost enrollment because sensible parents would rather work harder and put them in schools that care about their children! And what 1000 people were murdered last year, how many of them were children or parents of children. The numbers will continue… Read more »
Chicago doesn’t have schools — it has a money laundering operation for the crooked Chicago Teachers Union Pension Fund
It’s the 8th Wonder of the World that no CTA official has ever faced a RICO trial.
Imagine Jessey Sharkey in stripes making little ones out of big ones.
Folks, once again don’t confuse education with a government jobs program.
Mid-August is not the best time to offer an Early Retirement Window. Where’s the strategy here … to decide that the district is overstaffed now rather than in February or March when it was likely as obvious as it is today. Does management employ labor lawyers or what?