Chicago Public Schools

This article is 100% my opinion.
The Chicago Public School (CPS) system has been increasingly featured in the Chicago Tribune. CPS is proposing budget cuts, laying off teachers and closing low performing schools. What's the difference between a high school in Chicago and a high school in Naperville, which is never hurting for funds?


Naperville
*900 different sports programs
*Access to the latest technology
*SUV's for behind the wheel
*Relevant, up-to-date textbooks
*Academic achievement above average
*Kids who have iPods, Blackberrys, whatever new Nintendo system is out and a Cadillac Escalade for their 16th Birthday
*Parents who protect their kids from violence on TV and in video games
*White kids


Chicago
*Roughly about 3-4 sports programs
*200 students to one 1992 computer
* What's "behind the wheel"?
* Textbooks from 1987
* Academic achievement below average
* Kids who have to find a job (if they're lucky), join a gang and steal just to keep themselves clothed and fed
* Parents (if applicable) who try to protect their kids from getting shot in the front yard
* Minority kids


The people in charge of CPS are no different than million-dollar-a-movie making celebrities that feel the need to "raise money" for Haiti when they have enough money to rebuild Haiti on their own. They don't care about the kids, the community or education. They want to give pay cuts to teachers and cut even more programs. These kids are left with nothing. A half hour commute to school, being transferred from school to school, learning about only math, English and maybe reading about dead white guys. No wonder their dropout rates are so high. They are essentially learning nothing but survival skills.

Want to know why kids join gangs? There is literally nothing else to do. They get booted out of the school system, have no after school activities, can't find jobs and get shot at everyday. Their only way of making money and being quasi-protected is from joining a gang. These kids have little chance of making it to college.

The people in charge of Naperville schools would crap their pants if they didn't have enough money for football, choir or the debate team. But to share their surplus to help out the black kids trying to get into DePaul or Loyola? F that!