Lessons From The North
The Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education at UIC's ed school is hosting an event featuring Jinny Sims, Past President, British Columbia Teachers' Federation. Sims led an illegal walkout in British Columbia in 2005 to protest inadequate learning and teaching conditions: Saturday, June 7, 2008, 5:30 to 7:30pm, Casa Atzlan,1831 S. Racine. For more information, email ceje@uic.edu or jpottery2002@yahoo.com or call 312.413.2640. Free & open to the public. Click here to download flyer.
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Fri May 23, 2008 at 7:46 PM
Andersen Community Academy
Today is Fri., May 23 and the staff and parents are still waiting for a letter from CPS to detail how Andersen is going to be dismantled. Why is it taking so long? The CPS board approved Arne Duncan 's proposal on Feb. 27, 2008 to "PHASE OUT ANDERSEN AND PHASE IN LASALLE II. I guess CPS did not think this through. Does anyone have the answer? Can anyone help save Andersen?
Fri May 23, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Andersen Community Academy
The staff of Andersen really care about the children. They have not lost focus, the student. CPS states, "Children First", whose children? Andersen's students are 91% low income. LaSalle II will be 91% middle and upper middle class. I can not explain to my children why CPS is phasing out Andersen. Can anyone help me explain it to my children? Just like Concern, someone please help save Andersen!!!!
Fri May 23, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Andersen Community Academy
HELP!!!!! Alexander can you put Andersen's story back out there? Maybe someone can do a follow up. Our children need your help.
Fri May 23, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Lessons From The North
How can Daley and Duncan get away with all this, segregating school , making rules as they go along for the white neighborhood they make it so convienient , they get so much, I wish people would visit white neighborhood school and minority school so they could see the big difference, for example Andersen school it was good enough for the minority students but not for the Laselle students they are spending hundreds of thousands of dollar to remadel this school if that is not racist then tell me what it is. How can they teach their children the everybody is equal when that is not the message they are sending.
Fri May 23, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Lessons From The North
I'm so angry I'm going to write to Arnie maybe he will read it I'm going to sue him for discrimination.
Fri May 23, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Lessons From The North
Yes, I agree with you. Northside selctive enrollments are better than southside elective enrollments. Does the west side even have a selective enrollment? Does the southwest side have a selective enrollment school. I wonder...
Sat May 24, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Lessons From The North
sing an honest lullaby. tell your children about hatred, fear and greed - and then also tell them about how to fight it and the heros who have fought it
Mon May 26, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Lessons From The North
Let's see, Arne Duncan is a racist and an evil genious. Come on folks, get serious.
Tue May 27, 2008 at 4:05 AM
Lessons From The North
"...Does the west side even have a selective enrollment? Does the southwest side have a selective enrollment school..." (Injustice, Friday).
The answer to both of these questions is "Yes" -- but not if you take geography in Chicago seriously.
The "West Side" (Chicago Ave. to, say, Roosevelt Road) got its "selective enrollment" College Prep Magnet High School when Richard M. Daley and Paul Vallas destroyed Jones Commercial High School and turned it into "Jones College Prep." That was the "college prep" high school for the old "Region Three". Honest. They destroyed the old Jones, which was serving poor and working class kids for decades, to create a new elite school for Daley's neighbors in the South Loop, "Burnham", and "Museum."
Why didn't you protest then. We at Substance did.
As to the "Southwest Side," that school is Lindblom, which has one of the prettiest buildings (inside and out) and smallest campuses of any of the major high schools in CPS. As veteran Chicago people know, until around 1975, anything around 61st and Damen was "Southwest Side." If that geo politics has shifted in the past 30 years, someone had better explain why "Southwest Side" is apparently a racial code word.
The prettiest campus of all the College Prep magnet high schools is on the "South Side." Anyone who has not been to Payton should take the tour.
Whoever let Daley get away with the destruction of Jones and the ($100 million total cost) ridiculous transition from "Jones Commercial" to "Jones College Prep" should ask about these things. Whoever let Daley get away with destroying the old Lindblom three different times might have some questions, too.
And one last question:
What does Donald Fraynd know about running an inner city general high school? Since he arrived in Chicago with his Big Ten doctorate, he's run Jones. Can anyone really believe he's ready for the "Turnaround" at Harper High School?
The answer to both of these questions is "Yes" -- but not if you take geography in Chicago seriously.
The "West Side" (Chicago Ave. to, say, Roosevelt Road) got its "selective enrollment" College Prep Magnet High School when Richard M. Daley and Paul Vallas destroyed Jones Commercial High School and turned it into "Jones College Prep." That was the "college prep" high school for the old "Region Three". Honest. They destroyed the old Jones, which was serving poor and working class kids for decades, to create a new elite school for Daley's neighbors in the South Loop, "Burnham", and "Museum."
Why didn't you protest then. We at Substance did.
As to the "Southwest Side," that school is Lindblom, which has one of the prettiest buildings (inside and out) and smallest campuses of any of the major high schools in CPS. As veteran Chicago people know, until around 1975, anything around 61st and Damen was "Southwest Side." If that geo politics has shifted in the past 30 years, someone had better explain why "Southwest Side" is apparently a racial code word.
The prettiest campus of all the College Prep magnet high schools is on the "South Side." Anyone who has not been to Payton should take the tour.
Whoever let Daley get away with the destruction of Jones and the ($100 million total cost) ridiculous transition from "Jones Commercial" to "Jones College Prep" should ask about these things. Whoever let Daley get away with destroying the old Lindblom three different times might have some questions, too.
And one last question:
What does Donald Fraynd know about running an inner city general high school? Since he arrived in Chicago with his Big Ten doctorate, he's run Jones. Can anyone really believe he's ready for the "Turnaround" at Harper High School?
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