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Kudos For Derrick Rose
By: Alexander Russo / April 28, 2009
He's a Simeon graduate.
He's the NBA rookie of the year.
He's helped the Chicago Bulls even the series with the champion Celtics.
And it was someone else not Rose who marred the victory with a gesture that some found offensive (Beachwood Reporter here).
But do you know where he went to elementary school?
No fair looking it up.
Kudos For Derrick Rose
Cudos to you. So sad that today, our mayor forgets that public schools teacher produce fine, excellent young adults.
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Derrick's kindergarten teacher here!!! I taught Derrick at Randolph Magnet School in Englewood. He is the same now as he was in kindergarten. He was andk is a very nice and smart young man. His mom was an aide at the school. He comes from a wonderul family. That's the reason he is the great person that he is today. What a pleasure to see a athlete who is talented and humble. Kudos to his mom and brothers!
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Basement
A lot of people at the Old Simeon never went into the basement.
Actually there were two separate basements. One held small rooms,
Wrestling mats, even roller-skating for a while. But every 20 feet a
Concrete pillar 36 inches in diameter held the place up and they do not move for
Skaters .
Then there was the banana room. Under the shops the old frozen meat lockers
were located complete with overhead hooks for swinging beef that still worked.
It was no longer refrigerated but inside the lockers were stored paint, old fenders
A huge air compressor and all the accumulated treasures four shops held dear.
It was also the place bananas were stored and sorted. The wildlife living down
In that crypt included everything that hitched a ride up from Costa Rica in a
Bunch. I have a bug under glass so big people still ask me what it is!
My daughters biology teacher said it was a Palmetto Bug.
Some day I might let people see the pictures I took there over 25 years.
The dedicated principal died happy because he lived to see his dream come to
Life. So did Al and a host of others .Not so lucky were the ones who died of
Illness from that deadly old dump.
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How quickly we forget--that horrible warehouse. I remember a dedicated principals who gave his life to see that new building. And teachers too.
Go Simeon!
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Derrick actually went to 2 CPS elementary schools:
Randolph until 6th grade and Beasley for 7-8 grade
He's a true athletic phenom who is also a fine young man
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you can click [url=http://district299.typepad.com/district299/2007/09/struggling-high.html?cid=82623203#comment-82623203 new=true]here[/url] to read 1.04's history of the origins of the simeon cheer, which he posted back on the old blog site in september 2007.
thanks, 1.04!
-- alexander
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Old Simeon cheer.
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What do you mean?
Kudos For Derrick Rose
Like I said
we are we are the warehouse pimps
CPSalumni.org Users Know the Answer
The answer to your question about Rose's elementary school can be found on the CPS alumni website, http://www.CPSalumni.org.