Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Another Roaring Chicago Success Story....

It’s hard to deny just how poorly Chicago’s public schools are performing when it hits you in the face. Such is the case with Paul Robeson High School’s 2014 prom theme:
"This Is Are Story"

That image came from veteran investigative reporter Chuck Goudie, who posted this image on his Facebook page. 
Some people might enjoy mocking the irony of the gross misuse of vocabulary. But unless the organizers of the prom festivities planned the wording this way as a joke, there’s nothing funny about the situation. 
Paul Robeson High School is located in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the city. The high school also is part of the failing Chicago Public Schools, or CPS, system. 
Four out of 10 CPS freshmen do not graduate. 
If they do graduate, 91 percent have to take remediation courses in college because they do not know how to do basic math and school work. Just 26 percent of CPS high school students are college-ready, according to the ACT subject matter tests.
But while CPS students get left behind, their teachers receive generous compensation.  
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE via Bad Blue 

* NOTE: Paul Robeson was a notorious Communist
Sympathizer and big fan of Joe Stalin....

1 comment: