(img src=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/files/2018/09/f727c7e73864c0dbe9e2c2130f9a5ff7-2-624×832.jpg alt =”How to commemorate # ByeRahm correctly? It’s … complicated “) That cake right there is my concept of a correct # ByeRahm cake. Super delighted, however likewise bawling, not always all from joy.
You see when I heard the news, I went from utter disbelief and elation to bearing in mind many years of horrible things that I ended up sort of shocked.
I do not think that I am unique in this. A lot of, many individuals have actually been working so tough therefore long against this mayor of the couple of, the rich, the powerful, the beautiful, and the white. And those folks have been through a lot of discomfort. They still are! There are folks rallying and organizing against this mayor’s actions– even now.
I have a sensation that before all is said and done this man we have actually simply been released of is going to be admired to the skies and back. Look– even Forrest Claypool, fired as CPS CEO in no little step of disgrace for making prohibited alterations to unique education, emerged from the entire experience as if he was indulging in the radiance of a lifetime accomplishment award. That’s how it goes here. I’m not anticipating it.
Early indicators are that Rahm wants to be kept in mind for his effect on education.
Oh yes, I believe he will be kept in mind for that. Simply perhaps not in the way he desires.
It depends on everybody who endured Rahm’s period to keep the memories alive– the real ones. Here’s my part: Rahm’s greatest CPS, uh, hits.
The closure of 50 schools. This chaotic, criminal mess was why I started this blog. (a href=http://www.chicagonow.com/cooks-county-urban-stories-food-life/2013/02/dear-barbara-byrd-bennett-were-talking-are-you-listening/) Here are the open letters to Barbara Byrd Bennettand ( a href=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/2018/01/an-act-of-prejudice-against-our-school-closing-nta/)a similar hearing concerningNTA, the majority-black, successful elementary school Rahm chose to turn over to majority-non-black South Loopers for a high school. That foreordained, futile ambiance you receive from these events is difficult to prevent, as all major choices actually have currently been made and no remarks actually impact the results.
The closure procedure was every bit as horrible as you can envision– really, most likely even worse, and I wrote about it fanatically in every possible method I could believe of (a href =http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/2013/05/cps-school-closures-its-all-over-but-the-weeping-and-that-wrenching-feeling-in-the-gut/)until the hour board of ed voted to shutter the schools (which they managed to do without even calling the schools the vote was meant to close).
Research carried out since the closures has actually shown (a href=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/2018/05/in-the-wake-of-the-mass-school-closings-one-measurable-result/) they did not enhance anyone’s educational experience, they just caused a terrific deal of “institutional mourning” in kids, that is to state, grief. And the board who enacted this policy was summarily dismissed after CEO Byrd-Bennett was nailed for corruption and the optics of their unquestioning approval became a bad try to find Rahm.
The decimation of school libraries in CPS. Rahm owns this totally. Right after he ended up being mayor the variety of school curators started a high decrease. In 2015’s spending plan permitted 139 librarians in a system with over 600 schools– just 25 of 167 high schools have a library. Think of! High schoolers with no access whatsoever to a library. This, folks, is the norm in CPS, thanks to our mayor. (a href=”http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=4449″)the story of a community center and parent-run library at Whittier school in 2013. Rahm’s CPS chose they had much better strategies than a library for the real estate, so one great Saturday early morning when Alderman Solis had said he ‘d satisfy neighborhood members concerning the building (there were a great deal of the previously mentioned “neighborhood hearings” on this circumstance), the households were welcomed rather by locked gates and bulldozers. In a number of hours the thing was done, building and all its contents in a dumpster, and the next year a play ground and a soccer field for usage primarily by the surrounding independent school Christo Rey were devoted. (No stress over the lack of books at Whittier– in May of 2014 a Christian bookmobile visited once.)
The near-death of Walter H. Dyett High School and the near-death of the Dyett Appetite Strikers. Once again, 100% on Rahm. I wrote too lots of posts on this to link ((a href=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/2014/08/why-not-just-close-the-crappy-school/)however here’s thefirst). Disinvesting a school in a black neighborhood was certainly not new in Chicago with this mayor. But he brought this conflict to new heights. Rahm’s rejection to satisfy with members of the neighborhood, in addition to utter shenanigans around Ask for Propositions for the school, as well as a Rahm-beholden alderman and yet more ridiculous neighborhood hearings, created not just an unjust scenario, not simply a PR headache, but also nearly irrecoverable health crises for the (a href= https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150914/downtown/dyett-hunger-strike-enters-fifth-week-we-are-prepared-die/ )Over 34 days he never ever consulted with them. The expense was awful, Dyett remained open. Whatever Rahm’s agenda was here was never explained, but he lost that round, and the community has an entire bunch of (a href=https://consortium.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/publications/School%20Closings%20in%20Chicago-May2018-Consortium.pdf)subjected to school closures. The already tired kids who were provided (a href =http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-cps-transit-student-free-rides-school-0821-20180820-story.html) travel on transit for hours a day– 3 is not uncommon– since of CPS’s “option” district design. The kids whose IEPs were disrupted, denied, or neglected by CEO (a href=https://www.bettergov.org/news/critics-cps-special-ed-policy-is-%E2%80%98delay-and-deny%E2%80%99)Forrest Claypool’s prohibited and secretive systemic changes to special education, kids who were really damaged– who lost needed transportation or assistants at the swimming pool or class assistance. The asthmatic or diabetic kids who required care in schools with only (a href=https://www.ctunet.com/research/CTU_NursingServicesReport_2016-FINAL.pdf) periodic outsourced nurses. The kids from families who chose to opt out of unnecessary standardized testing (in CPS, kids take about 25 such tests each year) and ( a href=https://graphics.chicagotribune.com/chicago-public-schools-sexual-abuse/index.html) suffered sexual abuse at school and whose cases were mishandled and ignored by CPS. The kids whose school ( a href=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/2013/06/cps-parents-you-have-now-entered-the-twilight-zone/) resources were cut by the countless dollars’ worth, who lost mentor staffs in the double digits, whose school social workers had to consult with them under staircases, who lived in communities that Rahm’s other policies added to so much other damage and disturbance. The kids who took much of their complimentary time to organize rallies, participate in board of ed meetings, and demonstration all of it– the awful food agreements and criminal janitorial downsizing and continual disinvestments– time these kids must’ve had the ability to do normal kid things. Yes, it is possible that what did not kill them made them stronger, but it is likewise possible that Rahm’s casual neglect of the real human costs of his school policies merely left a number of our kids with a lot of scars.
This was a head of the district who prompted a feverish, by now ( a href=https://www.raiseyourhandaction.org/elected_school_board) years-long project to get a chosen school board and end mayoral control of schools.
That is ( a href=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/2018/06/how-much-do-you-know-about-mayoral-control-in-cps-a-quiz/) Rahm Emanuel’s tradition at CPS.
Join the discussion on facebook at Chicago Public Fools and on twitter @ foolforcps.
Filed under: ( a href = http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-public-fools/category/uncategorized/) Uncategorized
Related Post
