According to a CBS Chicago news report, Chicago public school students at Bogan, Curie, and Hyde Park high schools, have high truancy rates.
During CBS reporter Kristyn Hartman's investigation, she witnessed 15-year-old boys roaming the streets on the South Side, during school hours.
Gerald Marrow, a principal at Robeson High School, said by the time most of these chronically absent students reach the ninth grade, they simply aren't interested in learning.
Friday, June 3, 2011
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There is only so much CPS can do. The blame falls on the parents!
ReplyDeleteAccountability goes a long way. If your kids are not in school IT IS NOT THE TEACHER'S FAULT! The boys you saw in that video will be dead or in jail SOON!
ReplyDeleteParenting FAIL!!
ReplyDeleteThree hots and a cot, will be waiting on these future inmates. Ghetto black mothers have to be the absolute WORST! They FAIL at everything...
ReplyDeleteThis is EXACTLY why the black community is in the state they are in. This is NOT a school or teacher problem, it's a PARENTING problem. Blame everyone else for the children not getting an education except yourself...yea right. I would bet that half of the parents of these ghetto thugs don't have a clue what their children are doing and don't give a rats ass as long as that check comes in every month. These kids come home with new stuff that they've robbed from someone or from some business and I would bet the parents don't give a rats ass about where they got it.
ReplyDeleteIt starts at HOME. Teacher are not the parents of these losers, they are their stepping stone to a better life. This is ALL your fault PARENTS!
towanda said: "It starts at HOME. Teacher are not the parents of these losers"
ReplyDeleteLol but very true! These black kids aren't born losers, thugs, or criminals. They are taught that way, and eventually succumb to that lifestyle. Thanks to the PARENTS of CHA, Englewood, Roseland, Austin, South Shore, and etc.
When I was in school there were guys who dropped out of grammar school, having flunked a few times and were 16 yrs old and in 7th grade. They weren't going anywhere anyway.
ReplyDeleteThey should direct the unmotivated and the academically challenged towards a trade school of some sort so they can at least learn some skills to support themselves later on. Not everyone is cut-out for school.
The educators interviewed give the usual spiel about how regrettable it is, all the same stuff I've been hearing for years. Oh, and send more money, don't forget that.
There's only so much the establishment can do to get the involved parties to concern themselves enough to do what's good for them.
I learned that it was best for the majority of students to have the unmotivated go elsewhere as they would end up being disruptive and hold everyone else back. The nice ladies who agonize over the truants don't stop to consider the negative impact those youth could have in a regular school if they are forced to go there against their will. The parent is of course apathetic and functionally useless.
Pete
ReplyDelete"They should direct the unmotivated and the academically challenged towards a trade school of some sort so they can at least learn some skills to support themselves later on"
WHAT A GREAT IDEA:)
I graduated in the early 1990's, my school had pretty much become a warzone because of ghetto thugs, I made deals with all the teachers that I could go to the library and study,instead of the classroom, all the off-the-wall nonsense made learning impossible in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI work at Bogan and we try to keep students in the school and in class. Perhaps we are not as good at dropping(kicking out) students with attendance issues as some other CPS schools are. Even students with attendence issues deserve to have a school to attend.
ReplyDeleteThis is a sad situation. Whenever there is talk about what is happening in Chicago Public Schools, I just cringe. Is there no report of good news? There must be something good happening somewhere in the school buildings because it simply cannot be the students. After all, everything I have heard lately from the Mayor down is what must be done about the teachers who seem to be the ones held totally responsible for educating the young people - of which 40,000 have just been reported as being truant! Yet, these same young people are terrorizes people on the streets, the buses, and in restaurants around the Chicago area. If you have ever witnessed these young people, you have an inkling of what the teachers experience in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteYoung people between the ages of 15-19 are in danger, people. Only the intervention of parents who are willing to stop being their child(ren)'s friend and become their caretaker, their role model, their guardian and their protector. Nothing says love like discipline- not permissiveness.
Wake up and save the future of the USA. If that is too broad for you, save your own life by parenting your children.
Deborah, well said:)
ReplyDeleteAll the black boys want to be lil Wayne and the black girls want to Nicki Minaj, but all they will ever be is NOTHING! A total bunch of losers!
ReplyDeleteSomebody very high up knows what they are doing and is happy that all of our children are adopting ghetto thug culture, that way, they can take over America without a shot, and nobody will even notice.
ReplyDelete“They should direct the unmotivated and the academically challenged towards a trade school of some sort so they can at least learn some skills to support themselves later on. Not everyone is cut-out for school.”
ReplyDeleteThis is not exactly a new idea, but it is not especially popular in this day and age, seeing as how America has succumbed to the fiction that everyone absolutely must have a college degree and we have steadily moved towards a “service economy”.
Also, you seem to imply that those people who are in the trades are unmotivated and stupid. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unmotivated and stupid people are not likely to be successful at anything, whether it be a trade or some ivory tower intellectual pursuit. So, while I think that idea has merit, it is unlikely to solve the crime problem, which has more politically sensitive origins than the simplistic and naïve mantra of “jobs, jobs, jobs”.
There used to be high schools with strong technical programs, but as I understand it, many of those are gone now in favor of college prep programs. Remember, everyone absolutely must go to college. LOL
The Negro with the cap on and large puff well he and a couple of his young friends were harassing people earlier yesterday at Ford City
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