Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Throws Selective Enrollment Schools in the Bushes

[GoldenGlove]

Chicago Mayor announces plans to ax selective-enrollment high schools

Mayor Brandon Johnson's Board of Education has proposed shifting back toward neighborhood schools - away from the system where kids compete for selective programs.

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Chicago mayor does 180, wants to ditch high-achieving schools in name of ‘equity’

• Johnson's Board of Education has proposed shifting back toward neighborhood schools - away from the system where kids compete for selective programs
• But when he was campaigning to become Mayor, Johnson put out a statement saying that he would not get rid of Chicago 's selective-enrollment schools

Chicago's progressive mayor has announced plans to axe the Windy City's high-achieving selective-enrollment schools to boost 'equity.'

Mayor Brandon Johnson's Board of Education has proposed shifting back toward neighborhood schools - away from the system where kids compete for selective programs.

But when he was campaigning to become Mayor, Johnson put out a statement saying that he would not get rid of Chicago's selective-enrollment schools.

According to the Chicago Tribune, woke Johnson specifically said: 'A Johnson administration would not end selective enrollment at CPS schools.'

Now, he is seen to be back peddling - by allowing a vote to stop gifted children from lower income backgrounds from academically competing to get into high-performing schools.

Selective schools cause a 'stratification and inequity in Chicago Public Schools,' according to the board's CEO.

Chicago has 11 selective-enrollment high schools — Northside College Prep, Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy, John Hancock College Prep, Jones College Prep, Lane Tech, Lindblom Math and Science Academy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School.

Walter Payton College Prep, South Shore International College Prep, Westinghouse College Prep and Whitney M. Young Magnet School are also on the list.

The schools are not just the best in Chicago - but rank among the top high schools in the entire country.

Walter Payton College Prep is ranked 10th best school in the US. Northside College Prep is 37th. Jones College Prep ranks 60th.

Now, a resolution is up for a vote by the school board on Thursday.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez has prepared a resolution for 'a transition away from privatization and admissions/enrollment policies and approaches that further stratification and inequity in CPS and drive student enrollment away from neighborhood schools.'

It would lay out a five-year 'transformation' to effectively get rid of selective schools in Chicago - which have been heralded as the gems of the city's education system.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep is among the 11 selective schools in Chicago

Six years ago, Chicago Public Schools set up a new application system where every eighth grader could to apply for high school - rather than enrolling to their neighborhood school.

As a result, 76 percent of Chicago high schools do not attend their neighborhood schools. Instead, high-achieving students have joined institutions where their peers are as academically driven as themselves.

Board President Jianan Shi told the Chicago Sun-Times: 'This plan needs to be guided and informed by the community.

'The goal is that we're able to change (the) current competition model so that students are not pitted against one another, schools are not pitted against one another.'

School Board Vice President Elizabeth Todd-Breland wants every neighborhood to create a 'strong, high quality pathway from pre-K to high school.'

Shi said: 'It shouldn't be a competition between schools, it should really be families, knowing that, 'Hey, my child can walk to school and have a great option.''

In an opinion piece written by the editors of the Chicago Tribune, they said: 'Johnson's people can call this resolution a roadmap, or a transition plan, or a framework, or whatever they want.

'They must have a very low opinion of Chicagoans' intelligence. People will see what is going on here.

'The selective-enrollment high schools are stars in the CPS firmament. All 11 of them. They are going to need defenders.

'Chicago has struggled for decades to keep its vibrant middle class from fleeing to the suburbs when their kids reach school age.

'The offering of more choices in education, a long-time city policy, hasn't gone perfectly, but it's inarguable in our view that without those choices Chicago would be in far worse shape.

'The Chicago Board of Education should vote this resolution down Thursday.'

 

[get these nets]

Misguided.

 

[GoldenGlove]

I can understand both sides of this argument. This man getting into office and is truly shaking shyt up like a mfer.

If this passes this week

 

[GoldenGlove]

Misguided.

Yeah... the numbers are staggering. If 76% of HS students don't currently attend the school closest to them, it's evident that there is a problem with many of the schools. Another thing that will need to be addressed with this change is that the shytty schools won't have the staff or resources to fully support gifted kids that start going to the schools.

This could be a shytshow on the horizon

 

[Easy-E]

As a result, 76 percent of Chicago high schools do not attend their neighborhood schools. Instead, high-achieving students have joined institutions where their peers are as academically driven as themselves.

Chicago will be raising more drillers, in the future.

 

[UpNext]

Nah they definitely need to gtfoh with this bullshyt. You can't fix the neighborhood schools so your solution is to let the bad kids fukk up the vibe of a Lane Tech? Has Brandon Johnson ever had to try to learn in a class where you need an armed security guard because some of these nutty mfs?

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Does Chi-town want Dykefoot byke?

 

[Windows 91]

Those schools are going to get ruined if they turn into neighborhood schools. Imagine those badass Crane and Marshall students now getting into Whitney Young

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Yeah... the numbers are staggering. If 76% of HS students don't currently attend the school closest to them, it's evident that there is a problem with many of the schools. Another thing that will need to be addressed with this change is that the shytty schools won't have the staff or resources to fully support gifted kids that start going to the schools.

This could be a shytshow on the horizon

Yeah
As someone who was kicked out of a gifted school, I used to be against them

But now I think they should keep them
Because Chicago and other cities, are not going to fix the school system
So might as well give the students who want to learn a chance

 

[hcobbland84]

One of the litany of reasons I didn’t vote for him.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Nah they definitely need to gtfoh with this bullshyt. You can't fix the neighborhood schools so your solution is to let the bad kids fukk up the vibe of a Lane Tech? Has Brandon Johnson ever had to try to learn in a class where you need an armed security guard because some of these nutty mfs?

Public school shyt is lit, this is going to be one of them things that will put classism in this country on full display. I'm not even gonna say race, because people there are plenty of black parents that send their kids to better schools. You take this option away from those that have the means to do it... just fascinating on how this plays out.

 

[Fill Collins]

I ain't from Chicago, but I went to magnet schools that weren't in my neighborhood growing up, they were mostly Black too, sounds like buddy wants to fukk over kids who work their ass off for better options or actually think about their future


Why not invest in the shyttier public schools instead of helping those illegal boatfakkits coming in droves?

 

[GoldenGlove]

Yeah
As someone who was kicked out of a gifted school, I used to be against them

But now I think they should keep them
Because Chicago and other cities, are not going to fix the school system
So might as well give the students who want to learn a chance

This is the main thing right. Feels like these bold plans and aspirations are not rooted in reality. In a Utopian World, all schools would be equally supported, staffed and offer the same opportunities to families and students. And I get the goal is to get as close to that as possible, but that's a lot of hard grassroots work that needs to be done. And I'd say most of that impact will have to be realized and done by the communities involved.

The administration can't control a lot of variables that ultimately determine a successful school or not. If the schools still have low climate and culture, teachers that don't want to be there, parents that aren't engaged and ultimately kids that don't care for whatever reasons, the system changes won't work.

We'll have to see if they vote this through tho

 

[GoldenGlove]

I ain't from Chicago, but I went to magnet schools that weren't in my neighborhood growing up, they were mostly Black too, sounds like buddy wants to fukk over kids who work their ass off for better options or actually think about their future


Why not invest in the shyttier public schools instead of helping those illegal boatfakkits coming in droves?

For equity reasons


Nah but...
Students unfortunately are viewed as resources and each student has a price tag on them. I'd say, their argument is that the shyttier schools will see their tests scores and have more success stories due to talented kids that previous commuted miles away to go elsewhere now coming back to the neighborhood school.

We all know that's not as clean cut as it reads. The rigor being applied at every school can be vastly different so this really could hurt gifted kids development and preparedness for post-graduation.

 

[UpNext]

Public school shyt is lit, this is going to be one of them things that will put classism in this country on full display. I'm not even gonna say race, because people there are plenty of black parents that send their kids to better schools. You take this option away from those that have the means to do it... just fascinating on how this plays out.

This is definitely racial, watch how these c00n ass politicians are gonna treat schools like Brooks and King vs schools like Northside Prep