Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Throws Selective Enrollment Schools in the Bushes

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My next step isn't to get rid of the basketball team or get rid of the standards to get in. I would be like "alright we need to work on xyz and improve your skills here" and we try again hopefully with better results.

@get these nets made a thread about the Cambridge, Massachusetts school board nixing its AP courses and the strategies parents active in their children's education were trying to employ to get their children's best footing into highly selective universities.

These sort of measures, although noble, are very idealistic, and are essentially punishing students who have parents (like yourself) that are active in their children's education and have the resources to provide supplementary support all in the name of providing equal footing to those children who parents are not active in their children's education and who do not have the resources for supplemental support.

On it's face, some progressives may still not see an issue with this but what these school boards are doing is trying to modify the outcomes of deeply socio-cultural and socio-economic issues, well beyond it's reach, and in doing so, they end up putting bandaids on issues they can't solve while also actively limiting the scope of the whole purpose of education. Talk about cutting the nose to spite the face.

 

[mattw1313]

goddamn idiot. that won't do anything but hurt black children. all chicago knows how to do is vote in dykes and c00ns??

 

[UpNext]

goddamn idiot. that won't do anything but hurt black children. all chicago knows how to do is vote in dykes and c00ns??

Most black folks aren't voting for these idiots.

Black Chicago does, however, also get shamed for not voting for the useful idiots that get the machine backing behind them tho

 

[Jean toomer]

Shameful. Bloomberg did something similar, getting rid of the Special Talent Programs in middle schools throughout NYC. NYC public schools have yet to recover. 75% of the 5 specialized high schools are Asian….

 

[EndDomination]

More funding and resources should go to general public schools.

This is obviously a complex issue, but effectively balkanizing a public, majority Black school district to produce an incredibly small number of "high achieving schools" who can largely be differentiated based solely on parental education and social capital outcomes - is not a solution.

shyt, I attended one of these selective enrollment public schools in Cleveland, and while it was a great environment, it would have been fairly simple to reproduce that at my home school.

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Voice of Reason]

Y'all are in here sounding like straight c00ns

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

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

Dude will never win another election rofl

Black people who want their kids safe, and are upwardly mobile, aka the ones that vote won’t fukk with them if they do

 

[Voice of Reason]

This might be a pie-in-the-sky idea but I don’t know what the proposal looks like. That said, some neighborhoods are just trash and being able to get away for a school day to focus is an excellent escape from their immediate environment.

Unless he can suddenly flood those neighborhood schools with better teachers and safety measures (we know why), this will drag down high achievers. I went to private schools which while not the same thing that allowed me to key in on school without having to worry about who was threatening to beat me up, something I came from with a neighborhood school (Gale Community Academy I see you, bytch) before my mother got me in good schools with funding and teachers who cared.

Are you non-FBA

 

[Vandelay]

I get the intent, but I can say with near certainty that it won't work and it's going to bring everyone down.

 

[GoldenGlove]

I did it, and while this may not seem like a good idea, I was one of those smart kids who had to attend the fukked up school in my neighborhood (long story). I’m not about to have more sympathy for the kids at these good schools who will now have those “bad kids” attending.

Times are different now than when we were in school. I turned out fine going through public school. But now that I have kids and family in the same schools and pay attention to what's happening, the challenges aren't the same.

When I was in school the idea of a kid bringing a gun there was like some far out only in the movies type thing. Same school district years later (prominently black I might add) a 4th grader brings a loaded gun to school... Needless to say things hit different when you have a kindergartner in the same district now.

This is happening across the nation, and we're not even talking about jr high and high school.

 

[At30wecashout]

Are you non-FBA

What? I don't partake in them convos. If the question is am I 100% black and born in America, yes. Anything else I can't answer.

 

[Armchair Militant]

Bad idea

 

[Voice of Reason]

What? I don't partake in them convos. If the question is am I 100% black and born in America, yes. Anything else I can't answer.

You know if you come from an immigrant background or not.

I'm being disparaging at all I'm just asking you your ethnic origin.

 

[At30wecashout]

You know if you come from an immigrant background or not.

I'm being disparaging at all I'm just asking you your ethnic origin.

Yes, American black who's family has mostly Nigerian origins (at least on my mother's side). Born in Chicago, will likely die here.