Posted on 06/10/2014 7:46:24 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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.
Students in these schools whose families can’t afford an alternative are trapped in classrooms that, for the most part, aren’t equipping them to succeed in the future.
But while CPS students get left behind, their teachers receive generous compensation.
The average CPS teacher salary is $76,000. The last contract negotiations in 2012 gave CPS teachers 17 percent raises over three years.
The median household income in Chicago is just $47,408. The disparity is worse in Englewood, a neighborhood where 23.6 percent of residents are unemployed and the average per capita income is $12,255.
Something’s not adding up.
Students can’t spell. They can’t do math. They aren’t graduating. And they’re not being set up to succeed in the real world.
So why should CPS teachers be rewarded with raises?
The Paul Robeson prom theme is a glaring example of just how bad things have gotten in Chicago Public Schools. The tragic irony is that Paul Robeson students picked a theme that evokes hope for the future; something every child deserves.
But until CPS changes its ways, the system will continue failing students at schools like Paul Robeson.
It’s time all Chicago students have a reason to believe in a brighter tomorrow.
Everybuddy nos that it shud say “This be are story.”
In keeping with the milieu, shouldn’t the slogan have been: “This BE Are Story”?
Somehow the fact that Robeson was a communist got lost in the new history books. But it don’t matter knohow cause they can’t be read by the stoodents anyway.
Given the cost per child per year and the drop out rate, when compared to the percent of students who are competent at grade level in all core subjects at graduation, it costs over $1 million to graduate a single fully competent student.
We no longer have the luxury to afford such grand FAIL. It is a failure for the children who never can reach their full potential. It is a failure for the taxpayers who somehow much come up with real dollars to pay for teachers and buildings, and it is a failure for society that could have productive citizens but instead gets unproductive dependents and jail-birds.
It is time to allow private education business to compete against government schools. It is time to give parents an effective choice in where to send their children. It is time to try different education models. It is time to stop running schools mainly to benefit the education industry.
Sometimes I think that there are places in this country that need to be fenced off. Just let the animals eat each other, then we'll come in and bulldoze flat whatever's left.
Might be the only way to recover them. Look at Detroit...it's starting to rebound after hitting bottom and starting to dig.
went to the schools website.. under what’s new they have a category called “Housekeping”
Perhaps the school teaches a new alternative manner of spelling...
:D
Crap like this make me cry for our precious country.
It also makes me glad I’m old. I feel sorry for those under 55 or so. IMHO, your future is not particularly bright.
Morans! (who has that picture?)
Paul Robeson.
Poor Old Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Tvq_0tkyw
Loch Lomond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJhBzQiWgM&feature=kp
He became a useful idiot.
But he could sing.
And he knew the difference between are and our.
——So why should CPS teachers be rewarded with raises?-—
There is gross misunderstanding here
The Chicago education system is designed for educators not for students
His Communism aside, Robeson took his craft as a singer, lawyer, and even college football player seriously.
He would never have countenanced this sort of lazy and ignorant attitude, least of all among blacks students and teachers.
They misspelled “dis?”
“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”
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Huh?
College”
Apparently I’m missing something here——how did they get into college? How did they even get a high school diploma?
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“Chicago Public Schools prom slogan: ‘This Is Are Story’”
Not to worry; this is not anything that cannot be fixed with Commie Core.
Students can’t spell. They can’t do math.
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I suspect that the same could be said of their teachers. Usually, a prom has a faculty member involved in the planning, but apparently this faculty advisor was too dumb to notice this.
How is the misspelling purposeful?
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I think defconw was referring to the misspelling in her own comment, in which she used “our” for “are”.
Why didn’t the union printer notice.....never mind.
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