[Alex Murphy]

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.

The teachers' union bears no portion of the blame, I'm sure.

Will the guys at the prom be wearing their tuxes halfway down their butts?

"....by the cut of your suit, you went to Oxford or wherever. Naturally you think human beings dress like that. But you wear it with such disdain, my guess is you didn't come from money, and your school friends never let you forget it. Which means that you were at that school by the grace of someone else's charity: hence that chip on your shoulder."
-- Vesper Lynd, Casino Royale

[blam]

"The teachers' union bears no portion of the blame, I'm sure. "

Just shows that they're overworked and need a raise.