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Chicago to close 54 schools to address $1B deficit
ABC6 ^ | 3/21/13 | SARA BURNETT and JASON KEYSER Associated Press

Posted on 03/21/2013 3:47:33 PM PDT by mdittmar

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That's a shame.
1 posted on 03/21/2013 3:47:33 PM PDT by mdittmar
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It’s not as if a lot of those students were getting any use out of them anyway. You can lead a horse to water...


2 posted on 03/21/2013 3:48:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Home schooling is the answer.


3 posted on 03/21/2013 3:50:42 PM PDT by lurk
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Of course they would never consider cutting the administration.

You could eliminate 90% of the costs of school district administration and not miss a beat.


4 posted on 03/21/2013 3:52:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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What about midnight basketball?


5 posted on 03/21/2013 3:53:12 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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“But opponents say the closures will disproportionately affect minority children and endanger students who may have to cross gang boundaries to attend school.”

Then tell Rham to do something about the gangs. What a concept....


6 posted on 03/21/2013 3:53:17 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Where will gang members go to during the day now?


7 posted on 03/21/2013 3:57:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mdittmar

Is that $18 million per school!?? With only 555 students per school?!! Did I figure that correctly?


8 posted on 03/21/2013 3:58:18 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Step in the right direction


9 posted on 03/21/2013 4:05:45 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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As long as they pay the retired people what is the problem?

When you promise unicorns and candy to voters today that does not have to be paid by them this is what you get.

Their funding gap is due to promises made decades ago to voters who care not for any one except themselves.

If students today have to suffer who cares?

Just make sure administrators get 100% of their retirement benefits.

10 posted on 03/21/2013 4:07:25 PM PDT by highpockets
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“Home schooling is the answer.”

Do you really think that Gundarena can home school her 6 kids by 6 different guys? No way!


11 posted on 03/21/2013 4:09:49 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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Maybe if the U.S. Department of Education was eliminated those kids wouldn’t have to deal with all those gangs.


12 posted on 03/21/2013 4:10:21 PM PDT by mdittmar
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"Our parents know about this area," she said. "They don't know about those other areas. If they send him way north or way south, I'm not going to do that. It's too dangerous."

The kids could encounter a Tea Party partisan with an assault rifle and be scandalized....

13 posted on 03/21/2013 4:10:53 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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opponents say the closures will disproportionately affect minority children and endanger students who may have to cross gang boundaries

What a heartless racist!
/sarc

(You know that's what they'd be screaming if Ms. Byrd-Bennett were a white Republican...or white Hispanic.)

14 posted on 03/21/2013 4:13:11 PM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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What about midnight basketball?

To many gangs out there,wear the wrong color jersey and you get shot.

15 posted on 03/21/2013 4:14:05 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Eventually you run out of others people’s money.

No money for schools but plenty for retirements and to pay people not to work.


16 posted on 03/21/2013 4:15:46 PM PDT by edcoil (If the man was accused of leadership, there would not be enough evidence to convict him.)
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Rahm wasn’t even in Chicago when news of the school closings was released. He’s skiing in Utah.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130321/chicago/rahm-on-vacation-as-school-closings-list-leaks


17 posted on 03/21/2013 4:22:29 PM PDT by Atlantan
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Home school if they can, move if they can’t. I smell blood and danger.


18 posted on 03/21/2013 4:23:53 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: nascarnation

Blacks didn’t give a rats a** about whites put on buses and bused to the other end of town, why should we give a rats a** about them being bused to another part of gang territory. Wait till amnesty and hispanics move into the city and kick their butts. Popcorn season is about to begin.


19 posted on 03/21/2013 4:25:34 PM PDT by Fee
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To: Norm Lenhart

I thought Chicago was supposed to be safe due to their strict gun laws. What happened?


20 posted on 03/21/2013 4:27:38 PM PDT by matt04
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