Posted on 04/02/2008 8:42:30 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Chavez Clarke, 18, had spent this past Saturday taking catch-up classes so he could graduate on time. As he left a South Side high school that afternoon, he was fatally shot, in broad daylight and in plain view of other students. His death marked a grim end to a week when police and school officials had stepped up their efforts to combat a spike in killings of public school students.
The day before, an eighth-grader at a North Side school was shot and killed.
In all, 20 Chicago public school students have been fatally shot so far this school year -- seven in March alone -- compared with 24 the year before, said spokesman Mike Vaughn. Including those who died in non-gun violence, 22 students have been killed this year, and 30 last school year. School officials could not provide precise figures, but said that killings had increased markedly over past years.
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this article is obviously fake since guns are illegal in chicago../s
Wow. Those kids would be safer if they were serving in Iraq.
BO will change all that..
How? By going around declaring that he will “bring the kids home within 6 month”?
Now, there's a broad brush
I guess they threw in car accidents, falls, poisoning...anything to get the number up to scare the reader? So, how many were really shot?
The article said 20.
"In all, 20 Chicago public school students have been fatally shot so far this school year..."
?
It's all those rednecks with Confederate flags on their white pickup trucks who come straight from the gun shows to inner city Chicago to pick off a few hard-working minority kids before heading off to the NASCAR race. ;)
Hmm. Sounds as though Chavez Clark was hangin with the wrong crowd. The problem with the inner city is that it wallows in its own culture because it’s sacrosanct, it’s “their identity”. To do anything else, to abandon it, is considered “acting white”. So, better to perpetuate the misery than admit they’re wrong. Besides, being the perpetual underclass is a protected status, it affords many benefits. You always get to complain and be rewarded for it, you can have society always feel sorry for you, you can constantly bash whitey and get away with it, you get special privlidges like affirmative action, and last but not least: you always, always get attention.
“It’s all those rednecks with Confederate flags on their white pickup trucks who come straight from the gun shows to inner city Chicago to pick off a few hard-working minority kids before heading off to the NASCAR race. ;)”
Almost perfect.
May I add that they are Christian “haters”? Oh and just for fun, let’s throw in that they are also non-inclusive homophobes.
Sending your child to public school, while not exactly child abuse, certainly seems to be qualify as child endangerment and should be punished with a large fine at minimum.
Post of the day!
I just can’t wrap my head around the figures of how many kids are not graduating from high schools in this country.
Something like from 40 to 70%???
What does this population do for the rest of their life? how do they earn a living?
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Probably “all liquored up”
Digging ditches.
City: CHICAGO, IL
School type: HIGH SCHOOL
Grades: PK 7 8 9 10 11 12
School Enrollment: 1249
White students: 0.3%
Black students: 98.8%
Hispanic students: 0.7%
Asian students: 0.2%
High School graduation rate: 62.5%
HS graduation rate for male students: 47.5%
HS graduation rate for female students: 75.9%
Average class size 8th grade: 14.5
Average class size HS: 18.9
Statistics about CRANE TECHNICAL PREP COMMON HS in CHICAGO, IL
Average teacher salary: $53,236
Average administration staff salary: $89,361
Dollars spent per student: $8,379
So what’s the solution to the violence? Tighten up laws, eliminate probation, etc? Then certain segments of “the community” shout and say you can’t do this. It is unfair to minorities who are accused. I guess they want it both ways.
They don't do anything. They get idiots like you and me to work hard to pay for their Welfare.
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