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.
Could have really meant: “This is hour story”
Being from Illinois and following Chicago schools, I can assure you it’s not an intentional use of the word, it’s just bad grammar.
Wonderful! Chicago has named a pubic screwl after a black Communist. I know we elders all remember when Paul Robeson sung the Internationale!
Teachers Union, Democrats, NAACP, OUR you proud? Yes the misspelling is purposeful. These are the same idiots that want 15 bucks an hour to flip a freaking burger!
As in “I are empowered”.
Allow commies to run the Pooblik Skrewl Collectives and whadda Ya expect?
Pretty obvious the teachers didn’t “no” better, either.
How is the misspelling purposeful? Just curious. Thanks.
How does anyone who thinks that is a correct useage ever even learn to speak? I can’t wrap my mind around it. Is it an artifact of the textese “R”?
Our they actually even speaking and writing are lanuage anymore?
Please, please....don’t show us the prom gowns!
guess 2015 will be THIS IS ESS STORY
Apropos.....................
‘Education Are’ on Dish runs from 7am to 11.
It sure gave me pause..thinking it doesn’t get much dumber.
Then I began to wonder what the Junior prom “slogan” might be...
And yet again, no one is held responsible, no one is accountable, and no one is EVER fired.
Unions and government employees are the death knell of this nation.
Pretty obvious the teachers didn’t “no” better, either.
Then again, can you imagine being a teacher in this combat zone? You couldn’t pay me enough. This is truly a dysfunctional setting.
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