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Chicago plans high school for black males
UPI ^ | Nov. 6 | United Press International

Posted on 11/07/2005 8:41:20 AM PST by ktw

Chicago plans high school for black males

CHICAGO, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black teenagers.

The Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men must be approved by the Board of Education this month, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Mayor Richard Daley plans to open 100 schools in the city in the next five years. Plans for the next two years include a virtual elementary school, a high school operated by the University of Chicago and a high school stressing business entrepreneurship.

Urban Prep would be located inside Englewood High School. Backers say it is aimed at a group that has the lowest graduation rate of any in the city.

"We're going to take our students where they are and help them gain admission to college and succeed once they are there," said Tim King, the founder of Urban Prep. "Clearly there is a high need for figuring out how to serve these kids academically."


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KEYWORDS: blackmales; blackstudents; chicago; education; hseducation; males; racism; schools; segregation
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To: DaiHuy
"...what if a white male wants to attend one of those schools, will he be allowed?"

Probably wont have to cross that bridge. But they will have a dominating sports program.
21 posted on 11/07/2005 8:49:56 AM PST by Mulch (tm)
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To: tfecw

You mean like in "south" Boston?


22 posted on 11/07/2005 8:50:11 AM PST by PaRebel (The Constitution has no off-switch. Repeal the 17th amendment.)
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To: The Red Zone

I agree. I think it's a wonderful idea. Boys have been forced into the matriarchal learnng system of the public schools for too long.
I hope this little experiment is wildly succsessful, because co-ed schools have damaged several generations of men.


23 posted on 11/07/2005 8:51:05 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (Yarn-ho.)
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To: RetiredArmy

From what I heard, Fisher DeBerry is ready to make the first recruiting visit.


24 posted on 11/07/2005 8:51:43 AM PST by Night Hides Not (1 John 3:18 (my interpretation: Deeds, Not Words"))
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To: ktw

The vocational classes should be interesting.


25 posted on 11/07/2005 8:52:19 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ktw

"We're going to take our students where they are and help them gain admission to college and succeed once they are there," said Tim King, the founder of Urban Prep. "Clearly there is a high need for figuring out how to serve these kids academically."

Perhaps a good start would be for their peers to quit telling them they're "acting white" for trying to succeed??

This brings up several questions..will chains be allowed?? throwback jerseys?? crooked ballcaps?? will the cirriculum be taught using northern ebonics (what be dat?), or southern ebonics (what be dat, y'all)..

Unless and until they dress the part and refuse to be labeled "white", no amount of social coddling using their own schools will help..IMHO


26 posted on 11/07/2005 8:52:20 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead you to prove it...)
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To: ktw

And the irony is that they fought to desegregate the schools but when that failed, they fought to resegregate the schools.

It's a no win game.


27 posted on 11/07/2005 8:53:32 AM PST by twas
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To: ktw
Let's do some editing here:

The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black teenagers.

= Good.

The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black hispanic teenagers.

= Good.

The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black white teenagers.

= OMG we've got to burn it to the ground.

It's only racist if you're white. (It's also sexist if you're white, too.)

28 posted on 11/07/2005 8:53:53 AM PST by 4mycountry (Now that's just freaking freaky.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Maybe, but blantantly a violation of "seperate is not equal."

I don't doubt the few white males in the same Chicago school districts face the same hurdles as the majority blacks.


29 posted on 11/07/2005 8:54:10 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: NRA1995
What are they gonna call it, "Bling Bling High"?

Ebonics R U.

30 posted on 11/07/2005 8:54:15 AM PST by Ben Mugged (Sins can be forgiven but stupid is forever.)
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To: ktw

Segregated schools?


31 posted on 11/07/2005 8:54:42 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ktw

Which Islam sect will be running them?


32 posted on 11/07/2005 8:55:01 AM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: ktw

"Urban Prep would be located inside Englewood High School. Backers say it is aimed at a group that has the lowest graduation rate of any in the city."

This is the problem I have with these kinds of programs. It should be aimed at ALL failing students, not just black. But, in liberal identity politics, failing blacks is a more important issue than failing whites or latinos.


33 posted on 11/07/2005 8:55:21 AM PST by Bob J (RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
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To: NRA1995
What are they gonna call it, "Bling Bling High"?

I recommend the school be named "Rosa Parks High". I am being serious. Would it be such a bad thing for young men to have a woman as an example to look up to and respect?

34 posted on 11/07/2005 8:55:43 AM PST by Night Hides Not (1 John 3:18 (my interpretation: Deeds, Not Words"))
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To: ktw

Will they be teaching Advanced Ebonics.??


35 posted on 11/07/2005 8:56:19 AM PST by Pompah
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To: ktw

Talk about being amazingly hypocritical as well as just plain idiotic. This idea would do several things but here are a few of the real problems.

1. Less Black teenagers will be in the other schools maybe even causing some to be all white which the left will then conveniently call racist for being all white.

2. This is a disgusting avoidance of the problem hence not a solution at all. If teaching is what they need then take the hand cuffs off of teachers and administrators, re-introduce paddeling and other folms of discipline and make good students out of them which they all can be.


36 posted on 11/07/2005 8:56:24 AM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: ktw

This is outright discrimination against all other students, including female. It's also unconstitutional. Didn't civil rights teach anyone about equality?


37 posted on 11/07/2005 8:56:27 AM PST by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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To: Paleo Conservative
-- How long before NOW issues a statement opposing this? <>
38 posted on 11/07/2005 8:56:40 AM PST by excalibur1701
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To: NRA1995
What are they gonna call it, "Bling Bling High"?

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

39 posted on 11/07/2005 8:57:40 AM PST by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
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