Will they be teaching foreign languages, such as...eh, um, English? Will the illegal Hispanics that run rampant throughout Chicagoland demand their own school also?
Now about the Englewood area of Chicago. Well I live on the boundary and it isn't that bad compared to the far south side of the city referred to as the wild 100's on local radio for it's many gang shootings and murders. Or not as bad as the west side of the city which has most of the remaining housing projects.
Okay, I admit we do have the largest number of sex offenders in the city. I'm sure you heard to the two sisters two years ago who went to the park to play and were never seen alive again. Then there are the numerous rapes and sometimes murders of young girls including one 11y/o who has a park named after her. Not to mention the 6-7 serial killers of prostitutes in the area. Other than that it isn't that bad.
I wanted to post so you can see, what we're facing and why trying something like an all male section couldn't hurt. I hope it works.
This is from the announcement this year the school was closing.
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Public hearings are scheduled at CPS Board HQ for Englewood
At Englewood, which has struggled on probation for nine years and undergone various attempts at reform under both Duncan and former schools CEO Paul Vallas, fewer than 5 percent of students meet state standards -- the lowest of any CPS high school. And the dropout rate over the past four years has been twice the city average.
Only a quarter of students in the Englewood attendance area choose to go there, making it a "school of last resort,'' Duncan said.
Englewood students said gang territories would prohibit many of their peers from attending Hyde Park, Robeson, Hirsch or Dyett, identified by CPS as school alternatives for eighth-graders from the Englewood neighborhood. "Our dropout rate is probably going to be higher than it already is because of this," said Mark Blakely, 17, a sophomore at Englewood, 6201 S. Stewart. "I think it's a shame."
Englewood's current freshman class would be the last to graduate from the school, under Duncan's proposal. If approved by the Board, Englewood will stop accepting freshmen next fall and the old school will phase out. Using an approach similar to the model used at Flower, DuSable, Austin, and Calumet, new schools would be developed for Englewood with the help of the community and would be phased in after two years. Less than 5 percent of Englewood students meet state standards, making it the lowest performing Chicago public high school. The citywide average is 32.1 percent. The average dropout rate over the last four years has been 24.4 percent, compared to the city average of 11.6 percent. Almost 1,300 students in Englewood's attendance area go to school elsewhere.
"That doesn't mean there isn't a lot of pride in that building ( Englewood) and a lot of potential," Duncan said. "There is, and there always will be, but we can't bring it out under the current environment, even with all the extra supports it has received." The board will consider Duncan's recommendations at its Feb. 23 meeting.