Chicago Public Schools know better about controlling children's safety.

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29. It's not. I'm saying that public schools must not be stigmatized for the lax security we've seen

lead to tragic deaths of innocents, and I offer a successful model that's worked elsewhere. People all over the country thought that what happened at Uvelda could happen to their schools, and wonder where they could otherwise school their kids safely.

CPS has invested a prevention system that's resulted in relatively safe schools.

If you want to call it a thesis, your choice. But this isn't an academic exercise. We've already seen privatized schools as "choice." Erosions of public trust have come about by corporate campaigns against public schools already, through the pretext of testing "reforms" that were designed to set schools up for failure, to justify privatizing schools; and this recent mass murder of children provides another pretext corporations can use. As for what you think is my thesis, research has already shown that privatized schools have been no better academically, or safer, than the public schools that exist. From what I've seen, they're simply another form of social division, a kind of for profit scheme to take public taxes to pay for a class and race segregated system. Bush tried his "faith based initiatives" to use of taxes to pay for religious charities, and he was about to move on to tax subsidies for religious schools.

If I have a thesis, it's that democracy is served best by democratic institutions that create spaces for public discourse and learning, like libraries, even public universities. Corporate schools as for profit businesses are not institutions of democracy.