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mopinko

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71. the people are gone. that is the point that so many are missing. the kids are gone.

Sat May 25, 2013, 09:38 PM

May 2013

demographic shifts forced these closings. thousands of people that used to live in high rise housing don't anymore, because the buildings are gone. these buildings are empty. huge buildings operating for a few hundred kids.

and they aren't being thrown out of the school system. they are just going to a different school. if it is more than 1.5 miles from their house, they get a bus there.

communities exist there, sort of, but honestly, we are talking about neighborhoods that are still full of vacant lots from the riots in '68. people have moved on.

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"In less time than it takes to boil an egg" Chicago closes 50 schools. [View all] madfloridian May 2013 OP

Thanks for all you do, madfloridian. Wilms May 2013 #1

+1 HiPointDem May 2013 #8

+1 moondust May 2013 #9

+1 Divernan May 2013 #23

+1 here too. bvar22 May 2013 #24

+1 Canuckistanian May 2013 #26

+1 Starry Messenger May 2013 #31

+1 woo me with science May 2013 #33

+1 Octafish May 2013 #42

+1 Rex May 2013 #47

Rahm Emanuel should be ashamed of himself. Little Star May 2013 #2

Rahm truely believes he's God Drale May 2013 #3

I thought Daley was bad but Emanuel makes him look like a saint Chisox08 May 2013 #5

Yes, he should. madfloridian May 2013 #32

Sociopathy and shame or guilt do not coexist tavalon May 2013 #34

It is sad to see what Rahm Emanuel is doing to Chicago. Chisox08 May 2013 #4

Oh, I see. Some shell company is building the arena for DePaul. KamaAina May 2013 #65

Rahm & his incrediby expensive ego trip: "Look at me, I'm the king of Chicago." Divernan May 2013 #6

Chicago population 1960 = 3.5 million. Chicago population 2010 = 2.7 million hack89 May 2013 #7

you think these are the first schools they've closed since 1960? HiPointDem May 2013 #10

Are the schools full or not? hack89 May 2013 #11

yes, the schools are full. the city used a formula that said 'optimal' class size was 30 students/ HiPointDem May 2013 #14

Damn Straight,HiPoint!-national record for school closings in 1 yr! Divernan May 2013 #18

Manipulating the data to enrich corporate education coffers. madfloridian May 2013 #30

Firing union teachers;turning schools over to private operator is NOT consolidation. Divernan May 2013 #13

They would still have to close schools hack89 May 2013 #15

How about a link to "what you saw"? Perhaps a pm from Rahm? Divernan May 2013 #16

a great many schools are being closed because of the emptying out of public housing. mopinko May 2013 #40

He is destroying public education. madfloridian May 2013 #43

not sure how you destroy something that is already horrible. mopinko May 2013 #46

Only 2% of Chicagoans strongly approve of the Rahmfather. Divernan May 2013 #44

Rahm's Napoleonic complex runs amuk w/grandiose $3 billion plans. Divernan May 2013 #45

k/r marmar May 2013 #12

Pew Charitable Trust disagrees with Rahm & Hack89. Oh!the effrontery of Pew! Divernan May 2013 #17

I wonder who's going to be Chicago's next mayor? It won't be Emanuel. nt live love laugh May 2013 #19

That's why he's jamming through this huge block of closings in one year. Divernan May 2013 #21

They had a good and union backed candidate but Rahm won lunasun May 2013 #27

Wanna bet? I say he wins in a walk tritsofme May 2013 #35

Closings especially painful for special need students of color. Divernan May 2013 #20

Good posts. madfloridian May 2013 #29

Rahm's morally bankrupt move to cement economic inequality. Divernan May 2013 #22

Kicking and shame on those making bullshit excuses for this worhtless fuck of a mayor. nt Guy Whitey Corngood May 2013 #25

Rahm's so indefensible, even the ususal PRO spinners are not posting. Divernan May 2013 #36

In my neighborhood they're closing good performing schools which are not Guy Whitey Corngood May 2013 #37

name names mopinko May 2013 #48

I was thinking of Lorenz Brentano which had been put on the chopping block. But Guy Whitey Corngood May 2013 #63

see, this is the kind of thing that has exemplified the whole debate. mopinko May 2013 #64

For one the massive pushback to save this school in particular Guy Whitey Corngood May 2013 #66

i doubt it. mopinko May 2013 #70

Sure it's probably wishful thinking on my part. The parents Guy Whitey Corngood May 2013 #72

i'm not defending him personally. if he moved in next to me, i would burn my own house down mopinko May 2013 #73

future land grab imo close to the lake so disassemble communities as a start lunasun May 2013 #28

close to the lake? mopinko May 2013 #52

see #58 lunasun May 2013 #59

it wont happen over night and yes none are far from a lake/downtown in a large metropolitan area lunasun May 2013 #58

one's perspective, from here in chicago, mopinko May 2013 #62

make that >ONE persons's perspective, from here in chicago ,.... lunasun May 2013 #67

we each don't get to decide how close we are to the lake. mopinko May 2013 #69

Watch these addresses SoCalDem May 2013 #38

Or high-performing charter schools? madfloridian May 2013 #39

Yep.. You're right.. many will become charter SoCalDem May 2013 #41

it's the chicago school system. of course they are in chicago. mopinko May 2013 #51

Wow so people in poor communities are disposible or communities do not exist there in your mind lunasun May 2013 #68

the people are gone. that is the point that so many are missing. the kids are gone. mopinko May 2013 #71

Charter schools, run by some Corporation, maybe even a foreign Corporation. sabrina 1 May 2013 #55

bloody few. a couple of them in the next decade, maybe. mopinko May 2013 #49

Then explain it to us. 'Slums' means 'poor' to me. sabrina 1 May 2013 #56

the city of chicago has gone through huge demographic shifts mopinko May 2013 #61

Rahm Emmanuel, who does he really work for? sabrina 1 May 2013 #50

Rahm works for whoever has the most to give him AndyA May 2013 #54

Rahm Emanuel AndyA May 2013 #53

Rahm's an absolute disgrace. (nt) DirkGently May 2013 #57

Indeed he is. madfloridian May 2013 #60