The closings were a travesty. The Trumbull community has not given up on our children. We will not walk away. Our fight has moved to federal court. Our lawsuit against CPS is still pending, and we expect justice to prevail.
Mark, thank you for sharing - we'll keep an eye on that. We'd love to hear more about how the closings have affected your family or community - you can share here: www.schoolprojectfilm.com/make-your-voice-heard
Mark, Trumbull was also my neighborhood school and I've always wondered what became of the lawsuit. How can parents who want to know the latest get updates?
@@TheSchoolPR hey the child groomers at your school got caught talking to kids about sex and handing out butt plugs with the parents knowledge or consent. What do you have to say for yourself? Are you a child groomer too? There seems to be an infestation
They should fix the building itself. There's not air conditioners in every building. The faucets in bathrooms should be automatic. The actual buildings themselves should be modernized.
My daughter is not old enough to attend school, but still my family was deeply affected by the closing of Trumbull. We moved to Andersonville knowing that Trumbull was not a top school but that a community-led improvement effort was underway. As educators, my husband I saw ourselves getting involved in this movement and hoped that by the time our daughter was ready for school, we might have a good local school and a strong community waiting for her. A year after we bought our house, the school was closed. There is no such community movement happening at our receiving school, which also happens to be nowhere near our home. Though students there performed ever-so-slightly better on standardized tests in 2012, the school has a lot of problems that are not reflected in that data. Most importantly, it doesn't appear to be on the road to improvement like Trumbull. So now we are stuck. We will have to move, send our daughter to private school, or hope she gets into a good magnet school far from home. I know IL schools are woefully underfunded and understand the need for CPS to economize, but it seems a shame to cut a school turnaround campaign off at the knees. Large amounts of private money were being raised to improve Trumbull and in a few years, I think CPS could have had a pretty good school with all the investment in improvement coming from the community. Instead, many middle-class families like us will end up running for the suburbs or channeling their resources into private school.
Communities and parents want stable institutions. They are going to be slower to commit if they know that at any point in the future, the city will close the school. Having your school closed, or always carrying the threat of being closed, is psychologically exhausting.
IOFrimpong Couldn't agree more. I don't live in a gang-infested area and didn't have to go through the pain of relocating our daughter to a new school so I am luckier than most, but still I feel like the closings took a bite out of my sense of community. Trumbull was a uniting force -- something even neighbors without kids were interested in working on together. Now people seem to be splintering off, looking for other places to send their kids to school. I hope at least they do something useful with the building instead of just turning it into condos.
It is a fact that public education is a failing enterprise and all these school officials do is talk talk and talk. There is no accountability there is not consequences and therefore there is not positive change. We are sick and tire of them just pacifying us by "allowing" us to vent our frustrations.
Another interesting NPR story on the school closings: "Just 60 percent of 10,542 students* from Chicago’s shuttered elementary schools ended up at so-called “welcoming schools,” despite efforts by the district to woo them with promises of improved education, safe passage to school, and sweeteners like iPads, air conditioning and new science labs." www.wbez.org/news/only-60-percent-students-chicagos-closed-schools-turn-welcoming-schools-108907
They go to school and graduate with d' s and c's, while Chinese exchange students actually study. Maybe with a little discipline, they would be better off home schooled.
For the mothers who are home makers, home school is the way.... Everything starts at home....Take this as an opportunity to be the best positive influence in your child's life. Teach them Righteous Holy living above everything first. Ben Ami ( name may be spelled wrong) But he's from Chicago greatness comes from Chicago!
This just in: "After five-and-a-half months of wrangling, Catalyst Chicago finally received information from CPS that shows officials are not certain about the whereabouts of several hundred students displaced by the mass school closings of 2013." To read more: www.catalyst-chicago.org/news/2015/02/03/66274/record-tracking-434-missing-students-after-closings
It’s not possible to have a conversation with some of these people without all of the over the top emotion. I don’t know how anyone could possibly think that this type of behavior is helpful to their situation.
Of course they should just close all the state schools and let the free market fill the need for education. But then the schools would do so well, parents all over the nation would be clamoring for private schools in their state.
Why is it that the public is forced to pay into public schools when only some have children? People with children get tax credits and other financial relief but other people, once reaching an elderly age, and who never had children, get no relief, yet they still are forced to pay into public schools. It is not fair that childless adults should have to financially support other people’s children. Children are a financial responsibility that belongs to the parents, not to the government or others. The financial responsibility that is part of starting a family needs to be taught in schools.
How did the school closings affect me you ask? Well as a teacher from a closing school it has affected not only me but my children as well because I have not secured a job yet and its two years later! The financial hardship that I have been through has not been fair to my children at all...not only were the students I taught impacted I was as well. The Board has no consideration for the people they serve at all!!! None for the students, parents, communities, nor staff!!!
Rashaun Thomas you know they closed a bunch of schools here in philly as well. sad state of events. I personally know a teacher who found herself homeless for close to a year because she was laid off and couldn't keep up with her mortgage and bills. no choice but to enter a shelter until she secured another job and saved up. she is doing a little better now, but goodness......that's how bad it has become. =(
Shazzy1228 What a sad reality for so many teachers (and students too - how can you learn when you don't have secure housing?). These issues cut across cities, but we know Philly's school system has also seen some particularly hard times lately. Thanks for sharing.
The School Project What do you advise for concerned parents who cannot afford to wait for politics to change?? I wasn't aware of the situation in Chicago and was considering relocating over there after my Master's. What can we do to help ourselves now while demanding options from our school districts? I find that I have to physically go to the schools, public or charter, and observe them. That is the only real way for me to figure out the quality. There is a beautiful charter school here in Philly, but its standards are actually not that great. Yet, the top high school here isn't very beautiful at all. What to do?
It's never about the children, It's about the money.
Chicago high school has child groomers
I had enough of this. Endless amounts of spending that will never stop.
bbb ... don't stand for "better business bureau!"
Crafty council is always - amazing how in countries like Finland, this is never an issue!
The closings were a travesty. The Trumbull community has not given up on our children. We will not walk away. Our fight has moved to federal court. Our lawsuit against CPS is still pending, and we expect justice to prevail.
Mark, thank you for sharing - we'll keep an eye on that. We'd love to hear more about how the closings have affected your family or community - you can share here: www.schoolprojectfilm.com/make-your-voice-heard
Mark, Trumbull was also my neighborhood school and I've always wondered what became of the lawsuit. How can parents who want to know the latest get updates?
@@TheSchoolPR hey the child groomers at your school got caught talking to kids about sex and handing out butt plugs with the parents knowledge or consent. What do you have to say for yourself? Are you a child groomer too? There seems to be an infestation
They should fix the building itself. There's not air conditioners in every building. The faucets in bathrooms should be automatic. The actual buildings themselves should be modernized.
Barbara Bennett is now in jail.
Yes, bc she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars!
My daughter is not old enough to attend school, but still my family was deeply affected by the closing of Trumbull. We moved to Andersonville knowing that Trumbull was not a top school but that a community-led improvement effort was underway. As educators, my husband I saw ourselves getting involved in this movement and hoped that by the time our daughter was ready for school, we might have a good local school and a strong community waiting for her. A year after we bought our house, the school was closed.
There is no such community movement happening at our receiving school, which also happens to be nowhere near our home. Though students there performed ever-so-slightly better on standardized tests in 2012, the school has a lot of problems that are not reflected in that data. Most importantly, it doesn't appear to be on the road to improvement like Trumbull. So now we are stuck. We will have to move, send our daughter to private school, or hope she gets into a good magnet school far from home.
I know IL schools are woefully underfunded and understand the need for CPS to economize, but it seems a shame to cut a school turnaround campaign off at the knees. Large amounts of private money were being raised to improve Trumbull and in a few years, I think CPS could have had a pretty good school with all the investment in improvement coming from the community. Instead, many middle-class families like us will end up running for the suburbs or channeling their resources into private school.
Communities and parents want stable institutions. They are going to be slower to commit if they know that at any point in the future, the city will close the school. Having your school closed, or always carrying the threat of being closed, is psychologically exhausting.
IOFrimpong Couldn't agree more. I don't live in a gang-infested area and didn't have to go through the pain of relocating our daughter to a new school so I am luckier than most, but still I feel like the closings took a bite out of my sense of community. Trumbull was a uniting force -- something even neighbors without kids were interested in working on together. Now people seem to be splintering off, looking for other places to send their kids to school. I hope at least they do something useful with the building instead of just turning it into condos.
@@kristinpichaske9575 congratulations, you dodged a bullet. That school is full of child groomers
An educator that believes hoping and wishing will provide her kid with a good school despite all the info to the contrary... Wow
Those same kids made drill music witch is now also under attack. These people should be a shamed of them selfs
It is a fact that public education is a failing enterprise and all these school officials do is talk talk and talk. There is no accountability there is not consequences and therefore there is not positive change.
We are sick and tire of them just pacifying us by "allowing" us to vent our frustrations.
Another interesting NPR story on the school closings:
"Just 60 percent of 10,542 students* from Chicago’s shuttered elementary schools ended up at so-called “welcoming schools,” despite efforts by the district to woo them with promises of improved education, safe passage to school, and sweeteners like iPads, air conditioning and new science labs."
www.wbez.org/news/only-60-percent-students-chicagos-closed-schools-turn-welcoming-schools-108907
In order to improve the conduct of students, CP's staff members should actually enforce rules. Or be a little more strict.
They go to school and graduate with d' s and c's, while Chinese exchange students actually study. Maybe with a little discipline, they would be better off home schooled.
For the mothers who are home makers, home school is the way.... Everything starts at home....Take this as an opportunity to be the best positive influence in your child's life. Teach them Righteous Holy living above everything first. Ben Ami ( name may be spelled wrong) But he's from Chicago greatness comes from Chicago!
Is she in trouble?.... I saw something about corruption on the news....
This just in: "After five-and-a-half months of wrangling, Catalyst Chicago finally received information from CPS that shows officials are not certain about the whereabouts of several hundred students displaced by the mass school closings of 2013."
To read more:
www.catalyst-chicago.org/news/2015/02/03/66274/record-tracking-434-missing-students-after-closings
Close Public Schools their a Catch 22
It’s not possible to have a conversation with some of these people without all of the over the top emotion. I don’t know how anyone could possibly think that this type of behavior is helpful to their situation.
"these people..." 🤨🙄
Great interview with TSP's Laura Wilson about this topic today on Vocalo: vocalo.org/post/109491839641/morningamp-on-tuesday-we-listened-to-part-of
Great story on NPR's "Grading Rahm" series analyzing the mayor's track record with regard to schools: soundcloud.com/wbez/grading-rahm-education
Of course they should just close all the state schools and let the free market fill the need for education. But then the schools would do so well, parents all over the nation would be clamoring for private schools in their state.
Why is it that the public is forced to pay into public schools when only some have children? People with children get tax credits and other financial relief but other people, once reaching an elderly age, and who never had children, get no relief, yet they still are forced to pay into public schools.
It is not fair that childless adults should have to financially support other people’s children. Children are a financial responsibility that belongs to the parents, not to the government or others. The financial responsibility that is part of starting a family needs to be taught in schools.
paid trolls ,shut rham down he has a bigger plan he wants your city .hes willing to pay with blood
How did the school closings affect you? How can CPS, schools and families more forward to create better schools? Please share your thoughts, Chicago.
How did the school closings affect me you ask? Well as a teacher from a closing school it has affected not only me but my children as well because I have not secured a job yet and its two years later! The financial hardship that I have been through has not been fair to my children at all...not only were the students I taught impacted I was as well. The Board has no consideration for the people they serve at all!!! None for the students, parents, communities, nor staff!!!
Rashaun Thomas you know they closed a bunch of schools here in philly as well. sad state of events. I personally know a teacher who found herself homeless for close to a year because she was laid off and couldn't keep up with her mortgage and bills. no choice but to enter a shelter until she secured another job and saved up. she is doing a little better now, but goodness......that's how bad it has become. =(
Shazzy1228 What a sad reality for so many teachers (and students too - how can you learn when you don't have secure housing?). These issues cut across cities, but we know Philly's school system has also seen some particularly hard times lately. Thanks for sharing.
The School Project What do you advise for concerned parents who cannot afford to wait for politics to change?? I wasn't aware of the situation in Chicago and was considering relocating over there after my Master's. What can we do to help ourselves now while demanding options from our school districts? I find that I have to physically go to the schools, public or charter, and observe them. That is the only real way for me to figure out the quality. There is a beautiful charter school here in Philly, but its standards are actually not that great. Yet, the top high school here isn't very beautiful at all. What to do?
one family's story: ua-cam.com/video/Ote169tum5o/v-deo.html