CPS Fails Too Many, Suit Says A disproportionate amount of A-A and Hispanic students flunk

[AngryAmish]

Source: Channel 5 news chicago

A parent group is stamping a big red "F" on promises from Chicago Public Schools.
Parents United for Responsible Education, or PURE, is filing a complaint Wednesday with the U.S. Education Department's Office of Civil Rights, alleging the nation's third largest school district unfairly failed or forced students to repeat a grade, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
About 100,000 students repeated a grade since 1996, a program that cost the school system about $100 million a year, according to the complaint.


Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/CPS-Breaking-Promise-to-Students-Report--111516634.html#ixzz17XLEC1iv

Read more: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/CPS-Breaking-Promise-to-Students-Report--111516634.html

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Should we fail failing students or maybe try to make them not fail? Fail.

[dkf]

1. It's because they are poor!

Teachers can't do anything with these kids til everyone is middle class.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Which is exactly what every teacher here has said!

:sarcasm:

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

3. if you don't understand the link between poverty and education there isn't much that can be done

for you, sorry.

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[ProudDad]

5. Thanks for the right-wing bullshit...

Your contribution to race relations and the Class Struggle for the night, eh?

Beneath contempt... :puke:

[Downwinder]

6. Time spent on survival cuts down the time available for education.

[Odin2005]

7. Alerted.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

8. I hope you're being sarcastic.

If not, shame on you.