In Chicago, a First-Day-of-School Boycott

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I think the saddest part about our country... is we allow ignorance to exist and call it stupidity. We allow circumstances like poverty and lower class citizens to exist and tell them to hang in there and suck it up. We allow gas prices to rise and make oil tycoons richer than they have ever been in history, and we deny we are in a recession. Before segregation in schools... I wonder if the education system was as faulty as it is now... Did we ever really get over the fact that we integrated Blacks with Whites and expected everything to just be business as usual. Just interesting. But continue going on with your day acting like nothing is wrong and it's purely choice for people to be hungry with no food to eat, dumb with no money to go to school to better their future, and hopeless because hope is just a word that means nothing.

Hope of IL 12:22PM September 05, 2008

If the parents are not going to stay involved in their children's learning process and motivate their children to continue with to learn, it will make no difference where they go to school.
You cannot make chicken soup out of chicken sh!t

grif of MO 7:39AM September 05, 2008

This is great! It's happening in the liberal, left leaning state of Illinois! Everyone thinks it's the right wing conservatives who let poor kids have poor schools. Well, it's not. Even the rich liberals don't want scum from the wrong side of the tracks into schools with their beautiful, talented, spoiled, kids.
You see, it doesn't matter who gets elected. This American society doesn't value education. We value glamour, glitz, vulgarity, raunchiness, violence, evil, and worse. Until this country changes its values, education will always take a seat in the back of the bus, and the few parents who do care will have enough power to get their kids the best. I like this idea of these kids wanting to enroll in better schools, but is it possible the schools they have are wretched because of their own parents and the way they act?

of NY 2:09PM September 03, 2008

Keep standing up for what you believe in because if it is unequal you should object!!!

2nd period LHS of TX 2:00PM September 03, 2008

I live in a 'suburb'. The 'city' 20 miles away spends FOUR TIMES per pupil what we do and gets NO results! You can not throw money at the problem you need PARENTS to promote and guide their kids to an education. The real problem is that uneducated parents lead to uneducated kids! There is no monetary solution to that problem!

of MA 1:06PM September 03, 2008

When I was reading this article I was wonderng how you got this information?

Googla jenninger of DC 10:34AM September 03, 2008

Keep doing what you are doing because you are doing a great job!!! They have a right according to the first amendment to stand up for equal funding.

Benson Dover of TX 10:16AM September 03, 2008

There will be no progress in education until we regress a few decades (about six) and hold students responsible for learning. Schools and teachers can only present material, and while you can lead a student to knowledge, but you can't make him drink.
The Obamas seem to share this sort of Cargo Cult mentality that it is the facility that holds the magical ju-ju and not the effort of the student, so if he is elected....

Luther of IL 7:56PM September 02, 2008