City Schools; the short version

[sarahdeanne]

Besides the rich, the lottery lucky, and those whom the housing market has cursed and are unable to migrate out to the suburbs for their kids schooling, there is another group of people who have to do the best they can with what CPS offers (or homeschool) and that is those families employed by the city in jobs like police work and teaching, who I've heard are required to keep a Chicago address. It may be those families that have kept many of these schools from failing completely and instigated much of the "turn around" that we hear about. And no, my family isn't one of them

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by sarahdeanne

Besides the rich, the lottery lucky, and those whom the housing market has cursed and are unable to migrate out to the suburbs for their kids schooling, there is another group of people who have to do the best they can with what CPS offers (or homeschool) and that is those families employed by the city in jobs like police work and teaching, who I've heard are required to keep a Chicago address. It may be those families that have kept many of these schools from failing completely and instigated much of the "turn around" that we hear about. And no, my family isn't one of them

No, the turnaround schools are mostly in yuppie areas. No real surprise.

Rich people = good students

[sarahdeanne]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

No, the turnaround schools are mostly in yuppie areas. No real surprise.

Rich people = good students

Um, it may have been me that started the confusing wording but "turnaround" schools is a thing and none of them are in yuppie neighborhoods

see cpsturnaround.org

(I don't think I can post links yet... working on it)

[summer22]

Originally Posted by citylove101

The more the middle class abandons the schools the worse they wil be. In some neighborhoods I know that anyone who cares about their kids education and has two nickels to rub together will send them to a Catholic school, leaving the publics almost entirely to the poorest folks there., with the results that are evident in school statistics.

Yep, this has been true for twenty-five or more years, so its nothing new. Southwest side high schools like Gage Park, Kelly, Curie, Bogan, and Kennedy were not good from a personal safety standpoint, poor learning environments, and the facilities were deteriorating, even back in 1988.

Myself and one other neighborhood friend tested into a magnet high school that year. We wound up being the only ones who graduated from a CPS high school. Everyone else went to Catholic schools.