I certainly would not want to have my name put on a school that excluded special needs and lower IQ students. Everyone has something to give to this world, and making someone feel they are *less than* because their parents don’t have enough money or clout or wherewithal is not an honorable thing to do.
On Wednesday, Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked school board voted to fire every administrator, teacher, paraprofessional and lunch lady from three neighborhood schools and handed those schools over the the corporate-connected Academy for Urban School Leadership.
The three schools – Gresham, Dvorak and McNair are on the south and west side.
“Given money, we can do many, many things,” said Diedrus Brown, principal of Gresham Elementary. She said test scores rose when the school was allowed extra funding, and that it achieved the middle tier for a Level 2 school in 2011. “You destabilized our school for the past two years by taking money away,” Brown added.
“It’s Chicago Public Schools, not Chicago private schools,” Brown insisted.
“We are not failures at Gresham,” said Tina Bumbers Walker, a second-grade teacher and alumna at the school. “It’s not just about scores.
“We were progressing,” she added, but then pointed out the school had…
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