

Keller in dark blue, national average in light blue, rest of shitty, I mean City magnet schools in gray...
now read this...
http://www.southtownstar.com/neighborhoodstar/evergreenpark/2016185,012810kadner.article
So we have a school that actually works, and Da Mayor and all his henchmen are hatching up a plan to move it away from here. My guess is that our beloved Keller school is destined for a place with a little more diversity. A place where literally millions upon millions of dollars have been sent and the problem still is not corrected. A place where "schools" have been renamed "career academy" and discredited in an attempt to make CPS look more successful than it really is. A place where de-enrollment is a standard practice on the first day so Da Mayor can boast a "95% first day attendance" for the purpose of state funding (anyone else find it odd that CPS had traditionally less than 60% first day attendance, and then miraculously it went to the high 90s???). A place where students get PAID for good grades because the idea of pride, college, a career, advancement, retirement, and a long fruitful life just arent enough motivation! A place that begs the question, maybe it's the indian, and not the arrow!
Seems like Rugai is flip flopping on this, and refuses to answer up to what is becoming more and more imminent...That Keller School is going to be shut down and relocated. I guess we are essentially being punished for being successful and there is nothing anyone can say or do without the fear of being labeled a racist! I can tell you this...Daley, Duncan, Rugai WHOEVER can put all the schools, all the resources, all the teachers in certain areas of this city and guess what? THE STUDENTS WILL CONTINUE TO KILL EACH OTHER! I for one do not mind my taxes being raised to improve the schools like Keller. But when Huberman and Da Mayor raise my taxes to the tune of over $30 million to identify and intervene with the "most at risk students in our city" yet want to close down schools like Keller well that makes me just besides myself! That is what the police are for!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH PEOPLE! It is time to get off our asses and say NO!!! Call Rugai, call Da Mayor, call Huberman, call your friends, neighbors, fellow parents and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! Just because our students actually succeed and find other hobbies than killing each other does not mean they are second class to ANYONE in this city! Imagine the uproar IF there were a successful school in Englewood, or Garfield Park, or Austin and they wanted to close the doors and move it here! Imagine if they had successful students and the city was going to make them travel into dangerous communities to attend their school! (look no farther than the Fenger fiasco...and those were gang banger kids that couldnt get into the Carver military school in their neighborhood!) The fake reverends would be all over the place! Well, people, it is time for us to step up! It is time for us to flood the alderman's office, the school boards office, the Mayors office everyone with phone calls DEMANDING our Keller school be let alone! Instead of looking to shut us down, maybe the powers should use us as an example!!! Now, GET TO DOIN WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO TO SAVE KELLER!!!