Another One Bites the Dust

The Spring of 2013 saw the closure of 50 neighborhood CPS schools. Word now comes that Hancock High, a neighborhood high school, will now become a selective enrollment school. As the Sun Times reported on Oct. 2nd, that means "the school will no longer guarantee any of its seats to neighborhood children."

Hancock will become the 11th selective enrollment high school in the city. One of the key things to understand, among many regarding the choice of Hancock, is the fact that students get into selective schools via a test. So when you get right down to it, this will not be a neighborhood school in any way, shape or form.

By the way, no public hearings were held prior to this announcement. How is that for engaging the public on such a plan? A community hearing will be held to gauge reaction to the proposal to make Hancock a selective school but you can be pretty darn sure nothing will change.

Just curious...has the current Hancock done something wrong? Can the current school's administration add the programs destined for Hancock as a selective school without gutting the current school's programs? I wonder if that was looked at...not likely!

Dick