Be Prepared

The news of CPS losing 10,000 students this year doesn't come as a complete shock. It should not surprise you to learn that it is very likely that some of the district's schools will shutter their doors in the 2019-20 school year. In particular, there are a number of high schools with fewer than 300 students.

Yes, I get it...if a school has very few students and the trend is moving in a downward direction then it makes sense that the district can't sustain keeping such a school open.

What has to be taken into account however is the very real need of a neighborhood to have a public school. If a community has a good deal of blight and if there is no public school within two or three miles within that community then those individuals need to have their voices heard.'

So, yes, some schools will close but hopefully the powers to be will recognize the fact that children are some type of physical commodity to be shipped around in some sort of 'willy nilly' fashion.

Dick