I know the economy sucks and most industries are suffering including the education industry. Here in Chicago CPS (Chicago Public School) system has a budget deficit of $600 million. That's a lot of money and I always wonder how government gets into such debts. It was recently revealed that CPS upper management such as CEO Ron Huberman (still can't figure out what an ex-cop and for CTA person knows about education) are getting pay raises. Whoo-hoo, except in the same token CPS is planning on cutting over 2600 teachers, cutting funds for non-varsity sports, reducing after-school programs, reducing funding of programs such as gifted and talented and worse of all increasing teacher student ratios to 1:35. Can some one please stop the madness. How does CPS justify pay increases when it, as one of the worst school districts, is planning on implementing cuts that will undoubtedly make getting a good education in a CPS even harder. Why is it that the upper echelon is always rewarded while the little people who they are supposed to be helping continuously get the shaft? Most often in life the people who need something the most are least likely to get it.
The majority of CPS students are minorities so perhaps that may explain why the City of Chicago doesn't give a damn about them. So many of these children are born at a disadvantage and then are told that they can still obtain the "American Dream" yet the same people who are telling them this are the ones who keeping pulling that dream farther and farther away. With teacher student ratios of 1:35, we will no longer have to wonder why Jason is in the 6th grade but still reads at a 2nd grade level. It's because his teachers weren't able to give him the individual attention he needs. Why make children suffer for the mistakes of others?
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