Why Chicago's Public School System Is Broken [Inside Chicago, Part 2] 

but do they have computers?

Layla Hassan if they can't afford a math teacher then they can't afford computers

Binary-Technique you serious? So were there any adult supervision at all?

sounds a little like LAUSD with 90% of Latino kids... I didn't have a biology teacher for the entire 9th grade.... with different substitute teachers coming in and out....

Yes, I have no doubt about it... Public schools are failing through out American especially if the schools demographics are predominantly colored low income kids.....

Yup.

shananagans5 - Where did you graduate?

James Celts do you have a high school diploma?

well the USA is using this technique everywhere in the world. good to know that they are messing up their iwn schools and nation with the same principles. yuk. the most disgusting people are the yenks.

It is just a plain human fact! No or low expectation of results humans tend to lose their ability or motivation to succeed or strive...I grew up in a very poor area in the south in the ‘70’s & ‘80’s...all kids were expected to participate in school and the parents supported the school district! NO EXCUSES WERE NOT ACCEPTED!

i can write a basic sentence in Arabic Chinese English French Russian Spanish portuguese afrikaans xhosa and zulu my dream job is to work for the International Criminal Court they ask for a political science degree 4 years of experience and knowledge of the six un languages Arabic Chinese English French russian and spanish I do have such a education

Slipping through the cracks? His name is Troy LaRaviere he was a school Principle How can someone become a school Principle if they never read a book in the whole thirteen years they were at school. Is that one of the reasons your schools are so bad?

1. The word is principal. 2. It's evident that's he's read books and obviously invested a lot of time in his education beyond the secondary level.

Andrew Wilson if you can read, there‘s nothing stopping you from reading a book outside of school. .

You teach yourself. I couldn't read until I was 12. One day I picked up a book based on one of my favorite films which sparked my interest. It was very difficult for many years but I eventually learned how to read and write well. It's possible but a very long and hard road, I was still catching up an an undergrad until I felt I was on an even playing field (academically).

Andrew Wilson sounds like a personal problem.

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elDino SuarioDuro Went to the same school, I wish you the best of luck, my friend.

Jack Dorsey--it’s been a year--how are your studies?

@@HOTTIUSMAXIMUS its been a year now, I randomly rewatched this video and found this comment; my studies are doing great. I'm on the honor roll and take difficult classes. This school has been very good to me and has provided me with opportunities I would not have had if I had gone to my neighborhood school.

@@jackdorsey8902 congratulations sir! Keep up the good work and the only advice I would offer you is not to make the same mistake I and so many others did. That is, when it comes to higher education, learn a valuable trade that you can actually find a decent job with afterward. That is, medicine, engineering, your choice. . I made that mistake back in the 80s. And while I eventually did find happy Gainful employment, it had nothing to do with what I studied in college. Go forth and prosper!

Repeat after me: BLAME THE WHITE PEOPLE!

The real problem are the parents of those students and the community that raised them.

Yes, it is the schools that are broken many of these schools don't have the resources to help many of these children many of the teachers try to help or some others don't bother, which is why so many unfortunately become a statistic in our societies. Also the next messed up thing is that many schools don't get any money you know where schools get money SELECTIVE ENROLLMENT schools which gives the students their a greater advantage to achieve to thrive learning some of the other neighborhood schools to suffer along with their communties as well.

Red Shogun yea blame whites but yourself right? you had noting to do with your shortcomings, it was all the whites fault correct? I bet it’s so refreshing knowing that you have a group of people to blame when something goes to shit in your life.

@@jonathanramirez232 he's being sarcastic...

yaimavol it has nothing to do with poverty. Sorry.

Knot really it helps greatly but you can't stop a child of today that want to learn . Most kid today have the internet at the palm of there hands an yes black kid have they same phones you can learn anything you want to learn good or bad sad to say some kids are born bad .and some are taught bad behaver. But seen kids from the best familys mom and dad that really loved ,supported them ,become thugs .. in the black community thugs are worshipped.good or bad Civil rights leaders are worshipped .that's one of there biggest problems not whitey because whitey want them to do good because when blacks do well we all are going to do well ..

Marv Ange You mussed the point that NO, “most” may be YOUR reality. Don’t speak on other peoples’.

@@chelseakevorkian4998 isnt that what your doing . Am of mixed race.

They gloss over the real problem and we have to listen to B.S. over and over again.

No one wants to come off as misogynist.

Yes Clinton crime bill and the war on drugs. Mass incarcerating many black men for petty nonsense.

Population of the US 328 million. 13% AA = over 40 million at least half male. 2.5 million prisoners in Federal and State prisons (not all black with Latinos, Asians, and whites among that number). So say 1.5 million black men in prison. Where are the other 18.5 million? 27% of AA households do have a father in the house and less than 10% of those households live below the poverty line. So over 1/4th are marrying the women they have children with, what about the other 13 million? The war on drugs is the worst domestic policy we currently have but the math still doesn't add up that mass incarceration is the explanation for the absence of black fathers in the home.

@Adian Add to it illegitimacy is the norm in black culture, it's never been a stigma.

My child are being raised with both mom and dad and still assaulted . So what now the schools get to get away with it . Comments like yours there’s a god you will be punished

*"...we did not have the internet during this period of time."* *Things have changed since you left school.*

@@shawnsears7590 My point exactly. It is easier than ever to get answers to questions and reach out for help. The kids are just too lazy.

I came to Chicago 1979, I was 19 and had no high school diploma.First I learned English by watching soaps. Sandford and Son, I love Lucy, The Jeffersons ( Moving on up) The Brady Bunch , Archie Bunker......Then I went to nightclass and got my GED 1980. The class was at a strange neighborhood !!!( 49. and Cottage Grove, close to the El station) . Next I got a job at the 1980 census as an enumerator, than downtown at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The Hotel Copy center, standing at a copy machine 8- 10 hours making Photo Copies for minimum wage .I did this for 1 1/2 years. I took the college Entrance Exam, passed. I took the English as a second language exam and passed. I started full time at UIC Center and got a Bachelor of Science in1986. Nobody helped me, nobody supported or encouraged me. I worked throughout my whole college time part time and had to take student loans. I payed back my student loans on time and worked in my profession since than. I am an Occupational Therapist. After I finished at UIC ,I applied for a job at 6 different hospitals, 5 offered me a position. I never went back for a master because I did not want to have more student loans to pay back. One thing I did before I started to study, was to research at the Chicago public Library what health care professions had good job opportunities. I did not want to choose a field of study and end up not being able to find a job .I would still have to pay back my student loans. Back than there was no Internet, every time You want to look up something, You had to actually go to the library. During the day at UIC, You allways have most of Your heavy books with You so between lectures You can do Your studying and reading assignments .Still, I enjoyed every minute of it.

bravo for your hard work you have to want to learn and not want to be a drug dealing rap star thats not the american dream education and working hard to get stuff is the dream !

the key is you had your mother and father pushing you to succeed!, your parent gave you values and rules to fallow... btw I went to high school in the mid '90s so no internet either :)

Francisco Hernandez THANK YOU!

Both parents? Ooof. That's going to be tough for Blacks since more than 75% live in separated households.

Wrong asf

I know a lot of single parents--moms and dads--not in that situation by choice. But your point is taken: the parents have to care. Chicago school choice means that parents who care can get their kids into an environment where all the parents are involved. Those schools do well, no matter the poverty level, and Chicago has a lot of "break out schools" (i.e., those that do better than poverty level would indicate) because of that.

These are exactly the same people that strong, totally independent black women have spent 50 plus years completely falsely claiming that they can raise better all by themselves without a man.

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink."

CPS alumn ...lol what a douche ..bet your on the school board

@@royalcommoner3873 there is no water Chief..

When did you graduate?

While Obummer did suck, One can only throw so much water into a bucket with a big hole in it.

Obama was a senator from Illinois, he was a deep Chicago politician friends with every figure from there for decades. They put him in the White House, in return he looked the other as they loot and rob the future of every Chicagoan.

What did bush do? Nobody can help people who don't value education, that's the best problem

That's the blacks problem

And yet it still the white people’s fault

I wouldnt go that far. I know plenty of CPS grads who went on to decent schools, and then became lawyers, bankers, and business professionals. A good chunk of it is what you make of the CPS education, how you avail opportunities, strong parenting (parents who demand educational achievement). While I'm with you that the CPS needs serious reform and funding, we also need to teach a desire for educational attainment.

Most of these kids like the upper crust ones in NYC, went to PRIVATE schools.

If you grow up in a environment that is filled with violence all you know is violence you don’t know any other way to live don’t blame the kids, kids are sponges they don’t know any better unless you show them so

Mark Niles You’re acting like being uneducated is a choice. If I could’ve went to a prestigious and rich private school for the best of education, and live in a quiet and peaceful neighborhood where I don’t have to fear kidnapping or the gangs that hang around the parks, I would’ve have.

primate behaviour.

GDizzle Handouts? Afgans are getting handouts and they don't even pay taxes Lmaooooo

Those companies that got bail out money during the financial crisis are living pretty cushy lives and doing pretty well right now, wouldn't you think?

it's not about money it's about equal opportunity in every community of chicago something that has been going on for ever and chicago why are their so few white kids in public schools an when they are their elites schools races is everything in america equal opporunity to good schools is a must.

Greg Battles Please stop you are incoherent.

cryora I knew something was wrong with you.

Teach the students effort, they are kids...it is the parent/teacher/community responsibility to teach the child. You have to show them why they should want it. Don't blame kids for your own inability to inspire.

@@lilnana0123 I understand that and it comes from the parents first. And you can see the parents that don't care about education have kids that don't care about working hard. When you have that it doesn't matter how much hard work pays off when they're taught the exact opposite at home.

It is bad teachers .

​@@lilnana0123 unfortunately some parents don't know kids have to be taught a lot before they enter 1st grade. Including some basic reading, math and science. Learning has to start at home not only in school. That way when kids get to school they know how to be discipline and learn from teachers.

​@lilnana0123 If kids think doing well in school and speaking properly is acting 'white' then they aren't going to do it.

At least your mother got married!

@@AuroraBoarder1 are you white ?

@@robertcarli1969 - no, I'm black. I grew up in Oakland, which is similar to Chicago. I was a victim of bullying and lousy morals, so I take a dim view of both.

Your mom didn’t have to have you… she made sure you were fed and clothed etc., She made sure you survived and l’m sure she gave you love and would have given more if she had it to give. 🤔 Be thankful.

I go to a Nobel school which is in a way is “better” my school is literally in a white neighborhood near downtown and all the students are minorities... you still see the separation between white propel and the students who are minorities. It’s also like an house away from where I live since I was in the waiting list near my house so I attended the one that was far. I wasn’t able to transfer because noble didn’t allow students to transfer within the noble schools. The rules changed now but what’s the point in a junior I can’t leave now.

Yes. The people are trash

I love how you people think that white poverty doesn’t exist

@mansa afer , Looking at other cultures value deficiencies certainly isn't helping the lack of cultural values in the black community. Especially when those cultural values or lack thereof significantly effect the black community much more. Here's your sign.

*It is not culture* They are the same way here in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. It is *genetics*

@Charles Mann I agree with you on that. If a black kid does do good in school, they get ribbed by classmates for trying to be white.

no they go to the selective enrollment

In fact, that is the primary determining factor.

This can only be done with the support of the parents. Students are kids who will test their limits. If parents aren't actively involved, working with teachers and administration, well the results will be just like if people become apathetic about politics. One side will gain all the power. In the school system, the children are the customers. The customer is always right in the USA. They, and their parents, hold the power.

@@GenerationNextNextNext how are poor parents supposed to get involved when they have to work overtime in order to get food on the table.

Exactly. My high school’s graduation rate was 3/10 and guess who ended up graduating from the University of Southern California?

Unfortunately, that's often much harder for lower-income families to do, as birth control is often expensive and hard to attain for them. Also, even white, middle-class families with one or two children can't always afford to send their kids to private schools. The sad truth is that having fewer kids isn't as easy as it should be for many Americans and even then, tuition to private schools is often just too expensive for people to pay.

@@notquitegringo7997 planned parenthood can provide birth control. Price isnt an excuse. The more kids they ha e the more money they get

@@notquitegringo7997 birth control is free or next to free for indigent people. I know because I used to get it free when I was unemployed. From the health dept, not planned parenthood. These people know this, they choose to have more children because they know the government will continue to take care of them. No kids=no assistance.

Even in the deep religious south in the 80s the health clinics gave free condoms to teenagers. Everything is an excuse if you don't want to take responsibility

@@notquitegringo7997 condoms are free in those neighborhoods... It’s more custom oriented

These schools have a screening process to separate the good students from everyone else. The teachers don't get cursed and threatened everyday at magnet schools. That is the purpose of these schools to separate those with some motivation to learn from those with none whatsoever. No way the rest of the CPS can change till parent starts doing her job and hopefully is joined by a man who sticks around for a change.

The left are trying to get rid of that now under the banner equal outcomes... We are screwed

Michelle Obama did not go to that high school. Her entire past is a fabrication. Welcome to the Matrix

That's true. Dunbar high school in Washington D.C. was one of the most glorious examples - proving that it can be done, when the method and the model and the hard work are applied. Dunbar was kicked to the curb after Civil Rights (1965) as if - it wasn't needed anymore. The story of the history of the school is a fascinating read (almost seems like Science Fiction) but it was real and true enough.

Responsible parenting also helped a lot

Right. It has lowered the standards of an ENTIRE NATION.

All integration did was impregnate white females

we got integration but not equality

Integration RUINED SCHOOLS!. Look here on you tube!. Blacks threatening teachers!.

Yes true, look at busing in the 1970's.

They have the same books and the same qualifications on the teaching staff. Surely its not because the black students don't study?

Chicago area has 92 libraries that are open 7 days a week. The effective range of an excuse is 0 meters. Kids in third world walk barefoot and share one book and have a higher rate of literacy than Chicago. Highest paid teachers in the state for the worst performance. Chefs can't cook with rotten ingredients.

Time for blacks and democrats to stop blaming everyone and everything else for their own . Always white peoples fault.

Have you seen how there's an invasion of foreign immigrant teachers with heavy accents being brought in to teach and their housing is paid for. Yet they won't do it for Americans

Benjamin S not at all sounds a lot like whiteys fault without saying it

RUHappyATM the USA is a dying declining giant.

RUHappyATM good!!! I can't wait !!!!! :)

Godspeed my friend. Glad to see someone with the right attitude.

you clearly do not understand the issue here. These schools AREN'T getting enough money to pay for the essentials. Teachers are underpaid and overworked. Most have to pay out of pocket for school supplies. Look through these comments and tell me that they just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps when their school couldn't afford a math teacher for a year. That's not even mentioning the lack of support for kids with learning disabilities. But yeah, the lack of support for CHILDREN is on them. They're responsible for overcoming the massive barriers put up against them. It's no big deal to you, because you and your family will never experience it.

Times are different now. You should step into a CPS today.

There are many more out there like her. And those numbers will increase exponentially. A fine thing. Sadly, it is the boyz in the hood that have a harder time bucking the "trend." Those boyz - the ones whose shadows become all those future missing fathers in all those fatherless homes. Ain't it strange (for all the talk, yap and rap) discussions - no-one ever really seems able to pin down just exactly what it is, what it does to a black boy growing up without a dad. We think this is all 'normalized' inside the hood, business as usual. But all those secret heartbeats, lonely sorrows, the ache and the break, the misery... Nobody tracks that. As if nobody cares. But some do.

CTS, I guess youtube thinks it's all relative. and LOL at HR with the wife and kids.

Welcome to RU-vid.

😆😂😆😂😆😂😆😂 exactly...welcome to RU-vid. It starts always innocent... and ended up....

But it might be harder to pay attention and do homework if you're more concerned about having food on the table

Privelage is being given the job bc your black. Or given bonus points on exams for blackness. Or having all rules and expectations trampled

@@sheebakitty378 that's good example but I think that would be more of advantage/disadvantage. I can make the argument of saying "being anything beyond Caucasian or Asian, you will have it harder in life because you aren't wanted or even considered to be tolerated". Once again just for the conversation sake. Obviously there are many other factors than that including self accountability.

IKR... Jackson, Mississippi (cough cough). I went to Northwest Rankin High School, near the Rez.

and in baltimore

A and D and D is a direct product of A.

Trust me, the Democrats tax everyone to keep all their DNC black-run plantations humming along. Many of these DNC cities have higher school spending per pupil than suburban or rural areas run by the GOP voters.

The Chicago schools have equal or higher spending per pupil compared to the suburbs. This is public information, you can go download the data.

Keep trolling. You know nothing at all.

I think density, crime and poverty have a lot to do with it. Then management/politics/unions. Then culture. Then racism.

Nope. wouldn't care to bet. We all know the answer already.

Thats because public schools are bound by law and charter schools are not. Its quite simple really; if the law punishes you for removing students, then you wont be removing students even if they deserve it. Its like trying to compare two people running a race, but one has to carry 100 ponds of weight while they do it; trying to compare their results would be asinine.

@@EpicAsshole I believe you are confusing "policy", for law and policy is made by politicians and teachers unions.

Jonathan M. Asian people are honerary white people, so what are you saying

ANGRY BUS DRIVER "honorary white people" but still minorities. We may be seen as "honorary white people" because we tend to be some of the highest paid minorities but like we still have to work our asses off like everyone. dont assume either because i know some asian people that also live in the south side. asians here in the chicagoland area are actually all really different. some are really whitewashed, and others are really urban too.

Jonathan M. Racism in America works in a never ending cycle Black people don't try to pull themselves up because they think that they will be discriminated by white people anyway And white people think since black don't try hard enough to improve themselves they don't deserve to be treated equally But regardless blacks have to make the first move

Jonathan M. You're not privileged man. Your parents just provided you with a good life through their hard work

RT how am i not privileged? I have attended a private school since preschool. I have also had the opportunity to learn music and expand my music skills. Most people in the world cannot read music. I'm not rich but I have the opportunity to do things that some people in this world aren't. My parents worked hard for me to be privileged. Why would anyone want their children to be less privileged?