Here in Chicago, kids are shot watching TV as bullets come zinging through the walls of their homes. Kids are killed on front porches.
about 5 years ago cnn did a kind of running series on a story it called "the wave of violence in the chicago public schools"
that's where i first learned of it
the news back then said that about two chicago school kids were killed each month by other chicago school kids
i'm a public school teacher and here in my northern CA district (we've had a small number of shootings the last 2 or 3 years, no injuries that i recall), if one of our kids died for just about any reason the entire district would stop to address it, do proper homage, kids would be talked to and counseled, it'd be a pretty big deal
i just can't imagine what life must be like in a community where it's so routine to see younguns killing each other...
after a certain number of these assassinations, school administrators must come to see that stopping to acknowledge each can only be throwing gas on the fire, only making things worse with this kind of attention...
i don't know, it's hard to say...
but i recall the wave of violence in the chicago schools well before arne duncan was appointed ed secty, i'd never heard of arne duncan
i was outraged to see that man, who couldn't even get his kids to class alive, move into obama's cabinet
i remember when holder and duncan went to chicago in 09 to try to do this, it followed that horrible, brutal beating-to-death that was caught on video and shocked a great deal of the entire civilized world
some poor youth literally clubbed to death by a mob of hyphy hellions wielding, if i recall, pieces of a fence?
the victim was 16 year old derrion albert from fenger hs
when holder and duncan went there, i remember them being very loudly criticized by local parents---moms and dads were very upset about a program duncan had put in place or promoted that essentially had kids traveling thru rival gang turf to get to and from school
i don't remember the name of that program, i did a quick search, no luck, it's late...
Federal officials visit Chicago to talk about school violence | Appearance by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder comes after fatal beating of high school student
a person of your demonstrated curiosity, one of the few around here who actually reads, would know a whole lot more about it than i
thanks
Last Thursday (I'm going from memory here, but I know I'm pretty darned close), there were 19 shootings overnight...8 of them within a 30-minute period...and 7 or 8 at one intersection.
yes, indeed
BBC News - Nineteen shot in Chicago night of mayhem
it was prominent on drudge, it broke the same morning the nypd shot up the street in front of the empire state building
the mainstreamers ignored the chicago mayhem (they also ignored the shooting at the frc, tony perkins' family research council, which was committed by a lgbt activist who yelled "i don't like your politics" and was carrying some kind of a bag with 15 chick fil'a sandwiches, perhaps for his victims)
very typical of drudge, the link he provides on this incident is from the bbc
again, thank you
cliff