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Something about Chicago you'll never see on Fox-n-Friends or any other MSM

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100 PERCENT OF URBAN PREP SENIORS ADMITTED TO COLLEGE - For The 8th Consecutive Year

Students at Urban Prep are making Chicago proud. For the eighth consecutive year 100 percent of the school's seniors have been admitted to college.

But as the students celebrate their accomplishments, they also honor a fellow classmate who was not with them today.

It took a village to get the young men to this point, from their parents to their teachers. And there were definitely challenges along the way.

On Thursday, they proved not only to themselves, but also their community, that dreams do come true.


100 percent of Urban Prep seniors admitted to college for 8th consecutive year | abc7chicago.com


Those are "excellent" results regardless of what corner of the Country you live in.

Congratulations ... yet again.
 
Cigar said:
100 PERCENT OF URBAN PREP SENIORS ADMITTED TO COLLEGE - For The 8th Consecutive Year

Students at Urban Prep are making Chicago proud. For the eighth consecutive year 100 percent of the school's seniors have been admitted to college.

But as the students celebrate their accomplishments, they also honor a fellow classmate who was not with them today.

It took a village to get the young men to this point, from their parents to their teachers. And there were definitely challenges along the way.

On Thursday, they proved not only to themselves, but also their community, that dreams do come true.


100 percent of Urban Prep seniors admitted to college for 8th consecutive year | abc7chicago.com


Those are "excellent" results regardless of what corner of the Country you live in.

Congratulations ... yet again.
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Good on them.
A pool proposal- which page of the thread will see the first mention of 'affirmative action'?

Oops. I pick page 1.
 
Grand Mal said:
Good on them.
A pool proposal- which page of the thread will see the first mention of 'affirmative action'?

Oops. I pick page 1.
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Apparently something about this Thread bothers you, care to elaborate?
 
A good advertisement for charter schools and possibly a voucher system over made the mass cookie cutter public education schools most students attend.


congratulations to these young men
 
Chillfolks said:
A good advertisement for charter schools and possibly a voucher system over made the mass cookie cutter public education schools most students attend.


congratulations to these young men
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Well its always better to have options ...


Barack and Michelle Obama donate $2 million to summer jobs programs in Chicago

Former President Barack Obama hosted a community event at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Wednesday -- and made some big announcements about the future plans for his center's campus.

The 44th president announced he and his wife, Michelle Obama, will be donating $2 million to summer jobs programs in Chicago.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...illion-summer-jobs-programs-chicago/22067779/
 
RetiredUSN said:
Just Mal being Mal.

Empty accusations of racism.


But, back on point, great work kids!
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Well if their skin color was the only reason why they Graduated AND got Excepted to various different Colleges, then someone White has to be The Blame :lamo

Let see if he can figure it out. :2razz:
 
Yep, a well funded and well managed school can do great things.
 
Cigar said:
Apparently something about this Thread bothers you, care to elaborate?
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Nothing at all, I applaud those kids.
The cynic in me says that somebody here is going to say some of those kids got into college through 'affirmative action'. I could almost name names- the same ones who put Obama's whole career down to 'affirmative action'.
 
Cigar said:
100 PERCENT OF URBAN PREP SENIORS ADMITTED TO COLLEGE - For The 8th Consecutive Year

Students at Urban Prep are making Chicago proud. For the eighth consecutive year 100 percent of the school's seniors have been admitted to college.

But as the students celebrate their accomplishments, they also honor a fellow classmate who was not with them today.

It took a village to get the young men to this point, from their parents to their teachers. And there were definitely challenges along the way.

On Thursday, they proved not only to themselves, but also their community, that dreams do come true.


100 percent of Urban Prep seniors admitted to college for 8th consecutive year | abc7chicago.com


Those are "excellent" results regardless of what corner of the Country you live in.

Congratulations ... yet again.
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Give kids structure and opportunity, and most of them will rise to the occasion. Well done. :)
 
Good for them! What a great achievement!!

BTW, which national news outlets are carrying this story?
 
Cigar said:
Well if their skin color was the only reason why they Graduated AND got Excepted to various different Colleges, then someone White has to be The Blame :lamo

Let see if he can figure it out. :2razz:
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Accepted.
And too many unnecessary capital letters.

You're welcome.
 
Cigar said:
100 PERCENT OF URBAN PREP SENIORS ADMITTED TO COLLEGE - For The 8th Consecutive Year

Students at Urban Prep are making Chicago proud. For the eighth consecutive year 100 percent of the school's seniors have been admitted to college.

But as the students celebrate their accomplishments, they also honor a fellow classmate who was not with them today.

It took a village to get the young men to this point, from their parents to their teachers. And there were definitely challenges along the way.

On Thursday, they proved not only to themselves, but also their community, that dreams do come true.


100 percent of Urban Prep seniors admitted to college for 8th consecutive year | abc7chicago.com


Those are "excellent" results regardless of what corner of the Country you live in.

Congratulations ... yet again.
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So what's the difference between Urban Prep and other schools in Chicago with far lower admission rates??
 
faithful_servant said:
So what's the difference between Urban Prep and other schools in Chicago with far lower admission rates??
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The point of Urban Prep is to get into collage. It's an all male learning environment with everyone student and teacher administrator ect working to that goal


Public schools are what they are and its not everyone working to same goal.
 
Chillfolks said:
The point of Urban Prep is to get into collage. It's an all male learning environment with everyone student and teacher administrator ect working to that goal


Public schools are what they are and its not everyone working to same goal.
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Not everyone can afford One-on-One time for their Kids.

I went to Public High School and it was the greatest time of my life and I had wonderful teachers.

Sorry if not everyone has had the same experience, but I would never force you in another direction just because of someone else's problems.
 
Cigar said:
Care to answer the question?

I know it's not as easy as spell-checking, but give it a try.
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Care to tell me which question I didn't answer?
Ya know, you misunderstood me from the get-go and you've doubled-down on your error since. Scroll back, you'll see my reply to you. Might be instructive for you to review the whole thread, while you're at it.
And there's no spell checking involved. You spelled 'excepted' right.
 
Grand Mal said:
Care to tell me which question I didn't answer?
Ya know, you misunderstood me from the get-go and you've doubled-down on your error since. Scroll back, you'll see my reply to you. Might be instructive for you to review the whole thread, while you're at it.
And there's no spell checking involved. You spelled 'excepted' right.
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You lost me at affirmative action, either you can explain it or not.

You're the one who brought it up, so you obviously had a reason.
 
Cigar said:
You lost me at affirmative action, either you can explain it or not.

You're the one who brought it up, so you obviously had a reason.
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I believe he meant he was waiting for someone to claim it was just affirmative action.
 
So Urban Prep is boys only school where uniforms are required and is overwhelmingly (99.1%) black. I couldn't find anything about how the school is funded, but based on the parts of the website where they are looking for donations, I'd say that it's largely private. There's also the small issue of this:

https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/School.aspx?source=trends&Schoolid=15016299025010C
A 16% college readiness rate is NOT good, which leads me to ask why these students are getting accepted, when most of them aren't ready for college. Looking further into their "report card", there's a LOT of holes at UP. In most categories, UP falls short of state and district averages, no Phys Ed. classes, high truancy rates, etc. They are well funded and have a pretty good teacher to student ratio, but the results are confusing given that they underperform academically and have a 100% admission rate (a number which some people have questioned). Lots of questions that should be answered before cheering too loudly...
 
Carjosse said:
I believe he meant he was waiting for someone to claim it was just affirmative action.
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Ok ... my Bad, I thought it was his claim.

I apologize to GM ... I was Wrong.

... ouch, that hurt. :mrgreen:

Now I know why Donald doesn't do it.
 
These schools are all black men and black men are very much in demand to fill out university rainbows......of course they find places to go if they want to go. Rest assured that urban prep only takes black men who want to go to college, and they offload everyone who stumbles along the way before graduation to keep their numbers all pretty. . The next step would be to find out how they do at college.

Urban Prep got him to college, he said. But the road to earning a degree has been more complicated than just collecting acceptance letters.

The struggle black men like Beck have endured is indicative of a wider problem, experts say. Studies show that not only do black men account for a small percentage of fall undergraduate enrollment at degree-granting colleges — less than 6 percent in 2012, according to a National Center for Education Statistics report — but most never finish.

Black men stumble in college typically because of a combination of financial, social and academic obstacles, experts say. They may need money to support their studies or families. They may struggle to fit in in the dramatically different environment. And they can become overwhelmed by the coursework. Because of notions of masculinity, they tend to not aggressively seek out help.
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Where are first graduates of Urban Prep? - Chicago Tribune
 
Chillfolks said:
The point of Urban Prep is to get into collage. It's an all male learning environment with everyone student and teacher administrator ect working to that goal


Public schools are what they are and its not everyone working to same goal.
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Yet the students aren't ready for college. A 16% college readiness rate is NOT GOOD. I love seeing these young men go to college, but I have grave concerns about what will happen when they get there and they find out that they aren't ready for college. Gettign into college is great, but unless you manage to stay there, there isn't a lot of benefit.
 
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