The War on Educators rages on in Chicago

[Indy Texas]

I don't think you realize how bad Chicago public schools are.

We realize that, but we fail to see how giving them to a for-profit corporation will improve them.

They're turning over management of the schools, not selling them like the toll road.

I was never convinced than better leadership would improve schools.

Well, when these schools have dumb problems, like bad attendance when they don't make it compulsory, I'm more convinced that it will.

Students in those schools likely aren't showing up because...
- they have no way of getting there
- their parents don't care whether they go or not
- they're scared to (because of gang violence or drugs or what have you)

If you want to fix Chicago's public schools, the trick is to make the students all upper-middle-class, give them well-educated, employed parents, and ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds that are scrubbed clean of the aftereffects of things like discrimination, segregation, slavery and immigrant issues. Now all you have to do is find a way to do all of that.