Police Wound Armed Student

So all year long, the kids try to avoid school. Now, with school closed, they start breaking in? With replica firearms?

• A 14-year-old boy who allegedly pointed a firearm at Chicago police was shot by an officer inside a Pilsen neighborhood elementary school that he and a 13-year-old boy allegedly broke into Monday morning.

  Police said that about 4:30 a.m. officers responded to a burglar alarm that activated at the Whittier Elementary School, 1900 W. 23rd St. When officers got inside the school they discovered a 14-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy.

  The older boy allegedly pointed a weapon ­- possibly a shotgun ­- at officers, one of whom then shot at him and struck him in the leg. The 14-year-old did not fire his weapon and the 13-year-old did not have a weapon, police said.

We don't think this is what Daley had in mind when he said, "I ask you to involve your children in positive learning activities through [...] programs like After School Matters..." in a letter he sent home with every student. After School doesn't mean 4:30 am evidently.