School Assessment

A very cold, hard and pointed assessment of CPS by one of their own. An assessment so at odds with the one presented to the media that the author has to use a pseudonym lest they be fired:

• It has been stated that the Turn-Around Team at Fenger High School already judges itself a success. On October 30th at Orr High School, Mayor Daley himself insisted, “Fenger has a very good principal and it’s a very good school” just a month after Derrion Albert’s murder and even while Fenger has been mired in violence, corruption and mismanagement.

  But our administration and city leadership judge it as a success because it has achieved compliance from its staff members. Not one of us has spoken out in the midst of the chaos and tragedy that have occurred and, so it is said, there is a feeling of victory over Fenger. No one has spoken: not upon the death of a student, which reached the public with full force, or upon the small deaths that are experienced daily within our silent walls.

Read the whole thing. The only thing that matters is the image presented to the media. Results don't matter, never have, never will. What matters is the face of "reform," like so much shallowness in Chicago politics.