What a sham!! Priorities! Students don’t forget that they were forgotten.
A real shame. And with such simple solutions.
We on local school counsels worked on all types of volunteer initiatives to enable students’ engagement. Parents volunteer in the recess area, they volunteer helping students arrive at the morning bell, helping students leave as they crowd into the streets, they volunteer in our building libraries, they volunteer on our school trips, the volunteer in coaching—-
Yet CPS is completely unable to devise a way to allow verified parents to volunteer in assuring students make it to their game safely???
Any ideas what so ever??
The lack of willingness to problem solve is dumbfounding.
Please, CPS, just talk to us.
This is Insulting to the entire city, and devastating to the young women of Hancock Prep. How many more are necessary?
A player on a girls high school softball team on the Southwest Side is blasting Chicago Public Schools for failing to arrange a bus to transport the team to a critical playoff game last week, forcing them to forfeit and taking them out of the running for the city championship.
It is an example of the inequity between sport programs in CPS, said Alyssa Lopez, the player on the Hancock College Prep team. She said teams at schools like hers with many students from low-income families have to depend on the school district’s scarce resources while those in wealthier communities can lean on parents and fundraising for support. Hancock’s student body is 72% low-income and 92% Latino.
“Having to forfeit for a reason beyond our control, especially during playoffs, is extremely unjust,” Alyssa, a junior, wrote in a detailed letter that she sent to CPS officials, the media and posted on Twitter. “Transportation and funding are way beyond a student’s control and should not even be considered as a reason to forfeit.”