Was Lisa Hudson's Son Flunked By The System?
Lisa Hudson says no one ever told her she could appeal the decision. Her son's teacher at Black Magnet Elementary School in Chicago had decided to flunk her son from summer school reading, making him repeat sixth grade.
She never even knew he was having trouble in reading. He had been sent to summer school for low math scores.
Hudson is a part of a group of Chicago parents called PURE - Parents United for Responsible Education - that'slodging a civil rights complaint against the Chicago Public Schools because they say the system overwhelmingly flunks children of color.
PURE executive director Julie Woestehoff says CPS has continued to flunk students by the thousands despite research that shows holding kids back doesn't help them academically and often leads to them dropping out of school at an early age.
