Taking back Dyett and Chicago
Community activist Bob George writes from the sit-in:
For three years now Dyett students have been without the courses, staffing and funding afforded “normal” High School. They are being phased out. Turned about. Taunted and tempted to attend alternative schools. Abandon your neighborhood school. Close the doors. Shut the windows. Leave your memories behind. Dyett, the Mayor, the Superintendent, and the School Board, deem will not continue to exist. At present, Dyett is the only remaining Neighborhood High School available to the students in the Historic Bronzeville Community. This school is the only one in which students have a legal right to admission. Other learning institutions insist that students qualify for admission, win a lottery to enroll, or be selected to enter after a rigorous screening.
You can help by calling or texting 312 399-5370 to tell deputy @ChicagosMayor to #SaveDyett high school!
Worth a read is John Warner's Just Visiting blog series, Excellent Sheep Run the World, Parts 1&2). Writes Warner:
There are perhaps no better exemplars of the products of our current meritocratic system than three of the most important recent figures in the education reform movement: Secretary of Education Arne Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Taking back Dyett and Chicago:
