If I may…..The schools, District 150, seems to be run by the convicts or future convicts and the administration seems to be living on cloud 9 while the teachers get more and more burnt out because for one, their union sucks, everything is their fault, and who wouldn’t want the abuse and low pay? All the dues pay for is for the President of their union to have a cushy job at the Admin warehouse on Wisconsin Ave.
There the upper admin and the Super herself, plant their friends into 6 figure a year salaries while playing the old numbers game in regards to fights and suspensions in the schools. Even thought the numbers are higher, suspensions aren’t happening. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
The parents, those that don’t bother to show until their kid is arrested meanwhile are Link carding it all over Peoria and various nail shops making Koreans even richer. No accountability from them what so ever but, at graduation time, please hold my baby up so she can see me get a diploma. (If I make it that far) And turn graduation ceremony into a 3 ring yelling and yapping circus as relatives that show up for this and free food on Grandparents Day are proud little Nick isn’t in prison yet and Yolanda is only 6 months pregnant as she slanders up to get her diploma.
What to do?? Simple. Instead of a special school for these students that rob the hard working kids that want an education and dally disrespect the staff and teachers with four letter words and act like the world owes them…send them off to Walter Copage of the Child fund International or to one of those places Sally Struthers is always wading through and for a mere $1 a day, this child will have clean water, food, and education. I’ll even adopt one or two of them as long as I get pictures and a progress letter from them. As for the parents, well that Med card and Link card will be no longer necessary. You’ll have to find a job! The horrors! Oh but wait, they will miss their kid. What a bastard I am for suggesting this. Shit, they will no more miss them than they do now when they are hanging out at Western and Lincoln at 10pm on a school night.
Think of the money we could save and if the District put a PayPal button on their site, people would donate to fly these kids out right away.
We could free up space in the schools, fire the guards, and fire those 6 figure a year do nothings who love to hang pictures of themselves at the Admin offices. Teachers could get back to what they do well, teach, instead of babysitting.
Problem solved!!
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Indeed so well stated! The problems and the solutions are excellent and everyone recognizes these things, but no one has the fortitude to make these changes. Until then, the situations escalate and spread like a societal cancer. Your ideas and opinions are exactly correct!
really want to get pissed off, go to the Casino boat on Link recharge day and watch them gamble with state money from their Link card. If I could somehow get away with video taping it, I would, but I would be the one getting kicked off for doing so. (and no, I don't gamble, I work to hard to pay for the city's hotels and drunken councilperson lawsuits to just give money away. Just go people watch. there are hoards of them doing it.
http://www.pjstar.com/news/x843628767/Beaten-Peoria-teenager-not-expected-to-live
as predicted by several neighborhood leaders some homeowner is going to respond to a gang of kids acting out and will go to jail. Another "good" kid kicked in the back door of a house and was smoking pot then reportedly attacks the owner of the house. Owner of house defends himself and goes to jail. Mom 'good kid' and 'if only someone brought him home, I would have taken care of it'. ummmm lady, why didn't you know where your damn kid was in the first place, that would be your job as a parent.
I agree and this story in the PJS can't be complete. I too wondered about the mom who said her child was a good kid. Good kids don't kick in the back doors of houses and smoke pot inside and do damage to the inside either. But it is always this way with a segment of our society. Sadly, it's usually when one of these kids is killed. They were always on the verge of getting a job and having a relationship with one of their kids.
He was a "good kid" running with the "wrong kid" - a kid whose parents didn't care about him skipping school and running the streets.
When the "good kid's" parents thought he was at school, he was at the home of the "wrong kid". When the "good kid's parents begged the "wrong kid's parents" to stop letting their son hang out when they know he should be in school, they ignored the "good kid's" parents. As a matter of fact the "good kid's" parents were in the process of filling out paper work to send him to the Job Corp because the streets of Peoria were taking him from them.
A kid is DEAD - beat to death, AFTER being chased off the property and you all have the nerve to sit up and talk about him?!!
Stop, everything is not as cut and dried as you think. Some parents are trying to rescue their "good kids" from the street.
This young man had a mother and father who were working with family and friends to pull him back, kind of difficult to save him from the streets when you send him to school everyday and the streets are in the classroom.
Your observations, concepts, perspectives and solutions are again right-on-target. The welfare system, not to be confused with legitimate disability programs, have created generations of "social parasites" who have no intention of working when they can live off others. With so much free time, mischief 'N mayhem ensue, and a mindset ultimately toward crime/violence follows. Yet politicians refuse to address the issues and the system runs rampantly out of control with increasing cost to either "maintain their lifestyle" or keep their maintenance in prison. The school system is a disgrace and no positive influence with its current administration of "enabling and excusing" bad conduct.
Emerge
You seem to have more information than what was in the paper. The comments here are based on published reports.
My thoughts mirror PAP's. As for your inplication that " When the "good kid's parents begged the "wrong kid's parents" to stop letting their son hang out when they know he should be in school, they ignored the "good kid's" parents." Isn't it the responsibility of the good kid's parents to stop him from Hanging out when he should be in school?
I was not the perfect teenager yet it was not the fault of my friend's parents. It was my fault. I did wrong and when caught was punished. This young man was wrong
He broke the law breaking in.
He broke the law smoking pot.
He broke the law damaging someone else's personal property.
Capital offences? No ! did he deserve to die? No
Yet he was not a good kid! Good kids do not commit crimes!
Yes, I have the nerve to talk about him. because this youth, the youth he hung with, and the youth terrorizing schools and neighborhoods, because your community isn't talking about it. Aren't talking about how to resolve these issues, instead, burying their heads in the sand like the city's leadership. People are driven by fear in this community because of these kids. We predicted some kid would be shot, instead it was this. I am not advocating it, just had predicted it. Children believe they are invincible, it is the parent's job to keep them safe. Monitor their friends, know where they are and what they are doing. That goes with the turf of producing them. I know nothing of this family or the man who felt he needed to either defend himself or his property or he is a problem himself. I do know that if the adult snapped he will be held accountable and youth in general will be allowed to continue to terrorize the community.
Emerge, thank you for giving us a bit more information. I've seen good kids in school who are trying so hard to do the right thing. When the students who are acting up, being disrespectful, refusing to do work, etc. are getting all the attention, it becomes easy for some of these kids to make poor choices. With the behavior the way it is in some 150 schools, we are losing more kids every day right inside our buildings.
I know there are parents who are involved and the kids still make very poor choices in school and in life. It is hard if you are trying to make something of yourself and both parents are working. Everyone, at some time, has made a bad choice. Maybe these parents were too young and/or too poor to have a child, but they did. It sounds like (because I believe Emerge is an extremely reliable source) these parents were doing their very best to save him before something like this happened.
Please don't discount the power of out of control classrooms. Good kids can get dragged down very quickly. It is hard to be a struggling parent....trying to provide for your family while protecting it.
In the end, there are plenty of losers in this story.
Give me a break with all the "good kid" sh$t. Any kid that really is a good kid does not break into a house to smoke weed. I don't care if the kid he was with was worse they both did it so they are both bad. This kid does not deserve to die but again when you break the law,especially enter a house that is not yours, you run the chance of dieing.
I'm so tired of the young black community always pushing blame onto others. I'm sure there will be a huge backlash to all this and many spraypaint rip shirts made for this kid saying he was so great. What a joke
I am not trying to say he is great. But I am saying it is entirely possible he was a victim of circumstances and wound up making the easier, though wrong, choices.
I usually have no problem hollering about what crap it is because "these men" who get killed are wonderful dads and working to fix themselves. Those are men. Usually, they haven't stepped foot in their child's school or probably even spoken with the child or baby mama since conception. This is a 16 year old kid (yes, criminal) who seems to have parents busting their butts to do their best for their son.
I am kind of sick of always thinking the very, very worst of all the children who are making headlines in the paper.
Where are the headlines about schools out of control? Where are the Wisconsin residents inside the schools? Is it really too hard to connect the dots that out of control behavior in schools teaches our youth to continue it in the streets? Please, take your indignation and go find a classroom to help make a difference.
You hit the nail right on the head teachingrocks. The 16 year old kid was making some wrong choices. His family was definitely busting their butts trying to save him.
I am amused by all of the hard asses who make blanket statements and think everything is black or white. How sad to be sans compassion simply to make a moot point about a 16 year old child that was beat to death.
... by the way... right now, these parents are at the hospital waiting for the Dr. so their brain dead child can be removed from ventilation and they can immediately donate his organs.
If he had robbed a gas station with this kid and been shot, would you feel the same way? Just fell in with the wrong group but a good kid regardless?
A few things. This post was a tongue N cheek post that had nothing to do with this young kid dying. Emerge, you point a finger and blame people for blanket statements yet you blame the homeowner for beating this kid to death. I must have missed his trial. He claims the boy fell and hit his head. Whatever, saying this guy beat this young kid to death is a blanket statement. I wonder what would have happen had the home owner been armed and had the right to shoot these kids in his house? As for the statements that the parents were good and trying parents and that the boy was good, that may be so, but like the chicken who cried the sky is falling so much, no body buys this anymore. How many times have we read about a youth who was shot to death and only to be told he was getting his life back together. He was a good person and then find out his criminal record was longer than both of my arms. Well, to many "good" kids are being killed in this city and that is why people are tired of hearing this line. I am not saying this is true about this case, but people are people and given a line long enough, people tend to believe otherwise.
Now, I believe this whole event is tragic and I couldn't even comprehend what the parents are feeling for the loss of their son. I would be beside myself. Peer pressure is higher amongst our youth today than most people realize.
But, my sources tell me that the man charged with this crime didn't even own the house. The kid was with gang members from the Harrison homes and now the owners of the house are in fear that the gang is going to retaliate with more violence. It wasn't made clear to me talking with the owner that the victim was part of the gang or just hanging with the gang. In other words, there is a lot more happening here. I know their name.
Regardless of the details of this particular incident, the bottom line is these "good kids" who are committing crimes and violence are being touted as The Victims and everyone is to blame except them and the family who produced them! They blame society, the police, the schools, anyone to take responsibility except them! It is a recurrent and tiresome pattern: no accountability and blaming everyone else for these unfortunate incidences. After a while, this mentality becomes an "instilled value" and hard to get changed, as history recurrently portrays this trend. PAP captures the very essence of the problem and offers viable solutions.
Whatever folks. Carry on.
In reference to the Anonymous post RE getting angry watching Link cards at the Casino - work a few nights in the emergency room and observe it being used as a primary provider for simple colds/rashes, yet arriving with every electronic and digital device imaginable, fancy nail paints, ad infinitum! "Your tax dollars at work!" There is something seriously wrong with this system of Forever Freebies.
It is true about the emergency room. I am so tired of hearing link card families say they will just wait until later and go to the emergency room when they could go during the day, but are too busy running around. There is a great abuse of this card. If the student misses so many days of school it needs to be reported and the link card for that family should have money deducted off it for each day the child is absent or suspended. Wisconsin needs to get a handle on the schools and make the principal issue the correct amount of suspensions or expulsions instead of berating them when they do. Those school suspension reports should have been doubled in most cases, but schools are afraid to turn in the right amount. All the high schools should have definitely been higher. Talk to the students and learn just how many fights there truly are each day. School personnel are told not to report it; even when the police or an ambulance is called, it isn't published in the paper. It would be interesting to know how many absences the Tidwell child had and if any action from the school was taken or brushed under the rug. I don't know the child nor the family and am sorry a child so young had to die, but kids are out of control will continue until there is control in the schools. School is no longer a safe haven for students. I hear many students say "why go to school, I can't learn anyway as there are too many disruptions or fights, etc. in class, at lunch, before and after school." They are right. The board needs to get their head out of the sand. Peoria is in the toilet, but the schools don't have to be.
Kids are going to continue to be hurt...I am talking in the schools here...until the board steps in and is firm with the disciplines.
Sorry to say, Dr. Lathan is not able to fix this. I am not even sure the board can fix this. It is too rampant. I know of kids who are afraid to go to school due to the number of fights.
This is in response to the last anonymous poster, not about the original post.
My deepest sympathies to the family of the young man who passed away.
District 150 needs a superintendent that says zero tolerance for class disruptions and not following the rules. The principals then would be held accountable in being consistent in enforcing this policy and not make exceptions. True over 60% would be suspended and the federal funds would not be forth coming. But it would only be for a little while until the students see that the Principals are running the schools and not the students. The students would then want to come to school to learn and they could feel safe to come to school. But it will never happen with Lathan.
well the only inaccuracy within PAP's article is that it isn't Korean's who run the nail shops... it's the Vietnamese. which leads me to my next point. the asians seem top be the only minority who don't bitch and moan about how bad things are. why? because they'd rather be productive rather than sit around all day and smoke narcotics and live off the taxpayer. put that in your pipe and smoke it emerge. how sad it is that the only way grenita can get parents to show up to school is to feed them and have movie night in yours pajamas. shit, when will someone clean house at distrcit 150 and fire all the deadbeats including the affirmative action superintendent?
Barack:
Your comment reminded me of William Raspberry's comments when he spoke in Peoria in 1995. Mr. Raspberry told a story about an Asian who was willing to work sweeping the floors, then promoted to a sales clerk, then promoted to the manager and through his hard work ethic and saving his money, eventually become the owner of the store. Meanwhile, Mr. Raspberry shared that the African-American would still have his nose pressed against the window complaining about distribution rights. I found this newspaper article in the electronic newsbank database regarding this event.
VICTIM MINDSET HOLDING BACK BLACKS, COLUMNIST SAYS> RASPBERRY SAYS MANY TOO QUICK TO BLAME RACISM FOR FAILURE
Journal Star (Peoria, IL) - Sunday, July 9, 1995
Author: ANTHONY SMITH
PEORIA -- African-Americans put too much stock in the "myth" of racism, thereby crippling their entrepreneurial spirit, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning columnist told a group of Peorians on Saturday.
"You can believe anything you want to believe. What you choose to believe matters," said Washington Post columnist WilliamRaspberry . "I am convinced that one of the things black America has chosen to believe has crippled us. I refer to the myth that racism is the overriding fact of our existence."
Raspberry , who writes a nationally syndicated column that appears in the Journal Star, spoke at the fourth annual Black Achievement Awards given out by the Phoenix Business Awareness Association Saturday night. The awards banquet was held at the Hotel Pere Marquette.
The association is an organization formed to help small, minority entrepreneurs.
Racism exists, Raspberry explained, and can be blamed for some of the failures of the black community. But he suggested African-Americans have given the concept too much importance in their success or failure, creating the myth of race and racism as the "universal explainer." "Myth does not mean lie," he said. "Myths, in the sense I'm talking about them, are group- based beliefs, not merely of how life works but also of who we are and what we can reasonably expect of ourselves."
Raspberry , a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1994 for distinguished commentary, said a mistake was made by abandoning business as the principal route to the American mainstream.
"We have a strong history of entrepreneurs going back to the 1700s. What went wrong? It was the displacement of the entrepreneurs by ministers and to a lesser extent politicians," Raspberry said a friend told him.
The result is African-Americans have become too focused on "distributional fairness," what someone is doing to them or not for them.
"A focus on rights practically forces you to think in terms of victimization. A focus on business forces you to look for opportunities," he said.
Business will not solve all the problems of the community, Raspberry said, but opportunities, such as jobs and better educational systems, come with entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurs should: *Learn to define themselves as minorities in business, not minority businessmen. *Be clear about what they don't know and get help. *Practice integrity as a matter of course. *Take care of their products and services.
Racism is a fact of life, Raspberry said, but there is little the community can do about it. It is best to be prepared to fight it.
"The best antidote to disrespect is performance," he said.
That article just underscores the point totally. 75% of district 150s problem is this liberal political correctness/affirmative action bullshit. this means we get grenita royster losers rather than a qualified candidate. The other 25% are the lazy ass union teachers with tenure rather than pay based on performance. WGN television news reported today that there is legislation being drafted to make cook county a state. this is great news considering that cook county is ruining illinois by making decisions that affect the remaining 60% of the state. with a succession, we won't airheads like jehan gordon making decisions coming from chicago liberal mike madigan. Whoo-hoo!!
Jehan gordon? is that the Rep who didn't pay her years old THEFT fine until a few months before her public announcement for her candidacy? No I am sure that is not her. And no, I don't hold adults responsible for all the things they do as children, just what they do as adults.
Neal
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