Amid the gloom and the doom of the pandemic, it’s nice to know it’s sunny skies and daffodils at Chicago Public Schools—at least according to Mayor Lightfoot and her aides at CPS.
While we wait, allow me to share a story or two to give you an idea of why not all staffers are assured by what the mayor or CEO Janice Jackson have to say.
We’ve all been there. Fill out a form wrong, and they drop you down the cyber rabbit hole never to be heard from anyone again.
Beware—acronyms to follow. Or RSPs—which is what CPS calls Related Service Providers. They’re the staffers such as occupational therapists who work with kids in classrooms. They’re not teachers but they are members of the Chicago Teachers Union.
I’ve got two possible answers.
They made these kids take summer school, often in oven-hot classrooms in brick buildings without air conditioning. Many of the kids wound up dropping out of school.
