Omg the Mayans may be right, I actually agree with an article from this dumb bitch.



Mitchell: Should parents be rewarded to pick up their kid’s grades?
BY MARY MITCHELL marym@suntimes.com October 31, 2012 7:46PM


I’m not sure why Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks it is a good idea to give parents a $25 gift card for picking up a report card.

Maybe he is truly looking for ways, as he put it, to “incentivize” responsible parenting.

Maybe the Walgreen Co.’s $25 gift card is just that — a gift card and not a clever marketing tool to help get the pharmacy chain’s reward card into circulation.

Whatever the case may be, parents at the 70 schools targeted for this “gift” should feel insulted.

Giving parents a $25 rewards card for behaving like responsible parents is essentially bribing them to take care of their own kids.

Worse yet, if the Chicago Public Schools has to go to these lengths to get parents involved in educating their children, can you blame people for believing all the negative portrayals of minorities?


Sure there are children of all races in CPS schools, but as we are constantly reminded, public schools serve a predominantly black and brown and low-income population.

Picking up a child’s report card and participating in parent-teacher conferences is what all parents are supposed to do.

Rewarding public school parents for fulfilling their responsibilities reinforces the negative stereotypes about low-income parents.

We all know what the stereotypes are.

GOP presidential candidates have trotted them out during every presidential election since 1976, when Ronald Reagan told a New Hampshire audience the audacious story of the fraudulent “welfare queen.” The Tea Party and conservative candidates are particularly skillful at portraying Democratic social policies as handouts that benefit minorities to the detriment of working-class white Americans.

For instance, Newt Gingrich knew exactly what buttons he was pushing when he labeled President Barack Obama the “food stamp president.”

And GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was following the same script during the campaign when he said behind closed doors that 47 percent of Americans are “dependent on government,” “believe that they are victims,” “believe government has the responsibility to care for them,” and “believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing.”

Even Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill), felt compelled to tell his constituents the Democratic Party wants African Americans and Hispanics to be dependent on government.

According to a mayoral spokesman, the 70 schools participating in this gift card incentive are spread across the city.

Brian Metcalf, principal of Eugene Field Elementary School, 7019 N. Ashland, where Emanuel and schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett announced the plan on Tuesday, said his school has a 92 percent report card pickup rate.

“For me, that is not good, because I want 100 percent,” he told me. “I am not satisfied. I think this partnership between the mayor’s office and Walgreens can help us get that 100 percent.”

But that good intent doesn’t make it right.

If a parent is too trifling to pick up a child’s report card and talk with a child’s teacher, a $25 gift card isn’t going to change the underlying social ills that are behind such neglect.

The real problem is in the homes, but no one wants to go there.

For example, Metcalf told me he doesn’t even ask parents why they didn’t show up to pick up a report card.

“We don’t ask those kinds of questions. I am not passing judgment on parents one way or another or telling people how to parent,” he said.

“I think this is a creative way by the district and mayor’s office to encourage parents to become more involved in school.”

Yet until schools can figure out how to educate the parents who are neglecting this responsibility, little will change.

Giving parents $25 to spend at the drugstore may sound like a creative idea, but what happens when the gift cards run out?

Obviously, there are times when a parent, for whatever reason, can’t pick up a report card on the designated day.

But parents who want to do the right thing find a way to make it happen.

So if CPS and Walgreens want to spread loyalty rewards, honor the mentors who show up at schools faithfully to help someone else’s child.

Or reward volunteers who guard dangerous corners to make sure children have a safe passage to school.

But please. Don’t reward parents for being parents.

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I agree with Brogue and the article.

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I get you want and need more parent involvement. But at the same time this is a slap in the face to the ones who are doing the right things.

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Makes me think about that Chris Rock bit.

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what a sad state of affairs when someone actually thinks this is a solid idea. wow.

I've agreed with her twice in a week.

Instead of handing out gift cards they should just hand out hallmark cards that say "You're supposed to take care of your kids you low-expectation having motherfucker!"

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Solid article. Can't disagree.

As far as the entitlements referenced in the article... well, I'll just leave that for the politics section.

I have a better idea. If you don't pick up the Report Card,your kid repeats the grade. Don't reward bad parenting,penalize it.

(edited: On second thought,the child should not be penalized but it's wrong to offer gifts for doing what is expected)

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This is the dumbest fucking idea ever. Maybe they should pay parents to attend school open house & student teacher reviews too? Or pay kids to attend school? Maybe a gift card to Binnys?
I'm a big fan of Rahms, but this is typical lefty thinking.

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How do you know they were left-handed?

Um, it's leftists who beat up on Rahm harder than anyone. Picked up a Reader lately? "Wah, more like Rahm-NEY if you ask me."

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There is no doubt that Rahm isnt your typical liberal Dem, but this idea sure is.

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Low expectation havin mother fucker!

I am also disturbed that I agree with Mary Mitchell.

I blame the overpaid teachers.

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Nothing shocks me. In Detroit ,they give kids who show up to the first day of school pair of Nikes. Reason. First day attendance is how they factor how much money they get from the feds.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

No shit? Wow.

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I don't take anything Chas writes at face value. Just saying.

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It's a business that gave away the shoes.

Detroit Store Tries To Draw Kids To School With New Shoes
August 13, 2012 2:39 PM


By Christy Strawser
CBS Detroit Managing Editor

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) Got kicks? Every Detroit student who shows up on the cash-crucial Student Count Day will be able to answer “yes” thanks to a donation from Bob’s Classic Kicks in midtown.

BCK, 4717 Woodward, made an arrangement with the school district to give away a free pair of black leather Nikes to every student who comes to class on Oct. 3, the day when students are counted and their numbers used as the basis for per-pupil funding from the state and federal government.

The more bodies in class, the more money schools have all year.


“Well, first off, we decided since we’ve been in the community for eight years, we wanted to give back to the community, so why not do what we do best — which is shoes,” explained Christian Dorsey, manager at BCK.

The school district will hand out vouchers to every child in every grade, which could add up to 14,000 to 17,000 pair of shoes.

“We know this is a great cause for the community, it’s something that needs to be done,” Dorsey said, adding he’s not worried about the cost of all those shoes because “it’s about educating our kids.”

Detroit schools have been plagued with failing test scores, jumbled finances, violence and plummeting student population. The district’s emergency manager Roy Roberts unveiled a plan this spring to eliminate the district’s deficit in five years, reduce crime in the schools, improve test scores and start a new culture of success in the district.

Anyone who wants to donate to the shoe effort should email bobsclassickicks@yahoo.com.

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Nope. You are stuck in this Dem/Repub paradigm.

A few weeks ago TM detailed the almost neo fascism of Rahm and really many of our politicians on both sides. This government/corporate melding is just a very small example of that truth. The expansion of charter schools, that just so happen to be run by for profit companies is a much greater example. The teacher's strike should be viewed within that context as well.

Every time you hear a politican say privitazation, replace it with the word fascism to understand what is really happening. Government and business are becoming less distinguishable...even your supreme court thinks so.

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What did Chas post that was incorrect?

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

He worded his post as though the city of Detroit is giving away shoes.

The shoes were donated by a private business owner. Someone in Chicago or anywhere else could also do that if they wanted. Chas indicted an entire city.

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This country would be in considerably better overall shape if that phrase was carved into fine hardwood and nailed to the inside of everyone's home entrance.

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I would tear this sign down & immediately throw it in my fire pit.
No one tells me what signs to hang in my house dammit!

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only if the signs were donated by Coke and bore the requisite trademark

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Fuck you kid
http://ohnblog.com/newohnblog/2012/08/15/detroit-public-school-kids-to-receive-free-nikes-for-showing-up-to-school-ridiculous-or-reality/

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Fcuk yuo to!

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