Chicago is a beautiful, but broken city. The many museums tell the history of so many places in time but hide the fact that children in public schools are failing at an increasing rate. Navy Pier is walked down thousands of times a day, but people avoid neighborhoods with boards and bars on the windows. Thousands travel to Chicago to witness a Cubs baseball game, but no one speaks out on who shot a child during a drive-by shooting. Chicago is a great city for tourists to view the city, but a closer examination on the city reveals numerous views that tourist ignore.
However, while it will take many years to change the poverty rate in Chicago what can be changed today is the violence. By using intervention programs in Chicago Public School …show more content…
A Just Chicago, an organization fighting for better education in the city, surveyed CTU (Chicago Teachers Union) social workers and found that, “About half (twenty-one respondents) reported that at least ten percent of their students had an incarcerated parent, while five respondents reported that one-third ¬to one-half of their students had a parent in jail” (A Just Chicago). If the CPS students have incarcerated parents, how can the parents be accountable and reliable in their child’s journey for a higher education? In North Lawndale alone, the per capita income is twelve-thousand dollars a year. The parents are not able to afford tutoring or any program of the sort to improve their child’s …show more content…
According to Sarah D. Sparks, a writer for the Education Week organization reports that, “Studies show parental incarceration can be more traumatic to students than even a parent's death or divorce, and the damage it can cause to students' education, health, and social relationships puts them at higher risk of one day going to prison themselves” (Sparks). If parents are incarcerated more often in high-poverty areas, children are now in a cycle. She also adds that, “Children of incarcerated parents have higher rates of attention deficits than those with parents missing because of death or divorce, and higher rates of behavioral problems, speech and language delays, and other developmental delays” (Sparks). These behaviors and delays could be caused by their parent’s incarceration, which is something the kids have no control
However, while it will take many years to change the poverty rate in Chicago what can be changed today is the violence. By using intervention programs in Chicago Public School …show more content…
A Just Chicago, an organization fighting for better education in the city, surveyed CTU (Chicago Teachers Union) social workers and found that, “About half (twenty-one respondents) reported that at least ten percent of their students had an incarcerated parent, while five respondents reported that one-third ¬to one-half of their students had a parent in jail” (A Just Chicago). If the CPS students have incarcerated parents, how can the parents be accountable and reliable in their child’s journey for a higher education? In North Lawndale alone, the per capita income is twelve-thousand dollars a year. The parents are not able to afford tutoring or any program of the sort to improve their child’s …show more content…
According to Sarah D. Sparks, a writer for the Education Week organization reports that, “Studies show parental incarceration can be more traumatic to students than even a parent's death or divorce, and the damage it can cause to students' education, health, and social relationships puts them at higher risk of one day going to prison themselves” (Sparks). If parents are incarcerated more often in high-poverty areas, children are now in a cycle. She also adds that, “Children of incarcerated parents have higher rates of attention deficits than those with parents missing because of death or divorce, and higher rates of behavioral problems, speech and language delays, and other developmental delays” (Sparks). These behaviors and delays could be caused by their parent’s incarceration, which is something the kids have no control