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Group Urges Altgeld Parents: Boycott Fenger
Produced by Linda Lutton on Friday, October 23, 2009
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(AP/File) |
A community group in Altgeld Gardens is calling on parents to boycott Fenger High School Monday and Tuesday. That's after fighting broke out again at the school yesterday.
Cheryl Johnson is head of a community organization in Altgeld Gardens. She says some Fenger students called their parents yesterday and asked to be picked up when fights broke out inside the school.
JOHNSON: What people don't understand: the violence has never stopped at that school.
Johnson says police and security guards verbally abused parents and students at Fenger yesterday. She says students say police pushed and handcuffed them.
JOHNSON: Instead of trying to calm people down they are agitating the whole situation even worse.
Johnson says her group wants the district to allow Altgeld students to transfer immediately to nearby Carver Military Academy to avoid long-standing violence. CPS has said students can transfer in January. Johnson says her group is considering filing a complaint with police.
A spokesman for the Chicago police says the police take the Fenger allegations seriously. He says Altgeld residents should contact the Independent Police Review Authority immediately and let them begin investigating the incident at the school.
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Gee This makes Sense, Little Village // Sunday, October 25, 2009 @ 4:27 AM
OK these REALLY stupid people, think keeping the kids out of school, is a great idea. The kids don't go to school anyways. Look at the truancy, as compared to a white suburban school. The numbers don't lie. The coloreds are looking for excuses, and thats ALL that they will ever have is an excuse
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Kortisha, Roseland // Monday, October 26, 2009 @ 1:55 PM
Gee, this makes sense. That's real nice. Coloreds? (And that's the way you spell it) Guess you must be a honkey?
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west town dude, west town // Monday, October 26, 2009 @ 3:01 PM
what a joke, a community boycott. the problem with the Fenger school is the same as the problem throughout black america, there are no fathers of these kids, the fathers inpregnated a woman, and ran away. hell, even the "reverand" jessie jackson did it. how can the black community expect anyone to care what happens to their kids, when they don't care and they don't do anything about it themselves.
i am tired of the blame being placed at societies feet, place the blame where it belongs, place it on the black family structure.
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luscious, altgeld // Friday, November 06, 2009 @ 11:30 AM
thats the problem with people.people don't know what they are talking about,so they need to speak about what they know
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