Students Skip First Day Of School In Protest...

[ChefChiTown]

WINNETKA, Ill. - The first buses full of students from Chicago's South Side have arrived at a suburban school where the students will try to enroll as part of a protest of school funding.

The students who arrived Monday morning are among the hundreds taking part in the protest organized by State Senator James Meeks.

Meeks is accompanying them to more affluent schools in Chicago's northern suburbs. He says he expects the mass boycott to run at least until Friday.

The boycott is intended to draw attention to funding disparities in Illinois public schools.

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I don't know if this is "national news" or not, as I do not watch anything but local news. For those of you who don't know, Illinois' State Senator, James Meeks, has been encouraging students to skip school in protest of the "lack of funding" for public schools. This has caused great controversy here in Chicago and it is something that is a very heated debate.

I agree that not having properly funded school systems can be an absolute disaster, but having **** SKIP SCHOOL is only ******* on the damage. It's not helping. Yes, it might draw some "attention" to our funding issue, but attending a "lower funded" school is better than not attending school at all.

One of the biggest issues with the funding problem is bussing. I understand that parents want their ******** to attend the best school possible, in order to give them the "best chance" at a good future, but, here's the problem...

There are too many parents that send their **** miles and miles and miles away to go to school when there is a perfectly acceptable school a few blocks away. Then, when the school bus routes get cut and their ******** can no longer get FREE transportation to their respected schools, the parents bitch and moan. First of all, there's no need to send your *** so far away to go to grade school. Secondly, ****** about the bus routes and keeping your **** home from school isn't going to put money in the school fund.

Keeping your *** out of school is just going to make things worse.