Thread by @stacydavisgates

#Thread Mayoral control of #CPS has been an unmitigated disaster—#Daley, #RahmHatesUs & #MLL. Mayoral control has failed every single stakeholder in #CPS. #ERSBNow 1/

#MayoralControl has birthed some of the worst EDU policies ever.
50 schools closed.
Failed privatization schemes.
Scores of Black women educators fired.
Schools w/o nurses.
Schools w/o libraries & librarians.
The list is seems endless. #MakeItMakeSense 2/

Now another mayor & their handpicked board intends to bless a re-opening plan that puts everyone & their “mommas” in harms way. #MakeItMakeSense #ERSBNOW 3/

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#ICYMI “Chicago Mayor agreed to pay school police full salary & pension” 🔦 4/ chicago.chalkbeat.org/2020/7/31/2134…

🤷🏾‍♀️I guess #MLL has a strategy for the #defundmovement—shift the costs of policing to schools that don’t hv counselors/SW/librarians. #BringInTheLight 5/

I don’t think folks understand how utterly debasing it is for Black kids to attend schools that don’t hv nurses/social workers/counselors/librarians BUT pays POLICE a full d*mn salary. White supremacy is real & decisions are being made to maintain it. #EdEquityOrElse 6/

Can we even begin to quantify the trauma loved ones will endure as a result of this bloody summer? Our schools hv scant SEL to address their trauma but plenty of police for what, safety? @gherbo says it better than me 7/
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#COVID19 but let’s push folks back into schools:
Bc the 1% says so...
Bc #Trump says so...
Bc #Devos says so...
#MayorLighfoot & #CPS spent last wk offering parents a hybrid option that isn’t fully developed & a remote option that isn’t developed at all. #MakeItMakeSense 8/

Parents who are staring down impending evictions, joblessness, & the loss of unemployment benefits are being forced to say YES to 1 of 2 options that aren’t really options. I am so over failed leadership & their dangerous ultimatums. #MakeItMakeSense 9/chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020…

On Monday, I’ll be w/ my union siblings, fellow parents & community organizations bc when mayors of Chicago can’t #MakeItMakeSense WE figure out how to #MakeItMakeSense. #EdEquityOrElse #DemandSafeReopening 10/10