Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago's two-tier school system bad for the city.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago's two-tier school system bad for the city.:

Chicago's two-tier school system bad for the city.

Ald. Pawar (47th)

Ald. Ameya Pawar's (47th)got a point. 

"I think selective enrollment and magnets and [charters] strip the connection between the community and their neighborhood school," Pawar said, adding that in his North Center area there's a "churn" in new parents buying into the area with its relative wealth in elementary schools, then leaving as their children approach high school and the entire uncertain process of qualifying for a selective-enrollment school or not.

"You build a school system from K-12," Pawar said. "That's the stability that I think every family is seeking out in the City of Chicago.

The whole CPS rating system, which labels schools as Level 1-5, has more to do with gentrification and segregation than it does with the quality of neighborhood public schools and their teachers.

It's a system that's being used to market real estate, gentrify neighborhoods and Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago's two-tier school system bad for the city.: