Hypocrite?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wednesday told CBS that he would send his three children to the University of Chicago Lab School in Hyde Park and not to a Chicago Public School.
It's the same private school that President Barack Obama's children attended when he was an Illinois Senator.
For being such advocates of the CPS though, we can only be amazed that they aren't good enough for the children of politicos.
Discuss.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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So. Who cares. Discussed.
Not from around here anyway, and won't be staying long.
Born with silver spoons in mouths.
Will Chicago police have to chauffeur them to and from school?
Why doesn't he send them to one of his precious charter schools?
Because they suck and have scab teachers and inflate their scores?
I did not vote for Rahm. However, he should have the ability to send his kids to any school he wishes.
I hope Shields is reading this. We have to live here, send our kids to school here, without the benefit a mayors salary. This was a personal decision, because his kids are beyond politics. Isn't the same true for our kids ? This is Daley in a new wrapper. Do as I say, not as I do ...
I don't have a problem with 9.5 fingers keeping his kids out of Chicago's public schools; I sent my two to private parochial schools as well. What I don't like is the Mayor becoming a complete chickenshit and walking out of an interview when asked about it. For somebody with a rep for being in-your-face blunt, Rahm made a complete pussy move during that interview. It's not they asked him if he'd every been unfaithful to his wife, or anything like that. Daley never sent his kids to public schools, and I think most people, if they could afford it, would opt for a private education for their kids here.
Yes he can choose to send his kids to whatever school he wants. But why do the dems want to deny that choice to so many people?
So it looks like a private school is a better choice than the CPS, not rocket science there.
I am sure his kids could get into the magnet schools, so once again, the best of the CPS is lacking. The Lab school is not a religious school, so he cannot use that as a reason.
Face it, most public schools in Chicago are terrible.
We can debate is it the parents, the teachers, the admin, the students, etc.?
But why to the dems want to force a public school system, when they so often opt out?
As much as I dislike him, why wouldn't he send his kids to the Lab School. As a parent, if I could I would too.
ofcourse the schools are not good enough. they SUCK bad and if you havent noticed violent.
anyone with the means will send their kid to the best school possible to pave the way for the future. especially millionares. so who are we kidding. really. society has always been this way.
i dont blame Rham.
i'm ashamed to say i voted for him Never Again!
As much as I disagree with Rahm on his political & ideological beliefs, he has the right as any free American to send his child to a private school if he wants too.
Arnie Duncan didn’t send his kids to a CPS school either.
I mean seriously, would YOU?
Who gives a shit where he sends his kids. That's no one elses business but Mr and Mrs Emmanuel. NO one has a right to be critical of where a parent sends their kids
"Do as I say,not as I do"...Typical Liberal Hypocrite.
I live across the street from a northside CPS school. How nice it would be to send my daughter there. Never. So,7K on cop salary for private school. I don't blame Rahm for doing the same. He apparently agrees that CPS sucks. But he can afford 7K + (X 3) better than I can. Go move to Glencoe or Barrington you POS. But, that wouldn't meet ego standards, you tiny man.
What happened to the "waiting list" for said school?
Guess that doesn't apply to the "chosen few" !
Land of the free and home of the BLAH <BLAH <BLAH .
So the city will drive his kids from the North Side down to Hyde Park every school day because CPS is no good for the political class.
I thought Arnie Duncan left Chicago and CPS to go to Washington with the messiah ObaMAO and was doing a great job improving education for the country just like he did for Chicago.
Hmm. Is it possible that Rahm doesn't want diversity for his kids? He doesn't want his kids to benefit from the world class education system that we dump MILLIONS of tax dollars into? I don't understand.
I thought Daley was Mr. Education and fixed the schools. Luberman was put in there to straighten things up before Arnie. What could be wrong? Rahm just has to keep up the same with his Haitian import and everything should be good for his kids, right?
One of the few times Richie backed on of his minions in a controversy is when a CPS executive said she was sending her kids to a private school because Chicago Public Schools weren't good enough for them.
There was a media storm and Richie on TV said it was her business and what did they want from her Blood? Then in a stuttering vampire voice goes, "Bla-ha-ha-ha!"
I screamed at the TV, ask the question you idiot! "Mr. Mayor, where do you send your kids?"
At least Shorty was good for a laugh once in a while, when wasn't doing some serious theft or harm.
Rahm however hasn't done one good thing yet; at last not for us and everyone else who works for a living in this town.
What a mockery of LEADERSHIP!
Did anyone catch the CPD Union heads statement?
I would hate to be a CPS teacher under this administration and lack of leadership.
I heard that there is an unwritten policy that CPS teachers and staff have first chance at any magnet, charter other cherry picking program in the system.
I don't have a problem with that as long as you are going to cherry pick the best and leave the rest. The fact that their own kids are there makes them want to succeed.
But, why not include us in that benefit pool. It would be a good perk to the job. I might consider a premium Chicago Public if the circumstances were right.
i'm ashamed to say i voted for him Never Again!
well don't be ashamed that you are a stupid moron its too late now you must have your brains in your ass.
Who gives a shit where he sends his kids. That's no one elses business but Mr and Mrs Emmanuel. NO one has a right to be critical of where a parent sends their kids
the citizens of chicago give a shit you idiot what a kiss ass.
Why not the UNO charter schools?
What's wrong with them?
UNO endorsed him, why doesn't he endorse them?
Oh that's right, they'll have police drivers too!
i'm ashamed to say i voted for him Never Again!
7/22/2011 12:53:00 AM
You're an asshole and not welcome on this blog! Reap what you sowed now.
Everybody would send their kids to private school if they could.
The problem is, he's the mayor, and it shows he has no faith in his own piss-poor CPS.
CPS might be good enough for YOUR kids, but NOT MINE is the msg. this sends.
i'm ashamed to say i voted for him Never Again!
7/22/2011 12:53:00 AM
And yet another shining example of a CPS victim.
So if you were Mayor would you send your son to Tilden. Don't think so
What 9.5 should do is study why that school is so good and implement their policies in CPS.
Whoops! Cancel that. Those kids usually have 2 parents who aren't crackheads.
And think about it--if you were a young, dynamic teacher, would you want to work in the shithole CPS? Or would you want to work in a better climate where you might have to visit the filthy ghetto rats because their parents should have never been allowed to have a kid, let alone 10!
I'll never forget being in court once, and it came out that this ghetto-rat 'mama' was 33 years old and had 17 kids. All hers, no 'cuz's' or anything! WTF?
Chicago? I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure......
Mary Ann Ahearn was baiting Rahm in a typical media way for a reaction. Well she got one and frankly she was 100% wrong for taking her interview to involve his kids.
But he can afford 7K + (X 3) better than I can. Go move to Glencoe or Barrington you POS. But, that wouldn't meet ego standards, you tiny man.
7/22/2011 03:34:00 AM
Rahm (Chicago's first Republican mayor) is going to have to pay Lab School $23K a year for each of his children.
http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/admission/tuition/index.aspx
Rahm is a part of the North Shore elite. He has no idea how common folks have lived and worked in Chicago. He is a "one term" mayor who is looking at the US Senate and/or presidential run in 2016.
He is an arrogant prick and bully. If you haven't seen the interview with Mary Ann Ahern, watch how he almost has a melt down.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/When-Rahms-Temper-Made-a-Comeback-125919838.html#ixzz1SkOBq9xq
You know he is close to going off when he goes in to that low tone lecturing voice.
What irked me was Rahm's saying he was sending them to the Lab School because of security reasons. At least Obama, when asked why he wasn't sending his kids to the Washington D.C. Public School system, said it was because (at this time) the D.C. schools were substandard.
Mary Ann Ahern on Roe:
http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=2243073&SPID=37724
She said the ballerino went ballistic and she'd never seen anything like it--(because the last bonehead was just a sweaty, greasy pig who stuttered through his interviews).
He's doing the right thing as a parent. He's doing what most of us did with our kids. He's aware of the prowling animals.
Who gives a shit where he sends his kids. That's no one elses business but Mr and Mrs Emmanuel. NO one has a right to be critical of where a parent sends their kids
7/22/2011 01:52:00 AM
Everyone has the right and you have the right to disagree. That is the wonder of our society. Tiny Dancer 9.5 has the right to give his children a private education, but, as he is the head of our public school system, it just looks BAD.
I believe tiny dancer has the right to send his kids anywhere he wants but I don't buy his answer to reporters inquiring about his decision to do so--- " it's a personal decision " and then he ducks out of the interview--- so next year when we negotiate a new contract and he wants concessions we just say no thank you, it's a personal decision---- you see mr. scrooge, I want to send my kids to the best schools too, and I can't afford to do so on a cop's salary--- so whatever benefits we currently have we will fight to keep and we will also fight for more as the cost of living in this shit town has gone up at an alarming rate--- I'm not a millionaire like you so I will fight for my family and our future and you can also stop lying to the public about greedy city workers being the reason that the city is broke--- we are broke because you and your predecessor failed to do YOUR job, don't blame it on us.....
Rahm has the right to school his kids wherever he wants. The problem is that Rahm and BO and other democrats fight to the death a voucher system that would let other taxpaying parents make that same choice.
I don't blame him. I wouldn't live here if it wasn't mandatory.
I don't think it makes any sense to say he should send his kids to CPS because he is the mayor. He hires the chief manager of the school system. What has that to do with where you send your kids to school? His job is to make the school system better. His kids could be in CPS forever and that won't have anything to do with his actual performance as a mayor. I'm sure there are health nuts that work for McDonald's. It's a successful corporation but you don't have to be fat and unhealthy (from eating their food daily) to work there.
Yes he can send his kids anywhere he wants, but the fact is he now has no say so about CPS. You can not preach that the kids are getting the shaft to screw over teachers when even the best CPS school is not good enough for his kids.
Asshat, anyone that says we don't have a right to criticize Emmanuel of where he sends his kids to school is just that Asshat. He's the F-ing mayor he needs to drive a Ford made in Illinois and send his kids to CPS. Maybe then CS would be different. That's why he's a limosene liberal. Let the city continue burn but the liberals think this is great.
Who gives a rat's ass. I wouldn't send my worst enemy to a Chicago public school. The system just plan sucks!!! I don't fault him one bit for sending his kids to the best possible school.
I always think, until they do something like get a sewer contract for millions using aphoney company, or killing someone with a punch in the face on Rush street, leave the kids out of it.Unless the kid is a total asshole and shits on you and doesn't know how to quietly drop a name, give them a break if it ain't serious.
All we need is a law that states if you are an elected official, you HAVE to send your kids to public schools.
Otherwise, why would they ever bother fixing them?
A personal stake in the system is necessary. Agree?
To 12:53 am. Are you fucking serious! Get off our blog
I have no problem with him sending his kids to Lab School.
Unlike mayor Dick, Rahm hasn't bragged about how great CPS are. He has stated he wants them to be great.
I'm not saying I like Rahm, but he is more open then the poison dwarf was.
if Rahm sent his kids to CPS , I'd never vote for him again
CPS honor students shot and beat down on a daily basis while daley enjoys protection of CPD body guards and 2 police vehicles
To send 3 kids there, its gonna cost him 60K a year!!!! WTF??
Im sure they will go there on a discounted price under da table a la da chicago way.
Maybe I can add some clarity... I taught in CPS and now teach in the suburbs. The problem is that even the CPS northside schools don't do anything for the really smart kids. They're not over the top chaotic like the south side schools can be. Our schools today cater to the average and the sub-par students, leaving the gifted kids and the smart kids bored. The private schools offer more enrichment all the way around.
hypocrite,yes-fool,no!
.... What I don't like is the Mayor becoming a complete chickenshit and walking out of an interview when asked about it. ....
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But then 9.5 chickenshit turned around and got in her face nasty after the cameras stopped rolling. Another complete self-serving POS occupies the 5th flr yet again.
Progressives Elite Handbook:
'Comrades, do as I say, not as I do.'
The ballerina made his millions while he worked for Fanny May. He can afford to send his kids to private school at $24,000 each. How are the values of your homes doing btw?
Continue to vote for these Progressives or just vote with your feet.
Either residency goes or vouchers arrive
According to a mole at one of the selective enrollment high schools,Tiny Dancer tried to get the oldest kid in their school...
BTW, the tutition for three kids to go to the Lab School is more than a lot of us make -- $75k!!
HAAAAAAAAAAA someone called him 9.5 fingers!
AWESOME
I've been noticing how Rahm always seems to abruptly end news conferences and flees the scene when he doesn't like the questions.I'd like to see someone physically box him in so he can't pull a "Houdini".
Rahm is just like the last guy. Daley did the same thing. My taxs that go for schools keep going up; and what do we have to show for it.
Who gives a shit where he sends his kids. That's no one elses business but Mr and Mrs Emmanuel. NO one has a right to be critical of where a parent sends their kids
He is the MAYOR, thus should be setting an example! Not good enough for his kids, but good enough for the pawns, serfs, and servants. How convenient. Fucking hypocrite. He should be making cps schools good enough to send his spawn. Thats like the president of sam adams beer saying i dont believe in my beer so i drink stella artois.
If he were responsible for the conditions in the Public Schools I would have a problem with his decision, however since he did not cause the problem I see no reason for him or his children to pay the price for King Richie's mistakes. I wish my children could get in the Lab School.
I resent his response to the reporter. Fuck you, Rahm. Be a man and support your decision. You're not such a tough guy, you're a Northshore pussy. Probably got beat up a lot.
BTW, I sent my kids to the local elementaryy school - Oriole Park - they both were bright enough to get into honors programs at northside high schools and graduated with honors from one state and one private university. It's not all of CPS that sucks.
So you're basically saying he FLED the interview?
@ 7/22/2011 12:21:00 AM
Okay Shitheel....
I make my 80k a year...and I put my kid through St Clements...not CPS.
It was tough...but she is on their way to a Big Ten Uni on the Merit of Her GPA....and not a sports scholarship.
Fuck the Chicago School system...its broke worse than CPD
CPS might as well be prison, who the fuck doesn't think that?
I really hate this prick, I want to hate everything he does. But as much as it galls me, he did the right thing. What sort of loathesome fuck dooms his children to Hell by sending them to CPS? I'd live on ramen or go hungry before I did that.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/When-Rahms-Temper-Made-a-Comeback-125919838.html#ixzz1SkOBq9xq
You know he is close to going off when he goes in to that low tone lecturing voice.
7/22/2011 06:32:00 AM
I didn't vote for him, don't agree with his politics and think he's a hypocrite. But let me say this. I would have walked out of that interview with that gutless reporter too. Did you hear her beg and plead, "Please, please." It was disgusting.
I have even less respect for the media now than I did before, and I didn't think that was possible. No wonder they're so easy to walk all over in this town.
well you can take 2 more officers off the street so they could be the private drivers to & from school for those rug rats. Drive them to school in the morning, sit in the car outside school till the bell rings, drive them home, then go home. WOW ! not a bad days work. Wonder who you have to know to get that detail?
How many of u would send your kids to cps?
Too:How many of u would send your kids to cps?
I Do and they are doing great. In the gifted program and the local school. We are blessed, and very involved in all their programs. CPS has beaten out plenty of Top Notch suburban schools. Check out the stats. You still gotta live in an area where the parents care about their kids, take pride in their neighborhood and actually know what their kids are doing.
Each year, Lab asks alumni and parents to make a gift. Unrestricted gifts to the annual fund provide the schools with the most flexibility in meeting immediate operating expenses and sustaining critical programs. They enable Lab to improve its facilities, recruit talented faculty, stay up to date with new technologies, provide much-needed financial aid, and purchase new equipment and supplies for the library, classrooms, athletics, and the arts.
You know what i love about this??Is that If i owned a house inside the city and rented it out, then moved out of the city and lived in a condo lets say in willowbrook, and the police found out i would be fired...My arguement would be hey, i own a house in the city and i pay taxes...do you think that would fly??? I would'nt have a job anymore...but our mayor did it and got elected.
I love this one too.....650 officers back on the street.....Yea i took them from one deck of cards and put them in another deck, pretty good huh? Now when i talk to my neighbors they r like man that Rham is doing a great job putting all these new police on the streets....I'm like really show me cause i don't see any change....But the civilians think hes doing a great job....It's not right!!!!!
I send mine to Catholic school.....Rahm will send his to a secular private school.....that is his business. I happen to know a few public school teachers who opt to send their children to catholic schools......again it is their business but I think it speaks volumes to the state of our public schools.
Oh that's right, they'll have police drivers too!
Wherever he wants to send his children to school I have no problem with, but this I have a problem with. Our children are probably in more danger being children of police officers then his children are. He should hire private security to take his children back and forth to school. Can't wait to leave this city.
dont blame him would not send my kids to these gang infested shit holes either
Our schools today cater to the average and the sub-par students, leaving the gifted kids and the smart kids bored. The private schools offer more enrichment all the way around.
7/22/2011 10:46:00 AM
A big sore point with me -- and you're a teacher -- why should teachers, who have the kids 6-7 hours a day at most, be the ones expected to provide things the kids should be getting at home? I've got gifted kids. They get bored in school even though our local school is an excellent one. (And they were bored when they were in a magnet school, too. They were actually LESS challenged in the magnet school than they are now.) But the private schools in our area aren't worth the $5-7K they charge, so why pay it? So we supplement and enrich their learning at home. ***Not everything is the job of the teachers.***
R-Fled?
What most of you fail to realize is the system used to get kids into "premier" public schools. The security is as tight, if not tighter, than any private school but mctiny dancer does not want to expose the cps system of entrance exam scam. There are as many public schools with greater than u.c. lab. But if you got it, spend it!
not all cps high schools are shit. did you ever hear of the selective enrollment schools or the IB program? Just cause your kid couldnt test into one of those dont say all are shit. Check the scores and look what universities these kids get into, they go to the top schools in the country, often on full ride academic scholarships.and btw I think he should send them to cps if they arent going to a religious school.
The mayor said his kids are not public servants! Then take the security detail off them and let them take the bus to school.
Anonymous said...
The mayor said his kids are not public servants! Then take the security detail off them and let them take the bus to school.
7/22/2011 10:42:00 PM
Very true, if they are using the city services ( police protection ) then it is are problem.
I'm more interested in his reasoning. Why exactly are the public schools unable to educate "your" children? I send my kid to private school and private summer camp because I don't want my child to be lost in a class room of 30+. Plus they teach to the lowest common denominator. They bring in kids to Kindergarten that have had no Pre-K development such as letters, numbers, colors, shapes and simple 2-3 letter words. These particular kids are already 5 years behind at that point.
Yes we have some great gifted and classical primary schools and a few high schools are great as well, but they can be hard to get into. Plus they cram the testing down the throats of your children. Schools such as Lab enrich your child in a extremely diverse curriculum that is simply not taught at CPS, they teach kids to be thinkers and not test takers. If your child shows an interest or skill in a certain area they encourage this growth. You toe-the-line at CPS, they lack this educatonal freedom. I agree that it's our responsibility as parents to supplement and be involved in what our children are learning at school but CPS and the Mayor fail to convince me that it would be a wise choice to enroll.
HAAAAAAAAAAA someone called him 9.5 fingers!
AWESOME
7/22/2011 12:04:00 PM
Wher have you been hiding? He was annointed Tiny Dancer 9.5 about one year ago.
>>>Anonymous said...
Rahm has the right to school his kids wherever he wants. The problem is that Rahm and BO and other democrats fight to the death a voucher system that would let other taxpaying parents make that same choice.
7/22/2011 07:50:00 AM<<<
A voucher system will get many of those NON-TAXPAYER's kids into the system; and just think of all the "New Americans" we will have to support in those private schools.
Anonymous said...
i'm ashamed to say i voted for him Never Again!
7/22/2011 12:53:00 AM
I know a lot of people who say the same thing about Rahm and Quinn and Berry O. NEVER AGAIN!
Now get ten of your friends and neighbors to say the same thing, and have them get their friends and families and so on. Remember we are going to have all those "New Americans" who will want all the free stuff will have to provive for them and they will vote Democtat.
Rahm just wants the best Socialist/Marxist education for his children. They can't get that in the Public Schools.
Rahm just wants the best Socialist/Marxist education for his children. They can't get that in the Public Schools.
7/23/2011 11:42:00 AM
wanna bet?
Anyone ever think the pols send their kids to private schools so you people cannot say you are paying for their salary and their children's education?
I'm a CPS teacher who sends my 3 kids to catholic schools. Eats up about 2/3 of my salary. And thankful that they're getting a decent education there, as I don't have the research or car-pool time to devote to a selective enrollment path. Of course Rahm should go private for his kids, as should any parent with the means and with the inability to access selective enrollment schools. CPS is so fundamentally flawed ... And not necessarily because of the innate abilities of the students, but because of the bureaucrats unwillingness and inability to address the root cause of student underachievement: the home.
Rahm will have to start using his 501c3 so he deosn't have to pay any property taxes and can pay for the lab school. Watch for his home to disappear from the cook county assessors web site
The lab school teaches communist values and is close yourbamas house.
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