Someone Think of the Children!

Because the Chicago Public Schools aren't:

• Chicago Public Schools has decided to eliminate crossing guard service at 33 intersections in Chicago. Eleven of those are in the South Side 19th Ward, the local alderman said.

  CPS said 15 out of 30 intersections were affected.

  Alderman Matt O'Shea says he was blindsided by cuts he calls drastic and unsafe in his ward's school communities. "That's unconscionable, to go more than three days now without an explanation," O'Shea said.

So they won't teach them, and now they won't protect them crossing the streets. 

Here's a partial list from the annoyed aldercreature (click for larger version):

And we aren't sure if this is true, but someone wrote to us and claimed all of the intersection cuts are at Catholic / private school crossings.

Here's what we're thinking about though - given the recent spate of traffic crashes involving CPD and pedestrian injuries across the city, how long until some asshole driver plows through a now-unmanned school intersection and takes out a bunch of kids?

Their probably hoping parents step up.