re: #79 Honorary Yooper

Chicago has had lots of problems:
Chicago Tribune
Catholic students told:Pay up or go home

What started as an uneventful first day of a new quarter at Marian Catholic High School soon turned to mass confusion as an unprecedented 300 students with outstanding tuition bills were pulled from classes.

The students—whose parents owed between $750 and $5,000—lined up outside the school office Monday morning as their accounts were sorted out.

By lunchtime, about 100 students were sent home—some confused, some embarrassed and a few angry.

I feel for those kids. That happened to me once. My grandmother was a maid and paid my tuition at a private school. She wanted to keep me out of Chicagp Public School system which was awful at the grade school level. My tuition had lapsed for a month and I was in the 3rd grade spelling bee and could not compete because when I got to school the nun told me to put my coat back on and said i was not to come back until my tuition was paid. I stay out for 2 weeks.

I hear there is a student at Sidwell, the school where the Obama girls attend. Obama’s girls never went to public school and never will. He has done little to improve CPS.