Lefty Autum..?

.. Lately, swarm of videos about Southern desegregation movement,

Civil Rights movements, radical '60s students movements..were shown
 in all my socl classes..

..Since my classes are about the race relations, urban study(city & suburbs,) and the 60's movements..

I saw the films about "Freedom Summer," "Freedom Ride"(radical students' desegregation movements in the '50s.. '60s Mississippi,)
..

"Berkley in the sixties.."  or.. and also,
about the dispossessed Mexican miners film etc, etc,...

- Now i belatedly saw what "Hard time Mississippi"was all about ..
which Stevie Wonder sung in his 'Living for the City'

 One of the teacher made a nice proposal.. to attend community meeting on the South Side Chicago..

on the 103st St!

It is in the black neighborhood.. Isn't it quite  dangerous ..  for group of..blond haired....

white student? I couldn't imagine.

.

Last year I didn't I see nobody in my previous class researched about South Side... or nobody even attended"Interrupters.' film's show and the Ceasefire Chicago's lecture on campus..

But the young students in the 60s movement class seem like excited about the old day's radical  movements.

because the old teacher...  Dr.Wright from '60s San Francisco is igniting them.. ..

So..What was the teachers' strike's outcome? ... It somehow ended, but not really ended..  (an impression.)

 

 

Emanuel's somewhat cunning after-strike tv ad is seen everyday now..

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-emanuel-strike-letter-0921-20120921,0,632300.story Strike ends, but Emanuel's campaign continues

 

 The article was explaining the cause of the strike...

 

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/10/standing_up_to_rahm/

Standing up to Rahm  

Bullied by their city's Democratic mayor, teachers in Chicago are making a bold stand against misguided "reform"

Teachers are still goint to Strike..

...Here are the teachers..
The teachers are still heading to the downtown on Saturday -
 taking a train from BrynMawr...!

..They are apparently from Swift Elementary school .

(People look like generally pro to the teachers.. )

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/19540817/teachers-strike-opposed-by-401-poll-suggests

Teachers’ strike opposed by 40.1%, poll suggests

"......Emanuel's goal of judging Chicago Public School teachers -- for the first time ever – is based in part on the academic progress of the students in their classroom.
Union leaders claim on the one hand that many factors outside the classroom, including poverty and neighborhood violence, hurt student learning in ways no teacher can overcome. They also reject the standardized testing Mayor Emanuel wants to use as a way of measuring what kids have learned.

....... Among the mayor's substantial concessions: his team has agreed to give poor-performing teachers up to 15 months to improve and to give qualified, laid-off teachers up to two years to find another CPS job.

In the first week of the walkout, Chicago voters sympathized with the strikers. In a survey by We Ask America about the union's decision to strike, 55.5% approve, 40.1% disapprove, 4.4% have no opinion.
Who's most to blame for the strike? 34.4% percent say Mayor Emanuel; the union, 28.8%; the mayor's school board, 18.8%; no opinion 18%......."

- The poster in my apartment says:
e.g. the kids in nearby Swift Elementary School and other two schools should go to Pierce Elementary... ..Each school will be open from 8:30am to 12:30pm. Children need to register there. breakfast and lunch will be provided, no bus service is provided..

"Children are expected to join camp-type activities, such as sports, arts, and nature activities."

..Parents can also attend the children for half day, or there is a full-day option..

- The schools are to be opened on Monday in their plan.

**The teachers in general in my univ.. don't look like going to the strike..and our classes are normal..

We only got Dr. Wright in the radical class -"the Mvmts in 1960s"-.. who made a complaint .. "why we don't join the strike!? ...Mayor Emanuel might be fortunate, since the news from Libya may be used for camouflaging of the strike issue from the news shows.." etc..


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On Mon morning teachers are still on the strike, but children are told to go back to the schools.. while there are be some picketing lines expected in some high schools...
 Some schools may have substitute teachers..   Parents' patience growing short.. etc.

Fall classes to choose..

As usual, when I arrive in Chicago, the hottest summer is about to be over...
- although the airport's tarmac seems like melted in this summer..

In this fall, I may take three Sociology classes!.. Is it too much?

I reunited Dr. Gitelson.. he looks younger than before..

- I heard Ms Rollerson received Ph.D degree and graduated. .. How great ..

Rich Coleus paradise

- Coleus are rampant...   in much more vivid color and much more varieties..