Schools Out!!!

   In the article "Philadelphia superintendent identifies schools he intends to close"by Kristen A. Graham, Inquirer Staff Writer she explains how the Philadelphia School District , Superintendent William R. Hite Jr wants to shut one out of six city schools and relocate close programs, or reshuffle grades at many more. Thirty-seven buildings would close for a saving of about $28 million money the nearly broke district need to survive. There are most parents who think that their children are in a broke enviornment where their are bugs, mice , floods or even gas leaks but if the School District is trying to save money to fix that problem then why not get the solution?

   President of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Jerry Jordon , accused the district of trying to kill neighborhood public schoold and said the PFT would help organize a fight agaisnt the closure. Randi Weingarten , president of the national American Federation of Teachers, decried "topdown mandates to close schools and destabilize neighborhoods." Mayor Nutter had a different side of the  story and said "it will mean safer, better-equipped schools capable of meeting educational needs of the school children."

  To me their is  a good and bad side to this story. The good side is since schools are getting relocated or reshuffled school would close saving about $28 million and the School District of Philadelphia will be able to pay off everything for the schools. Like electricity, heat and other stuff like that. The bad side of this story is the traveling, new surroundings, level of academics, violence and etc. One for traveling people may live all the way across town and would have to wake up way early than usual just to make it to school. For new surroundings people may not be comfortable with other people around them. Academic level could be majorly different from special education classes to regular academic classes. People need to be in what ever class their comfortable with. Then you have violence which is the biggest thing happening certain schools have already had problems with each other maybe from a long time ago and now that their back together something more will happen.