{"id":21133,"date":"2015-12-01T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=21133"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:59:56","slug":"high-school-students-band-together-to-protest-their-own-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/high-school-students-band-together-to-protest-their-own-district\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students band together to protest their own district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kelan Lyons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Before this school year, Denise Hernandez was quiet and reserved. Despite competing on her school\u2019s water polo and swimming teams, and being the head coordinator of the robotic team, she wasn\u2019t one to speak out or do anything that could affect her schoolwork.<\/p>\n<p>This year is different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recently realized I had to put my own things aside in order to speak up, and become something that\u2019s bigger than me,\u201d said the 17-year old junior from Robert Lindblom Math &amp; Science Academy in Englewood.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez is one of the student organizers galvanizing Chicago Public Schools students from across the city to stand up and oppose the district\u2019s budget cuts. Under the leadership of Matthew Mata, a senior from the prestigious Walter Payton College Prep, CPS students from a wide range of neighborhoods have joined together for three protests and rallies in the Loop.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"CPS students across Chicago band together to protest their district by MedillReports\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F234857257&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=800&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted something that all students could get involved in,\u201d said Mata.<\/p>\n<p>Mata describes the first demonstration \u2014 held on October 28, the day of a monthly Board of Education meeting \u2014 as a \u201cstudy-in.\u201d He and about 150 students gathered outside the\u00a0 CPS building at 42 W. Madison Street,\u00a0where they\u00a0 sat on the pavement\u00a0and completed schoolwork.<\/p>\n<p>Mata said the decision to complete\u00a0homework\u00a0as they sat on the street while the Board met inside CPS headquarters\u00a0was meant to show \u201cthe variety of classes that could be cut if these mid-year cuts do occur.\u201d Mata\u2019s reference is to the possibility of further <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/blogs\/ward-room\/Up-to-5000-Layoffs-in-CPS-Possible-by-Thanksgiving-328539191.html\">teacher layoffs<\/a> in the middle of the year if the state legislature does not provide some solution to the district\u2019s pension crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo a lot of students, teachers are like their second parents,\u201d said Hernandez, \u201cAnd when we see those teachers being taken away from us, it\u2019s really tough. It\u2019s like being separated from your home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations on November 6 and 13 included marches and rallies. The goals of these, according to Mata, was to put pressure on Springfield to change the wording of <a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/232729\/senate-passes-property-tax-freeze-bill\/\">SB 318<\/a>, a bill in the General Assembly that freezes property taxes, requires the state to pay $200 million in pension payments for CPS, and ends Illinois\u2019 current school aid formula.<\/p>\n<p>Mata called the bill a \u201cshort-term solution\u201d that will \u201cend up hurting teachers in the long run.\u201d The bill purposely sunsets Illinois\u2019 public school funding formula in two years in the name of creating a better one, and many are opposed, saying it\u2019s shortsighted.<\/p>\n<p>The protests involved more than just chanting and megaphones. Students gathered en masse and engaged in slam poetry, sang songs and gave speeches, all to demonstrate, in Mata\u2019s words, \u201cwhat it means to be a CPS student in your community.\u201d According to a story recently <a href=\"http:\/\/catalyst-chicago.org\/2015\/11\/student-protests-over-budget-cuts-have-deep-roots\/\">published by Catalyst Chicago<\/a>, between 600 and 800 protestors participated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really wanted to do something beyond the traditional rally,\u201d said Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subhed\">Tensions over resources<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Battung, 16-year old junior from Kennedy High School, found out about the protests on Facebook, on the Sunday before the November 6 rally. She was initially bothered that there wasn\u2019t any representation from her school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did see how it was mostly selective enrollment schools, and I just thought, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re just doing their own thing, so I guess I\u2019m not invited,\u2019 \u201d said Battung.<\/p>\n<p>Selective enrollment schools, which choose students based on test scores, grades and other criteria, are typically better resourced and don\u2019t have the same needs as neighborhood open enrollment high schools that must serve any student in the community. Mata and Hernandez, who attend Payton and Lindblom, respectively, go to selective enrollment high schools, while Battung attends Kennedy, a neighborhood open enrollment school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Open enrollment schools] need more resources to provide for our different varieties of students,\u201d said Battung, \u201cSelective enrollment schools don\u2019t have to worry about problems like ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mata said there\u2019s a \u201ctension between neighborhood school kids and selective enrollment school kids\u201d because students from open enrollment schools feel selective enrollment students have not \u201caccurately portrayed the crisis that has been felt all over Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those crises include the lack of basic resources, such as leaky ceilings, holes in walls or textbooks that aren\u2019t up to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my school, in some classes we have a lack of desks, and because of that, sometimes kids need to sit on the vents,\u201d said Battung. \u201cWe use textbooks from like 20 years ago to study math and physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Solis, senior at Kelly High School on the city\u2019s Southwest Side, said she\u2019s noticed the budget cuts at her school. Since 2012, Kelly High School has seen <a href=\"http:\/\/progressillinois.com\/quick-hits\/content\/2015\/07\/23\/southwest-siders-speak-out-against-proposed-nobel-charter-high-schools\">almost 1,000 students<\/a> leave for other schools, leading to a loss of money under the district\u2019s per-pupil budgeting scheme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a big hole in the wall in the cafeteria. There\u2019s a lot of cockroaches. It\u2019s really dirty,\u201d Solis said, adding that, because of the loss of money, her school also lost a significant number of clubs in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Solis said she thinks the neighborhood and selective enrollment students are fighting for the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re fighting for education equality,\u201d Solis said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re from Payton or from Kelly or from Curie. We have to work together to make a difference. If not, we\u2019re going to get nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez echoed Solis. \u201cI think it\u2019s our job as student ambassadors to bridge the gap between selective enrollment schools, neighborhood schools and charter schools because there\u2019s such a divide between us,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cIt\u2019s our job to sort of bring us together and say, \u2018Let\u2019s put that aside. It\u2019s time to come together and fight for one cause.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mata reached out to more students from open enrollment schools before the November 13 rally, so students such as Solis and Battung had a more prominent role in the rallies. He called the strategy \u201ca conversation that takes time\u201d so students from open enrollment schools feel the issues facing them are adequately represented.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21228\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/Matta.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21228 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/Matta-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Students protest in the Loop over CPS budgets. Photo taken by Matthew Mata.\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/Matta-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/Matta-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/Matta.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students protest in the Loop over CPS budgets. Photo taken by Matthew Mata.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The students say their schools have been fairly supportive of the protests, and some teachers have even helped them plan their demonstrations. Though CPS has publicly voiced support for the students\u2019 cause, Hernandez said officials have reached out to Lindblom students \u201ckind of trying to get us to back off. It\u2019s really hard to be a student activist, and then your school system is telling you that you shouldn\u2019t be doing this, or they\u2019re trying to intimidate you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez said the move from quiet, reserved high schooler to student activist was worth the transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we actually rally together, we do have a large voice, and it does have an impact. Obviously with CPS coming to our schools and trying to intimidate us, it\u2019s just a sign that what we\u2019re doing is actually having an impact,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cI think students have more of a voice than we think we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Students protest CPS budget cuts (Matthew Mata\/Walter Payton College prep)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kelan Lyons Before this school year, Denise Hernandez was quiet and reserved. Despite competing on her school\u2019s water polo and swimming teams, and being the head coordinator of the robotic team, she wasn\u2019t one to speak out or do anything that could affect her schoolwork. 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