{"id":31239,"date":"2016-02-24T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=31239"},"modified":"2016-02-24T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:19:11","slug":"rebel-rouser-high-school-activist-speaks-up-for-better-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/rebel-rouser-high-school-activist-speaks-up-for-better-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Rouser: High school activist speaks up for better education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Morgan Gilbard <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Nidalis Burgos stood her ground when police threatened to arrest her during a school closings protest in 2013. A teacher told Burgos, who was only 15 at the time, that the incident would cost her a future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy eighth-grade teacher came into the classroom and said, &#8216;Hey, just so you know, if you do this, colleges won\u2019t accept you,&#8217; \u201d Burgos recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Now a senior at Lincoln Park High School and a prominent figure in the burgeoning student-led activism in Chicago Public Schools, Burgos still doesn\u2019t regret that night\u2014especially now that her college dreams are approaching on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got my three acceptance letters and all I could think was, &#8216;Hey, Ms. Macey was incorrect,&#8217; \u201d Burgos said.<\/p>\n<p>Proving people wrong is a hobby for Burgos, who is doing just that as co-founder of Chicago Students Union, the champion force behind student-led advocacy for education funding and reform. Support for the Students Union has increased at the same pace that the district&#8217;s pile of problems has grown. CPS has made $75 million in cuts for this fiscal year, is in the midst of seemingly endless teacher contract negotiations and needs a $725 million loan to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<p>The student\u00a0protesters who follow Burgos at marches and rallies are fed up\u2014 and their numbers are growing into the hundreds.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"\u201crelated\u201d\">\n<h2>Related Stories<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/students-protest-cps-teacher-cuts-lack-of-school-funding\/\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\">Students protest CPS teacher cuts, lack of school funding<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Burgos, the school closings that almost led to her arrest were personal.<\/p>\n<p>Although she dodged a police record, Burgos and others lost that fight and several others. The closing of Burgos&#8217; old elementary school meant that her siblings would not benefit from the same music program\u00a0that launched Burgos into one of the best high schools in the city. Now, she worries that her siblings and other minority kids in lower-income neighborhoods won\u2019t get that chance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32006\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32006 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/protest-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"CPS protest\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/protest-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/protest-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/protest-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/protest-web.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burgos (left) led approximately 300 students in a march at the Thompson Center on Jan. 15.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat orchestra gave me opportunity to exceed the limitations that were set for me in my neighborhood,\u201d Burgos, a violinist, explained. She feels that some of her peers at Lincoln Park don\u2019t understand the importance of educational opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go to such a rich school, they feel like they\u2019re entitled to an education, you know? They don\u2019t know the loss of a school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Burgos\u2019 peers at Lincoln Park didn\u2019t know other things either, like how to pronounce her Puerto Rican first name. Burgos conceded by going by \u201cNini\u201d \u2013 a nickname that stuck until support and recognition for the Students Union took off in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all honesty, I saw the respect level shift. Now, everyone calls me Nidalis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Park\u2019s student body is 28.2 percent white, while the district\u2019s enrollment is just 9.3 percent white. Burgos says her white peers are more aware of Chicago\u2019s inequality than ever since the release of the video of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/in-chicago-a-murder-charge-and-a-police-video-as-a-city-holds-its-breath\/\">Lacquan McDonald police shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, her greatest obstacle remains mobilizing students who come from more middle-class families and are relatively unaffected by the district\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n<p>Burgos found an ally in her English teacher Kevin Streicher. She talks about Streicher and his class with enough excitement to remind one that she carries a genuine thirst to learn. One of the few teachers who addresses racial inequality in his lessons, Streicher stands out as an advocate for Burgos and her peers in a neighborhood that has more boutiques than minorities. He listens to their excitement when they return to school after a demonstration downtown.<\/p>\n<p>One student asked Streicher if what they did actually mattered\u2014 if it could actually make a difference. Streicher credits that awareness to Burgos. \u201cJust by providing the opportunity, that\u2019s one of the ways she impacts her peers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burgos\u2019 time at Lincoln Park is getting shorter. She was accepted at her first choice for college, Loyola University of Chicago, but money is a factor in whether or not she\u2019ll attend. She hopes she&#8217;ll still find the time to play the violin, read the books she loves and binge-watch her favorite dramas on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of where she ends up, Burgos&#8217; dream is to become a defense attorney for minorities, in hopes of \u201crighting the wrongs\u201d throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching that goal would justify every time that Burgos spoke out instead of remaining quiet and asked for more because she knew she needed to.<\/p>\n<p>She recalls her mother explaining the status quo that she would face as a person of color early on. \u201cMy mom has always put me in my place: \u2018You need to finish high school and go to college because you\u2019re a minority and people are going to look down on you. So prove them wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Nidalis Burgos (left), a leading student activist, chats with friends at Lincoln Park High School (Morgan Gilbard\/Medill).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Morgan Gilbard Nidalis Burgos stood her ground when police threatened to arrest her during a school closings protest in 2013. A teacher told Burgos, who was only 15 at the time, that the incident would cost her a future. \u201cMy eighth-grade teacher came into the classroom and said, &#8216;Hey, just so you know, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":32005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[675,585],"tags":[270,371,625],"class_list":["post-31239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-justice","category-winter-2016","tag-chicago-public-schools","tag-education","tag-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rebel Rouser: High school activist speaks up for better education - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/rebel-rouser-high-school-activist-speaks-up-for-better-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rebel Rouser: High school activist speaks up for better education - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Morgan Gilbard Nidalis Burgos stood her ground when police threatened to arrest her during a school closings protest in 2013. 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