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About This Document: Surrounded by shuttered businesses, rampant violence and the faraway world of the global city's skyline, many of Chicago's black youth have been living "in a permanent state of recession," [Brown] says. "There's always been a consistent disinvestment in youth, period. There's no structure for real development. Now, with new [city and state] budget priorities, it's made a bad situation worse."In the year following 16-year-old Derrion Albert's fatal beating in a melee near Fenger High School in September 2009, 78 Chicago children were killed. Jackson keeps a list of their names, ages, dates of assault and causes of death. He runs his fingers across the names and says, "These didn't happen in a vacuum." The children saw them or heard about them, but "didn't process these deaths. They weren't given treatment for PTSD, though they are living with post-traumatic stress. Now they're operating under a siege mentality - they don't know if they're going to be alive tomorrow''"If you go to a fourth-grade classroom," says Brown, "and ask who's seen someone get shot, ninety percent of the class will raise their hands. If you ask who lives near a liquor store, who's seen a drug deal, who's seen the police beat someone up, you'll get the same response." To Brown and Jackson, the crushing poverty and the violence that it breeds is the root cause of low-performing students and schools. Oppression is a culture that has taught kids this is what they deserve," Brown says.

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Tags: In These Times, Jan 2012, The Poverty of School Reform, Handley, Joel, Feature, Poverty, Education reform, African Americans, Neighborhoods, Chicago Illinois

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