Persuasive Essay On Closing Down Schools

In the article “As CPS schools empty: Mayor Emanuel, Dot let this crisis go to waste”, the Chicago tribune Editorial Board develops the different opinions on the controversial topic of closing down schools. School enrollment for Chicago public schools has become worse, in a comparison that was made with the enrollment for this fall it showed the dramatically drop of students that have vanish from CPS classrooms, which has led to the close of many schools. In 2013 fifty schools where close and this number might continue to increase for 2018. Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to close down schools that have low attendance performance to stop wasting unnecessary money on those schools. Next Emanuel states that with the close of schools students will have a better education and it will help save funds to help pay the school system debt. He argues that a serious crisis like this one should not go to waste and that it is an opportunity to do things that you thought you could not do before.
Downsizing CPS will not cause that kid have a …show more content…
Hundreds of people will suffer from unemployment if the closing of more school is take into action. Chicago Tribune Editorial Board said that “CPS closed nearly 50 elementary schools in 2013. That angered many parents, teachers, union leaders and students. So the Mayor and the education promised – unwisely- not to close any more until 2018”. Fifty elementary schools that left hundreds of people without an employment and without the guarantee that this situation will not repeat one more time. The repetition of the closing more elementary schools next year might influence student when choosing a professional career, seeing the hard time that teachers are having with looking for a job or yet keeping it without being afraid of losing it because the close down of the school