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That's exactly what parents and community members were afraid of when they learned about the district's partnership with CEP [See City Paper "Educational Protest" Aug. 30, 2007]. Even before the school year started, some parents were calling CEP - whose slogan is "Be Here, Behave, Be Learning" - a "prison system."
"That was a bad one," [Kaye Cupples] admits. "I'm not going to say that we're not having problems. We are capturing many of the behavior problems in the district," and in that context, "these numbers are very mild."Both [SEAN DANIELS] and his mother say they have seen slight improvements in CEP since December, when Georgia Vassilakis took over as principal. [Rhonda Daniels] says that she removed Sean from CEP in January anyway, for home schooling. But Vassilakis, she says, told her Sean could come to CEP and do his work alone with a teacher, isolated from other students. "I just go and do my work, then leave," Sean Daniels says. "My mom doesn't want me in that environment anymore."See the full content of this document
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School of Hard Knocks
ONE THING SEAN DANIELS has learned at his alternative North Side school is how Darwinism works. Unfortunately, he hasn't learned it from his teachers.
Much of the time, "We fight and riot," he says of his fellow students. "It's basically survival of the fittest.""We would just do what we wanted to do," adds Daniels, a ninth-grader in the grades 6-12 school. "At least one period a day we played the whole period. [The teachers] couldn't cont...See the full content of this document
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