Mayor Rahm Sends In The Isat Inspectors To Drummond Elementary School

• Kevin Tanaka/For Sun-Times Media
• Just when you thought Mayor Rahm had done all the damage he could do to our schools, CPS starts pulling kids out of Drummond’s classrooms to rat on their teachers.

When I got word yesterday that central office inspectors were hauling in kids from the classroom to interrogate them about their teachers, I said—no way!

Then it turned out—it’s true! Central office inspectors really were interrogating kids without parent notification at Drummond elementary school about their teachers and the ISAT.

Explanation! The ISAT is a standardized test that CPS officials insists kids take even though they—the officials—are phasing it out.

Huh?

By the way, Drummond—which is in Bucktown—is a relatively middle-class school with no shortage of lawyers among its parent body.

So apparently it’s OK for kids to miss valuable class time to rat on their teachers. But it’s not OK to miss time to oppose the mayor’s TIF deals.