Will Cps Reverse Itself On Ames Middle School

• BRIAN JACKSON/SUN-TIMES MEDIA
• Will the mayor (pictured here with Alderman Robert Maldonado) bow to the will of the people and order the Board of Education to reverse itself?

If Chicago truly were a democracy, the members of the Board of Education would admit they had royally messed up and would reconvert Ames from a marine academy back to a regular neighborhood school.

Here’s the deal . . .

I’m not sure exactly why Maldonado hankered so passionately for a marine school. He never served in the marines when he was young and fit and capable of fighting.

Then they voted to convert Ames to a military academy, just as the mayor wanted.

They even won about 65 percent of the vote in the four precincts in Maldonado’s 26th Ward.

Hey, Mr. Mayor—here’s my advice. Drop this baby into the same circular file where you dumped your plan to rename Stony Island Avenue for Bishop Brazier.