Shakes Head

Tuesday 30 July 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

We have people in this country who actually believe that closing underperforming public schools in a budget strapped district is a violation of human rights.

Chicago-based human rights advocates have sent a letter to the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights asking the international body to monitor Chicago’s school closings.

The “letter of allegation” sent Tuesday evening to Geneva, Switzerland, asks U.N. officials to investigate whether the closing of 49 Chicago elementary schools violates children’s human rights.

“The United Nations taking this issue up and giving it serious attention will really bring home to Chicago and the United States that there are violations occurring here of human rights, potentially, not just about a budget crisis,” said Sital Kalantry, the University of Chicago law professor who filed the letter on behalf of the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights.

“(It’s) not just about closing schools to save money, but you need to be concerned about the rights of children when you close schools,” said Kalantry.

*Shakes head*

Get fucking real people. There are children in the world who are suffering actual human rights violations and this is the shit you choose to signal out? This kind of complaint cheapens the actual atrocities in the world that deny people their human rights.

2013-07-30  »  madlibertarianguy