Back of the Yards, Chicago Military-Bronzeville, King, Phoenix, Simeon, Solorio, Vocational and Young will not be able to play crucial Week 9 games.
By Michael O'Brien@michaelsobrien Oct 23, 2019, 4:29pm CDT
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Simeon’s Jacquez Woodland (1) spins away from Taft’s Ryan Porebski (44). Kevin Tanaka/For the Sun-TimesEight Public League football teams have lost the chance to advance to the Illinois High School Association’s state football playoffs after Chicago Public Schools canceled classes for Thursday due to the ongoing Chicago Teachers Union strike.
Back of the Yards, Chicago Military-Bronzeville, King, Phoenix, Simeon, Solorio, Vocational and Young are the teams impacted.
“It’s very emotional and disheartening,” Simeon coach Dante Culbreath said. “These kids work so hard. To lose a game is one thing. To be caught up in this is a totally different thing. I’m getting calls from emotional kids.”
According to IHSA strike bylaws, if football practices have been terminated for seven days (excluding Sundays) a team may not resume competition until after three days of practice. The teams cannot practice if there is no school. Thursday will be the seventh day the teams have missed practice, so that rule kicks in.
The eight teams won’t have time to get the three practices in and play a game before the state playoffs are seeded by the IHSA on Saturday afternoon. A spokesperson for the IHSA confirmed that situation on Wednesday.
Simeon, Chicago Military-Bronzeville and Phoenix will all be short of the eight games played that are necessary to qualify for the playoffs.
“This was the first year most of my team has played football,” Bronzeville coach Lorenzo Johnson said. “To be on the verge of making the playoffs for the first time in school history was a major accomplishment on its own. So it is hard to swallow right now. They are disappointed.”
Back of the Yards, King, Solorio, Vocational and Young are all 4-4 and needed one more win to likely guarantee a spot in the state playoffs. Without the fifth win none are likely to have enough playoff points to make the field as a four-win team.
I'm not a fan of any public employees being able to unionize,that being said,why all the rancor towards the teachers? Tough break for the kids who can't play ball,but I thought school was a heck of a lot more than the quality of their sports programs. This is the same attitude of most of the Southside catholic high schools which try to pass themselves off as institutions of higher education but merely are all pretty much just sports mills.I'm thinking that the majority of this blog's readership has at least some tie to a city worker or two, and probably even the blog moderator. So the question I have is why is it okay for the other city employees to make outrageous demands but when the teachers do it's unacceptable. And no to the doubters I do not have a skin in this game
ReplyDeleteAnti-Catholic feelings?
DeleteFIRE THE BASTARDS, ENOUGH OF THIS BULL
DeleteNo anti-catholic feelings at all, just stating a plain fact. They are not college prep schools like they promote themselves to be. Especially Rita & Rice
DeleteTeachers aren't getting shot at or running into burning buildings.
DeleteAs shown on secondcitycop.blogspot.com, the Chicago Police have been without a contract for more than 840 days compared to the 112 the Chicago Teachers. Chicago Teachers contribute 2% to their pensions, Chicago Police 9.5%. So how do you compare "other" city employees making outrageous demands. So without skin in the game, you aren't in a position to compare different city agencies and the needs of their employees. Jagoff
DeleteAhh,a SCC reader. Show me where CTU costs the city's taxpayers 100 mil per year in payouts for their antics like the cowboys over at CPD do
DeleteBefore you jump on me for being anti-cop,I'm not. I strongly wish the city would defend themselves in what I consider to be frivolous and BS claims against CPD, however,every time we start turning a corner with how our police are viewed by the locals,along comes the likes of a JVD
DeleteBefore you jump on me for being anti-cop,I'm not. I strongly wish the city would defend themselves in what I consider to be frivolous and BS claims against CPD, however,every time we start turning a corner with how our police are viewed by the locals,along comes the likes of a JVD
DeleteJVD did nothing wrong Laqaun should have dropped the knife and be taken into custody you have no right to resist arrest.
Deletesouthside tony is really painting schools with a broad brush. My son went to Rita and they systematically, during four years improved greatly in their education. If Rita and Brother Rice are not college prep schools then very very few schools are. If you look beyond the sports, (my kid was not involved in sports), their academic college placement rates are way above the average high school, except maybe some affluent suburban districts. You are simply looking at what these schools tend to emphasize to the outside world, ie sports, and assuming that is all that is going on at those institutions. They focus on the sports in order to get and keep attendance high....that doesnt mean their curriculum is weak. And I would even admit Br Rice is above Rita, but stereotypes and generalizations are not the best way to argue for your position. Check the facts at those schools regarding the amount of Scholarship money given to high achieving students from those schools. My son received $100,000 to attend Loyola, coming from St Rita!
Deletesouthside tony is really painting schools with a broad brush. My son went to Rita and they systematically, during four years improved greatly in their education. If Rita and Brother Rice are not college prep schools then very very few schools are. If you look beyond the sports, (my kid was not involved in sports), their academic college placement rates are way above the average high school, except maybe some affluent suburban districts. You are simply looking at what these schools tend to emphasize to the outside world, ie sports, and assuming that is all that is going on at those institutions. They focus on the sports in order to get and keep attendance high....that doesnt mean their curriculum is weak. And I would even admit Br Rice is above Rita, but stereotypes and generalizations are not the best way to argue for your position. Check the facts at those schools regarding the amount of Scholarship money given to high achieving students from those schools. My son received $100,000 to attend Loyola, coming from St Rita!
DeleteBasketball season anyway.
ReplyDeleteRita Rice is a nice person.
ReplyDeleteRules are rules. Sorry kids!
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