Chicago college students simply can’t catch a break from the adults who repeatedly fail them.
In October, the complete Chicago Board of Schooling resigned after repeated conflicts with the town’s Mayor, Brandon Johnson.
Johnson then appointed Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson as the brand new President, a job Ikenna Johnson couldn’t maintain on to for per week.
Jewish Insider stories that Mayor Johnson’s hand-picked chief posted greater than a dozen Fb posts with antisemitic statements following Hamas’ assault on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.
Leaders all through the town known as on Ikenna Johnson to resign.
Over the past yr, newly-appointed Chicago Public College Board President Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson has made deeply offensive and antisemitic feedback, calling into doubt his skill to pretty characterize Jewish college students and households in Chicago Public Faculties.
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— Alderman Debra Silverstein (@50thWardChicago) October 30, 2024
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson simply appointed the antisemitic, pro-Hamas Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson as Chicago’s schooling board president. Johnson’s agenda is obvious: the indoctrination of a whole era of youngsters in Chicago. https://t.co/PtNf64gOuQ pic.twitter.com/e7BNsLx9vy
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) October 31, 2024
After lower than per week, Ikenna Johnson resigned on Thursday.
Chicago Board of Schooling president Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson has resigned on the mayor’s request, over what the mayor known as “antisemitic, misogynistic, and conspiratorial statements.” https://t.co/rrvFs66XzK
— CBS Chicago (@cbschicago) October 31, 2024
Johnson issued a press release late Wednesday apologizing “to the Jewish neighborhood.”
“The remarks I posted have been reactive and insensitive, and I’m deeply sorry for not being extra exact and deliberate in my feedback posted final yr,” Johnson wrote. “Since then, I’ve requested for and acquired suggestions from my Jewish associates and colleagues, who helped me be extra considerate in the best way I deal with these delicate issues.”
However further Fb posts surfaced Thursday wherein Johnson supported a conspiracy idea that 9/11 was “an inside job” and questioned why working girls don’t need households.
It’s a disgrace that Chicago’s leaders care extra about politics than the success of the town’s college students. A current Illinois State Board of Schooling report card is dreadful.
In 30 faculties in Illinois, not a single scholar can learn at grade degree, 22 of that are within the Metropolis of Chicago.
In 53 faculties, not a single scholar can do math at grade degree, 33 of that are in Chicago.