Obama's Chicago: Horrible Truancy Rate In Elementary School

Life in ObamaLand:
From the Chicago Tribune: Gov. Pat Quinn, state lawmakers and Chicago officials on Monday moved emphatically to address a crisis in elementary-age truancy in city schools exposed by a recent Chicago Tribune investigation....
 The Tribune investigation found that nearly 32,000 Chicago K-8 students — or roughly 1 in 8 — missed four weeks or more of class during the 2010-11 year, as the cash-strapped district does little to stem the problem. For Chicago Public Schools, the empty desks undermine efforts to boost achievement and cost the district millions in attendance-based funding, the Tribune found. For children born into poverty, the flood of missed days threatens to swallow any hope for a better life.
The absenteeism in the elementary grades is especially acute in African-American communities on the South and West sides scarred by gang violence, unemployment and poverty. Counting truancy, excused absences and gaps in enrollment, more than 20 percent of black elementary school students missed at least four weeks of school in 2010-11, compared with 7 percent of whites and 8 percent of Hispanics.
Children with a learning or emotional disability also miss class in disproportionate numbers, despite federal laws designed to keep such students in school. About 42 percent of K-8 students with an emotional disability missed four weeks of classes in 2010-11, compared with 12 percent of students without a disability.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-truancy-update-20121120,0,7720692.story
Everyone rips on the Clark County Schools, but at least we try and do something about truancy.  This includes the use of truancy officers, citing parents if the kid is truant and taking the parents and kids to court, home visits by administrators and school staff and more.  We don't have the truancy problems that Chicago has because we work on it.  And Chicago?  They talk about it.
But this is ObamaLand where their goal in life is to get Obama money and an Obama phone.
ObamaLand, coming to an inner city near you.