Fenger students who sued Chicago Public Schools may transfer to Lincoln Park High School

Twitter user @WesternPub echoed this confusion in a Tuesday night tweet: "Chi Public Schools will let Fenger students transfer to 1 of 4 schools. One of them is in [expletive] Lincoln Park. The kids live by Indiana!"

In a Chicago Public Radio story, concerned Fenger parent Cassandra White-Robinson expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the court case. She feels that the transfer school options are either too dangerous or too far: "Why would they put Lincoln Park High School on the table. Do you know we live 5 minutes from Indiana?"

According to the Medill report, White-Robinson is so concerned for her children's safety that she is pulling them from school altogether. She believes that the only way to keep Fenger students from Altgeld Gardens safe is to open up a community high school within the Carver Military Academy and allow these students to attend there.

In 2006, Carver changed from a community high school that serviced students from the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex to the military academy, leading the Altgeld students to be reassigned to Fenger.

Last month, a CBS 2 report said that the lawyer representing the ten students who sued Chicago Public Schools, Christopher Cooper, filed the suit because these students felt unsafe at school after 16-year-old Fenger honors student Derrion Albert was beaten to death.

The article attributes the violence at Fenger to an on-going conflict between students who live in the Roseland neighborhood where the school is located and the students who take the bus to Fenger from Altgeld Gardens.

According to the report, the students blame the violence on the "negative stigma associated with living in public housing" which leads to tension between students who live in the Roseland community and those who live in the "projects."

In the same CBS 2 report, Cooper said, "These students are afraid to to go to school and have a legitimate fear...Not one of them wants to be the next Derrion Albert." Many of the students have not returned to school since Albert was fatally beaten on Sept. 24.

Now, these students have the opportunity to resume their studies at one of the transfer school options. And although the news is still fresh, people are already expressing strong opinions about how these transfers may affect Lincoln Park.

In the Chicago Breaking News article, one person commented, "Let's see how all the Lincoln Park parents feel about having kids from Fenger attend the very same school their precious angels attend..."

Lincoln Park Now readers--what do you think?

Molly Horan contributed to this story.