Every 10 Days A Chicago Public School Student Dies

The Chicago Tribune reports:

So far this school year, at least 27 Chicago Public Schools students have been killed. That's one young life every 10 days.

District officials do not keep an official tally, but they know 20 students have been shot to death -- matching the highest total since they began tracking it nine years ago. The Tribune has identified seven more students who were beaten, suffocated or stabbed to death.

Last week was especially deadly. A Hyde Park High School student was killed Monday. A few days later, Blair Holt, a junior at Julian, was shot to death while riding a CTA bus home from school. On Friday, the body of a 14-year old Cameron Elementary School student was found in an abandoned house.

No word yet from the urban lovers on this one.