Lasalle Language Academy

We have two children at LaSalle and have found it to be a wonderful experience so far. It is probably not for everyone but that is ok. We have had our children at some of the other «amazing» schools in Chicago, and guess what, they all have their challenges too.
Schools can be what you make of it and the experience you have with your children and the effort you put in as a parent. But for what it is worth LaSalle still offers a better experience than 99% of the other CPS schools in the system.
LaSalle is part of the great set of schools that CPS has created in their magnet system. We can only hope that the model will carry into all the schools out their to provide kids the best education possible.

Is it fair of me to write a review of my grammar school when I am nearly 35 years old? Probably not. But I am going to anyway! Weeee!
I went to a Chicago Public School and I can conjugate a verb properly, tie my own shoes, and tell time (though I am prone to typos — don’t blame my old teachers for that). That right there should say something about how superior this grammar school is to the others in the city. Of course, it is a magnet school, so there’s that.
I do think that starting children in foreign language studies in kindergarten is something that should be done in all U.S. schools. LaSalle does just that and deserves all of its stars on that basis alone.
I remember the day that Katerina Lycheva came there — with the media in tow:
One of my sister’s classmates was Karl-​Heinz Granitza’s (Chicago Sting soccer player back in the day) daughters. OK, that has nothing to do with the price of tea in China. But it’s an interesting fact.
LaSalle is a success story in a city that is plagued with bad public schools.