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Mark Glennon was on WJPF’s Morning Newswatch with Tom Miller warning about the new teaching standards about to be imposed by the Illinois State Board of Education. The Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, or CRTL will force a political litmus test on all teachers in Illinois, effecting their training, licensing and assessments.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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Keep voting for liberal democrats Illinois and Chicago!
You get what you voted for!
Gotta wonder what foreign language teachers will do, but then English should be taught as a foreign language, especially in Chicago. I also wonder what John Hope Franklin, who taught at the University of Chicago when it was a good school [which it’s not now] would say about this no[n]-sense. Since Illinois is mandating its kids into learned stupidity, Mr. Interviewer, expect more crayon applications. Don’t you dare complain about them; it’s racist. As for teaching history to kids[defined as young people with no life experiences], James Hilton, who wrote Goodbye, Mr. Chips, described history as a subject which really… Read more »
Haven’t you heard? The word is no longer “history” according to California’s pending teaching guidelines. It’s “hxtory.”
Why I thank you, Mr. Glennon, for being “woken up”. Not that I’ll ever use it, since I’m “old school” UC. Perhaps Illinois should change its license plate motto from Land of Lincoln to Land of Woke. All “wokers” will exchange places with the “awaken” who are leaving. End the population drain.
The public school teacher unions are peddling mediocrity, advocating the “social justice” of accepting poor teaching and poor academic performance of students as “equality”. Unions were once simply interested in promoting issues which enhanced teacher pay and teacher benefits, and now are intent on undermining the academic teaching standards of teachers’ jobs performance as well. Don’t teach history, because it offends certain “people of color”? Removing history from core curriculum also reduces the overall teaching workload and their own knowledge-base. Don’t teach grammar, don’t grade grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure, because it unfairly evaluates “people of color”? Nope, like the… Read more »
The most important implication is the new prohibition on grading grammatical rules of the English language.
This will have deleterious impact on students who wish to become attorneys or computer program developers, as both require understanding of writing a language according to rigorous standards.
If the chicago teachers spent as much time and effort teaching as they do whining,resisting and coming up with EVERY excuse they can think of to not do any work,roughly 50% of the students would in the Mensa club!
Ultimately CRTL implies it’s the parents who are guilty. Thats what’s being pedaled- GUILT!!. Astoundingly so many feel they are and are willing to pay for it. Guilt is the new currency in the world of upper income socialism for the few at the expense of the many. Poor folks of color are just stage props people to be exploited as usual.
Dead on.
Guilt and fear, the stock in trade of totalitarian regimes. Americans have been served heaping helpings of both by progressives in the last few years.
Illinois residents, at this point nobody feels sorry for you since you refuse to do the obvious….leave. Is someone forcing you to live there? Not only is the financial situation deteriorating but liberalism/socialism/communism is being forced upon you and your children. Seriously, what’s it going to take for you to get out? Delaying your exit when you know things will only get worse makes me ask, “Are you really so different then the politicians delaying the hard decisions needed to fix the state?”
its a feature of democracies in particular that people have different sets of values and act upon information in ways different from those who may choose to question it. Get over it! Americans don’t all march to the same drummer–for better or worse. Its like the old saying that “one man’s junk is another man’s treasure.”
Marching to a different drummer is fine. Forcing everyone else to march with you (and pay for the parade) is not.
That’s what politics always does no matter the party. But, take heart. The party in power at moment in time might not be so at the next election. ‘round and ’round she goes: where she stops no one knows.
Not so. Political parties do not always force their beliefs on others. Sometimes they actually attempt persuasion. But other parties choose to vilify and coerce anyone who disagrees. That seems in vogue now.
What do you think the passage of laws does if not force the governed to the will of the party in power? Its never “please do …..”. Its always “do this and be rewarded” or “do that and suffer the consequences.” Laws generally favor the politics of the moment. Seems like force to me no matter which party is in power.
You clearly do not understand the U.S. Constitution. Our government was not established to “force the governed to the will of the party in power”. That is precisely what our founding fathers feared, and why government power was limited by the Bill of Rights.
Your comments show just what is wrong in our educational system, and why it must be completely reformed.
That used to be our common perception of Congess’ view of the Constitution in the old days of Hollywood’s portrayals at least. Today’s reality is quite different. All you have to do is watch and listen to the warped spin so many of them put on it during the news each day, justifying every position that most in the public used to find abhorent. Then, to add fuel to that fire just review some of Rudy Giuliano’s nutty statements about what’s just and possible in American politics. We live in a time when spin is everything and truth is what… Read more »
James – what is your point? It is meaningless to discuss the vagaries of power in the absence of a factual context. Do you think this forced indoctrination a good policy? If, as you say, spin is everything the best thing to do would be to take a concrete, succinct position others could follow. If you do support this forced indoctrination, I am curious. Is there any evidence that this kind of policy improves educational outcomes, especially in a global knowledge economy that is quite competitive? Especially for minority students? If there is such evidence, I would really want to… Read more »
My comment of two daqys ago was really aimed toward national politics these days in a general sense and certainly not education nor IL in particular. I try to comment her rare in that all I want to do is inspire thought. The people who are most likely to respond seem to want to enter into a world of childish name-calling and personal denigration. I’d rather avoid all that since it leads to more of the same on each side. “Just the facts, ma’am.” That’s my preference. I state my position as one who has a “live and let live”… Read more »
Round and round, there you go James.
Pay for your cultural struggle sessions on your own dime.
I’m just enjoying the cock-sure nonsense spewed by so many here, aren’t you? Its all so amusing.
Your worldview is the all reason our property taxes are going parabolic, while test scores invert.
** Slow Clap **
I rest my case.
Err, uh, you proved absolutely nothing. Which case are you resting? Are you suffering from dementia?
Is your name really James,i think you are Jesse Sharkey posing as “James”!-lol
This 1000000000%
AND WHEN MANY PEOPLE ARE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE OPPRESSION AND RULES OF ONE GROUP YOU HAVE COMMUNISM. WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.. NOT A DEMOCRACY!
GET OVER IT, WE WILL NOT LAY DOWN!
Well, at least you believe in CAPITALISM.
Why move?
Illinois is broke and the massive reshuffling is about to occur. Have a conversation with a lifelong Democrat and they know it. The other option needs to be different and competent which they aren’t at this moment.
Moving now means moving again in 20 years. All the people who caused this mess had children who moved to Arizona, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida. At the last election, we have the same election problems as Illinois.
Where ever you run to will eventually catch up to Illinois Communism. The only way to stop what we are facing is cut off the head of the Snakes.
ALL STATES NEED TO ADOPT AN ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOR THEIR STATE. THEN A COUPLE COUNTIES IN THE STATE WOULD NOT CONTROL THE OUTCOME OF AN ELECTION FOR A WHOLE STATE.
Lana, that’s a very interesting idea and consistent with the Founders’ belief in a republic instead of direct democracy. Illinois, and certainly Chicago, obviously don’t seem to be capable of governing themselves with the system we have, which is more of a direct democracy than a republic.
Incorporating a single Municipality out of all of unincorporated Illinois, exceeding Chicago population and founded upon codified prohibition of crony socialist political corruption practices would have the same nullifying effect on the Illinois political business-as-usual.