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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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So functional literacy is a “white supremacy” issue?
Many pre-columubian cultures didn’t have written languages, so yes, evil Europeans forced literacy upon them.
This pathetic CPS school teacher may as well come right out and just say it:
Education itself is whiteness and he and his students want nothing to do with it.
Ray is a racist fool with a beard (white) that does not make him appear any wiser. I couldn’t get more than 6 paragraphs in.
Difficult to read all the way to the end. Insanity combined with hatred for “whiteness” . This is what passes for thoughtful analysis these days.
At least we apply some standard measurements. This guys a Chicago Dope. Apply measurements is White Supremacy? How do you know where you need attention?
The very concept of learning and education itself is whiteness. What did man, our ancestors, need to learn from our forefathers when we were hunter-gatherers? Here’s how to fish, here are the good plants to eat, here’s how to trick monkey into net. They had no use for letters, or texts or tomes, or science or complicated thought. Some of us today, instead of hunting, merely gather food at the wal-mart using the EBT card. This is not limited to just one race, it’s all races that live like this in America 2021.
The problem I have with his focus on finding “systemic” causes is that when you blame the “system”, it is always someone else’s fault and no one is held accountable. And reporting that 30% of the students received “F’s”? First of all, it is a fact which isn’t in an of itself a reflection of white supremacy. And the facts reflect a tragedy of considerable consequence that no reasonable person would feel anything but concern. It is as if the author is saying reporting any negative facts (either implied or explicit) about minority students should be discouraged.
I agree with you and take it one step further: this teacher is basically saying that black and brown children are failing school BECAUSE what they are being taught is a white supremacist curriculum. BIPOC are being taught what white people want them to be taught. The three R’s, (reading, writing and arithmetic) are white supremacist in and of themselves; and BIPOC children should be taught other things instead. The education system needs to be rebuilt from scratch to teach BIPOC in their own way. I have not yet, and likely will never, read more of this guy’s blog posts,… Read more »
They are trying to turn our schools into progressive madrassas.
There are numerous studies which reflect that a lack of reading skills and low literacy levels are significant factors in juvenile delinquency and later, incarceration. Note that these studies do not deal with race (no surprise, low skills have a negative impact on everyone). I think this is where the author fails – there are big time negative consequences for not being literate, and those F’s unfortunately mean something in the real world.
It’s difficult to get into the crazy head of this blogger/teacher (and people like him), but I think he understands that low literacy is a significant factor in juvenile delinquency. But instead of blaming the failing education system (which he himself is part of) he instead blames the greater society – not for failing him, but for forcing his students to engage with a white supremacist cirriculum of the Three R’s the first place. Forcing BIPOC to live in a society that requires literacy and reading skills in and of itself IS white supremacy and he wishes we lived in… Read more »