Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about how neither mayoral candidate has a vision to turn around Chicago, the importance of spreading real crime and education data instead of rhetoric, how lawmakers in Springfield have embraced the soft bigotry of low expectations, why the Hispanic community has the power to demand a better education for their children, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Wirepoints Report Cards
- Wirepoints’ testimony to the Illinois House Committee on Ed Appropriations: Accountability, not funding, is the core problem with Illinois education
- Wirepoints has new report cards for Illinois’ 20 largest school districts
- Why can only 6 of every 100 Chicago black students do math at grade level? Chicago Mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson offers some clues.
- Good luck attracting more teachers into Illinois classrooms…especially after looking at the record of Illinois’ new State Superintendent.
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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.
Yep, the systemic racism of the Democratic Party/teachers union symbiosis that never gets called out or held accountable……
Do people understand that not educating American children to grade-level standards incrementally weakens the nation? In such a scenario, less capable young people enter the work force, and fewer people are available to make intelligent business decisions for companies that drive America’s economy.
Adults likely understand the importance of your point, but its a rarity for a child to understand that argument to the point of making it a compelling one for his school performance. In general, if they don’t have an immediate–and I do mean IMMEDIATE–and obvious reason to tune-in to any adult-like argument such as your here they won’t.
Yes, yes, they do, mqyl. And they’re doing it because they hate America. They believe it is a systemically racist country built on the labor of black slaves, and has been a white supremacist country from it’s founding. This is not hyperbole, studies show that Democrats are not patriotic and have no nationalism. We are the strongest most powerful country, and they hate you and Republicans and everything the US has ever stood for. They want to destroy and destabilize America, and they believe that a progressive utopia will arise from the ashes. The Bolsheviks, the Jacobins, the Maoists, they… Read more »
Indeed. That means it’s working.
Not being able to read or write is the perfect excuse for crime. Your honor my client is an innocent victim of society. My client is a total moron and not responsible for his actions ! He’s cabinet level material as a total moron.
12% — Yikes! We could improve that stat IF we were willing to stop socially promoting and start REQUIRING students to demonstrate mastery of grade level basics for promotion. Best class I ever had was a group of fourth graders who’d been ‘scared straight’ by having to attend summer school after Daley instituted a test score minimum to move from 3rd to 4th. That was in ‘97-‘98, though. Now, I can’t even give a child a D, even if they read at a 2nd grade level in 5th grade (a lot do) and refuse to do work (partly because we… Read more »
As an avid WVON listener, I can tell you that the “community” doesn’t give a damn.
Amazing, that people who cant read sure can talk.