Mark joined WVON’s Rufus Williams to talk about why over 40 percent of Chicago’s black students are not even close to reading at grade level, why this is an existential threat to the city’s future and why school choice is the answer to the crisis.
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- How many grades behind are Chicago Public Schools’ students?
- An irresponsible and wrongheaded op-ed on racial preferences by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul
- ‘Equity’ fail: Illinois blacks suffer nation’s 2nd-highest unemployment rate, largest black-white gap
- Illinois nation’s 5th-worst state for jobs in June, 258K Illinoisans without work
Audio and summary 
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.
The vast majority of the voters chose for this system to continue and appear to be perfectly happy with the results. Their leaders want it this way so the vast majority of the voters can continue to be exploited. Anyone that really cares about their kids needs to move on from exposure to the CPS.
And yet a significant minority of those same black kids will eventually attend equally-mediocre Chicago State and Governor State colleges, attain BAs of questionable merit, and become CPS school teachers themselves.
Also, “not being able to read anywhere near grade-level” never prevented a CPS HS graduate to get a city or county job.
Two routes to middle-income salaries, neither requiring 12th grade reading and math proficiencies.
Streeterville – don’t disagree with you, but the low graduation rates of the colleges you mention mean there are a number of students who don’t finish and take on debt which greatly disorders their lives. The costs of not receiving an adequate high school education pop up in a number of ways.
Middle income likely provided by theft. The theft of tax payer dollars to reward mediocrity.
Which, let’s be honest, is a short term approach…. Many of us, who pay the bills, are already planning our exit…. As we leave, this ponzi scheme becomes self-defeating…
Which will result in less demand for these jobs…. Good luck and God-speed to the takers,
Land of Lincoln? Nope, Land of the Moochers…
Side note…. if you’re ever read Atlas Shrugged, JB is EXACTLY the epitome of the moocher class, with virtue signaling BJ as his loyal lackey, side-kick, intellectually challenged stooge.
It’s pretty obvious that teaching students anything useful to allow them a chance at employment isn’t a priority in the classroom. Pensions, raises, equity and feelings are the mantra of what are now essentially day long, soon to be year round daycare centers.
Why are black students not learning? Union run Chicago schools aren’t teaching. The only instruction these days is the following
— hate America
— hate anything to do with God or religion
— hate white people
— hate your own genitals/get mutilating sex change surgery at 11 years old
— hate anyone who believes in hard work and achievement
— hate anyone who points out the failure of Chicago schools
— hate anyone who thinks that black children can succeed on their own
Highest cost per student, poorest results. Just pass the students through the system and get a huge pension at the end. So why should the teachers bother to teach? The teachers themselves should be given a reading test; I suspect many of them cannot read at grade level.