Good on NBC 5 for not listening to ISBE’s rhetoric about Illinois’ 2023 student outcomes and instead citing the dismal results highlighted in Wirepoints’ report. Reporter Mary Ann Ahern pointed out that just 8 percent of black students statewide could do math at grade level this year. Ted pointed out that education officials are too focused on spending more money instead of what matters most: literacy.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- 5 facts they don’t want you to know about Illinois’ 2023 student test results
- Chicago: Where violence and dismal education intersect
- While Illinois set to kill school choice, North Carolina passes school choice for all
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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.
Tie literacy rates to the amount of money the CPS will get. If the students only have 10% literacy rate , the CPS gets 10% of it’s budget. If they attain 90 % they get 90% of their budget. Makes sense to me!
Education today reminds me of this Pink Floyd song:
https://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pink+floyd/we+dont+need+no+education_21434883.html
It’s ironic that the mantra for failure is “ the kids don’t want to learn! Their parents need to be more involved! Blah, blah, blah!” Yet fly the choice of school flag in the bloated, woke teacher unions face and get ready for the waterworks.
Twenty-two years in a public high school math classroom ended for me this year with a lucrative, lavish public pension provided by ignorant Illinois residents who never demand accountability. I was finally driven out by the woke crowd now in charge that makes their political projects a priority over learning and acquiring basic knowledge. Ninety-six percent of teachers “effective” my #*+<! Maybe 25%. And administrators? They are not trained to champion learning with passion. They are trained to avoid conflict, hide failure and move students along. Their goals have nothing to do with learning. Solutions will not come from within.… Read more »
Preach! I’m right there with ya. Your second paragraph is 100% spot on, especially about administrators. As for “teachers”? I am no longer shocked at how intellectually incurious and positively mediocre (or less) some of the faculty are.
Ted, thanks for the effort. But trying to pass off 60 sec piece on education as news is a joke but unfortunately meets the attention span of typical dullard viewers. And pathetically for papers, Trib has no article on ISBE report card results and ST has article only mentioning CPS increased HS graduation rates w pols giving themselves a pat on the back and nothing on % of kids reading or performing math at grade level.
But Root Causes Johnson and the CTU is all about spending money first. In fact Democrats have been doing this at least since President Johnson’s Great Society initiatives with consistently dismal results. What is the old adage, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it? Sadly, you can say the same about most Chicago voters.