Mark joined The Shaun Thompson Show to talk about the demands of the CTU for its next contract with Chicago, how the education system is manipulated to avoid accountability, why CPS needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, the growing property tax burden across Cook County because of Chicago’s “doom loop,” Chicago’s attempts to find new tax revenue, and more.
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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.
I’d prefer to see yearly cash stipends to the parent, available for renewal upon successful completion of published grade level goals. Everyone needs to have a stake in seeing schools succeed. In the failing CPS system, 0% readers – 0% math skills, many parents are not even concerned about regular attendance. Should the adult choose to doom their own offspring by pocketing the one time infusion of cash, the taxpayers would save money and the schools would be much safer.
I agree stipends would be great but without parental responsibility nothing
Will work.
Have not seen any evidence of responsibility yet.
Why stipends? Eliminate the governmental middle man. Make all schools tuition based. Eliminate the portion of the property taxes that go to public schools, and return it to taxpayers. Even eliminate the requirement to attend school, and social welfare safety nets. Put all of the responsibility on parents and families to get their kids educated if they so choose. People do not value that which they get for free. You get educated, you earn more, you live better. You don’t, good luck. The primary reason we are where we are is that bureaucrats have slowly wrested away parental control, which… Read more »
Whilst I see what you’re getting at, the answer will be as always, “why should the children suffer for having poor parents. If the parents are not doing what they should, someone (in this case the state) must do their job for them.
That would solve little as the goals would just be lowered so all households could get it. Also you’d have every other household complain about discrimination. And it’s always show when you give children the “power of the purse,” over parents, it ends badly. In the end, paying for grades isn’t going to help. Motivation to learn has to be there, if it is not, it mostly will be overlooked.
Kids, today’s word is “voucher.”