By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
“When you think of a place like Chicago, these kids, you’re more likely to get shot than you are to get a world-class education in some of these places.”
That was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ comment about Chicago’s crime and failed education system late last month.
Hyperbole, maybe, but not that far off if you only consider the city’s struggling black community.
Data from the Mayor’s Violence Reduction Dashboard shows there were 3,512 fatal and non-fatal shooting victims in 2022, nearly 20 percent of which were aged 19 and under.
With black Chicagoans, on average, making up over three quarters of all victims, that’s about 500 black youths shot in 2022.
How does that compare to the number of black Chicago Public School students getting a “world-class” education?
We looked at the Illinois Report Card data for 2022 and found that only a dismal 0.4 percent of Chicago’s 110,000 black students exceeded the requirements for math – a proxy for “world-class” education. That’s just shy of 500 black students.
DeSantis basically nailed it.
The fact that his statement is even close to true shows just how badly Chicago’s leaders are failing the city’s children – not only through their failure to tamp down on violent crime but also through their inability to educate.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Another 52 shot, 10 murdered in Chicago this weekend. How long will Mayor Johnson avoid deterrence
- Gov. Pritzker echoes Mayor Johnson’s vacuous comments on Chicago crime
- What Chicago requires immediately is deterrence. Stop the bleed. Fast.
- New CPS data: Mayor Lightfoot, Chicago Teachers Union continue to keep dozens of empty, failing schools open
- 50 years of failure: Norman Lear’s ‘Good Times’ first criticized Chicago’s policy of automatically passing students in 1974. It’s still happening today.
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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.
And never ever could there be any possible connection between the guaranteed upper-income providers of the $30,000 CPS abysmal educations, non of whom live in low income black communities, and the endless B on B carnage and so called community dis-investment? It’s just not how the equity hustle game works.
Illinois Dems can’t handle the truth. Illinois Dems are falling on their knees in solidarity with Biden. They want him to run because they believe he can beat Trump. Living in Illinois, I’m used to voting for the lesser of two evils, and I’ve learned exacly where the evil is. Not a big Trump fan but certainly do not want Biden in office any longer. Illinois Dems are responsible for kids dying on their watch. More bad decisions equals more deaths. Nope, no more Biden. Save our children!.
So you disagree because you want Democrats to take care of you. You’re willing to risk getting addicted ti drugs, eat lousy free food, accept substandard healthcare and no education. You’re okay living in a house in a box with a toilet on the sidewalk as long as you can lay around all day and do nothing. Got it.
The look on comrade Flintstones face speaks volumes.
You can tell he is itching to bloviate about ‘wokeness’
He looks like a dejected Cookie Monster, lol…
Each generation of Chicagoans will naturally become more ignorant than the prior due to the public schools. How can a typical child learn when they have undereducated parents, undereducated grandparents, and the very same public school system now teaching them?
Now, let’s see how smart Wirepoint readers are with a question. If the problem has grown increasingly worse for a couple generations, how long will it take to fix the problem?
I reject the premise of this question. This is not a problem government intervention can fix.
I don’t know what ‘world class education’ Mayor Johnson got while living here for nearly fifty years, but so far as mayor he talks as though he has rocks in his head.
Dead on! Most “classic liberals” were intelligent enough to know their history and facts. Johnson is a Marxist and activist first and foremost. That’s what makes him the latest dummy to occupy city hall. They are making the old man look like a brain surgeon. 🤣🤣 At least Daley knew how to run the city. These people are morons. Sad we get the lowest common denominator.
Forget world-class education. What about the education you get from being raised by a loving two parent family before you ever get to learning anything else. Is Chicago at the point of looking at public “education” as some sort of Panacea, god of healing, to come along and suddenly raise kids? And a unionized one at that? The horse has already left the barn folks, don’t count on education to solve the real problems going on. Yes the math works out in this comparison. But not because the public schools are crappy, which they are. A whole lot more is… Read more »
You are right that government trying to solve family problems is futile. So why is that exactly what the teacher unions propose to fix education? More and more government programs that will supposedly fix society, and only when society is fixed can they actually teach. ToughLove is right- the previous generations have been broken by the combination of wrong-headed progressive programs, and an education system that defaulted on its primary purpose. To expect these parents and grandparents to now be model citizens who will come to the rescue of a broken system is ludicrous. But it sure is easy to… Read more »
Government schools are rapidly undergoing a transition from institutions of learning into institutions of indoctrination. We are in the middle of that transition. As I often say, as recently as a generation ago, students in CPS used to learn the 3 R’s but drop out rates neared 50%. Today, graduation rates are nearing 90% or higher but students are not learning the 3 R’s. Instead, schools are promoting the rapid transition to pure indoctrination through backdoors like Social-Emotion Learning and the incorporation of CRT and gender theory into formerly neutral subjects like math and P.E. None of this is new,… Read more »
They were trying to implement the same “revolution” in Germany 100 years ago. Mao was a student of Stalin.
Now, now. It takes wet from the womb , dawn to dusk daycare, er school, and social services that relive parents of any responsibilities to their offspring to raise a child.
Authorize Vasectomy Clinics, whereby anybody can receive $500 in cash post-op !
Love that idea, but after the vasectomy and the $500 are gone, how do you get that guy to vote for another Democrat? Look up the lyrics to Tracy Chapman’s song “Fast Car” from 35 years ago. Nothing has changed. Dems are still keeping so many people down.
If you can read the lyrics from 35 year old “Fast Car” and still disagree with me, YOU HAVE A REAL PROBLEM.