Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about how public schools in Illinois continue to fail their students, why increased property taxes continue to drive residents out of Illinois, why Gov. Pritzker continues to defend Gotion despite its CCP ties, and more.
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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.
This generation of near-illiterates will be the next generation of parents that get blamed for the failure of public education.
If those parents don’t value education their children probably won’t value the importance of getting an education. It won’t matter if it’s CPS or some other school but without engaged students and parents the likelihood of success will be lowered. Maybe you could volunteer to bang on doors and drive these truant kids to school.
Yes, never in history have teachers been tasked with teaching kids who don’t value education!
You’ve said a lot there. The first step in wanting to be good at doing anything is to have a strong desire to do it. If you’ve decided otherwise that you have zero interest you’ve pre-ordained your future in that field. You have to have curiosity about what’s to be done, how to do it well and a drive to excel to be successful at almost anything.
It’s a shame that educators don’t put as much effort into teaching kids to read as they put into blaming everyone else for their failure. Or how about exerting as much effort as they put into gaining political power? Guess there’s only so much exertion that anyone can expend…
Who says educators are blaming everyone else? It’s a shame that people such as yourself that have no clue how to teach and don’t offer up any help only seek to apply blame to teachers instead of helping out the community in need. I guess you have the time to complain but not to actually help.
I actually work at the job I am paid to do. Not sure why you think that it is my responsibility to help do the job that educators are paid to do.
It’s Chicago mentality. “ First we gets dat monay!”. Then you get a pile of, well you know what, in return.
I have teacher friends who say that once you miss the window of opportunity to learn to read, it’s gone. It dooms kids to another and more violent and poorer world.
As a teacher of reading for people with dyslexia, I will say I don’t completely agree with this. For kids who have trouble simply because they haven’t had correct instruction, changing the method of teaching can make a great deal of difference even for older kids. For kids with dyslexia, proper instruction is essential and the earlier the better. For them, waiting too long often leads to permanent slow and labored reading even for those who do make progress
A relative is a well known reading specialist with degrees from Penn and Columbia. She would concur with Patricia’s statement concerning kids with special needs. But she would also point to stats which reflect that if kids get past 3rd grade without some proficiency in reading, they have incredibly difficulty catching up. A principal I know at a school with a diverse population – especially from a socio-economic perspective – is quite open about assigning the strongest teachers to 3rd grade. There is a burnout factor so like a sports team he develops a bench. Of course, since he is… Read more »
It also created an army of 50 something retired millionairs!
Florida has some of the best schools in the country and they spend less than Illinois per student.
Generally speaking FL teachers earn much lower salaries than do IL teachers. Again, money plays some minor role in the educational process overall, but its effect is often minor compared to other variables. The local cultural expectations are much more important most times.
The nuns of Old Joe’s day were on a mission from God.
As a country we have been headed down this path for quite awhile. Educational performance has trended downward, and now the inconvenient truth is largely ignored altogether. The use of standardized tests is being outlawed, and recognizing the best and brightest has been replaced by recognizing the wokest. Colleges are admitting activists over high performers, so the intellectually superior will need to be nimble to succeed. Open borders aren’t helping either. The only hope is for private companies to start driving the country forward. Without the incredibly burdensome regulatory requirements of affirmative action and the public pressure of wokism driven… Read more »
Gee, here’s a thought that’ll be anthema. State aid to Catholic schools. Yep, something that actually works.