Ted joined Brian Barnhart on News-Gazette’s Penny for Your Thoughts to talk about the poor education results in Champaign and Urbana’s public schools. In Champaign, 54% of white and just 10% of black 3rd-graders can read at grade level. It’s worse in Urbana – just 28% of white and 6% of black 3rd-graders are reading-proficient.
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Cease teaching anything else besides reading , writing and Math until you have at least 90% proficiency rate. If you cannot do that , develop a program of education that can!
Pushing illiterates forward is not helping the individual or society any good at all.
Because George Bush made Federalizing Education his mission. No child left behind.
The American educational system soon learned that the appearance of being successful had started to trump the tolerance for the continuing struggle of being so, thus further institutionalizing social promotions.
After Affirmative Action points are added all of these so called graduates will look like they have an IQ of 250.
“Why are we moving kids through the system when they can preform?” Answer: because the teachers are too busy with social indoctrination brainwashing kids with climate change BS and how to identify proper pronouns to use or how to be outraged by not being allowed to kill the unborn and harvest fetal tissue for cosmetics.