Wirepoints was interviewed by Peoria’s 25News Now to discuss the failure of the Peoria public school system to educate students in the tri-county area.
In Peoria School District 150, just 1% of students at Manual High School, only 3% at Peoria High and 31% of students at Richwoods High, can read at grade level, according to state numbers for the past academic year.
Read the 25News Now article here
The results are just as bad across all grade levels, we said, and results for children are dire: “if a child can’t read in the 3rd grade, he or she won’t have success. He or she will struggle to do English in the 5th grade, Science in the 7th grade. Once they lose their ability to keep up in class, they act up, they don’t focus and it’s really hard for them to get back into the game.”
Peoria’s superintendent had this, among other things, to say: “These challenges are real to our city and follow our children into the classroom…Historical racism/classism has contributed to the marginalization of most of our student population.”
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system – Wirepoints Special Report
- How many grades behind are Chicago Public Schools’ students?
- Chicago Public Schools doesn’t deserve another penny (Part 2)
- Illinois on track to become first state to kill school choice
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Richwoods High School is the only “acceptable” Peoria public HS. And it has a 31% Reading level!! These scores show why so many legal international Peoria families make sure that their kids go to Non District 150 Peoria schools
Beth Crider mentions everything but poor teacher performance and administrative bloat.
It cannot be competitive in Illinois. Teachers are Unionized and it is all about the money, benefits and overly generous pensions at young ages.
It has been this way for a few decades now. The pension obligations are starting to drown the budgets.
One doesn’t really need much of an education to ride the welfare gravy train their entire life. Your progressive/ socialist/ Marxist government in Springrad knows this and encourages it.
You don’t need to read or do math to work boning and parting chickens in a Tyson chicken plant either. Nothing America builds anymore is beautiful, the buildings are all ugly, our cities are ugly and decaying, our morals are ugly, our education system is ugly, our leaders are ugly grifters. And Biden just let 12 million or more illiterate migrants in. Our money is printed from thin air, the world hates us because we’ve been robbing poor countries blind, we give them money we printed yesterday, they give us their valuable commodities. Why do you think Niger just dumped… Read more »
Yet people still flock here to get an education. Now, why is that? Why do people come from all over the world to get an American education, yet people born in this country seem to feel a life of enabling handouts is a course to follow? Because our system of giving a hand up has become a gravy train. Frankly, I feel that those who have the will to, do and are successful at it. Those that sit about licking wounds while others come to America and go right around them on the ladder have a self defeating attitude that… Read more »
Absolutely dead on. I started to feel I was on the wrong side many years ago. I won’t go down without a fight but I am afraid this country is done for. They completely sold us out to line their pockets and enrich themselves.
Of course Peoria’s superintendent blames racism. It’s the only card she can play. ISBE data isn’t a surprise to her. She knows the dismal failure of her team. Her response is so typical of someone who can’t own up to their responsibilities. But keep the fat paychecks coming . . .
And since when is reading and math considered narrow measures of success? Do you think all that DIE BS are better measures? I’m certain she does.
I hope the Peoria public rises up and demands change, but I’m not confident.
The results for the white students were unacceptable as well so how does racism explain their results?
Lightfoot loved to cry whitey, even though her city council and city offices were predominantly and disproportionately black. “ It’s the same old song …” The Four Tops.