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"We will finally establish a trauma-informed standard of care that meets the academic and social-emotional needs of students by default, not by exception. And we will invest in the adults who serve our students by ensuring a living, competitive wage, and safe work conditions. All of this is possible if we come together and actively participate in the work of building welcoming, sustainable community schools."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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It’s good that students make their voices heard because they have so much life experience.
I have a fascination with watching, first Lori, now Johnson, the utopian give press conferences. I always say to myself “what does that even mean!” then, “what does it look like in practice!”.
And demand that CPS fire them all…. And re-hire only those teachers who can actually teach. Average ACT score of 18…. Is it any wonder they cannot teach reading and math…. They cannot do it themselves…
The mayor of Utopia has no clue what he is doing
And we will accomplish absolutely nothing! Signed, Mayor Brandon.
“We will finally establish a trauma-informed standard of care that meets the academic and social-emotional needs of students by default, not by exception.” What the hell is this??? I can’t even begin to explain how much of a fraud this guy appears to be. I doubt he knows anything about psychology. One of the fundamental tenets of psychotherapy is for the therapist to avoid biasing his patient’s performance with his own expectations, based on his evaluation of the patient and his theory of therapy. Influence is often enhanced by role and status, attitude of concern, as well as the patient’s… Read more »
You’re missing the forest for the trees, because you’re focusing on the psychology, when you should instead be focusing on the education. The goal, pushed and encouraged all throughout elementary education, from the top of the NEA all the way down to the janitor, is to make schools the focal point, one-stop-shop for all of the child’s supposed needs. I can’t find the academia jargon they use for this concept, but it’s out there. I’ll keep looking. Progressive educators believe that schools have a higher calling than just education. The solution to every social ill is progressive indoctrination. They believe… Read more »
Found it, the concept is called: Whole School, Whole Child, Whole Community (WSCC)
https://twitter.com/FOSTERinUnity/status/1684754998452756480/photo/2
the second slide: notice how the 3 R’s aren’t part of any of this discussion
Whole child education prioritizes the full scope of a child’s developmental needs to ensure that every child reaches their fullest potential.
… they learn rap music, the metric system of white powder weight, firearms, etc.
Here’s a link to the CDC’s WSCC website with a video on the front page that’s all about grooming children. The video itself is appalling, it has a teacher actively grooming a child, and specifically says “You can talk to me or your parents any maybe the school nurse before you decide to have sex.” (at 1:33).
Because of course, our state religion in 2023 isn’t Christianity, but rather, a modern variation of a bronze age sex cult.
https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/wscc/index.htm
I’m focusing on psychology because Johnson claims that trauma and disinvestment are the main impediments to a flourishing community. I’m breaking his strategy down because it’s a really bad lie and needs to be exposed.
I’m confident that he’s planning on using “trauma counseling” as some sort of vehicle to indoctrinate the kiddies. It’s not going to work for reasons I expanded on above. I’m well aware of your WSCC model. We’re talking about the same thing. It’s basically Leninist doctrine re-branded as some sort of beneficial public program.
I wouldn’t spend too much time breaking down their lies. You’re giving more thought to this than they are. They just want to teach Marxism. It’ll work, too, for a while. The only way to stop this is to crush it politically. We’ve all seen the videos of kids in Germany during WWII waiving those red flags, or the Red Guard, which were basically teenagers, exacting ruthless revenge on the ‘olds’, or 70 years of children being taught communism in Russia.
Note: No mention of raising academic performance or simply teaching kids reading, writing, math. Not part of the plan I guess.
It’s classic political garbage. All they’re doing is making things as vague as possible to create broad support. He’ll never have an answer for a specific and direct question.
Johnson’s Plan For Schools Is Virtue Signal Vomit
Sounds like Kamala Harris wrote this speech. Rather than all this hot air, how about just teaching kids how to read a book and enough math so they can count the change in their pockets.
“…trauma – informed…” – the latest woke buzz phrase… when you see that get out your BS deflector…
Barf.
Exactly. Blah, blah, blah – yak, yak, yak.
BJ’s got all the buzz words and platitudes and woke-n-progressive anti-capitalist Marxist mendacities down pat.
Looks good in a suit, too. Takes a nice picture……