Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Exactly, world cultures should be important when teaching. Except that I don’t think it means what they think it means. Let’s make sure that when teaching arabic, students learn to use all the cultural and idiomic references to Allah and Mohamed sprinkled throughout the language; or when learning mandarin, make sure we teach them pinyin(romanization of chinese sounds rather than characters), which is how Chinese are learning their own language. Let’s also teach the cultural deference to never say ANYTHING bad about the communist government, or else you disappear for a while. My favorite though is spanish world culture –… Read more »