Fox News’ Laura Ingraham featured Wirepoints’ new report Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools in a segment detailing how devotion to “equity” is destroying student outcomes in education.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system
- Unwed births, illiterate children and black-on-black crime: What Chicago’s mayoral candidates ignore
- Elgin’s Tony Sanders promoted to Illinois State Superintendent, though just 2 in 10 students in his district can read at grade level.
- Six facts Gov. Pritzker doesn’t want you to know about Illinois’ 2022 Report Card
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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.
Best to relocate your children to States that allows public money to follow the student
This is nothing new. The pandemic just opened the door for people to look into whatis going on in schools. For the majority of my 27-year career, the promotion policy for CPS elementary schools was as follows: students in 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades needed to pass (with a C), only reading and math in order to move on to 4th, 7th, and HS. That’s it. A student could fail every other class with a 0% average and still be promoted if he met this criteria (which in most cases only involves having a pulse). By the numbers – counting… Read more »
No father, no education, no job, no future.
Equity = educational child abuse. Prove me wrong.
It would be interesting to review the records of the failing schoosl to learn what triggered the switch from not failing to failing. What at that point caused the school to switch? Administration change? Pupil type change? Teacher change – from experienced to inexperienced? Wholesale population change? Change overnight or gradual?
Solutions:
Civil litigation against negligent malpractice by teachers. Teachers accused of negligent malpractice (such as violations of standard practice) will be indemnified of course, and keep their jobs and pensions, and their legal defense must be paid for by taxpayers, and the settlements to their victims paid out by taxpayers.
But this is one way to get taxpayers to begin demanding competence in return for $30,000/year/pupil.
Its mostly the parents fault, ultimately the buck stops at the parents. Plenty of bad teachers too, yes. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. In engineering, science, machinery, electronics, politics, law, and even philosophy, in all things “measuring” is the key. Humans only move beyond observation, when they “measure” something against a standard be it inches, volts, or test scores. The woke courts won’t use the measure of student performance against the teachers, they’re all on the same team. You’re asking people who can’t define what a woman is, to actually be objective. One only needs to look at… Read more »
I like your point about quantification.
So let the actual courts, with human juries who love to give away big civil damage awards in Illinois, determine whether negligent malpractice occurred.
If due process determines that education of reading, writing a common language ( such as is supposed to be used in writing unambiguous laws) and common math functions ( such as is required in every profession except, evidently, teaching and school administration) is not to be considered ” standard of care”, then we can get rid of costly and clearly irrelevant standardized testing altogether.
The only thing students learn in the CPS is how to be criminals.
And how to become unproductive worthless socialist leeches of society.
Overall scores will continue to trend lower for the next 15 years as the percent of hispanic test takers rises. Then, scores will shoot up to 60% proficient for all students. Alas, all of the students will be Chinese as China will have conquered us. The rest will have jobs for life in a CCP labor camp.
Teacher’s Unions want to abolish all forms of student proficiency measurement because it exposes their massive incompetence and failure. For CTU they see that their fraud is being exposed so they have become a political party in order to not just own the politicians but to be the politicians. It’s the only way that they can save their criminally obtained pensions and gold plated no work jobs.
-2 from the CTU leeches.
The Klan spent decades trying to figure out how to deny an education to minorities. All the KKK had to do was empower the CTU and get the fat man and Democrats elected.
CTU students are getting educated, just not in the topics of math or ELA. Like a Pakistani madrassas, the CTU is indoctrinating students the tomes of leftism, believing that nothing else is of any importance in the world.
The slave masters had to make it illegal to teach slaves to read, on the assumption that if someone made an effort to teach them, slaves would learn.
Apparently the slave masters were not familiar with what today’s teacher unions tell us: that it is impossible to teach children to read unless their parents read to them and make sure they get proper support at home.
The slave masters would have nothing to fear from today’s teachers.
How many different ways to report on failure?
Leave.
Great results for the 100’s of millions spent. Just pass the kids through the system and retire at a young age to Punta Gorda Luxury home on the taxpayers. Great work if you can get it.
Thousands of kid graduate and have ZERO job skills. They now can become criminals in the only job growth sector the Chitty has.
Folks, move heaven and earth to get your kids out of public schools. Your dignified old age depends on it.
My public high school in Lake County was when I attended and is in the top 2 percent (or better) nationally. So not all are bad. Taxes are sky high but people willingly pay. There is some woke doctrine but the education remains excellent, if one observes test scores (28 ACT). One wonders when Springfield will demand that local control over school district finances cease and money becomes re-distributed on the basis of “equity”. That day will be the day a huge exodus begins in schools like my school.
But what is the scoring trend at your school? It seems like most of those Lake County schools have gone full blown communist massadras. My local high school in Cook according to US news is solidly top 50 but the ELA/Math SAT scores have been dropping for the better part of a decade, which perfectly matches the period when the school hired new curriculum directors and went all in on equity.
It is likely still among the top 5 best non-magnet schools in the state. Not much diversity at all. Still a place to learn even if woke doctrine has seeped in. Some may disagree as to the high marks of the school if the needs of special needs students are considered, and frankly I can see where the school doesn’t do as well in that area. A concern for some. I went back for my reunion a few years back and was struck at the fact that the quality of the athletic facilities was over the top and in many… Read more »