The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
CTU President Stacy Davis Gates says the union wants “$50 billion and three cents.” When pressed on where the money would come from, Ms. Gates said “stop asking that question. Ask another question.”
We can explain, if she can’t. The money comes from taxpayers whose children are ill-served by Ms. Gates’s failing public schools. Eighty per cent of Chicago’s minority children can’t read at grade level, according to Wirepoints. But Ms. Gates knows that. She sends her son to private school.
Read the WSJ editorial: The Chicago Teachers Union Plays Hooky
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Illinois has more educators, less students than ever, yet officials complain about a ‘teacher shortage’
- Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality
- Chicago needs more champions of literacy like Willie Wilson
- Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium
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.
Congrats WP!! Cool that WSJ simply refers to WP as “Wirepoints” and not as “conservative research/news out let Wirepoints” or something…….nationally folks know who you are.
The rest of the media grossly overuses that word, “conservative,” as well as “right wing” and the like. Most of what’s labeled conservative has majority popular support, including virtually all of the positions we have taken here. The radical left has succeeded in conditioning the public to wrongly accept their labels. To them, everything is conservative except their own views.
There’s nothing with Chicago public education that a few thousand nuns couldn’t fix.
They can’t even get nuns in Catholic schools now. But then, the nuns of today aren’t the nuns of yesterday. More’s the pity.
Sure, everybody loves somebody else’s slave wage labor, don’t they? You and others remind us about their strict rules. Well, that came about because the church supported it, and the nuns felt a higher calling than wages alone tend to instill. You are free to work for your salvation in a similar manner, but my bet is you’ll demur. Who needs the accolades of volunteering for slave wage rates anyway, right?
I’am old also, but a big influence on my education came from the WW2 veterans that taught in my high school.They knew discipline and patriotism as well.
That a very different United States today in terms of societal expectations and blind support of school administrations and teachers. Now everybody and his brother feels free to openly criticize such people for almost every decision made as well as those not made. Yes, this is a very different set of social behaviors than the more soft-spoken, generally well mannered ones prevalent after WW II.
And also a very different view of what should be taught and rules to be followed in schools. Maybe if schools adhered to previous ideas of curriculum and decorum, they would not have so many problems with parents and society at large. As long as they insist on pushing progressive doctrine, they can expect pushback. The choice is theirs.
To some degree you are probably right. But, court rulings over the last several decades also have had their influences. One such topic concerns the rights to attend public schools and under what circumstances punishment or expulsion can be used. The general public attitude until some 50-60 years ago was that schooling at public expense was a privilege, something that could be interrupted or denied if pupil attendance, behavior or even health issues were of such bad degree that the administration felt it was beyond the school’s capability to handle. Meantime courts have decreed otherwise and that schooling at the… Read more »
Here is a good article on the history of education. The paragraphs starting with the Founding Fathers gives good reasons why an educated populous is needed to maintain a thriving country.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf
The second article if you scroll down to the graph of funding percentages is inaccurate especially for Illinois since it shows that state funding is over 46% when it is around 33% or less and local is 60%. Maybe other states provide a higher % of funding to schools away from mostly local as it is here.
https://www.epi.org/publication/public-education-funding-in-the-us-needs-an-overhaul/