Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski joined WXAN radio host Will Stephens to talk about Wirepoints’ new report that shows only 38 percent of Illinois public school students could read at grade level in 2019.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Poor achievement, zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system – Wirepoints Video
- Suburban Chicago school district controversy: No plan to fix black academic failure
- Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system – Wirepoints Special Report
- Why the Chicago Teachers Union Always Gets What It Wants
- How can 84% of Chicago Public Schools students graduate when only 26% of 11th graders are proficient in reading, math?
Teachers, I’ve asked this before, and I will ask it again. Why are teachers not all in making sure that children learn to read by 3rd grade? Why are they not protesting curriculum and methods that practically guarantee that kids won’t learn? We have all seen the comments about how difficult teaching is, and I don’t doubt it. But why don’t you see that it will always be so if you continue ignoring the fact that children can’t read? I understand why teachers object to the idea of being held accountable for performance in the higher grades. They know that… Read more »
Everyone is playing the hand they have been dealt. Lower grade teachers with kids from broken homes, getting little support or help from the parents. Higher level grades dealing with kids that haven’t yet learned the basics. Some adults may themselves have been poorly educated in Illinois and therefore are simply unable to assist their children. Illinois will not be able to reverse course. The cards have all been dealt. Shame on anyone that thinks there is still hope and ignores the facts. Everything is a mess and getting worse. The collapse is not a question of “if” but “when”.… Read more »
Any employee will criticize his boss or those higher up the chain if he feels totally secure in doing so. That may not be the total answer to your question, but its a good part. When the boss demands, encourages or even winks you soon get the drift as to what he expects from you and what is “inappropriate.”. Even if he can’t immediately fire you there are other ways he can make your working life unhappy for sure.