American Greatness: The numbers are jaw-dropping. In 30 Chicago public schools, not a single student can read at grade level. In total, just 20 percent of 3rd through 8th graders in the Windy City are proficient in reading and only 15 percent are proficient in math.
As such, it’s easy to see why students are bailing en masse. In fact, more than one-third of Chicago’s 473 traditional public schools are currently running at half-full or worse, according to data released in December. Douglass High School, which bills itself as “The Jewel Of The Westside,” has a capacity for 888 students, but just 34 are enrolled, and not one of them is proficient in reading. In the past 10 years, the city’s total public school enrollment has gone from over 400,000 to 322,000 and the bleeding shows no sign of abating.
The spending hawks can’t claim it’s due to a lack of funding. When all local, state and federal dollars are added up, Chicago’s per student outlay is now $29,207.
Additionally, the underpaid teacher excuse can’t get any traction in Chi-town as a starting teacher makes $64,000 a year and can earn up to $122,000 per annum—not including pension and healthcare perks.
Chicago schools took a hit in 2018 when the Chicago Tribune released “Betrayed,” a series of articles that drew attention to numerous shocking incidents of sexual misconduct against students throughout the city. The Trib reported that “between 2008 and 2017, the Chicago Police Department had conducted 523 investigations that involved sexual assault or abuse of children within Chicago schools by fellow students or adults.” MORE
Clearly the failure here is to look at the results of reading and math and not those related to the agenda of hate whitey and get your queer/trans groove on.
Anything which contains either of the words “teacher” or “union” is an abject failure – BY DEFINITION!
It simply cannot be otherwise – tis the nature of both “teachers” and “unions” to “fail” most spectacularly (on purpose, with malice aforethought, of course).
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Nothing new, for decades now US schools have been graduating students who are functionally illiterate and can’t make change for a dollar in their head. But now they’re punishing the smarter kids in the name of equity.
…they may not be able to read, but I’m sure they are well versed on exactly why that’s Whitey’s fault.
They can’t read, but they hate Whitey, so the schools call that a success.
How many of those students go home to a single, illiterate mother?
It takes a few years for school attendance to reflect abortions and drive by shootings.
Everything going to plan!