article headline and link below. This has been going on for decades and keeps getting worse. Dems always have some convoluted answer. The most recent answers are that education, math, science, reading, learning, being responsible, preparing for a job are just things that white men value. Yeh, sure. Nothing racist about that. Of course I guess the Asians did not get that memo so there is that inconvenient "fact" too. Every school in Chicago should be closed. Parents issued school vouchers that can be applied to approved alternative schooling- where "alternative" in this case could often be just basic schooling. Chicago teachers can open a taco stand, work at a 7-11 or present their credentials to educational consortiums, private school arrangements whatever, and convince the parents that they are qualified and good teachers. In other words, fuck em. One of my teacher friends gets miffed when I launch into this periodic rant, and he sees the amount of steam I have in my shorts for the issue. So he launches into the obligatory script about how if we close public schools your dick will fall off and the funding for underprivileged kids will fall apart etc. etc. Whereupon I say to him "Oh, I am willing to have a public OPTION just like you and your lefty friends say would be great for Obamacare, and parents can use their voucher money to opt in or out of the public option based on their assessment of what is right for them.......You know just like the public option y'all want for Obamacare. Suddenly, he loses his previous interest in public options. Yeh, sometimes I am good friend. Other days- not so much. Sick of the bullshiite. Major parts of the Dem Plantation and Dem programs are absolutely nothing less than cultural genocide. And keep bringing in an absolute mongolian scale invasion of illegals with an average education level of 7th grade (and this is by El Salvador's standards) so that the uneducated dem plantation kids have to compete with them and see if that helps them. Idiots. And please lefties, don't do your knee-jerk thing and post that tripe about how immigrants to the U.S. on average are more highly educated than native-born americans. That is total, trance state, leftist bullshit. That is true for LEGAL immigrants. Otherwise the educational level of the south of the border invaders is pathetic. Not their fault. but pathetic. Have a nice day. How Can 84% Of Chicago Public Schools Students Graduate When Only 26% Of 11th-Graders Are Proficient In Reading, Math? It’s shameful. Chicago Public School officials want to celebrate a record graduation rate when much of the other data shows they are failing Chicago’s children. Only 26 percent of CPS 11th-graders can read and do math at grade level, according to the latest Illinois Report Card data, and yet last week the district proudly announced that 84 percent of students graduated from CPS in 2021 – a new record high. First of all, color us skeptical about that record high rate. Everyone knows that the city’s children were underserved by remote learning – the failures were reported ad nauseum by the press. Announcing record graduation rates is a way for district officials to sweep those failures under the rug. But there’s a more fundamental problem: the graduation rate distracts from the fact that CPS officials are pushing out poorly educated children. Only 26 of Chicago 11th-graders are proficient in English Language Arts and only 27 percent proficient in math according to 2019 Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) data. https://www.zerohedge.com/political...udents-graduate-when-only-26-11th-graders-are
How can this be? I was told just a couple of weeks ago.... We live in a country where parents can’t even do their kids 9th grade math but claim they are experts on vaccine science. The average high school junior will smoke you in almost any subject, and their technology skills are incredible. And this is happening in a blue state????? Bottom line, our education system sucks. Too much cultural, gender, touchy-feely emphasis. Not enough, math, science, language skills. Stop passing kids just to get rid of them. Minimum proficiency test to graduate.
Clearly, you are a domestic terrorist. I know I am by Merrick Garland's standards. Most likely George Washington is too. We need more of them and thank God that- at least at a fledgling level- they are beginning to get serious about education.
I said that and I will also say most adults can’t read at a tenth grade level, too. The truth is, you, yourself, are probably at an 8th grade reading level. Take a look at the vaccine stuff or climate change science. It takes some reading proficiency to understand this stuff and clearly many adults are unable to understand. To the larger point, this whole post is classic gas-lighting. No city, town or state in America has a proficiency rate that equals their graduation rate. In truth, Chicago’s is low but across the nation HS proficiency is in the 40% pass rate. Very few people on this forum will pass those tests.
What are the differences between an 8th-grade reading level, a 10th-grade reading level, and an adult-grade reading level?
That is a personally-biased or political response, not a scientific one. You can do better than that.