Posted on 02/14/2023 3:20:56 PM PST by thegagline
Spry Community Links High School, in the Heart of Little Village in Chicago, says its vision is to “provide a challenging and supportive environment…to enable our students to succeed in the 21st century.” Number one on the school’s focus list? “Increasing reading and math scores to or above grade level.”
But a look at state data that tracks reading and math scores for each Illinois school reveals two frightening facts about Spry. Not a single one of its 88 kids at the school can read at grade level. It’s the same for math. Zero kids are proficient.
Spry is one of 30 schools in Illinois where not a single student can read at grade level. Twenty-two of those schools are part of the Chicago Public Schools and the other eight are outside Chicago.
The absolute failure to teach even a single child to read and do math in so many schools is yet another indictment of the state’s educational system. At Wirepoints, we covered in detail the failures of Illinois education across the state in Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system.
The data comes straight from the Illinois State Board of Education.
This column focuses on schools where zero percent of kids are able to read or do math. But we could have just as easily looked at the 622 schools where only 1 out of 10 kids or less can read at grade level. That’s a whopping 18 percent of the state’s 3,547 schools that tested students in 2022.
And only 1 out of 10 kids or less can do math at grade level in 930 schools…that’s more than a quarter of all schools in the state.
Defenders of the current system are sure to invoke covid as the big reason for the low scores. But a look at the 2019 numbers show that the reading and math numbers were only slightly better than they are now.
Take Spry, for example. Just 2 of the school’s 127 students in 2019 could read at grade level before the pandemic. In math, zero students were proficient.
The failure isn’t about money, either. Data from the Illinois State Board of Education shows spending at Spry was already at $20,000 per student before the pandemic. Today it spends $35,600.
How very white of you. ;^)
There’s something about a certain class of American blacks that refuses to accept responsibility for themselves.
First vice chair of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee Kyna "K.J." McKenzie also weighed in on the report." I'm shocked. I am frustrated and angry about it. As a parent, I'm a parent. I live in Baltimore City and we've been dealing with this for decades," she said. "And these results are very frustrating."
"Frustrating because we're not able to get to the root cause of what's happening, because everyone the leadership here blames it on racism. We've had Democratic leadership for decades. The people here in power look like me and everything's blamed on racism."
I feel like a genius just be the fact that I can do simple math in my head. No calculator needed.
Just the way the politicians want it: "Vote for me and I'll set you free!"
Glad he got back on the proper track. He was heading off the plantation, a very dangerous thing that might lead to self-reliance and thinking for himself.
Whole lotta Dindus there. Still dindu nuttin.
Just add points to the scores of those that are lagging. Pretty soon all children will be above average.
Look Luther, it’s simple. You want to buy 5 hits of Meth. Each hit costs 10 dollars. How much money do you give the dealer?
I’m sure the Democrats are proud of themselves for this.
It’s Illinois. If they can sign a welfare check, they’re good to go.
One school spends $56,000 a year per student!
Give me $150,000 and I’ll give a better education for 3 students, and the state can still save another 18,000.
I bet they’ve got their pronouns on lock... unless they’re fluid, of course
All those teachers should be fired
And the skin color of the majority of students is???
Come on. Are you kidding me!? Salaries and pensions. That’s all 99% of union teachers care about.
One guess. It’s begins with B.
Yes. It’s “for the children”, after all…
It’s a guns and bullying problem.
I was at a store the other day and bought some stuff including some sale items that were buy one get one.
Typically I subconsciously add stuff and do tax and I expect my approximation to be within a few cents, but it was not.
It took the cashier and 2 managers to figure out what happened.
I said something about math being good and the teen cashier agreed and said she wished they had taught her math in school.
Interesting graph. None of the 167 students that go to the Scholastic Achievement High School can do basic math and reading. Waste of money. Teachers have been replaced by administrators who focus on big lunches and big retirements.
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