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.
Just say Chicago.
Hey, it takes time to turn a first-world nation into a third-world one.
One school district at a time.
Why study math? I have a cell phone.
Not One Student Was Proficient In Math In 23 Baltimore Schools
“What are the “commendable” and “comprehensive” designations?”
Meaningless drivel.
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I imagine the teachers can barely read or do math either, so how will it be taught?
or Asian lol
Demographics of Chicago Public Schools
Student Racial Makeup Information Percentage
Hispanic 46.5%
African American 35.8%
White 11.0%
Asian 4.4%
Multi-Racial 1.5%
Light Not Available 0.4%
Native American/Alaskan 0.3.
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.1%
Asian/Pacific Islander (retired) 0.0%
This might explain at least some of it.
Of course. ;^)
But I bet half or more of the students can explain why math is racist but can't spell math.
The tests will be banned, just as SAT and ACT tests are being banned all over the country b/c they’re racist.
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