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.
$20000 spent yearly on each child they are babysitting...... I’ll bet many teachers there are as illiterate as their students. As innumerate too.
I bet liberals-socialists love it as the dumber their constituents are the easier they are to control and believe about any kind of crap they serve up. Too bad for this once Great Country.
If my sons had been unable to read or do basic math, I would have taught them myself.
The real question: can the teachers?
Maybe loan these students to China?
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The left has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Does anyone remember the high school in the NE area...New Jersey I think...that made the news about a year or so ago because something like 95% of the kids there either dropped out or couldnt read? It was a focus on the Black education “crisis” or similar. Thanks for any help.
Disgusting
Targeic for the students
LMAO! That’s funny, yet is should not be. The stupid and hence, jobless, will eventually be kicked out of the home to fend for themselves. With WHAT? Stupid will reign the day. And the only way to survive is to take from others. The rats are spawning the perfect stupid class, voting rat in perpetuity!
Gee...what do those schools share in common?
Democrat owned and operated.
Raising compliant serfs who couldn’t question their political betters if they had the will to disagree.
When I homeschooled my children, my standard was “mastery and move forward”. That was based on my personal experience of being bored out of my skull in school because of constant review and slowly moving forward. My kids were always reading three or four grade levels beyond their age. By age 12 they could read anything. I didn’t really think of grade level per se. It was judged by other’s grade level designations of reading materials. As for math, the same approach was taken. By age 17-18, they made it through Calc III and a calculus-based prob and stat course.
There was nothing aggressive about that. It was a simple as moving from topic to topic after mastering a topic. The key to that, at least in math, is making exercises that required previously learned material. Use it or lose it. Some topics took longer than others, but they didn’t move forward until mastery because ultimately it would drag them down later.
Anyways, my experience with government school teachers is they lack rigor and personal standards. There isn’t much more pansy-assed than an Ed degree. When I was in college I saw people change majors and drop courses. For instance a physics major becoming a mathematics major, and when that didn’t work out, a down grade to Math Ed, followed by El Ed.
Brooklyn, Illinois (Lovejoy) is a village just outside East St. Louis.
Manley Career Academy is in a large, old high school building (like you’d expect for an older city neighborhood) in one of Chicago’s worst neighborhoods. It has fewer than a hundred students...an obvious waste of city money (they could rent a large storefront for less), but they won’t close it because to do so would be “harmful” to the community.
Maff be hard, yo!
With all the time schools are spending teaching CRT, an alphabet of sexual perversion and grooming kids to change their gender, there is no time to teach math reading or much of anything else.
OK, you pass :-)
Illinois is very close to accomplishing equality for all. Kudos
It must be. What are the “commendable” and “comprehensive” designations?
Exactly.
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