In places like Chicago, extra money actually has negative utility - every extra dollar spent makes the schools WORSE.
Its not strange a concept. Extra money just funds more bureaucrat bloat, stronger ideological identification, more laziness and less responsibility.
This is a chance for Chicago to defund public schools. They’re not doing anything useful anyway. We have to burn the village to save it.
“Black and Hispanic students also struggled to meet proficiency, especially compared to white and Asian students. Just 17% of Black students in grades 3 through 8 scored at proficiency in reading and 8% in math, while 22% of Hispanic students scored at grade level in reading and 13% in math.
“Meanwhile, 54% of white students were proficient in reading and 48% in math. Asian students scored as proficient in core subjects at greater rates, with over half reading and performing math at or above grade level.”
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-public-schools-dysfunction-hits-low-income-minority-students/
There are charter schools in Chicago.
Parents have choices.
” Hypocrite leader educates son privately”
We noticed a similar situation when we lived in HI in the ‘90s. Many public school teachers sent their kids to private schools — where they could get a good education. Not sure how it is now
There’s always concern over higher salaries and less work - never concern over turning out stupid kids.
So maybe the Chicago tax payers should support a law that says teachers’ students must be able to compete with the rest of the world’s students at any given grade level or they must resign and pay back their salaries that was paid to them to educate their students.