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Dwindling enrollment leaves about 150 Chicago schools half-empty - WGN Evening News
WGN TV Video ^ | 6/17/2025 | WGN TV Video

Posted on 06/18/2025 6:41:18 AM PDT by Pol-92064

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Government at it's finest. NOT!
1 posted on 06/18/2025 6:41:18 AM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: Pol-92064

More proof that the Dept. of “Education” is worthless.


2 posted on 06/18/2025 6:44:24 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: Pol-92064

You can thank the Chicago Teachers Union for that. They have to go.


3 posted on 06/18/2025 6:45:44 AM PDT by technically right
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To: Pol-92064

Maybe because of dwindling illegal populations?

Considering the state of US public schools, I doubt this is a bad thing.


4 posted on 06/18/2025 6:48:07 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Pol-92064

Less students should mean less staff lower costs.


5 posted on 06/18/2025 6:48:13 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Exactly.


6 posted on 06/18/2025 6:50:45 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: technically right

Pronto.


7 posted on 06/18/2025 6:50:57 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Pol-92064
"less than one-third capacity, leading to high costs .."

If they mean student per-capita cost, then maybe yes. But overall net cost should go down - fewer teachers, fewer classrooms open, less material support, reduced energy usage, etc.

8 posted on 06/18/2025 6:51:48 AM PDT by omni-scientist
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To: metmom

Yes it is! Won’t somebody think of the poor illegal kids!?!? And of course, the teacher’s union.


9 posted on 06/18/2025 6:53:01 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: Pol-92064

The smart parents got their kids the hell out of the crappy chicango public school system.

The rest either don’t care OR are using the schools as a babysitter.....that’s more common than people might think.


10 posted on 06/18/2025 6:54:27 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: metmom

“Maybe because of dwindling illegal populations?”
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Or is it Spanish spoken overwhelmingly in classrooms?


11 posted on 06/18/2025 6:55:43 AM PDT by Does so ("Trump said today, "I'm with Ukraine". You?.....🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞≣ ½¼vedv)
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To: Pol-92064

Most school budgets are roughly estimated by a cost per student.

So when enrollment drops, taxes go down right?


12 posted on 06/18/2025 6:55:50 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Pol-92064

I prefer to view these schools as half full - of idiots.


13 posted on 06/18/2025 6:56:38 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: omni-scientist; Pol-92064

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If they mean student per-capita cost, then maybe yes. But overall net cost should go down - fewer teachers, fewer classrooms open, less material support, reduced energy usage, etc.
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EVEN *IF* the school were to capacity, the costs ALWAYS increase. The level of admins has GREATLY surpassed the ‘per student’ or even ‘students per teacher’

The “problem”, as always: GOVT

https://www.americanexperiment.org/district-admin-growth-10x-greater-than-student-teacher-growth/


14 posted on 06/18/2025 7:00:38 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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Even 40 years ago, it was demonstrated that Catholic schools were better at educating students than the public schools of Chicago and that the Catholic schools spent way less per student than the public schools. Granted, the Catholic schools have relied upon nuns and other clergy than the public schools but they also operate with far less bureaucracy as they are usually under the control of the local parish with light oversight from the diocese or archdiocese.

The city of Chicago has lost 100,000 people since the 2020 Census. More importantly, there has been a decline in birth rates among native born white and black Americans. This is far from a Chicago phenomenon but in fact appears to be affecting many nations. It does not matter if the country is a post-Christian nation like most European states, a former Communist nation that has tried to move back to Christianity like Russia, a Communist country like China, and a country rooted in Buddhism or other Eastern religions like Japan.

15 posted on 06/18/2025 7:12:00 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Pol-92064

BTTT


16 posted on 06/18/2025 7:41:06 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Pol-92064

The illegals are either self deporting or their illegal parents are afraid to put their children in school.


17 posted on 06/18/2025 7:41:56 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Pol-92064

Graduate to the streets at age 6


18 posted on 06/18/2025 8:04:21 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: Pol-92064

Graduate to the streets at age 6


19 posted on 06/18/2025 8:04:33 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: Pol-92064

Chicago people are the dumbest people on earth. Go Chicago.


20 posted on 06/18/2025 8:13:00 AM PDT by healy61
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