Posted on 07/22/2016 9:24:00 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
"The good news and bad news is that dell/gates/broad have wasted close to $1 billion on public school improvement while we have only wasted less than $200 million in Chicago," Rauner wrote. "We should be seeking their advice and coordination now — with our great mayor and solid management team, we should be aiming for world-class transformation."... "That means CPS is paying more than $25K per person to train them," Lisa Schrader wrote in an email to Swanson, as well as then-Emanuel senior adviser David Spielfogel and Matt Hynes, another top mayoral aide at the time. "That's a pretty hefty investment. Maybe a semester tuition @ UofC. Are you comfortable? Is the board? Just seems very expensive for 10 day workshop plus weekly 'coaching' given the other financial challenges they face."
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Literacy is so overrated. Just ask Otis Mathis, former president of the Detroit school board. Being illiterate was not a problem. He just could not control is urge to masturbate. Arny Duncan did such a good job in Chicago that it was decided that he should lead the nation in his educational role.
Simple, become a Communist hero and you can get a gig from any Democrat controlled government agency easily.
It’s nationwide. My son here in Colorado Springs was once given an extra credit assignment, one of the questions on which was how many branches of the armed forces there were. Since I was career military, he asked me and I told him three. His teacher did not give him credit for the answer because, according to her, there were five: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines (part of the Navy) and Coast Guard (part of the Department of Transportation. The assignment, incidentally, was rife with misspellings and grammar errors. That, sadly, was not an isolated incident.
Years ago a friend’s family lived in Chicago and the kids attended CPS. One daughter was in fourth grade advanced classes. When they moved to a Houston suburb, that same daughter was moved to third grade after they did placement tests.
But is isn’t just CPS, we live in the collar counties and I could not believe the poor quality of the teachers in our city’s system. To the point that I wanted to correct the grammar of the take home papers and send it back to the teacher, but knew that the teacher would take it out on my child.
Some things never change over there.
I could tell you some horror stories. Teachers not knowing how to spell, being punished for knowing how to read very well.. and those are just small stuff. I had one of my teachers hide papers from a friend and I after getting accepted into a good school. They didn’t punish her, they made her principal!
I know the best and the brightest are not attracted to teaching, and I know that teaching — if done correctly — is a lot of work. But to have teachers who cannot teach effectively, or who haven’t mastered their discipline, or who are just ignorant of what should be considered general knowledge, shouldn’t be accepted. Maybe the governor would have been more accurate in saying that a lot of teachers are not completely educated themselves, and not completely competent.
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