Fixing the Chicago public schools

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[DIRTYSECRET]

Chicago has one of the most expensive education systems in the world-per capita student expenditures approaching $30,000 per year. Only 18 percent of students are proficient in math, with reading scores not much better.

The only hope is to eliminate the Chicago Public Schools entirely and go to an all–private school system. We would eliminate the property tax as a school financing vehicle. Currently, 15–30 percent of rents in Chicago go directly to fund public sector schools. Chicago renters will welcome a huge rent reduction.

I recommend limits be placed at 10 percent of family income for one student, 16.6 percent for two students, and 20 percent for three or more. Support would come directly from the state and would still be less than the state pays to Chicago Public Schools currently.

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[drypowder]

Get rid of the AFL-CIO teacher unions and pay the teachers based on their student’s success. Either that or just close the schools and quit funding them with public money because most of it is being stolen by the politicians and union bosses, aka the mafia.

[Nea Wood]

Could a private school just boot the kid out? If so, where does the kid go?

The alternative would be forcing the private school to keep the kid, which is what the public schools do.

I live in the LA Unified School District. One of its students kept causing trouble and they couldn't boot him out. All they could do was transfer him from school to school until finally he killed a fellow student. I always wondered the parent of that murdered student felt and thought. Yes, schools should be able to boot them out, and as for where the kid goes after that, maybe juvie? Maybe a special school for problem kids? Maybe stick him with his parents, who just might make sure their little darling behaves, in order to avoid that fate. But forcing the good kids who want to learn to put up with disruptive kids in their classes should not be an option.

[Brian Griffin]

“Dr. John Nietz spent much of his career at the University of Pittsburgh teaching in the School of Education. When he retired in 1958, he founded the Nietz Old Textbook Collection by donating his 9,000 volume library of early primary and secondary school texts. He had acquired the texts to demonstrate the history of teaching in the early years of the United States.”

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/19th-century-schoolbooks

[Leaning Right]

> Maybe a special school for problem kids? <

That’s a good idea. Small class size, with teachers specially trained to deal with such kids.

The urban school district where I taught once tried such an approach. It ended in a complete fiasco, just as I expected.

Somebody (I don’t know who) tacked on a requirement. A parent had to give permission for a kid to be sent to that school. Otherwise, the student remained at his home school - free to be as disruptive as he wished.

Only a small handful of parents gave that permission. The alternative school was eventually shut down.

[No name given]

That’s the sad truth.

[Jacquerie]

State legislatures and Congress are moving toward banning sharia in schools.

Ruthlessly enforce.

[econjack]

That’s not what Friedman suggested. He said everyone would get two vouchers. People with more than two kids would have to enter the “Voucher Market” and buy additional vouchers for their kids. That way, large families don’t get subsidized by people who don’t have kids in public schools (e.g., retired people). If you send your kids to private schools, you could sell your public school vouchers in the open market.

[TexasGator]

"That’s not what Friedman suggested. He said everyone would get two vouchers."

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Friedman "Governments could require a minimum level of education which they could finance by giving parents vouchers ... "

The Role of Government in Education∗ by Milton Friedman 1955

[Nea Wood]

That’s a shame. There must be some solution.