So they can have awesome Ghetto Proms!
Posted on 06/18/2009 3:48:20 PM PDT by Sunshine54
CHICAGO (CBS) ― "At Myra Bradwell Elementary School, 44 out of 77 students did not pass the eighth grade.
A startling number of children are falling through the cracks at one Chicago Public School. More than half of the kids didn't even pass the eighth grade. As CBS 2's Jim Williams reports there is fierce debate about who's to blame.
It is a debate that has gone on for years in poor communities: do you blame the schools for the students' poor performance or do you blame their parents?"......
mmmmm.....Throwing money that you didn't earn at a problem to solve it. WHAT A NOVEL IDEA!!!!!!
http://www.zimbio.com/Obamamania/articles/869/Kurtz+CAC+funds+Afrocentric+programs+RBO+Joyce
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Kurtz: CAC funds for Afrocentric programs. RBO: Joyce Foundation funds did, too (Updated 2x) Email Written by bmerry on Oct-14-08 2:54pm From: therealbarackobama.wordpress.com
Timeline: Barack Obama served on the boards of the Woods Foundation 1993-2002; Joyce Foundation 1994-2002; and the CAC 1995-2002.
Linda Lenz’s The Chicago Catalyst provides a year-by-year account of grants given by all three grant funders to a number of nonprofits.
Chicago Annenberg Challenge
During the July-September 1997 grant period, the CAC gave:
$600,000 over three years to the South Shore African Village Collaborative Network for re-establishing connections among parents, teachers, community organizations, businesses and churches in order to improve the quality of education for students in South Shore schools. South Shore High; Bradwell, Bryn Mawr, Coles, Madison, Mann, O’Keefe, Parkside, Powell and Revere elementary schools; the Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore.
Isn’t Obammy’s education chiefn from the Chicago school establishment?
woah
You mean 40% actually made it? Holy crap.....a 40% EDUCATED public is bad news for the Dems!
Yep.
To normal people that is a chasm devouring people...
No doubt the children, the teachers and parents self esteem is unaffected because it is all about how you feel about yourself, not what you accomplish or fail to accomplish...
And now the same leftest mentality that produces the above is trying to apply it to the country and our allies and enemies alike...
Massive failure on the way...
Superintendent of the failing Chicago school systems is now Education Secretary. He presided over the failing Chicago school system. Note that ZERO’s children attended an expensive private school not the public school.
I am actually shocked that 40% passed on the southside graduated since most parents could care less about the schooling their kids receive in that part of Chicago. I would have put the number at about 15% of parents who care if that.
Even in rural Oklahoma when you have parent conferences, very few parents show up, yet my kid’s went to Norman, OK, public schools and lines were out the door and down the hall for parent conferences which took one evening and one day and still didn’t get to all the teacher’s. But then our schools our highly rated.
Biggest difference IMO is parents who care and work to make school systems better.
If a school cannot be held accountable for student performance then why do they exist?
It’s hopeless.... truly hopeless there.
You’d have to take the kids completely out of their schools, homes and community, put them in civilized environments with civilized people and educate them. Maybe they’d have a chance of success.
To keep the kids off the streets.
Everything this clown touches turns to “Stupid”...
So they can have awesome Ghetto Proms!
If a school cannot be held accountable for student performance then why do they exist?
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The school was accountable. They gave the materials to the students, presented lessons, and gave quizzes, test, and projects. The students either did not do the work, or failed to meet the standards of the school. Parents knew the phone number to the school and where the building is located, along with its hours of operation if they want to check on their child’s progress.
I am amazed that the school flunked them. I had a student two years ago that failed every class but P.E. and lunch for two years. I went to the assistant principle and asked if we were going to hold him back. I was told it was up to the parent. Even if his mom did ask, we probably would not hold him.
Now if the teachers were not telling the kids their grades, or when the assignments were due then yes the school would be accountable. If there are bad practices in the building then they need to be fixed. However failing students do not always mean failing schools.
But don't worry. With Affirmative Action, they will all get full scholarships to Ivy League schools.
My question goes back to Obama. He was responsible for giving these schools money in order to improve the education of these kids. I would like to know what kind of follow-up Obama did. How was this money used? Was it used to do a “survey” or was it used to pay for the salary of a student aid who would sit down with the kids and try to help them with their studies if needed. I would just like to know how the money was used based on this high failure rate. Was this Obama’s first “Stimulus Package”?
How do flunk lunch, eat only junk food?
Sorry teacher humor.
Failure in all respects, but the MSM will not report on it.
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