How horrible.
When I was in elementary school, I was in a GT class (gifted and talented) with two other students. The teachers would just hand us our books and tell us what to do, leaving us alone for the entire class period so they could work with the remedial students, who barely knew the alphabet. IIRC, there may have been three or four in that class while the rest of the class was reading at avg or above avg (25-ish students).
One way to tear down a country is to stop teaching the children. Now, we have not only low IQ invader’s children attending schools with children - who take away from taxpayers’ children’s right to receive an education- but also pedophiles teaching them along with mentally unstable people injecting them with confusion - who has time for English, history or math???
Or the money.
Chicago is only spending $30,000 per student per year so the poor teachers are trying as hard as they can with such limited funds.
We need to invest more in our children with better funding.
After all, our children are our future. And those gender altering hormone injections are just so darn expensive.
One of the scary things is that the Chicago results are not much lower than those for the entire state — well below 50% at grade level for reading and math. I saw a list of Illinois schools in which 0% of students are at grade level, and not just in urban schools, but also rural and small-town schools. When I was in school in the sixties and seventies, I remember very few students who were functionally illiterate and couldn’t do basic math. Children have an innate curiosity and humans are hardwired for learning, so there should be an outcry about what is going on. The education establishment says they need more money. Well, they got more money, and things have gotten worse.
My great-grandfather was born in 1876 and got about a total of two years of formal education, but he learned enough to run a farm and he was a daily reader of newspapers and the Bible. My father-in-law came to America from Yugoslavia in 1950 and knew no English, but he became fluent in English without going to school. If these rather inexceptional men could do it, our contemporary kids should be able to it too, if they were not hostages to failed teachers, schools and, in some cases, families.