Posted on 03/21/2025 12:10:17 PM PDT by rxsid
If the students are failing in government school perhaps they should be forced to report to the homeschool organizations.
That was a joke among the homeschooling moms when I was homeschooling in the 1980s.
I am reminded of how hard it was for me to learn to read in grade school. But in Jr High School I began reading far above the “standards” of the day (1959). And way ahead in High School. It was the book CAPTAIN BLOOD by Sabatini that caused me to fall in love with reading.I devoured as much adult literature as I could get, but hated dull English novels they tried to pound in my head. It was the Public Library and an adult Library card in 1961 Carlsbad NM that kept me from going crazy. None of those silly Juvenile books for me.
My 14 year old granddaughter could teach a five year old to read. But college-trained educators can’t?
It is often more complicated than this, but still . . .
I grew up in Chicago, a long time ago, and I recognize one school name - Dunbar. Maybe Collins as well, but Dunbar for sure. What’s even more interesting is the number of students in these schools - some of them look like there is probably more staff members than students.
Pronto.
You are 100 percent correct.
Lately I’ve been hearing how Illinois Democrats are trying to crack down on homeschooling. Figures. They wreck public education, and then try to eliminate the competition.
Another Reason to Homeschool
If the government schools are failing, should the students be **forced** to homeschool? ( A common joke among homeschooling moms in the 80s).
School choice!
Introduce competition.
h/t Milton Friedman.
yep
it is all by design
From the school's website: The MISSION of the Frederick Douglass High School is to foster a safe and disciplined learning environment in an effort to prepare our students to be competitive lifelong learners. Students will be nurtured and presented with opportunities to grow and discover their FULL POTENTIAL.
Governor JB Pritzker, Job well done! /s
I wonder what the racial make up is?
But but but more money for teachers and administrators and bureaucrats and politicians and contractors and fake contractors and fake teachers and fake administrators
More, more, more
How do you like it? How do you like it?
How will this ever be corrected, now that the DOE is being
mothballed? /s LOL Hack, spit!
Thanks for the ping.
What’s interesting is that many people seem to believe the problem is these students are missing too many school days. lol
Illinois race and ethnicity trends
The chance that two Illinois people chosen at random are from different racial and ethnic groups
increased from 54.7% in 2010 to 60.3% in 2020. (The Census Bureau calls this the Diversity Index.)
The Black or African American population in Illinois decreased by 3.1% between 2010 and 2020.
The White population decreased even more, by 14.3%. However, the Asian population increased by 28.6%, and the Hispanic or Latino population increased by 15.3%.
https://iecam.illinois.edu/news/illinois-takeaways-from-2020-u-s-census-findings-part-three
Nobody who works in education dares say this aloud, but there are some students who are truly ineducable. If a student has parents who don’t care about education and teaches kids that school is a waste of time, those kids are going to be a massive headache for their teachers and fellow students. The parents who do care will pull their kids from schools with high percentages of these problem kids until the problem students are the only ones left. You can’t fix American schools until you fix American families, but since that’s outside the scope of any political candidate to fix it’s easier to blame racism and lack of school funding (if you’re a leftist) or teachers (if you’re a conservative).
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