Posted on 02/14/2023 3:20:56 PM PST by thegagline
Spry Community Links High School, in the Heart of Little Village in Chicago, says its vision is to “provide a challenging and supportive environment…to enable our students to succeed in the 21st century.” Number one on the school’s focus list? “Increasing reading and math scores to or above grade level.”
But a look at state data that tracks reading and math scores for each Illinois school reveals two frightening facts about Spry. Not a single one of its 88 kids at the school can read at grade level. It’s the same for math. Zero kids are proficient.
Spry is one of 30 schools in Illinois where not a single student can read at grade level. Twenty-two of those schools are part of the Chicago Public Schools and the other eight are outside Chicago.
The absolute failure to teach even a single child to read and do math in so many schools is yet another indictment of the state’s educational system. At Wirepoints, we covered in detail the failures of Illinois education across the state in Poor student achievement and near-zero accountability: An indictment of Illinois’ public education system.
The data comes straight from the Illinois State Board of Education.
This column focuses on schools where zero percent of kids are able to read or do math. But we could have just as easily looked at the 622 schools where only 1 out of 10 kids or less can read at grade level. That’s a whopping 18 percent of the state’s 3,547 schools that tested students in 2022.
And only 1 out of 10 kids or less can do math at grade level in 930 schools…that’s more than a quarter of all schools in the state.
Defenders of the current system are sure to invoke covid as the big reason for the low scores. But a look at the 2019 numbers show that the reading and math numbers were only slightly better than they are now.
Take Spry, for example. Just 2 of the school’s 127 students in 2019 could read at grade level before the pandemic. In math, zero students were proficient.
The failure isn’t about money, either. Data from the Illinois State Board of Education shows spending at Spry was already at $20,000 per student before the pandemic. Today it spends $35,600.
Part of the plan?
But the (D) solution. Throw more money at teachers and administrators.
Ghetto don’t do math.
Hey reading be acting white!
All these children in these failing schools... they are a lost generation. How are we supposed to compete against China when we will be a nation of illiterates?!
Some of those schools are spending $56,000 per student... WTAF?? Clearly it’s not on educational programs, so where did the money go?
and math too! LOL Helps to read article too
Sure. We are just not spending enough on education! Even though we probably spend more on a per student basis than any other modern industrialized nation and in fact, the government can’t even tell us how much the DoEdu spends annually. Have to pay all those DEI administrators. Gender dysphoria counselors.
That’s a disgrace and an embarrassment, but parents need to assist vs leaving all the hard topics up to teachers.
The teachers might be too busy with Woke Indoctrination topics.
Math be racisssss.............
Heck, most millennials cannot grasp it either.
More money will surely fix this.
Administration! New books every year... that never even get used (with kickbacks from the publishers probably). And of course a lot gets funneled back by teachers to the NEA and AFT and thus right back to the Democrat Party.
More money will surely fix this.
...and the band played on...
Yep!
Yes. If you don’t have scholastic skills, you can’t counter any arguements made by liberals as to why you shouldn’t be made to live in a 15 minute city under the New World Order and made to eat maggots.
I think those 15 minute cities are going to be like Soviet apartment complexes.
Math, it be racist....
But they can tell us about non-binaryism.
They can tell us what crimes Whites have committed.
They can tell us why abortion is so important
They can tell us so many things.
Kwik! Elect is be more democrats for the chilrun ejumacashun
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