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Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools
Wirepoints ^ | 02/14/2023 | Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner

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.



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KEYWORDS: antiteaching; arth; education; failure; teachingfail
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To: thegagline

$20000 spent yearly on each child they are babysitting...... I’ll bet many teachers there are as illiterate as their students. As innumerate too.


61 posted on 02/14/2023 4:26:07 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: thegagline

I bet liberals-socialists love it as the dumber their constituents are the easier they are to control and believe about any kind of crap they serve up. Too bad for this once Great Country.


62 posted on 02/14/2023 4:28:01 PM PST by Saintgermain
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To: Falconspeed

If my sons had been unable to read or do basic math, I would have taught them myself.


63 posted on 02/14/2023 4:30:59 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: thegagline

The real question: can the teachers?


64 posted on 02/14/2023 4:31:32 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Rummyfan

Maybe loan these students to China?


65 posted on 02/14/2023 4:32:11 PM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: thegagline; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

66 posted on 02/14/2023 4:36:25 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: thegagline

The left has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.


67 posted on 02/14/2023 4:39:57 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: thegagline

Does anyone remember the high school in the NE area...New Jersey I think...that made the news about a year or so ago because something like 95% of the kids there either dropped out or couldnt read? It was a focus on the Black education “crisis” or similar. Thanks for any help.


68 posted on 02/14/2023 4:40:58 PM PST by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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To: thegagline

Disgusting

Targeic for the students


69 posted on 02/14/2023 4:41:27 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: thegagline

LMAO! That’s funny, yet is should not be. The stupid and hence, jobless, will eventually be kicked out of the home to fend for themselves. With WHAT? Stupid will reign the day. And the only way to survive is to take from others. The rats are spawning the perfect stupid class, voting rat in perpetuity!


70 posted on 02/14/2023 4:42:28 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: thegagline

Gee...what do those schools share in common?

Democrat owned and operated.


71 posted on 02/14/2023 4:42:40 PM PST by simpson96
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To: thegagline

Raising compliant serfs who couldn’t question their political betters if they had the will to disagree.


72 posted on 02/14/2023 4:46:39 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: thegagline
I’m willing to bet standards for reading and math are low. After all, a standard is an expectation. That means more kids in Illinois are getting ripped off. Furthermore, today’s standards are not even comparable to 50 to 60 years ago.

When I homeschooled my children, my standard was “mastery and move forward”. That was based on my personal experience of being bored out of my skull in school because of constant review and slowly moving forward. My kids were always reading three or four grade levels beyond their age. By age 12 they could read anything. I didn’t really think of grade level per se. It was judged by other’s grade level designations of reading materials. As for math, the same approach was taken. By age 17-18, they made it through Calc III and a calculus-based prob and stat course.

There was nothing aggressive about that. It was a simple as moving from topic to topic after mastering a topic. The key to that, at least in math, is making exercises that required previously learned material. Use it or lose it. Some topics took longer than others, but they didn’t move forward until mastery because ultimately it would drag them down later.

Anyways, my experience with government school teachers is they lack rigor and personal standards. There isn’t much more pansy-assed than an Ed degree. When I was in college I saw people change majors and drop courses. For instance a physics major becoming a mathematics major, and when that didn’t work out, a down grade to Math Ed, followed by El Ed.

73 posted on 02/14/2023 4:47:01 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: thegagline

Brooklyn, Illinois (Lovejoy) is a village just outside East St. Louis.

Manley Career Academy is in a large, old high school building (like you’d expect for an older city neighborhood) in one of Chicago’s worst neighborhoods. It has fewer than a hundred students...an obvious waste of city money (they could rent a large storefront for less), but they won’t close it because to do so would be “harmful” to the community.


74 posted on 02/14/2023 4:55:30 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: thegagline

Maff be hard, yo!


75 posted on 02/14/2023 5:18:37 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: thegagline

With all the time schools are spending teaching CRT, an alphabet of sexual perversion and grooming kids to change their gender, there is no time to teach math reading or much of anything else.


76 posted on 02/14/2023 5:41:26 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: MNDude

OK, you pass :-)


77 posted on 02/14/2023 5:45:51 PM PST by dr_lew2
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To: thegagline

Illinois is very close to accomplishing equality for all. Kudos


78 posted on 02/14/2023 6:03:52 PM PST by Nashcash
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To: GSWarrior

It must be. What are the “commendable” and “comprehensive” designations?


79 posted on 02/14/2023 7:27:17 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: dfwgator

Exactly.


80 posted on 02/14/2023 7:36:34 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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