Corrupt mayor of a suburb outside Chicago. Pretty brazen. Eventually, the Feds will bust her? (Or not.)
Posted on 12/28/2023 8:54:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Cook County, or Chicagoland, has a higher illiteracy rate than Illinois, as well as the rest of the nation, which is either proof that the Democrats suck at successful policy-making, or dumbing down the people is the agenda.
Here’s this, from a new education report by Hannah Schmid at the Illinois Policy Institute:
One-fifth of Illinois adults are functionally illiterate, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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In Cook County, 25% of adults are functionally illiterate.
So what does it mean to be a “functionally illiterate” adult? Well according to Schmid, the functionally illiterate person “cannot understand the meaning of sentences, locate information on pages or complete simple forms.”
While Schmid notes that although “education is no guarantee of escaping or preventing poverty,” what we do know is that illiteracy almost guarantees it. If a person lacks the most basic skills to give or exchange information via the written word, how can they participate in an economy that almost entirely relies on literacy? Especially in the digital age, where a massive amount of communication takes place over the internet?
If Democrat politicians really care that much for the plight of the common man, can’t we simply appeal to their better senses and ask that they bow out from governance? Clearly, they’ve done a terrible job, and their policies, well-intentioned though they may be (they’re not), are undeniably awful, only reaping abysmal results.
Of the 100 largest public school districts in the nation, Chicago ranks in the top five for dollars spent per pupil—in FY 2021, and according to official Census data, that number was $18,216.
Yes, you read that right, nearly twenty thousand tax dollars are spent on each student in the Chicago Public Schools jurisdiction...
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Democrats help people with problems.
If Democrats actually solved those problems, the people would have no reason to vote for Democrats.
And thus, Democrats have a disincentive to actually solve any of their voter’s problems.
If Republicans were smart (I know, you don’t need to say it) they would focus on solving the problems of Democrat voters (like poor education) which would leave the Democrats without voters.
Quick, let’s import a bunch of illiterate illegal aliens.
They have been taught to look at the "whole word" as if it is Chinese characters, which is fine after you know a word by sounding it out and begin to remember it.
They are taught to guess at words they don't know based on the context.
When they get in the workplace and encounter a lot of words they don't know, they can't function.
Only those who somehow learned phonics can.
Even in high school and college in history and in technical areas they can't read the new words.
This started in 1909 and has gotten worse every year.
But how are they at posing for selfies? That’s where the money’s at. /s
BS
No way 75% of blacks in Cook county are literate.
Oh, so that explains the Democrats in office there
Corrupt mayor of a suburb outside Chicago. Pretty brazen. Eventually, the Feds will bust her? (Or not.)
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I’m shocked it is so low!
“Cook County, or Chicagoland, has a higher illiteracy rate than Illinois..”
They are so pathetically low IQ and that’s why they vote so heavily democrat.
“Quick, let’s import a bunch of illiterate illegal aliens.”
That will actually raise the overall IQ of the place.
Cook County demonrats are hooked on ebonics.
Tiffany is wearing culturally-appropriated hair.
“Aint no way ama function’ literate”.
As with most of their polls; they only looked at government employees.
California not that far behind the drop out rate is staggering and they keep throwing money into it.
The education system here is a scam a third grade teacher can earn $165.000 a year.
“… or complete simple forms.”
Mail-in ballots are such a good idea!
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