Because they want to dumb all of them down . That way they won't be able to think for themselves. And as they grow up they will make better puppets. This is going on country wide on purpose. If you aren't educated . You won't know any better and you will follow every lie that they feed you.
Anyone with common sense can tell you why they can't read or do math and it doesn't matter how much more money they spend, the results will always be the same.
No, it didn't. I've worked in education for over 20 years and it is impossible to steal the money without getting caught there are so many checks and balances. The problem is mismanagement of the funds...A LOT of money is wasted. And then there's special ed... The district I work for we have a lot of kids that need 1 to 1 staffing, and that gets expensive when you have to spend 40-50k+ for someone to watch ONE student all year. Not even teach the kid, just make sure the kid doesn't hurt themselves or someone else.
@@mrsleep0000 He did not say anything about stealing the money, there are ways to fill ones pockets and make it look legit. Where I live the school board keeps giving themselves raises even though the school system is broken. The powers that be will always take their cut of the money first with raises even though they do not deserve one. But what you said about Special ED, that is 100% true. I have seen this first hand, one teacher or assistant will take care of one kid and there is no teaching involved at all. It literally is a high priced baby sitting job.
I work in education...spending $18k per student for that level of education is downright insane. The problem with schools isn't a lack of funding, it's mismanagement of the funds they have.
this may be a REALLY dumb question, but who ultimately has the oversight how CPS is spending the money..is it the CPS CEO Pedro Martinez or the Mayor? If the Mayor, Chgo is screwed he is in it with the CTU.
Just luck with anything else the government does, there are corporations that are inside the education system that are stealing tax payer funds. How much do the school textbooks cost? Around $400 a book. That’s an insane amount of money to print a book. How much do they spend on those corporate made standardized tests? $1.7 billion in a single year. Why? What has this waste of money accomplished outside making the companies that make these tests rich?
That won't do anything. I'm not saying this defending the teachers, but most of the problem is lazy parents not helping their children with homework and teaching them the basics
Hmm if a patient refuses to follow doctor's orders and dies do we hold the doctor accountable? I can't follow my students home to make sure they practice reading, writing, or math, sleep 8 hours, not use drugs/alcohol, not have extreme trauma in their home, etc. I don't teach in Illinois but have been a conservative teacher for 32 years in some inner city Title 1 public schools. We need a return to academic competition, NO group work, weekly spelling and math fact proficiency tests, use of workbooks, and an in-school screen time limit of 30 minutes daily. We also need to expell students who repeatedly violate school disciplinary rules and jail parents whose children are chronically tardy or chronically absent without acceptable reasons. Kids can't learn the content if they aren't at school. We also need parent and community volunteers. Lastly we must get all students who are more than 1 year below grade level into classrooms with similar achieving students for remediation. This worked well in 70's and 80's. We didn't have a giant mess back then. PS: I will never join any teacher's union.
@@yellowdog2181It’s NOT funny at all. The Children, will pay the price for this. If you really think that is funny, you must be a Democrat and you definitely need help! It’s not funny at all.
A survey of Chicago students who were asked if their math's skills were improving found that 50% said yes, 50% said no, and 50% said they weren't sure.
@@teenahweenah2608it doesn't make sense to send your own child to a school that doesn't teach basic skills. It's embarrassing in the sense that children are sent and the staff getting paid to do nothing.
Not a funding problem. It is a behavior problem. Children aren't taught discipline, principles, values, respect for others and by the way, that is the parents job.
You need to be careful. You're getting news from Fox News. They spread disinformation. The true places where education if failing is the Midwest and South, not urban areas like NYC and California. Just look up the stats. Fox News is spreading propaganda. You know it's true.
Someone lining their pockets with school funds, the board members refuse to allow a audit! The head of the school district sends her kids to private schools!
for real! if they are worried about budget then cut the stuff out that doesn't matter and at least teach the kids enough to have a chance at life. science,social studies, art and music can be learned after hours on your own . p.e. ? friggin worthless. exercise on your own time. health class? dont smoke & wear a condom. that's all you need to know.
@@josephlalock8378 all they need to teach is how to do every day math, basic science, basic health, the history of the world, how to read and write, and gym so everyone doesnt end up fat
Imagine sending your kids to school only 17% of the time and expecting results? Chronic student tardies and absenteeism is a nationwide problem. Not excusing the other problems but I can't teach absent students.
The mother/caregiver send the child to school, what does the mother's literacy have to do with educators not doing their job? 🧐 I expect people to effectively do the job they're paid to do.
@@michelej9496 Both of my African American parents were illiterate, and neither of them were in prison or jail. They both worked low wage jobs, raise three children who never went to prison/jail, and bought a home, and passed it down to their offspring. To be clear: A public school education is not essential to survive, and have a good life.
@@teenahweenah2608 that's your interpretation of what I said because I didn't say anything you said that's for sure. I never mentioned jail nor anything about education in order to achieve anything.
The Democrat party, Teachers Union and most of all local Chicago residents not giving a damn and voting for the same failed policies over and over again. Save yourselves vote differently.
Not all of us Chicagoans. Majority of voters would happily vote for decent alternative politicians. It’s hard getting past voter fraud like someone ‘finding’ a trunk load of ballots in their trunk. I wish Trump would get elected and send investigators all over to uncover voter fraud.
For decades teacher's unions have been saying "its all about the kids", and then the repeated claim the "more funding" produce better students. And for decades we've witnessed the dumbing-down of our students, regardless of how many funding increases occur. Unfortunate truth is that our public school system isn't worth the funds that go into it. Those Chicago statistics are shocking.
Nope, the problem is the students and their parents. It's not the school's fault. It's all about one community in particular. And at this point in time you have to wrap your head around these facts.
Students and parents, and voters, are major contributors to the acute problems in Chicago, and also other locales across the country. The parts of system itself however, the educators, staff, teachers unions, and elected boards over recent decades have been promoting their own agendas, and those agendas increasingly have little to do with insuring young people receive a valuable education.
Back in the day, if a student didn't act civilized, they got paddled. If they still acted stupid, they got tossed out so the teacher could resume teaching the well behaved students that wanted to learn
@@Sammo421 There weren't any "drive bys" or any of that during my years at school. Never even heard of it until I was 20 some odd. You either acted civilized or they tossed you out so the attentive students could learn and not be distracted by an unruly pinhead's BS
Thankfully, my parents sent all 7 of us to a private school. When I sat in a community college history class, I was stunned with the way kids read out loud. They were graduates of the Chicago Public School system.
I am considered an educator too - It’s not because lack of funding. It’s the lack of responsibility from the student, the teacher, and parents. These three need to work together. As a triangle to get a good result.
These kids are the problem. Imagine trying to teach a classroom full of delinquents that are refusing to learn. THEY DESERVE MORE MONEY FOR THE BULLSH## THEY PUT UP WITH !!! So F### 0FF
Being from downstate Illinois no one think Chicago is place public safety or public education. JB was just taking credit for something that never happened.
If only 25% of students can read or do math, there's a parenting problem there as well. Education starts well before they're old enough for enrollment in any school. Read to and with your kids. Do simple math with them in any life situation involving numbers. Don't rely on the education machine to do all the work. As you can see, that will only fail your kid in life.
Parents that work don't have the time for that. Why pay for teachers and schools if you have to do the teaching yourself? Plus not all parents are educated.
@JoXcalibur You're right. Reading books with them might take away from time spent scrolling Instagram or watching endless hours of Netflix shows. There's also no time to involve kids in things like cooking dinner where reading a recipe could involve doing simple math, or maybe even counting change in a piggy bank. That couldn't possibly give a kid good ideas of how percentages work. How could a kid get this far in school and still not read or do math? Must be because the parents are SO BUSY that they haven't shown up to a single parent/teacher conference in, what, 10 years? Kids in high school that can't read or do math are the fault of their parents as much as they are the fault of the teachers. You're merely excusing lazy parenting and entitlement.
Paying these teachers are net quadruple NEGATIVE! Tax payers pay salary, retirement pension, retirement healthcare, and prison cost for their students.
In Atlanta, there would be a vote to raise taxes for schools. The people say I don't mind if it's for the children. The tax happens and nothing changes.
As a parent I made sure my kids had their homework done, helped them and were on a first name basis with their teachers and principle. School is not a day care.
" School is not a day care " It shouldn't be, but unfortunately it is for a large majority from one coast to the other I know some personally that are 3 generations of career welfare
@@richatlarge462 Granted and part of the blame could be the schools and the money that goes into those schools which can make a difference and the other part the parents are not well educated themselves which compounds the overall education of children in that neighborhood.
During the dempanic plandemic, libs cried "follow the science", but when science said it was safe for the kids to go back to school, the teachers union cried they didn't want to go back!
You teach them at home. My twin daughters could read 6th grade level on their first day of kindergarten. They could add, subtract, multiply, divide, whole numbers, fractions and decimals too. They were top of their class all the way through school and one of them was valedictorian. Playing school was always their favorite game.
Amazing how there's a generation that went to over crowded schools with actually poorly paid teachers and yet managed a nearly 85 percent literacy rate.
Chicago teacher union have been telling the same lie for decades, more money equals better test scores. They have some of the highest pay and benefits and the lowest test scores
@@mht5875I would bet it is even more than that. And teachers are not paid based on merit like everyone else. They always get their raises regardless of how well their students do.
teacher for 3 decades here; you can't teach them because they simply don't want what is being offered, blame all the politicians if you want but it all begins at home and they are raised to despise what school offers. Horrible parenting is at the root of this; not government policies.
The NEA, since it's creation, has never once shown an improvement in grades. It's job isn't to make kids smarter. It's to make them all think at the same, minimal level.
@thetruth3809 I'm from California and see that all schools spend enormous amounts of money on glorified daycare rather than a place of higher learning.
It begins with the parents (or in many cases,parent) Stupid people raise stupid kids, and on top of that stupid people often have many more kids than smart people. The movie “Idiocracy” is becoming prophetic.
I went to elementary school in the 50's (I'm old I get it). We all could read, write and do basic math. The fancy stuff came later. There was no EIP, special buses, school shrinks. You sat there and did it. Then went to the park and played baseball until dark. But, sigh, it's obviously better now....
Not to worry, as long as they are learning critical-race-theory and how important it is to promote diversity-equity-inclusion, they are learning everything they need to know.
I did substitute teaching in Detroit, same thing. Was supposed to have classes with 25-30 students, I’d be lucky if 10 showed up. This was a HS but most could barely read and I was told math is racist so you can guess how that went. I was threatened a few times, broke up fights and spent most of the class telling kids to get off their phones. My favorite moment you ask? 14 year old freshman whips out $3000.00 and and tells me this is the only math he needs.
@@JohnP538 what if the student gets outside help, how would you determine how the skills were acquired? It wouldn't be fair to the educator if the student has a learning disability. When over fifty percent of the student body aren't meeting standards everyone needs to be demoted and bring in those who will raise the standards.
@@michelej9496 The Chicago Teacher's Union has been called, "The most powerful union in the country". Think of them as like the mafia but with less guns. They will crush any attempt to link performance results to compensation. They have their own "foundation" with a $43 million dollar wallet that "influences" politicians. Not bad for a union with less than 30,000 members.
It takes a mom, dad and grandparents to teach children. No government has or can ever replace the love and discipline that comes from family. Democrats have never understood this
As a former teacher, my experience was that it was mostly a parental problem. I worked in low performing schools and the lack of parental support with regards to supporting their child's education was very common.
There is another major factor. The curriculum is too focused on critical consciousness raising social and emotional learning. Too much time is stolen from math when they try and inject social criticism into 2+2.
And of course all 13 of those schools should be closed reorganized and reopened with an entirely new staff. There's lots of people out there who could teach who don't have four year teaching degrees.
The problem isn’t a lack of funding, it is a lack of accountability. I bet if funding was based on outcome, we would see better outcomes. If schools with higher performance, legitimate third party verified to actual standards, got more funding, schools would start performing. With funding going to under performing schools, they are incentivized to under perform. If you look at data from PISA rating schools, the US performs poorly. If you look at the top performing countries then look up what they spend per student, it is clear that funding isn’t the primary driver of performance. Social and cultural values around education are the drivers of success
I feel sorry for the good teachers. Between the bad teachers protected by the union and the bad students protected by the school administration, there is nothing much they can do. But the pay is not bad as well as the pension plan. Nobody is to blame so the only option is to request more funding. The school administrators are only trying to hold on to their well-paying jobs. Try to hit your head against THE WALL and you're gone.
What a joke when the teachers union calls it a funding problem. The woke policies of inclusion lowered the standards. I meet people from other countries that write better than college graduates.
Lol, we're talking about Chicago and a very specific group of people. For the bar to get any lower it would have to be interred. All but two of my graduating class of 280 went to college. Few of us were of the aforementioned class, however.
my friends daughter(*from IL) can not read very much at all she was passed last year from 5th grade and can not even read the word strawberry, I was shocked to hear she wasnt even being forced to work on her reading at school and just passed her. What a disservice to the kids that live in IL.
It all boils down to a lack of sanctions and punishment for neglect or being distracted by outside influences by the children and lack of effort by many of the teachers. 60 years ago corporal punishment or detention was used to get lazy students to learn at least the basics of their coursework. Now many students and pupils are left to their own devices by teachers left with no recourse to any effective sanctions or punishments. Corporal punishment has been banned for decades but no effective alternative has been put in place in schools. Many learning deficiencies have been medicalised and put into the hands of social workers and psychologists with the tacit and unspoken tenet that such deficiencies are not the childs fault. They may not be the childs fault but the child must be encouraged to find a work-around to these difficulties if at all possible. They will suffer the consequences of poor academic performance in later life if neglected or ignored or "written off" in early childhood. If the home environment does not provide a support to learning this should be spotted as early as possible and alternative supports provided to make up for the lack of parental support where possible. I would not support a return to the days of school or home based corporal punishment or other forms of institutionally sanctioned violence as this only serves to teach a child that might is right and big people can pick on and bully small people, a very damaging and anti-social thing to do, but there must be some form of punishment or sanction involved to encourage learning and effective development in children.
Tell your friend to look online at a program called Explode the Code. The program goes from absolute beginner to end of 4th grade reading level. Then for basic letter sounds look up Fundations sound picture cards. It has a picture to anchor each basic sound. There are UA-cam videos to teach correct sound. Also McGuffey's primary eclectic reader (used for years to teach reading prior to 1940's) is free online at The Gutenberg online library. Hope these resources help
@@jgdooley2003the thing you're missing about corporal punishment is it almost never had to actually take place. The knowledge that it could was usually more than enough.
What bums me out is that there are kids there that WANT to read and do math that are having their time wasted by the kids and parents that don't care. I've learned late in life that people that are incompetent are there WILLFULLY, and they will remain there their entire lives and love it when you spend ALL your time holding their hands.
NOT a money problem. It is PARENTS/Teachers who are NOT making the students be accountable for their lack of attention to their studies, and needing to achieve at grade level. Doc. G.W.
Hello my name is Jane Doe from Chicago. I got ten kids who don't know who their fathers are. Hopefully the next guy is better, but don't hold your breath. Not sure where the older kids go after school , but I am busy with the little ones. I sure wish things would change...
Everything goes up except the quality of education.
You can thank the Brandon of education - Randi Weingardner.
It’s a nikka thing not anything else.
gotta keep them dumbed down so they dont complain in there 15 minutes city's
Students might be better off learning to read by watching a UA-cam video. Boycott the schools, until the do what they've been paid to do.
Because they want to dumb all of them down . That way they won't be able to think for themselves. And as they grow up they will make better puppets. This is going on country wide on purpose. If you aren't educated . You won't know any better and you will follow every lie that they feed you.
Who needs an education when you can have a career as a criminal with no repercussions?
Anyone with common sense can tell you why they can't read or do math and it doesn't matter how much more money they spend, the results will always be the same.
DUMP the Teacher's Union,!
You learn at home
Give Chicago to Canada
I don’t support anybody that supports Democrats
Teacher's union makes money off taxpayers why should it be held accountable. If it were in the private sector it would be out of business.
@@ronniemassart3834 Come on, Canada has enough problems.
Schools exist to benefit the students. Not the teachers and administrators.
The teachers say it’s a funding problem? Just teach these kids reading, writing and math. Public schools are dumbing down our future generations
There seems to be money to teach DEI garbage...
Yeah, we can thank academia for producing dumbed down teachers.
Big Lies from our Leaders.
Democrat
Not OUR!!!
Not leaders, allegedly elected representatives.
Don't ever call them leaders!
all governments lie on everything but they are covering up extraterrestrials
@@kevinmays1908 Absolutely! Biggest liars on the planet. They will pee down your back but tell you it's really just raining.
Everyone knows the money went into someone's pocket.
No, it didn't. I've worked in education for over 20 years and it is impossible to steal the money without getting caught there are so many checks and balances.
The problem is mismanagement of the funds...A LOT of money is wasted. And then there's special ed... The district I work for we have a lot of kids that need 1 to 1 staffing, and that gets expensive when you have to spend 40-50k+ for someone to watch ONE student all year. Not even teach the kid, just make sure the kid doesn't hurt themselves or someone else.
@@mrsleep0000 He did not say anything about stealing the money, there are ways to fill ones pockets and make it look legit. Where I live the school board keeps giving themselves raises even though the school system is broken. The powers that be will always take their cut of the money first with raises even though they do not deserve one.
But what you said about Special ED, that is 100% true.
I have seen this first hand, one teacher or assistant will take care of one kid and there is no teaching involved at all. It literally is a high priced baby sitting job.
@@mrsleep0000 Your argument doesn't encourage my support for our public school system, or the people employed by it, in any way whatsoever.
Or to buy tampons
Time to homeschool
I work in education...spending $18k per student for that level of education is downright insane. The problem with schools isn't a lack of funding, it's mismanagement of the funds they have.
The money isn’t mismanaged, it’s stolen. There isn’t any other answer with those test scores.
this may be a REALLY dumb question, but who ultimately has the oversight how CPS is spending the money..is it the CPS CEO Pedro Martinez or the Mayor? If the Mayor, Chgo is screwed he is in it with the CTU.
It's $68k per student at that academy for zero proficiency.
@@chenyitube I think that was a misleading stat. They get only so much for each student, certainly not $68k.
Just luck with anything else the government does, there are corporations that are inside the education system that are stealing tax payer funds. How much do the school textbooks cost? Around $400 a book. That’s an insane amount of money to print a book. How much do they spend on those corporate made standardized tests? $1.7 billion in a single year. Why? What has this waste of money accomplished outside making the companies that make these tests rich?
Disband the US department of education.
That won't do anything. I'm not saying this defending the teachers, but most of the problem is lazy parents not helping their children with homework and teaching them the basics
Abolish teachers unions and tenure, judge by the results.
Hmm if a patient refuses to follow doctor's orders and dies do we hold the doctor accountable? I can't follow my students home to make sure they practice reading, writing, or math, sleep 8 hours, not use drugs/alcohol, not have extreme trauma in their home, etc. I don't teach in Illinois but have been a conservative teacher for 32 years in some inner city Title 1 public schools. We need a return to academic competition, NO group work, weekly spelling and math fact proficiency tests, use of workbooks, and an in-school screen time limit of 30 minutes daily. We also need to expell students who repeatedly violate school disciplinary rules and jail parents whose children are chronically tardy or chronically absent without acceptable reasons. Kids can't learn the content if they aren't at school. We also need parent and community volunteers. Lastly we must get all students who are more than 1 year below grade level into classrooms with similar achieving students for remediation. This worked well in 70's and 80's. We didn't have a giant mess back then. PS: I will never join any teacher's union.
@@happycook6737 1 problem student is a problem student. 20 problem students is a problem teacher.
who knew "idiocracy" would become a documentary??
I think I was the only one that didn't find that movie funny, because it was too realistic.
@@CharlieTawater BRAWNDO! The thirst mutilator.
I found it very funny now I see it as a horror movie. I was clearly unaware how close we were to it becoming reality
Is terry crews running for president also? 😂
@@yellowdog2181It’s NOT funny at all. The Children, will pay the price for this. If you really think that is funny, you must be a Democrat and you definitely need help! It’s not funny at all.
Failed state. Failed cities. Failed schools. Failed businesses. Failed people.
Failed parents.
Future failed society
@@illmade2 If they vote for a democat.
Meanwhile schools in red states are used as target practice for innocent children.
Failed Parenting is the problem
That’s because CTU is more concerned with lining their pockets with absurd raises and demands than actually teaching children.
We keep giving them money. Why should they be concerned?
A survey of Chicago students who were asked if their math's skills were improving found that 50% said yes, 50% said no, and 50% said they weren't sure.
Lib's answer is that math is racist.
@@BrooksRichardson-j3o Comedy Central Sports Presents: BattleBots .........one bot attacking another.
teaching children is the parents' responsibility
Private schools educate kids better for less money per kid.
If you can’t read, and you can’t write, then you can’t vote. Cause you have no clue what you’re voting about.
Lmfao!!! oh there’s tons of people to vote without knowing what they’re voting about and they can read and they can write. They just refused to think.
this is embarassing
It's not embarrasing. The children are not interested in the ROTE learning experience.
@@teenahweenah2608 Yea, that's embarrassing.
@@teenahweenah2608it doesn't make sense to send your own child to a school that doesn't teach basic skills. It's embarrassing in the sense that children are sent and the staff getting paid to do nothing.
@@painkillerjones6232 "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink".
@@teenahweenah2608 You hold a horse's head under water long enough, it will come around to your way of thinking..
Not a funding problem. It is a behavior problem. Children aren't taught discipline, principles, values, respect for others and by the way, that is the parents job.
That’s true too.
Black issue
nobody points the elephant in the room either its behavioural or cultural somehow, nobody points to genetics lol
It's not the parents job. Our government has stepped in between parents and their children. This is on our government now.
Well said
THE USELESS GOVERNOR HAS DONE NOTHING FOR ILLINOIS 🤬
Looks like he eats enough to keep the farmers in business
Governor Pritker.......If you can read, write, and do math, then you ain't BLACK!
You need to be careful. You're getting news from Fox News. They spread disinformation. The true places where education if failing is the Midwest and South, not urban areas like NYC and California. Just look up the stats. Fox News is spreading propaganda. You know it's true.
Meanwhile schools in red states are used as target practice for innocent children.
💯 truth
It’s not a funding problem. It’s a teaching problem and a discipline problem.
And remember….when these kids go for jobs there should be equity….merit shouldn’t matter.
But think about the ones who can claim at a job interview they were at the top of their class,
Someone lining their pockets with school funds, the board members refuse to allow a audit! The head of the school district sends her kids to private schools!
They have no trouble reading FREE or WELFARE?
Don't need more money. Chicago schools needs teachers who can teach. Please teach Reading, Writing & Arithmetic ONLY.
I bet it’s a black school
How about teachers who can read and write 😂
for real! if they are worried about budget then cut the stuff out that doesn't matter and at least teach the kids enough to have a chance at life. science,social studies, art and music can be learned after hours on your own . p.e. ? friggin worthless. exercise on your own time. health class? dont smoke & wear a condom. that's all you need to know.
@@josephlalock8378 all they need to teach is how to do every day math, basic science, basic health, the history of the world, how to read and write, and gym so everyone doesnt end up fat
The educationals system is out of touch with reality. What exactly are they teaching?
Less pride parades, more language classes 🙄
They already teach in ebonics whatchu mean cu
Imagine showing up 17% at your job, then keeping your job.
Imagine sending your kids to school only 17% of the time and expecting results? Chronic student tardies and absenteeism is a nationwide problem. Not excusing the other problems but I can't teach absent students.
What do you expect- the mother can't read or do math - the other half is in jail
harsh but true....this is not being racist it's backed up by data
The mother/caregiver send the child to school, what does the mother's literacy have to do with educators not doing their job? 🧐 I expect people to effectively do the job they're paid to do.
@@michelej9496 Both of my African American parents were illiterate, and neither of them were in prison or jail. They both worked low wage jobs, raise three children who never went to prison/jail, and bought a home, and passed it down to their offspring. To be clear: A public school education is not essential to survive, and have a good life.
@@teenahweenah2608 that's your interpretation of what I said because I didn't say anything you said that's for sure. I never mentioned jail nor anything about education in order to achieve anything.
@@teenahweenah2608 that's your interpretation of what I said. Quote what you think I said, where did I mention jail or needing an education?
This is bigger than Chicago, Federal board of education should be dismantled and possibly discarded
The Democrat party, Teachers Union and most of all local Chicago residents not giving a damn and voting for the same failed policies over and over again. Save yourselves vote differently.
Not all of us Chicagoans. Majority of voters would happily vote for decent alternative politicians. It’s hard getting past voter fraud like someone ‘finding’ a trunk load of ballots in their trunk. I wish Trump would get elected and send investigators all over to uncover voter fraud.
What? You are an 'election denying insurrectionist'?
Or you can just move like I did to a state that actually functions and save LITERALLY tens of thousands of dollars in the process
How do we do that with the rampant election fraud?
They feed off their kids' energy. They feed off their intellectual property. To sustain themselves.
That's democrats for you.
How are the Douglass Academy statistics even possible? One word: corruption.
I think it is worse than corruption, it is evil.
Abolish teachers unions and disband the US department of education.
For decades teacher's unions have been saying "its all about the kids", and then the repeated claim the "more funding" produce better students.
And for decades we've witnessed the dumbing-down of our students, regardless of how many funding increases occur. Unfortunate truth is that our public school system isn't worth the funds that go into it. Those Chicago statistics are shocking.
A head of one of the teacher unions once said, It'll be about the kids once they start paying union dues.
Nope, the problem is the students and their parents. It's not the school's fault. It's all about one community in particular. And at this point in time you have to wrap your head around these facts.
Students and parents, and voters, are major contributors to the acute problems in Chicago, and also other locales across the country. The parts of system itself however, the educators, staff, teachers unions, and elected boards over recent decades have been promoting their own agendas, and those agendas increasingly have little to do with insuring young people receive a valuable education.
They are liars.
@@User2718218I think it is all horrible problem stemming from all the schools and the parents.
Back in the day teachers taught us how to think but now they teach us what to think
Back in the day, if a student didn't act civilized, they got
paddled. If they still acted
stupid, they got tossed out
so the teacher could resume
teaching the well behaved
students that wanted to learn
@@maxpinson5002 I was just telling the grandkids we had teachers that would smack you in the back of the head for talking in class or miss behaving
@@Sammo421
There weren't any "drive bys"
or any of that during my
years at school. Never even
heard of it until I was 20 some odd.
You either acted civilized or
they tossed you out so the
attentive students could learn
and not be distracted by an
unruly pinhead's BS
@@maxpinson5002 yes you are correct on that today’s schools are like the tail wagging the dog
They are babysitter activists instead of teachers. Fire those teachers and administrators since all that money is going to something else.
That is exactly what they are!
They are raising and promoting the next gen of democrat voters so the endless cycle of stupidity can continue on there.
Thankfully, my parents sent all 7 of us to a private school. When I sat in a community college history class, I was stunned with the way kids read out loud. They were graduates of the Chicago Public School system.
I am considered an educator too - It’s not because lack of funding. It’s the lack of responsibility from the student, the teacher, and parents. These three need to work together. As a triangle to get a good result.
This is absolutely pathetic for an American school system
That's an absolutely pathetic neighborhood culture.
yep, but where is all that money going to???
@@sableann4255 Ukraine or the illegal immigrants
It is not a funding problem. It is the progressive system, broken families, the reasons are endless....
No you got it on first try! PROGRESSIVE! Being progressive is not a good thing,it always turns into something regressive! 😮😅😢
My God, their response to the utter failure of teachers to students is "give us more money".
These kids are the problem.
Imagine trying to teach a classroom full of delinquents that are refusing to learn.
THEY DESERVE MORE MONEY
FOR THE BULLSH## THEY PUT UP WITH !!!
So F### 0FF
Its not money, its kids worrying more about their phones than education
Nah, this country has a parenting crisis.
Being from downstate Illinois no one think Chicago is place public safety or public education. JB was just taking credit for something that never happened.
If only 25% of students can read or do math, there's a parenting problem there as well. Education starts well before they're old enough for enrollment in any school. Read to and with your kids. Do simple math with them in any life situation involving numbers. Don't rely on the education machine to do all the work. As you can see, that will only fail your kid in life.
I was doing flash cards and
reading encyclopedias before
I started public taxpayer paid
school. Got my diploma after
my 12 years as well
Parents that work don't have the time for that.
Why pay for teachers and schools if you have to do the teaching yourself?
Plus not all parents are educated.
@JoXcalibur You're right. Reading books with them might take away from time spent scrolling Instagram or watching endless hours of Netflix shows.
There's also no time to involve kids in things like cooking dinner where reading a recipe could involve doing simple math, or maybe even counting change in a piggy bank. That couldn't possibly give a kid good ideas of how percentages work.
How could a kid get this far in school and still not read or do math? Must be because the parents are SO BUSY that they haven't shown up to a single parent/teacher conference in, what, 10 years? Kids in high school that can't read or do math are the fault of their parents as much as they are the fault of the teachers. You're merely excusing lazy parenting and entitlement.
25%??? Wow, that's over half.
People just watch tv and play video games at home. They don’t do math or reading
My wife is a retired teacher, extra money is nice BUT you need teachers that care, the UNION doesn’t care,
Abolish the NEA. This starts at the top
Nah this starts with nikkas
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@@FredSherman-k7l 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Paying these teachers are net quadruple NEGATIVE! Tax payers pay salary, retirement pension, retirement healthcare, and prison cost for their students.
In Atlanta, there would be a vote to raise taxes for schools. The people say I don't mind if it's for the children. The tax happens and nothing changes.
As a parent I made sure my kids had their homework done, helped them and were on a first name basis with their teachers and principle. School is not a day care.
You’re a great parent!
" School is not a day care "
It shouldn't be, but unfortunately it is for a large
majority from one coast to
the other
I know some personally that
are 3 generations of career
welfare
Yes, but your type of parenting is not the norm in the neighborhoods where the public schools are bad.
@@richatlarge462 Granted and part of the blame could be the schools and the money that goes into those schools which can make a difference and the other part the parents are not well educated themselves which compounds the overall education of children in that neighborhood.
Give your kids books. Schools do a lot, but the primary impetus for reading skill is their home environment.
The unions never talk about the children, always more for the teachers.
Democrats... are you surprised?
During the dempanic plandemic, libs cried "follow the science", but when science said it was safe for the kids to go back to school, the teachers union cried they didn't want to go back!
The American public education system has failed miserably.
They want to launder that money into their pockets
All government run programs are the same!
Yep, when you're not accountable for anything, and rewarded for mediocre performance, this is what you get.
@@filster1934they aren't even hitting mediocre. Some people held in bondage learned to read, they might be turning over in their graves.
Yes, it is all students and parents fault, not school or government!
It's a sad world we are living in
You teach them at home. My twin daughters could read 6th grade level on their first day of kindergarten. They could add, subtract, multiply, divide, whole numbers, fractions and decimals too. They were top of their class all the way through school and one of them was valedictorian. Playing school was always their favorite game.
😂🤣 they talking about nikkas not people
You’re a great parent!
Exactly. It will fall on deaf ears though.
@@P2Feener305racist jerk
Indoctrination instead of education
Thats almost every school in Chicago!!! How very shameful!!
Amazing how there's a generation that went to over crowded schools with actually poorly paid teachers and yet managed a nearly 85 percent literacy rate.
There were 50 kids in my K-8 school. 50 kids and one nun. No acting up. Everyone could read, write and do math at or above grade level.
@@mademsoisellerhapsody And if they did act up, the nun was allowed to discipline them.
Chicago teacher union have been telling the same lie for decades, more money equals better test scores. They have some of the highest pay and benefits and the lowest test scores
Defund, dismiss and ban the teachers union.
Is this true? Tenured public school teachers in Chicago make $92,000. to $108,000. a year??
@@mht5875that's nothing as well. The district I went to school in tenured teachers are retiring at $175k a year
@@mht5875I would bet it is even more than that. And teachers are not paid based on merit like everyone else. They always get their raises regardless of how well their students do.
Of course so they can teach kids that it's ok to be trannies. That is more important than reading, writing and arithmetic.
teacher for 3 decades here; you can't teach them because they simply don't want what is being offered, blame all the politicians if you want but it all begins at home and they are raised to despise what school offers. Horrible parenting is at the root of this; not government policies.
One particular demographic
Government policies also contribute to the mess but I agree about the parents being the biggest part
Love your frank reply
😂 your right blacks are just willfully ignorant.
Bullshit 🐂
The NEA, since it's creation, has never once shown an improvement in grades.
It's job isn't to make kids smarter. It's to make them all think at the same, minimal level.
All public workers unions should be banned
They always make it a money issue.
Funding???? Public school is the biggest ripoff going.
we give too much money any way
An euridite education is the best quality of learning.
$18k per student is ludicrous considering parents probably only pay 10% of that in taxes
It's twice that amount.
They vote for Demarats same shit different day
Since 1931.
@@thetruth3809 Just think of the Illinois public school ranking if the teachers' union was ousted and the subject of this video was addressed Kamala.
@@thetruth3809 you live in mom’s basement you don’t buy gas or groceries I bet
@thetruth3809 I'm from California and see that all schools spend enormous amounts of money on glorified daycare rather than a place of higher learning.
That's right. Enjoy the Harris presidency. It's only gonna be 8 years 😂
Jesus, why are these teachers not fired. My wife works in education and would be shocked at these numbers.
Teachers union is full of crap.......start replacing the union and the teachers.....Parents should be up in arms.
It begins with the parents (or in many cases,parent) Stupid people raise stupid kids, and on top of that stupid people often have many more kids than smart people. The movie “Idiocracy” is becoming prophetic.
I went to elementary school in the 50's (I'm old I get it). We all could read, write and do basic math. The fancy stuff came later. There was no EIP, special buses, school shrinks. You sat there and did it. Then went to the park and played baseball until dark. But, sigh, it's obviously better now....
A lot of students with autism, ADHD, and other learning disorders 😢
In the 1960s there were fifty (50) kids in my class from K thru 8. 50 kids and ONE nun. Everyone could read and write at or above grade level.
@@jandp2941yeah we called them stupid
@@jandp2941I think our modern society produces them
@@RIbigDave how so?
Dems solution to problems: Throw more money at it!
Throw other people's money at it
Not to worry, as long as they are learning critical-race-theory and how important it is to promote diversity-equity-inclusion, they are learning everything they need to know.
I did substitute teaching in Detroit, same thing. Was supposed to have classes with 25-30 students, I’d be lucky if 10 showed up. This was a HS but most could barely read and I was told math is racist so you can guess how that went. I was threatened a few times, broke up fights and spent most of the class telling kids to get off their phones. My favorite moment you ask? 14 year old freshman whips out $3000.00 and and tells me this is the only math he needs.
HOW MUCH you wanna bet that was drug money?
Stop giving them money until it changes. Not hard to figure out.
Amen.
Go to a base salary and a bonus for every student who meets the reading and math requirements. Reward performance not failure.
@@JohnP538 what if the student gets outside help, how would you determine how the skills were acquired? It wouldn't be fair to the educator if the student has a learning disability. When over fifty percent of the student body aren't meeting standards everyone needs to be demoted and bring in those who will raise the standards.
@@michelej9496 The Chicago Teacher's Union has been called, "The most powerful union in the country". Think of them as like the mafia but with less guns. They will crush any attempt to link performance results to compensation. They have their own "foundation" with a $43 million dollar wallet that "influences" politicians. Not bad for a union with less than 30,000 members.
Yet thousands of school admins and teachers have retired at over 100K per year!
Blame all this mess on the teachers union and now they own Brandon Johnson.
They own Pritzker too, and Kamala.
Get rid of the Cartels known as Public Service Unions.
It takes a mom, dad and grandparents to teach children. No government has or can ever replace the love and discipline that comes from family. Democrats have never understood this
As a former teacher, my experience was that it was mostly a parental problem. I worked in low performing schools and the lack of parental support with regards to supporting their child's education was very common.
I agree. If the parents and the kids don’t care then no amount of money can fix it. If the kids are willing to learn then any average teacher will do.
In other words, stupid people having kids. Yeah, I saw Idiocracy.
Agreed. Plus two parents needed
Our society has changed. The old school system doesn't work in our modern technological society.
There is another major factor.
The curriculum is too focused on critical consciousness raising social and emotional learning.
Too much time is stolen from math when they try and inject social criticism into 2+2.
It is the exact same thing in Baltimore City public schools. Thirteen high schools had zero students proficient in math and reading
Must be a lot of nikkas in that school
And of course all 13 of those schools should be closed reorganized and reopened with an entirely new staff. There's lots of people out there who could teach who don't have four year teaching degrees.
Being uneducated is a democratic value. People are easier to control when they are stupid and ignorant.
Exactly
BINGO!!!!!!!!!, IT THE SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST WAY. 🫏☠️🤥.
That sign @1:23 "Registern now" really sums it up.
You can't makern this stuff up
If your students cost $68k per year, then they don't need an education. They need to just put the $68k into a retirement plan for 13 years (K-12)
they will NEVER. fire black teachers and principals who run failing schools.
It's the black students...always has been this way. They aren't as intelligent...period
Meanwhile schools in red states are used as target practice for innocent children.
And that's where all the problems are!
Their markmanship is progressing and they are adept at carjacking and pillaging.
When I was in Munford, Each School, Elementary, Middle and High All Teach Children to read and Do Math.
Chicago Public School does the opposite.
The problem isn’t a lack of funding, it is a lack of accountability. I bet if funding was based on outcome, we would see better outcomes. If schools with higher performance, legitimate third party verified to actual standards, got more funding, schools would start performing. With funding going to under performing schools, they are incentivized to under perform. If you look at data from PISA rating schools, the US performs poorly. If you look at the top performing countries then look up what they spend per student, it is clear that funding isn’t the primary driver of performance. Social and cultural values around education are the drivers of success
It's not $$$, it's leadership. You have none
I feel sorry for the good teachers. Between the bad teachers protected by the union and the bad students protected by the school administration, there is nothing much they can do. But the pay is not bad as well as the pension plan. Nobody is to blame so the only option is to request more funding. The school administrators are only trying to hold on to their well-paying jobs. Try to hit your head against THE WALL and you're gone.
@@joefirma2242 minority privileges
Can't fire minorities
What a joke when the teachers union calls it a funding problem. The woke policies of inclusion lowered the standards. I meet people from other countries that write better than college graduates.
People are now saying math is racist.
What do you expect?
It's the teachers that are the problem.
Yea keep throwing money at the problem
Poor America.
The average CPS teacher gets paid = $93,000 per year (not including benefits).
Detroit Public School Superintendent Was Deemed To Be Illiterate Few Years Ago
SERIOUSLY?! what's his name?
scott Adams showed us why and everyone called him racist for saying the truth
Was thinking the same thing. Racist teacher unions ruined public education for millions.
YES
Bet they can steal a Kia tho.
What’s the ONE common denominator in all of this? 🙈🙉🙊🙈🙉🙊🙈🙉🙊
Just another example of "American Exceptionalism".....NOT. 🤐
Lol, we're talking about Chicago and a very specific group of people. For the bar to get any lower it would have to be interred. All but two of my graduating class of 280 went to college. Few of us were of the aforementioned class, however.
Fun Fact < without assimilation, America gets nothing but the Bills /// Third world people in a first world country
And the USA keeps telling the rest of the world what their values should be...lol
my friends daughter(*from IL) can not read very much at all she was passed last year from 5th grade and can not even read the word strawberry, I was shocked to hear she wasnt even being forced to work on her reading at school and just passed her. What a disservice to the kids that live in IL.
Why haven’t her parents done more? A child’s education is not just the responsibility of the school.
@@lr9010prbly can’t read themselves 🤨
It all boils down to a lack of sanctions and punishment for neglect or being distracted by outside influences by the children and lack of effort by many of the teachers. 60 years ago corporal punishment or detention was used to get lazy students to learn at least the basics of their coursework. Now many students and pupils are left to their own devices by teachers left with no recourse to any effective sanctions or punishments. Corporal punishment has been banned for decades but no effective alternative has been put in place in schools. Many learning deficiencies have been medicalised and put into the hands of social workers and psychologists with the tacit and unspoken tenet that such deficiencies are not the childs fault. They may not be the childs fault but the child must be encouraged to find a work-around to these difficulties if at all possible. They will suffer the consequences of poor academic performance in later life if neglected or ignored or "written off" in early childhood.
If the home environment does not provide a support to learning this should be spotted as early as possible and alternative supports provided to make up for the lack of parental support where possible.
I would not support a return to the days of school or home based corporal punishment or other forms of institutionally sanctioned violence as this only serves to teach a child that might is right and big people can pick on and bully small people, a very damaging and anti-social thing to do, but there must be some form of punishment or sanction involved to encourage learning and effective development in children.
Tell your friend to look online at a program called Explode the Code. The program goes from absolute beginner to end of 4th grade reading level. Then for basic letter sounds look up Fundations sound picture cards. It has a picture to anchor each basic sound. There are UA-cam videos to teach correct sound. Also McGuffey's primary eclectic reader (used for years to teach reading prior to 1940's) is free online at The Gutenberg online library. Hope these resources help
@@jgdooley2003the thing you're missing about corporal punishment is it almost never had to actually take place. The knowledge that it could was usually more than enough.
What bums me out is that there are kids there that WANT to read and do math that are having their time wasted by the kids and parents that don't care. I've learned late in life that people that are incompetent are there WILLFULLY, and they will remain there their entire lives and love it when you spend ALL your time holding their hands.
Private schools are the answer
With no consequences for the teachers it will get worse
NOT a money problem. It is PARENTS/Teachers who are NOT making the students be accountable for their lack of attention to their studies, and needing to achieve at grade level. Doc. G.W.
Who in the world would want to be a teacher in that part of the world. 😊😊
For what they Make. With No accountability it’s a Fantastic part time job
Hello my name is Jane Doe from Chicago. I got ten kids who don't know who their fathers are. Hopefully the next guy is better, but don't hold your breath. Not sure where the older kids go after school , but I am busy with the little ones. I sure wish things would change...
I hope things get better for you, David "Jane doe" Burgoyne.
You forgot to mention you get free housing, welfare, and free healthcare and dental!