When Obama lived in Chicago, he refused to allow his children to attend Chicago’s public schools

wordpress ^ | September 11, 2012 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

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When Barack Obama lived in Chicago, he refused to allow his children to attend Chicago’s public schools

When Barack Obama lived in Chicago, he refused to allow his children to attend Chicago’s public schools.

The striking public school teachers in Chicago earn $74,839 per year – and they get summer off.

The U.S. Department of Education reports that 79% of Chicago eighth are graders not grade-level proficient in reading, and 80% are not grade-level proficient in math.

Chicago’s charter schools are still open because their teachers are not on strike.

39% of Chicago’s striking public school teachers send their own children to private schools.

[chuckee]

“When Obama lived in Chicago, he refused to allow his children to attend Chicago’s public schools”

I guess this was the last time Obama made a correct decision

[Blood of Tyrants]

“39% of Chicago’s striking public school teachers send their own children to private schools.”

Even the teachers know what a crappy job they are doing.

[verga]

I guess this was the last time Obama made a correct decisionI am betting this one was all Moochelle, not wanting her little darlings to associate with the 'common" folk.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The teachers are supposedly striking for “job security” which is union speak for making sure the really, really shitty teachers don’t get fired.

[nascarnation]

39% of Chicago’s striking public school teachers send their own children to private schools

I'd love to see that stat for the teachers who actually reside within the Chicago school system boundaries. I bet it's 80+

[workerbee]

The U.S. Department of Education reports that 79% of Chicago eighth are graders not grade-level proficient in reading, and 80% are not grade-level proficient in math.

Wow. This from the DoE itself? You know it's bad!

Unless, of course, all those proficiency tests are just racist from the get-go.....

[nascarnation]

Well Amy Carter went to DC public school and you saw how she turned out, LOL.

[nascarnation]

They’re just giving you the downside.

A robust 3 of 100 students in the Chicago system goes on to graduate from a 4 year college !!

[workerbee]

Yeah... we joke.... but my gawd, it’s just heartbreaking to think of all those kids, all that amazing potential, simply swallowed up and lost in the politics/rhetoric/demagoguery of it all. Most with parent(s) who could not care less.

[DManA]

How can this be when they were so poor?

[napscoordinator]

Only one President sent their kids to public school and that was the Worst President in history, President James Carter.

[DManA]

That is a tragedy.

This is an outrage:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/09/11/as_chicago_teachers_strike_79_percent_of_students_cant_read

79% of Chicago 8th grade students can’t read.

[The Antiyuppie]

I don't have a problem with this. Would you? Neil Boortz says that putting children in public government schools is a form of child abuse and neglect. Things weren't always that way...they don't have to be.

[nascarnation]

They all expect to grow up to be:

1)NBA players
or
2)Docents at the Baraq Hussein Obama Presidential Library and Choom Gang Museum

[nascarnation]

The Great Society was a huge success.

It damaged black people far more than the KKK ever dreamed about.

[grundle]

I guess this was the last time Obama made a correct decision

Later on, he refused to allow his children to attend Washington D.C.'s public schools. I think that was the last time he made a correct decision.

[bunkerhill7]

Teachers in glass schools shouldn`t throw children.

[grundle]

Thanks for the link!

[Freee-dame]

The Bush twins attended public schools for elementary and high school. For middle school they did go to private school.