Posted on 09/10/2012 11:45:48 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Well that settles it for me. The teachers there must be doing the job they were hired to do and deserve a raise. Only 21% are slipping through the cracks.
Time to give the teachers a raise! Job well done, teachers!
Well, obviously we need to raise the teacher’s pay, and lower the academic standards. < /s>
So 4 out of 5 8th grade students are not proficient in reading but 19 out of 20 Freepers who send their children to public school pretend that their schools are great. They aren't like all the others.
Yeah, but I’m sure they’ll be proficient in the valuable life skills of playing basketball and shooting each other.
I’d be willing to bet that 79% of the teachers on strike and their union $h!theads are not proficient in reading either; or math, or science, or (pick a subject).
That’s OK, Just mute the volume and 4 out of 5 won’t understand it. ;^)
What is so hard about learning how to read?
The teachers better be careful because the kids that go to school for lunches and babysitting during the strike may end up learning more without the teachers being there.
Yeah, but do they have VARK? There is a whole bureaucracy dependent on students jumping through VARK hoops. It has absolutely nothing to do with LEARNING. Just form filling hoop hopping.
Rush said today that Chicago’s teachers are already the highest paid in the country. I guess they want combat pay!
“79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading”
I call this statistic bogus.
Have you seen the picture on Drudge of the teachers on strike? They must have eaten the other 21% of Not Proficient students.
They sure haven’t missed a meal lately.
-— So 4 out of 5 8th grade students are not proficient in reading but 19 out of 20 Freepers who send their children to public school pretend that their schools are great. They aren’t like all the others.-—
We have homeschooled our two daughters. The oldest will graduate this year. The youngest (14) was diagnosed with mild autism recently, and my wife’s sisters, who are teachers, and my sister, who’s a teacher, insisted that my daughter had to be in govt schools for her “special needs.” Against my wishes, we sent her off.
Believe it or not, despite the high falutin’ talk about IEP’s, it’s been an unmitigated disaster. She’s studying stuff she learned in fourth grade. They play Scrabble frequently, and almost everyday she corrects the teacher’s spelling.
From her description, school sounds exactly like I remember.
My wife is trying desperately to put a shine on the turd, but I’m already sensing weakness.
“could NOT pass the student exams.”
NO! NO! I DIDN’T GO TO SCHOOL IN CHICAGO! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU?
Chicago public school teachers went on strike on Monday and one of the major issues behind the strike is a new system Chicago plans to use for evaluating public school teachers in which student improvement on standardized tests will count for 40 percent of a teachers evaluation.
They KNOW their evaluations will plummet. But they’re too stupid to know it won’t really affect them.
The students should be on strike. Quit reinforcing failure!
The two words that must NEVER be spoken within earshot of anyone in the Chicago school system: Marva Collins.
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