[Uncle Chip]

79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading

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.

[dinodino]

Time to give the teachers a raise! Job well done, teachers!

[Hodar]

Well, obviously we need to raise the teacher’s pay, and lower the academic standards. < /s>

[ALPAPilot]

Nationally, public school 8th graders scored an average of 264 on the NAEP reading test.

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.

[ken in texas]

Yeah, but I’m sure they’ll be proficient in the valuable life skills of playing basketball and shooting each other.

[dfwgator]

79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading

[RJS1950]

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).

[Berlin_Freeper]

What is so hard about learning how to read?

[BilLies]

Maybe if they tested the teachers first, then the students....
IIRC, a few years ago Massachusetts tested their lower grade Math teachers and found a good portion of them could pass the student exams.
Come to think of it, I thought I read the City is offering a 16% wage increase but one on the major stumbling blocks was teacher evaluations....can't have that because “IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN”.

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.

[PJ-Comix]

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.

[New Jersey Realist]

Rush said today that Chicago’s teachers are already the highest paid in the country. I guess they want combat pay!

[Smokeyblue]

“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.

[Terry Mross]

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 teacher’s evaluation.

They KNOW their evaluations will plummet. But they’re too stupid to know it won’t really affect them.

[blueunicorn6]

The students should be on strike. Quit reinforcing failure!

[getarope]

The two words that must NEVER be spoken within earshot of anyone in the Chicago school system: Marva Collins.

[blueunicorn6]

Give the teachers 21% of their pay.

[arrogantsob]

This is more a reflection of the “families” these kids come from than poor teachers. Eighty percent of black children are out of wedlock and there are no fathers around.

Not to say that the Chicago teachers are doing a great job though.

[Charles Henrickson]

I went to grade school and high school in the city of Chicago--except, I went to LUTHERAN schools. I also graduated from a Lutheran college in the Chicago area.

After that, back in the late 1970s, I was taking some courses in journalism and broadcasting at a city college in Chicago. I was the editor of the college newspaper. The students writing for the paper--the ones who were PUBLIC school graduates, many of them studying journalism--would submit articles for the paper, and their articles needed a LOT of work! I would say that I could write better when I was in 8th grade than these college students could write.

[GeronL]

but at least they know how to use a condom and where to get them for free

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I wonder how the teachers would rate if given the same tests?