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79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading
Okay, let’s cut through the crap cake. The teachers unions do not give a corpse fart about “the children.” And when they try and invoke “the children.” spit in their faces, big meaty ones. They are despicable liars. The left is solely responsible for the slide of this country into the shitter.
Seventy-nine percent of the 8th graders in the Chicago Public Schools are not grade-level proficient in reading, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and 80 percent are not grade-level proficient in math.
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. Until now, the evaluations of Chicago public school teachers have been based on what a Chicago Sun Times editorial called a “meaningless checklist.”
Pickled Liver
September 11th, 2012
The whole downfall of the US is evident in this BS! Why attempt to “earn” your money? Greed and corruption starts at the top – and look who’s Mayor!
CtrlAltDelete
September 11th, 2012
Does that also equate that 79-80% of the teachers are not proficient?
Carlos The Jackal
September 11th, 2012
Raises based on merit-PERIOD!
Martin Hessler
September 11th, 2012
However, 79% of Chicago 8th graders are proficient enough to vote democratic. They won’t be able to do anything else with this level of education.
Just what the dems want: an entire dependent generation.
norman einstein
September 11th, 2012
Ramirez cartoon on the subject…about covers it:
http://tinyurl.com/caaa9fn
old_oaks
September 11th, 2012
It’s because plain English is racist!
It’s also racist to teach Ebonics, but they learn it anyway!
Truthsayer221
September 11th, 2012
Rahm should pull a “Regan” and just fire their sorry butts! There are plenty of out of work teachers that could replace them! Rahm won’t do that however, he doesn’t have Regan’s ball’s!
dba_vagabond_trader
September 11th, 2012
Well by Chitown standards they deserve a 79% raise.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 11th, 2012
Oh yeah, free unlimited abortions too.
fxdwg
September 11th, 2012
Look at and listen to Karen Lewis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YXOSaMZzs
She is the perfect example why public employee unions should not be allowed to bargain for pay or benefits. Also note that most of her cohorts could be her twins, in the fact that they are fat, socialist thugs masquerading as teachers. Yep, these are the folks that spend 40 hours a week filling your children’s minds with liberal groupspeak, Chicagoans.
Poonces
September 11th, 2012
My kid had a teacher in elementary school who insisted that Washington’s birthday was February 21st, because that’s the day President’s Day was that year.
She got annoyed when I asked her what day his birthday was going to be the next year.
Bet she knew exactly when Che Guevara’s birthday was.
Two Legged Blue Eyed Cracker
September 11th, 2012
Is dat mo dan haf?
Noodengr
September 11th, 2012
Highest paid on average in all of America right?
Well then the results of your efforts should reflect that pay. That means that if 79% of the 8th graders not reading is the best in the country we are in some serious deep *&$# in the future as these kids become tomorrow’s workforce and really scary leaders.
Fire them all and start over. Close public schools entirely and let private schools educate.
persecutor
September 11th, 2012
The reason the reading percentages are so poor is because of the slave wages they pay those dedicated pedagogical putzes.
What they want is an honest week’s salary for an honest hour of work.I’d say that’s reasonable.
Everything they do is for the chilluns, doncha know!
Billy Fuster
September 11th, 2012
In accordance to Obama’s plan they ARE doing their job.
muddjuice (Absolutist)
September 11th, 2012
How much money would they make if their pay was based on results? 13 cents an hour?
OT….my 10 year old daughter asked me yesterday if she would get in trouble with me if she got in trouble at school for telling the teacher she was wrong about evolution and God created the world.
I was so proud. And I told her she would not get in trouble for that as long as she did so with respect…..
Maudie N Mandeville
September 11th, 2012
Damn, do I have to solve all the world’s problems?
If the teachers are now paid only $79,000 before beni’s and 20% of students are proficient, pay the teachers $395,000 and get back to work!!
Maudie N Mandeville
September 11th, 2012
fxdwg: Thanks but I just can’t do it. I made it to :15.
norman einstein
September 11th, 2012
I heard a comment on FNN yesterday that made me want to throw up.
Over 70% of the “stimulus funds” received by the Chicago school board went into the teachers’ PENSION FUND!!!
And they want MORE???
Excuse me…have to go duct tape my head.
muddjuice (Absolutist)
September 11th, 2012
Why do they need the stimulus when they have the Lootall….I mean…Lotto….?
mkultra
September 11th, 2012
What a coincidence. 79% of Chicago teachers cAnT rEEd either.
ronterf
September 11th, 2012
This is where equal oportunity has gotten this country. if people in all jobs were hired on ability not race or gender or other reasons then the quality of work results would be better.
tenmegaton
September 11th, 2012
I know a million, well 999,999 of these types of people. Only thing they are proficient at is bitching. Never hear much out of people who work hard and are good at what they do.
fxdwg
September 11th, 2012
@Maudie N Mandeville-
I know. But I had to put it up there. None of the liberal MSM dare show or interview this crazy person. I feel for Chicago’s kids. That city is gonna burn, just as Detroit has.
tenmegaton
September 11th, 2012
Unions? We don’t need no stinking unions.
serfer62
September 11th, 2012
Here in Hawaii, one of the lowest ranking states in education, the teachers struck for a “decent wage”.
The kids got even dumber.
As an animal trainer I do NOT reward the puppy for peeing in the kitchen…I throw his ass out!
Stranded in Sonoma
September 11th, 2012
@muddjuice — Here in The People’s Socialist Quagmire of California, the lottery ticket computer screens proudly proclaim how much money has gone to the schools. It’s even on the CA Lottery website.
So, tell me again why schools need more and more tax money? Maybe we should take away the lottery money from the schools and put it all in the winner’s pot.
I can remember when the lottery first started here in CA. It’s for the schools! We were told this would ease the need for increased taxes for the schools. Wanna bet? All we did was give them another avenue of funding that they claim they can’t do without. It’s a good thing the amount the schools get from the lottery is fixed by law. Well, with the socialists in charge here, that percentage is fixed, for now.
Turn off the spigot and let the unions bellyache about not having enough money. Welcome to the party, pal!
Roscoe P. Soultrane
September 11th, 2012
Take them all to Soldier Field. Announce that raises at double the requested amount will be given. Then announce that only half the positions will be remaining and “We’re gonna have tryouts”. Seal the gates, drop in a bunch of machetes, and film the “team building exercise.”
muddjuice (Absolutist)
September 11th, 2012
@ Stranded in Sonoma
Same story here in MI. It for the kids. Right. I didn’t believe it then, don’t believe it now….
muddjuice (Absolutist)
September 11th, 2012
@ Roscoe P. Soultrane
I like that idea. I like it a lot….
Tim
September 11th, 2012
It’s just RACIST to expect illiterate and innumerate teachers to teach the l’il chillens how to read and do that rithmetic stuff … they can put condoms on each other with their mouths … they can get pregnant without knowing how … they can jack up a 7-11 in 40 seconds flat … they know the price of ugly B-Ball shoes … they can bend over for Big Bubba so’s he don’t beat the snot outta them … wha chu want?
House of Kell
September 11th, 2012
Hukt on fonicks werkt fer me….
Noelegy
September 11th, 2012
Throw more money at it! That’s got to work.
Seriously, this pisses me off. I’ve mentioned before that my mom was an English teacher for many years. She taught in a small Texas school system where the graduation rate was something like 99%. No unions. Very few standardized tests. And she surely didn’t make the kind of money that Chicago schoolteachers make.
Tim
September 11th, 2012
A PhD in Engineering doesn’t qualify one to teach high school in the state of Missouri.
Prolly not in Illinois, either.
Certainly not in Chicago.