Chicago schools: Pass, amigo
WGN News Chicago reports that multiple public schools have reported that they have been instructed to pass immigrant kids without regard to how well they do or don’t do in school. Note that Chicago has some of the highest-spending school districts in the country – so where is the education money being spent?
Chicago Public Schools teachers were instructed by school officials to give migrant students passing grades and promote them to the next grade, “even if the students displayed severe academic deficiencies,” a new report claims.
WGN News reported that “multiple” teachers from different schools within the district reached out to them to expose the troubling trend.
One teacher said she was told to give one of her students a “C” in all her grades and pass her along to the third grade despite testing at “kindergarten level.”
Another teacher revealed that school officials directly told him during a training to promote migrant students to the next grade.
As can be expected, Chicago Public Schools deny this:
Chicago Public Schools CEO Dr. Pedro Martinez told WGN that migrant students and U.S. students are held to the same academic standards. He also claimed “over 90%” have bilingual support programs in their schools.
Oh yeah?
According to the report, many migrants have settled in Black neighborhoods where schools are not typically equipped with programs for non-English speakers.
“They’ve been assigned to teachers or assigned to classrooms where nobody speaks Spanish … so there’s a significant language barrier,” WGN News’ Sylvia Snowden reported.
One teacher described having to use Google Translate and relying on the Spanish teacher to translate to communicate with her migrant student “for the entire year,” Snowden said.
Those are the fortunate ones…can you imagine the class without any linguistic support at all? “Put-o on your shoe-o, Jose!”
“However, once confronted with our reporting, a CPS spokesperson acknowledged in a statement that the district’s promotion guidelines are ‘modified to serve the specialized needs of English Language Learners,’” WGN reported.
Modified… as in “thrown out the window.”
The district also claimed that ESL students who enrolled in the school during the last quarter of the school year were put in summer school programs to improve their English literacy. Teachers who spoke to WGN disputed this claim, saying “none” of their students were enrolled in summer school. Fox News
I guess technically is two of the students actually were sent to ESL the school district would be accurate… but with 48,000 recent immigrants landing in Chicago, empirically that is more accurately described as “next to none.”
I expect to see Chicago kids graduating in the foreseeable future who can’t speak a word of English, huh? Of course, having heard recordings of some of the other brain surgeons already graduating from their schools, the only difference will be their particular patois.
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The great replacement meets idiocracy..
Public Schooling is quite old. ShiShi High School in China, which is still in operation, was founded 2150 years ago. Public schools existed before that going back at least 4000 years.
Homeschool was mostly for trades people who were going to pickup whatever trade their father was in. Farmer peasants learned how to farm.
If they didn’t need to know how to read and write it was never learned. Same goes for all other subjects. So few people work a skilled trade in their own business anymore that very few are home schooled to learn a useful trade. Mostly it is for other reasons.
5JC – I get your point, but it’s not really the point of the meme. That point is accurate. Our current education system is predicated on the Normal Schools as they were developed during the Industrial Revolution. The goal is to produce a reliable, reproducible, consistent work force that would desire a “better” life, i.e., work in factories and support the Industrial Revolution and “Progress”.
The primary goal was not to “educate”, but to instill morals and values that would be advantageous to society, according to the “class” of the person, family or region. Upper classes were educated in the Classics et al to become leaders and lower classes were to be educated in enough of the basics to be competent workers.
In other words, the education system in Chicago is working as designed.
Your last sentence is deep! But also absolutely correct.
Ours is based on Prussia’s, which was intended to provide functional and obedient cannon fodder.
Schools have never been good for replacing churches and other religious institutions. By their nature they simply don’t have a way to teach morality.
I never relied on the schools to educate my kids in any case. That was a non-starter. They went to public schools but I was responsible for the real education.
Depends on your definition of “Public Schooling”. In England, for example,
“In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school[1] originally for older boys. They are “public” in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profession; nor are they run for the profit of a private owner.” What was the Chinese definition?
In the US the definition is more like education for the entire public, which is a relatively new concept.
The liberal government is doing their very best to hide all the bad decisions of the last four years but nothing can stay hidden forever.
So what else is new. “Social promotion” has been a standard item for more than a couple decades now. Can’t hurt the kids widdle feelers ya know by holding them back and requiring, actual performance at grade level for promotion.
Plus, ignorant peasants are FAR easier to rule over…
FAR easier to herd and manipulate as well!
This seems appropriate.
The rise of “Social promotion” and the inception of the Department of Education have an eerily similar trajectory. Which is one of the many, many arguments that support abolishing what would be more aptly named “Department of Socialist Engineering”.
Can’t happen soon enough. The current political map is clear evidence of just how much damage they’ve done to this nation, and how successful their operation has been.
Like this here:
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1835707790213410993
That f#$ker needs to be taken behind the school, never to return..
And yet the Woke Left sees no correlation between a substandard education, or in in this case a no standard education, and the ability to escape the cycle of generational poverty. If they don’t need the government to provide them the minimal necessities to survive, then all of those bureaucrats would be out of well paying and non demanding job.
Butbutbut, if you just pay a whole crap-pile more money for the exact same people and methods, it will get better!
Identity politics, entitlement and lack of personal responsibility makes one successful, no?
Setting them up for failure….
Someone is going to have to pull a plow in the new world order.
Well, that is what donkeys can do…
You’ll get it in a little bit.
Although the green-haired “woke” gender-fluid vegan Inersectionality Studies community organizers may be unsuited for that and cause too much trouble (Che shot such folk).
I saw part of a late 1800’s school primer with math problems that boggled my head. I was never good at math and Dad used to scream at me on math homework he tried helping me with… once I was put on a route that had a check cashing job and I was one of the cashiers. We get back to the office and after they finished balancing, I was short some moocho bucks. After that, I hit the wall on check cashing jobs and guarded the cashiers. I carry a roll consiting of ones, fives, tens and twenties all the time so I can give exact change at the store.
the public schools have been passing kids to the next grade for years. Was like that in the 60s and 70s. Nothing new about that. I was fortunate to enlist at an early age and took charge of my own education. After getting out of service and meeting old school mates. It was an eye opener to be working with people who had no education. Even though they had a high school diploma, And I didn’t finish HS. But I did go to college. I found myself teaching my construction crew mates basic math. Reconciling checkbooks, helping with reading lessons to 25 year old men. The public schools have been failing to provide basic education for years. This is nothing new. What’s new is. It’s harder to hide institutional failure that has evolved on such a grand scale. The internet and instant communication of real time problems is revealing these long standing issues. Home schooling is way better than most people in this country realize. IMO
The movie “Idiocracy” was supposed to be a COMEDY, not a prophecy!!!
Great point! I enjoyed that movie for its entertainment value at the time. I never expected it to an actual glimpse into the future.
BRAWNDO! ITS’ WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
Exactly.
What are electrolytes? I dunno, but Brawndo’s got em!
Duo-lingo mixed with ebonics.
This should be interesting
The public schools in most of the country are merely indoctrination facilities for progressives.
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