Publick Ejukashun Inn Shikahgo
Here’s what appears to be a photo of a prom invitation for a Chicago-area high school, Paul Robeson High School:
Sad. Just freaking sad.
But what’s sadder even than that is the fact that the average salary for teachers in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system is approx $76,000 per year. Seriously.
The average household income in the city of Chicago? It’s barely $46,400. And in the area where Paul Robeson High is located, it’s lower (it’s in a poor area with high unemployment).
Oh, and did I mention that the teachers in the CPS got raises totaling 17% over the last 3 years, courtesy of their 2012 contract negotiations?
Further: 4 of 10 entering CPS freshmen never graduate from high school. Yeah, not all of that is on the schools. But a 40% dropout rate, system-wide? Really?
I guess those teachers are really earning their pay in CPS.
“I work for the union
‘Cause she’s so good to me . . .”
(Edited to add: bonus points for anyone who IDs the musical reference in the quote at the end of the article. [smile])
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Schools, Unions, WTF?
*earning there pay
/sarc
Thanks OBAMA
/and Rahm Emanuel
Too much dependence on computers?
From somewhere on the internet:
Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Car erect me if eye yum rawing !!!
40 percent dropout rate? Not bad. In NYC, the GRADUATION rate is less than that, and when I was in recruiting, one high school had 2500 freshmen, and 600 seniors.
But it was still early in the school year. Yeah, you read that right. A 75 percent dropout rate.
Agreed, NHSparky. But the 40% dropout rate in CHS quoted above is not the rate for any particular school. That’s the freaking CHS system- wide dropout rate – e.g., calculated across all public high schools in Chicago.
I’m guessing the rate at this school was probably well over 50%.
I wonder if Chevy attended school there?
Bingo! He likes the age group!
Leftists know that the more uneducated a populace is, the easier it is to manipulate, thus liberal-ruled locales have the shittiest publik shcoolz they can!!
Eyes jus wunt two say one ting hear.
So alluw me too espress meye poesichun.
We’s got’s it bad down hear.
Are teechers is as dum as we is and da shcoolbard jus takes da money fo crack.
Note: No real students or teachers from the Chicago public system were harmed in the crafting of the above satire.
That’s funny shit right there. I don’t care you you are
“This is Are Story” is a comedic rendering of “The Story of Are,” the classic tale of two Chicago street gangs whose members carry pocket dictionaries and compete annually in verb conjugation, spelling, and word choice to see who will win the coveted Oprah Cup.
That contest can be overseen and judged by Rahm Emanuel.
I cannot think of anyone more deserving and qualified.
Teachers in Shitholes like Chicago should be paid well. They deal with a horrible and even dangerous work environment and students with little or no support at home,
A contingent of that salary is that they actually teach the kids something, not just serve as babysitters all day.
No argument that teachers should receive a decent wage, Just an Old Dog.
But a wage more than 60% better than the average household income – plus fringe benefits and a pension that beats the hell out of virtually all others – seems like a bit more than a “decent wage”.
The union certainly was good to them – while giving the taxpayers of Chicago “the business”.
I wouldnt say it’s fair to compare the teachers income to the household income of an area that is well known as being an economic nightmare.
Union aside, an educator or group of educators that could turn a poorly performing School sytem around would be worth those bennies and pay.
Just an Old Dog: well, I would disagree – at least in part – for two reasons.
1. Chicago is approx 10% under median US household income. (2012 data – which is the most recent that is available – says the US average household income is a bit under $51,400; presumably 2012 data is for Chicago is what is quoted in the article.) In a free-market economy where some segments had had not been grossly distorted by sweetheart union contracts, that 10% depression would be reflected more-or-less across the board in the Chicago area. So teachers in CPS shouldn’t have any expectation of seeing anything different on that score than their non-teacher wage earning peers.
2. The average household income for teachers in CPS is far higher than the $76,000 figure quoted in the article. That figure was for teachers’ salaries – not household income, which includes income from all wage earners in the household. Presumably many if not most of those individuals have working spouses. Income from those working spouses would drive the average CPS household income up considerably – in all likelihood, to over 2x that of the metro area. Since teacher salaries alone are 1.6x the household income average for Chicago, this means that teacher salaries alone are likely 2x or more the average salary in Chicago.
Teachers deserve a decent wage. And getting 2x the area average might be justifiable – IF the CPS was doing a great job of educating students and had a low dropout rate. But when as a group their household income and salaries are each 2x the geographical area average and the school system is still in the toilet by objective measurements and anecdotal evidence such as is presented here, that degree of premium pay vis-a-vis the rest of the community is damned hard to justify.
Throwing money at a problem only works if the underlying problem is a lack of money. If the underlying problem is something else, it’s merely waste.
Is anyone really surprised?
and btw,
King Harvest (Has Surely Come)by ‘The Band’
Well, I was misinformed. I had been told that in place of “Admit One” Chicago high school prom tickets are inscribed with “Admit Nothing.” I don’t see that on the ticket. Wait! Maybe it’s on the back.
Hondo…”King Harvest” 1969
Just like our schools here with the “Pride Inside” bumpers stickers. Means your kid is a dumb ass who barely shows up, much less puts any effort into study. But he/she can have “Pride Inside” because, well you know, they are “special, individuals and there’s no one else like them in the whole world. So be proud of yourself”. Even if you’re a dumb ass, headed to McDonalds after graduation…that is if you have the writing skills to even fill out the application.
We have a weiner! You are awarded +10 musical history points – plus 5 “old fart” points – for that bit of vitally important musical trivia knowledge! (smile)
Seriously, Sparks: excellent work. Fan, or Google?
Hello!! I got it first!!
My dad was a musician with early connections to Dylan and the folk scene. I’ve heard it plenty.
Damn. Sorry, Jacobite – I missed that completely. Been a long day.
You also get +10 musical history points. And if you’re old enough to remember it when or shortly after it was released, you get 5 “old fart” points, too. (smile)
I’ll have to pass on the ‘old fart’ points I guess, I was only a year or two old when that came out, lol. 🙂
Hondo…fan…and being a DJ for 30 years part time whenever we needed extra money. Worked more stations than I can remember and every genre there was.
I have a friend that works for the Treasury Dept.
At one point she worked for the Dept Of public Debt.
On the top of every form was a logo, below that logo Were the Words,
Department of Pubic Debt.
For 10 years and no one caught it.
Sounds like someone had fun when they designed the logo. (smile)
Caint u unnasand wut de be tellun u? He, he he sad “Are” likes in “Are” dam mit! 😎
Seriously, I’ll take my so-called education and call it excellent compared to that crap. Good Lord! Somebody pull the chain on every public toilet in Chicago…
I don’t mean to break up the laughfest / shaking of head in disbelief fest here, but this is a case where we really need to know more about where the error was made before blaming the students.
I do this stuff (graphics) for a living and it is amazing the type of things that sneak into final printings that no one ever saw or expected.
We don’t know who sent this to the printer or even if the printer did the design work themselves and screwed it up. For all we know, someone called the particulars of the ticket / invitation over to the printer were some minimum wage person took the order, wrote it down wrong, and never looked at it. Graphics folks like me don’t care about what the copy says – we just want it to look good.
There are books printed every day that have these types of errors in them. These are books released by big time publishing companies with people who are employed as proofreaders and editors. Are they stupid, illiterate and a reflection on the education system as well?
There is not a one of us who can say we have not filled out a form incorrectly where we messed up our own name, address or phone number.
Stuff like this ticket / invitation happens in the real world. Without more information, I am not willing to ascribe the mistake to anything other than a mistake.
Stuff happens, ya know.
I drove by my local high school a couple of years back on the day John Lynch was going to appear there.
The sign said, “Welcome Govenor Lynch.” That was their SECOND attempt at the sign. I took a picture, which made it into the local paper.
I shit you not. This is the state of public education in this country.
After a hurricane did some damage to my town, one of the signs that was damaged was for the local Middle School. The “header” had been broken by the wind / debris / whatever.
They ordered a new sign, installed it and it took them months for someone to realize they spelled the name of the school on the replacement sign wrong.
I guess I am just more used to seeing stuff like this because of what I do. I get copy from really smart people that has all sorts of errors in it. I don’t fix any of them. While that might sound crazy, the moment I start saying “that is spelled wrong,” that is the moment that I am suddenly responsible for ALL the copy – whether it is in my contract or not.
But I get where you are coming from. In high school I was taught engineering, drafting, electricity, etc by engineers who had worked in the field. They understood what it took to be an electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, draftsman, etc. (One of my drafting teachers was a supervisor at the Glen L. Martin Co.)
Today, those guys couldn’t teach without lots of further education, certificates, etc.
Those who can, can. Those who can’t, teach.
It is a mess.
I think a 60% graduation rate is better than any school system in NM. sigh.
I went to HS in NM. I’d put my education up against anything my kids are getting now.
I see the shit they’re being taught, no failing grades, etc, and I weep for our future.
When our oldest daughter graduated from high school, 58% of the class was on the A/B honor roll.
Go figure.
I did Teach For America after graduating from college and was in a bad area. I was punched, kicked, had desks thrown at me, threatened with a knife, and the kids where a spitting image of their parents. I felt safer than Iraq or Afghanistan at times. I would agree teachers in bad areas should be paid more. You cant teach the unwilling or kids who have been raised wrong learning to be wannabe gangsters. All you can do is help the kids who want it.
Exactly,
The money you don’t spend on fixing education in economically distressed areas with poor family structure will be tripled in what you have to spend on Law enforcement, incarceration or public assistance.
A friend of mine remarked about the common issue with what she is seeing in her classroom is that “stupid people are raising stupid children,” which goes back to the point Drc made.
That’s my state! That’s my state!
Why the hell am I still here?!
Good thing they are spending money on important things like prom, because that’s what schools are for.
Why is anybody surprised at this? Obamas appointment to the head of the Dept of Education was Arne Duncan, former head of the Chicago public school system.” Good job Arnie, good job. “