An interesting report out of Illinois.
In over 30 public schools, none, as in not one, zero, not a single kid, is reading at their appropriate grade level.
Note that the per pupil spending ranges in these 30 schools from an outlying low of $8,861 up to an astonishing $56,311, with an average of $21,000 per student among the 30 schools and this is the result you get. That kind of spending is on par with private school tuition at some of the best private schools -with unquestionably far worse results.
Similarly, in all of Maryland Public Schools, half of all the third graders were not reading at grade level.
In Detroit Public Schools, 88% of third graders were under grade level in reading.
It's as if public schools were not there to educate but instead fund the Teacher's and Administrator's Unions to funnel money back to the Democrats in return for more public money for higher salaries and benefits and then rinse and repeat.
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I'm not too surprised they can't read. I dont know about Illinois or any of the other states, however, in Texas they dont teach Phonics Or spelling and indeed barely teach reading at all. It is almost like they are supposed to magically learn to read. They use " sight words" which is ok but requires student to memorize 100s of "Sight words". Beyond that they basically make a guess using the surrounding words as a possible guide as to what is meant. ( Between Spell Check, and grammarly the thought seems to be the kids don't need to learn reading and language basics). Also, it has been noted that teaching colleges ( much like elsewhere) tend to push Math and Science. That's fine except a very high percentage of new teachers had little to no training as to how to teach reading.
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