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62% of Illinois 4th Graders Can't Do Long Division
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- Anne
- The middle of America. As for me, moderate in everything but politics. As Tom Roeser said, she went to Harvard and turned right. I come from The Chicago School, not the Chicago Way. Tweet street @backyardconserv
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An excellent post from a Chicago native on why Illinois' schools are the way they are.
If you drive out of Chicago to the suburbs, meanwhile, you'll find bright, new schools where top-notch teachers are getting paid up to six figures a year to teach in classes with all the best equipment. There's a reason for this. Illinois schools are funded according to property taxes paid by the town (I'm sure it's slightly different in Chicago itself, and the schools are funded according to the taxes of whoever lives in that school's footprint or something). Rich towns have good schools. Houses in those rich towns are then sold partially because the realtor says, "Move here and you'll get to send your kids to Wheaton Warrenville South/Nequa Valley/New Trier." So the people with the means to live in the good communities with the good schools move to those communities. And money pours in to schools that already have plenty.
There is a very easy solution to the problems of Chicago's schools. Send them some of the money from Waubonsee Valley or Oak Park.
But no. That would be Communism. And we can't have that.
One wonders how much money, what sophisticated equipment or how "good" a teacher is needed to teach a 4th grader long division.
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