Sunday, August 24, 2025

And They're Demanding Raises?

If you can't meet the standards, just lower them!

  • Most Illinois students are struggling to read or do math at grade level on their end of year state assessments. The State Board of Education’s solution? Lower the standards.

    The board of education approved a plan to lower the scores needed to be considered proficient in reading and math on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness. It also determined the scores needed to be considered proficient in reading and math for 11th graders as the state moves from the SAT to ACT as the state-required assessment for high school students.

    The most recent state data available shows only 41% of students in third through eighth grade could read at grade level in 2024 and just 31% in 11th grade. In math, 28% of third through eighth graders were proficient and 26% of 11th graders

    New proficiency rates will be implemented on the 2025 Illinois Report card released in October, leaving Illinoisans unable to compare scores to previous years’ proficiency rates.

Got to love that last paragraph, making it impossible to actually assess the year-over-year improvements....or the far more likely, the declines.

Indiana resident and CTU boss Stacy Davis Gates still wants Fata$$ to come up with another billion-and-a-half while her members haven't successfully taught kids to read and do math at grade levels in years.

It is truly past time to break the CTU.

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49 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

St Mary’s, Notre Dame & Concordia sure did not rub off on Ms Gates-Davis.

8/24/2025 12:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That cps high school diploma meant something, sorta.

Now it will mean something else.

Aka, Do Not Hire this idiot.

8/24/2025 12:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i remember when i was in school, the teachers would basically tell us that they were always teaching at least a 1 yr or grade behind. If I remember correctly, our schools "accelerated" or "honors" program is just a regular class compared to school district up north or in a different state. Our state exam was considered to be a joke.

8/24/2025 12:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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1. Open Borders and Illegal Immigration
2. Rampant Crime and Unsafe Cities
3. Mass Addiction and Fentanyl
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6. The Asymmetrical Weaponization of Justice
7. The Destruction of Private Property Rights
8. Inflation and Debt
9. The Global Depopulation Agenda
10. Record Low Fertility and Plummeting Birth Rates
11. Unaccountable Federal Bureaucracies
12. Toxic Food Supply
13. Vaccine and Pandemic Disinformation
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17. DEI and the New Racism
18. Moral and Societal Decay
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20. The Sprawling Surveillance State
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8/24/2025 01:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A dumbed-down electorate is a dependable, democrat electorate.

And don't you forget it. Sure the Chinese are pressing their students harder, but we've got nothing to worry about, right? Those McDonald's jobs will be paying $35/hour in the next few years. STEM, shmem!

8/24/2025 01:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

gonna be a cake walk for those competing with these moron's for a job other than a city job

8/24/2025 02:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The place is going under and everything is mismanaged. Now more raises. Wow!

8/24/2025 03:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The CTU objective is to have the student eligible for public dependency upon graduation. Unable to read, do math or understand how to think.

8/24/2025 04:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Time to start a go fund me page

8/24/2025 05:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If there was ever a solid reason to home school , this is it. It is utter insanity and criminal negligence to do this to kids.

8/24/2025 06:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The truth hurts, so we’re gonna have more mentally retarded. People being taught by mentally retarded, so-called indoctrination specialist. The children are totally being destroyed at Indies institutions. If you were a cop and you’re stupid enough to be taking his extravagant vacations, buying the hottest vehicles have to have the biggest houses and you send your children to these garbage disposal institutions you are also mentally retarded. Somethings wrong with you. You don’t care about your children.

8/24/2025 06:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like they are preparing CPS students for future CPD test standards

8/24/2025 06:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

More useful math skills are to be found when the books don't balance to the penny on the daily summing up of the dope sales.

8/24/2025 06:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Posts on websites are so cringeworthy. I can see why IQ is steadily decreasing in this country

8/24/2025 07:33:00 AM  
Blogger STxAR said...

Studied Electronics 101 with Uncle Mickey. He wasn't an instructor. Got a 40, which was a fail, but he just slid over ye olde Bell Curve and viola! I passed with a B. I took that class again as I didn't understand the subject after fail-passing his class. He was ahead of his time!

8/24/2025 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Idiocracy

8/24/2025 08:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who’s going to read their report cards to them?

8/24/2025 08:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I put 4 kids through CPS k-12 and they all doing great. It’s more of what happens at home than in school. 2 out of college and doing great 2 close to finishing college and doing great.

During covid they handed out A+ for everyone so that helped huge with college expenses at SEC school.

No drop off in performance in college so maybe they earned all the A+.

Take care of your kids at home and CPS won’t hurt them.

8/24/2025 08:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You’re on the right track, now just figure out who’s behind it all.

8/24/2025 08:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And guess who the CPD is hiring ? CPS graduates ! Take a few minutes and try to read a report by a newer officer. The spelling and punctuation is remedial at best. Some new officers write every report in capital letters. The sad part is the supervisors approve everything. I don't think they can spell ether.

8/24/2025 08:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A Catholic HS diploma is essentially worthless too… nothing but a pipeline to a city job. If, you can keep the kid from getting a dui while he or she does their 1st yr at NIU, ISU, Southern before dropping out returning to finish at community college before taking those city job exams-

8/24/2025 08:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Education is key to success!

8/24/2025 09:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Changing the stats wont matter...they will still be STUPID!! at any level.

8/24/2025 09:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Blow Hole

8/24/2025 09:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The academic rating agencies have placed the public school system on scholastic probation. The public schooling has since been downgraded to scholastic parole by academic progress monitors. In response to this downgrade, CPS plans to hire hundreds of full time academic parole agents to monitor students and to oversee Electronic Monitors (EM) programs for those chronic wayward scholars at those identified in name only college preparatory schools and math and science academies.

8/24/2025 09:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Exactly, look in the mirror.

8/24/2025 09:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The socialist Democratic Party wants to keep them ignorant, and uneducated this way they are easy to control and manipulate on the Democratic plantation !

8/24/2025 09:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was taught by the nuns. A ruler helped, but I could always thank a Catholic/private school. Look at the stupidity or total lack of common sense nowadays! Look how they're taught. Look who cannot make change. Say good morning while walking the dog and get a blank stare! That is the (Democratic) future.

8/24/2025 10:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SDG and her minions at CTU are all about a jobs program for themselves. Social promotion guarantees jobs for the teachers. Doesn’t matter if students can read, write or calculate.
As long as there are bodies in the seats, what does it matter. Chronic absenteeism numbers are high yet students are pushed from grade to grade.
Time to return to textbooks, worksheets and direct teaching. Give the Chromebooks a rest.
Wonder how many CTU teachers can explain the difference between active voice, passive voice, and subjunctive mood and give examples for each.

8/24/2025 10:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How to identify a cop who cares about their children? They work a scab job to send them to private schools.

The destruction of our children is another gift from the democrats. The schools have been dumbed down under everyone gets a prize mentality theory, meaning everyone graduates from high school where the expectation are based on the lowest achievers. Did you know that homework is racists?This is because more white/asians parents sit down with their kids and help them with their homework which causes them to do better in than kids who have parents that are not involved with their education.

I had to read police reports for 30 years. In that time I read a lot of reports that made as much sense as the recent report posted here. But, after reading all those poorly written reports, I can only remember a few that were written by cops who went to private (church) schools. This includes the people who went to private schools through elementary school and the switched to public school for HS.

8/24/2025 10:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The migrants will bring up the percentage’s because they are very smart

8/24/2025 11:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The ctu isn't a labor union. Hasn't been for quite awhile.

8/24/2025 12:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting point you bring up about China. Recently visited various cities to see with my own eyes what I was told. They are at least 50 years ahead of us. And yes from a young age those kids are taught to be dependent and learn skills in various trades. Meanwhile the majority of CPS students got their faces buried on ticktock or the ‘gram or too busy twerking. Not only is math and reading lacking from CPS, there’s no discipline or motivation.

8/24/2025 12:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Apparently you could sharpen your grammar and writing skills

8/24/2025 01:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I called it. Everyone should know this was coming. They want more money for dumber kids every year now...

8/24/2025 01:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is why we voted Republican to try and right the ship. EVERY one of these 25 reasons were sponsored by the Democrats.

8/24/2025 02:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Hq recruitment u it will soon be recruiting these numbnuts right outta high schools…

8/24/2025 02:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Soros & Co are behind it.

8/24/2025 02:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The ONLY thing the Dept of Education should have done was to set the minimum standards to be met so proper nation-wide comparisons could be conducted across School Districts.

Any School District trying to do LESS? Cut off 100% of their Federal Funding, decertify their diplomas for any Federal Jobs. Want to work at TSA or the Post Office, etc. but went to CPS? Too bad - no job for you until you take remedial classes at a Certified School or College and pass those classes with a minimum B average.

Stop tolerating mediocrity.

8/24/2025 02:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A.I.

8/24/2025 02:59:00 PM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

Democrats like their spawn dumb.

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

8/24/2025 04:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Don’t think they can spell ether.” Classic!

8/24/2025 05:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The education system of this state is a joke. By today’s standards, a “gifted” kid now would’ve been an average to below average student in the 1950s thru 1980s.

8/24/2025 05:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WEF is behind it all. You cannot have a globalized world and an unelected cabal running the world if the US remains as our founding father’s intended it.

8/24/2025 05:44:00 PM  
Blogger Old Joe said...

That wench send her own kids to private schools while feeding at the public trough.

8/24/2025 08:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So basically if you go to cps unless you get a sports scholarship forget anything besides community college no where will accept you….and enjoy having to pay a ton for out of state community college cause that’s screwed too

8/24/2025 09:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A supervisor’s job is not to teach basic English skills. You’re asking for too much. At best, supervisors can kick back the report a few times and hope the officers have the knowledge to correct what they’re told to correct. But after 3 or 4 tries and garbage is still submitted, a supervisor has to throw in the towel and admit that’s the best they’re gonna get from the officers. Put the blame on Yoyo, cone head, larritoriius, landowski and any other moron that contributed to dumbing down CPD. In any other job if your work is below expectations, you’re out. Here you got a good shot at a merit promotion.

8/24/2025 09:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For generations now, people who cant read are graduated and go into the workforce. Some just go on SSI and food stamps right away. They use smart phones, drive vehicles, and some even go on to city colleges.
These non readers work for the city, and CPS, and Streets and Sanitation. Every year the population I.Q. falls a notch and the standards get lower. City services get worse and worse at the customer service level.
And no one seems to care...

8/25/2025 03:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck both active and retired drunk useless CPS teachers. Never even lived in city. Suburbs. And old bitches did their drinking after school in suburbs. Real class acts.68 or 70 yr old woman sitting on bar stool at 4 in the afternoon.Unbelieveable.

8/25/2025 04:47:00 PM  

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