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The staggering amount of money being poured into public school systems and the vast amounts of power being wielded by public school unions (they now run Chicago) is in sharp contrast to the actual student population.
Not only are students learning less in schools than they did in years past, but student enrollment continues to drop in major cities and even when students are enrolled, they’re not showing up. In huge numbers.
More recently, in the 2022–23 school year chronic absenteeism in California showed a slight improvement, dropping to 25% from 30% in the previous year. Still, in the year before the pandemic rates were 12%.
That translates into 1.5 million students. About 1.1 million of them are black or Hispanic.
But what’s really striking here is that younger students have stopped showing up or maybe never did.
Prior to the pandemic, high schoolers had the highest rates of chronic absenteeism but now the problem is particularly pronounced in the early grades—notably in kindergarten, where the rate is highest at 36%
That’s unusual because it’s high schoolers who usually have the capacity to play hooky. Parents, even the worst parents, are usually happy to send kids to kindergarten. If they’re not showing up, what’s going on?
Either the parents are truly messed up or these kids may be fictional and exist only in welfare databases. Or the kids have already broken loose at an incredibly young age.
California elementary school students already fail at basic reading.
Results from the state’s latest academic achievement tests, released last October, revealed that fewer than half met standards in English language skills and scarcely a third met those in mathematics…
“In California, only 58% of fourth grade students can read at a basic level based on the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP),” according to the report. “That number falls precipitously for California’s historically underserved students.
These are catastrophic numbers and they’re only going to get worse because unions and administration remain obsessed with DEI and dismantling standards.
Meanwhile, taxpayers are being gouged to the bone to fund the luxurious lifestyles of contractors and consultants, and the vastly inflated salaries of public school teachers, many of whom do little more than go on strike to demand more money.
Also, the best teachers have been driven out of the field for many decades.
What you really mean is honest teachers. Propagandists are the best at what they do, they’re just not teaching facts, truth or the subject they’re hired to teach.
Reading is one of the reasons my grandchildren are being home schooled. As my daughter put it my grandkids were being taught how to read but not how to comprehend what was written. They could look at a sentence and recite it but could not get what it meant. If that makes sense.
It does. But schools are not interested in actual results.
Aka…Good enough for Government Work
Reading passages should be followed with reading comprehension questions. Questions can vary using multiple choice and essays.
Ah, Democrats…where keeping constituencies ignorant, medicated and eternally governmental teet suckers is job #1.
Perhaps it is as Dan Bongino states, that these coastal states and cities, for the most part, will, like a drug addict, have to truly hit bottom before things can turn around. Not quite there yet.
Maybe being sex trafficked is taking up a lot of the time of the little kids. Their pimp should at least send a note to the school excusing their absence.
Because MOST are not AMERICAN STUDENTS!! they are the children of INVADERS. ILLEGAL KIDS should be deported with their parents and NOT be given TAXPAYER funding for education. which STEALS from AMERICAN CHILDREN! IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION!
Round up all illegal Aliens(Future Democrat Voters)Liberal Democrats/Globalists Violent mobs Etc. and reporting them all to t he Amazon with nothing to survive on
If there is any reason that social security may die is the incentives to keep people from working – they will be sorry when they become middle age
I cannot help but add – basic these days has dropped much lower than the general meaning given the word in the past.
But, yes I fully believe that this is the story coming out of that school system in California. Or, for that matter most public schools today in the United States.
Looking forward to America becoming a third world country filled with illiterates.