By: Diane Benjamin
Unit 5 and District 87 will graduate students without an education.
Bloomington High School has a dismal graduation rate of 79%: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/School.aspx?schoolId=170640870250001
McLean County Unit 5 has a graduation rate of 91%: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/District.aspx?districtId=17064005026
Your kids have ONE chance at an education. Local Public Schools are failing them. Individual schools can be looked up here: https://wirepoints.org/kidscantread/statewide/
Many state have passed some form of School Choice because kids shouldn’t be forced to stay in schools that don’t educate them. Of course Illinois isn’t one of them.
Why aren’t hundred of parents attending School Board meetings to demand better? Why do you vote for representatives in Springfield who will never pass School Choice?
If parents don’t care about the education of their kids the schools sure won’t. Too busy to demand accountability? Kids in states with school choice where education competition makes education better will crush your kids.
I’ve always wondered why parents in Chicago allow an extremely substandard school system knowing their kids will have a limited future. The answer is now obvious locally. Parents are oblivious to what is happening to their kids.
There are other options in town for educational opportunities. How ironic that we have a supposed premier university for teacher education turning out teachers who do not appear to have a successful curriculum. Maybe they don’t get it. Lest we forget that parents have of role of supporting education and if the system is failing to take action to change it.
Parents shouldn’t be forced to subsidize failing education while paying for education elsewhere.
Yes, ISU has become a real disappointment in many ways, thanks to the communist/marxist ideologies taking over. i long for the republic that welcomed a diversified learning experience rather that these fools shoving one ideology down your throat, nothing else is even allowed.
Then sneakily implementing shady “innovation” and transformation projects at state and county and local levels.
Thanks Obama, Pritzker family and CEOs and politicians (you do not deserve raises or benefits or our tax $$)
Parents need to look up the schools their children attend, as well as other schools in both districts. They will be absolutely stunned at the lack of proficiency. What are we paying exorbitant taxes for? It’s truly obscene how far Unit 5 and District 87 have fallen. Children are graduating who cannot read, write, spell, do math. And yet, they get a diploma.
As a parent of children about to enter Kindergarten, who also had kids in D87 preschool, I think the place to start is to look in the mirror. Yes, our schools/teachers/districts need to do better, but the lack of parental involvement/support that I saw just at the preschool level was abysmal. There were 300 children enrolled in Sarah Raymond. There were several parent involved “classes” offered over the two years our boys were there. At these parent only events, the most I saw was maybe 10 families. 10 out of 300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At one event it was myself, my husband, and one other mother. The teachers by far out numbered the parents many of times. Even though my boys were only in preschool, I still asked them on a daily basis what they were working on, helped with writing their names, checked in with their teachers to make sure they were at or close to where they should be for their age with academics, etc. One of the teachers didn’t want to have a parent-teacher conference this past spring since my kiddo was not “new” to her class. I was insistent that I have an update. I was not going to let it slide that we didn’t get an update just because he wasn’t new to her class.
I see many on here saying the solution is to go to private school. In reality, most of us can’t afford that. Homeschool is also not an option. We do have some good public schools here. We certainly are paying enough with our taxes. So maybe as parents we need to do a better job of being involved. I wonder how many of the other parents just let it slide that they were not offered a conference for their child this year? If this is just how they think it is, they are young, or may undereducated as well. I am older and more likely to advocate for more child than someone younger. As with anything, it starts at home. How does a parent not know that their 17 year old isn’t reading at an appropriate grade level? Why are they being passed on to each grade? It’s easy to blame the schools and the teachers, but let’s also place some blame where it starts, at home.
I guess I need to post reports by school. They are failing to educate. School Choice, not paying twice for school