Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Board of Education are following the lead of other major cities and eliminating gifted school programs in the name of achieving greater racial and social “equity.” Eleven “high-achieving selective-enrollment schools” will be eliminated, according to Chicago Board of Education CEO Pedro Martinez, to reduce “stratification and inequity.” As we have previously discussed, major cities with failing public education programs are erasing performance gaps in their schools by decapitating the top performers rather than elevating the performance overall. Other schools have also eliminated or lowered proficiency standards to achieve higher passage rates.According to the Daily Mail, the Board will vote today on the Mayor’s plan with the support of the president. The Chicago Tribune blasted Johnson in an editorial for reneging on a campaign promise not to abolish the selective schools.President Jianan Shi has portrayed gifted programs as just adding stress by allowing some students to achieve higher levels of education. Shi declared “the goal is […] to change (the) current competition model so that students are not pitted against one another, schools are not pitted against one another.”Some of these targeted schools are among the nation’s top performers, including Walter Payton College Prep (ranked 10th), Northside College Prep (ranked 37th), and Jones College Prep (ranked 60th). However, these schools only highlight the failure of the system overall.One can imagine how thrilled countries like China must be as we decapitate our educational system to bring down both standards and schools to a low median.
As previously discussed, school boards and teacher unions have long treated parents as unwelcome interlopers in their children’s education.
That view was captured in the comment of Iowa school board member Rachel Wall, who said: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community.”
State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) tweeted: “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
Parents who question unpopular policies are often treated as extremists.
Michelle Leete, vice president of training at the Virginia PTA and vice president of communications for the Fairfax County PTA, said parents would not force them to reverse their agenda: “Let them die. Don’t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.”
I have been a huge supporter of public schools my whole life. While my parents could afford private schools, they helped form a group to keep white families in the public school system in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. They wanted their kids to be part of a diverse school environment. I also sent my kids to public schools for the same reason. I view our public schools as important parts of our society as we shape future citizens.
Teachers and boards are killing the institution of public education by treating children and parents more like captives than consumers. They are force-feeding social and political priorities, including passes for engaging in approved protests.
As public schools continue to produce abysmal scores, particularly for minority students, board and union officials have called for lowering or suspending proficiency standards or declared meritocracy to be a form of “white supremacy.” Gifted and talented programs are being eliminated in the name of “equity.”
Once parents have a choice, these teachers lose a virtual monopoly over many families, and these districts could lose billions in states like Florida.
Chicago is literally telling families of highly competitive students to leave public education or reduce their expectations. For those who can afford it, they must now look to private or religious schools. Most cannot afford such choices and the state has long been hostile to vouchers. Indeed, the state (which has long been dominated by the far-left teachers union) recently became the first state to rollback on vouchers as other states are expanding such programs.
As a proud Chicago native, it is hard to watch what is happening in the city under Johnson and this city council. I still hope that sanity will take hold in the city before they do irreversible damage, but this education plan hastens the decline of one of America’s greatest cities.
Has anyone else noticed that the mayor of Chicago has a pointy head?
Jonathan: This is not the first time I have pointed out anti-semitism and other hate speech on your blog. The latest example is “Anonymous” in this post last night: “Jews are dumbing down America with more brown people. So the evil Jew can try to build an army or morons who do the Jew war bidding” (12/19@8:32pm). This post echoes the language Hitler used in Mein Kamp and DJT’s campaign language “poisoning the blood”.
I am not optimistic you will confront “Anonymous” over his overt anti-semitism. But I intend to call it out on this blog whenever I see it!
Professor, as demonstrated in the later hours, your un-policed, no-rules-enforced comment section has gone “full retard,” to quote Robert Downey Jr.’s character from Tropic Thunder:
Tom the turd guy and Estovir wont stop skull f*cking me in my fevered dreams!!!
Bu bu bu but the stock market!!!
Make em stop!!!
Stock Market News, Dec. 19, 2023: Dow Closes Higher for Fifth Straight Record
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-12-19-2023
Huge steaming turd^^^^^
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 251.90 points, or 0.68%, to 37,557.92. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.66% to 15,003.22. It was the first time the tech-heavy index closed above the 15,000 level since January 2022. The Nasdaq 100 gained 0.49% to 16,811.85, reaching all-time intraday and closing highs.6 hours ago
https://www.cnbc.com › 2023/12/18
Steaming turd^^^^^ from a$$humper
71% of all stocks on the exchange are failing to meet the companies predicted profits.
The leftist trolls are going to ignore their expert analysis during the Trump administration, that the Stock market is not a proxy for economic health
Every post another double standard. Every post more proof the left have no core values, other than getting and keeping power
Peter, you are an idiot and always have been. Yes, a rise in the stock market can indicate good things for America, but that is not always true. A weak America can have a rising stock market when Europe and other countries are having economic problems. They park their money in the US, causing the stock market to rise.
That is your problem. There is no depth in your knowledge, despite you commenting on things far above your head. That makes you look like a fool. We see the same in Svelaz, whose depth of knowledge is as low as yours.
Alan, many analysts think Fed Chair Jerome Powell has achieved what was thought to be the impossible by guiding this economy to a soft landing from inflation.
Powell, as you know, was appointed by Trump. So you don’t have to denigrate Powell just because you’re a Trumper.
But if your news feed consists of only rightwing media, you’ll probably see stories claiming this market is only a ‘suckers rally’. Because Republicans are desperately hoping for a recession next year! And they don’t want any good news on the economy.
Which goes to show Republicans put politics before country.
Peter, you continue to be an idiot. You know almost nothing about Powell’s actions. The middle class has less money to spend. Therefore, they purchase less, and that reduces inflation. Recently, the supply of dollars added to the economy has stopped or decreased, which reduces the money supply and brings inflation under control. Biden’s spending package caused inflation in the first place.
We should eliminate the fed or use a neutral computer program to control rates. We should get rid of the added duties the fed was given in recent years.
You are terminally uneducable and unknowledgeable, so no one should ever listen to anything you say. You know, next to zero.
Blah blah blah bs bs bs look what i found at Vox.com, dont believe your lying eyes.
Now watch as Estovir and Tom call me a turd and sh!t all over my brilliant post.
Tom/Estovir is so illiterate he can’t distinguish Barron’s Financial News from Vox. So now he’s going to smear turds again (because that’s all he knows).
It’s funny how the stock market is nearing an all-time high when the ‘economy is doing so bad’.
Somebody please make Tom stop sh!tting all over my posts!!!
Dont believe your lying eyes! The stock market! The stock market!
Tom is estovir is everyone else i’m addressing is the little green man in my head, is is is …..ugh!!!
Here’s the article Tom/Estovir can’t read because it conflicts with rightwing talking points.
Stock Market Nears All Time High!
Investors no longer worried about inflation.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-121923
What a deluded kunt you are. Do you really expect anyone to click on your stupid link when you attach it to your unhinged rant about Tom and Estovir skull f*cking you in your dreams???
Bwahahahahaha
Signed
Estovir, Upstate Farmer, Iowa2, Hullbobby, Edward Mahl, Shakdi, Guy Ventner, Margot Ballhere, dgsnowden, Mistress Addams and many, many more.
Look look its Tom/Estovir pretending to be me.
Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! Make it stop
I guess the turdrunner didnt hear Austan Goolsbee say this evening that those folks were “getting ahead of themselves”.
I printed out that Barrons article. I only had two criticisms. It wasn’t very absorbent and not nearly as soft as Charmin.
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Uh da dup da dup tom is illiterate du dup
“It’s funny how the stock market is nearing an all-time high when the ‘economy is doing so bad’.”
From bad runs lips to the ears of the 70% who dont think the pee tape is real.
This is greatly cheating not only bright White & Asian students but very bright students of all races & ethnic groups of the opportunity to develop their intellects & talents in high level schools with other high achievers. And for what, to make lower achieving Blacks feel better by hurting their academic betters? This is hugely unjust, vindictive and plain evil.
This is “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” away from its thesis of freedom and self reliance, by a criminal, ineligible, son of an anti-Colonialist, anti-American, radical extremist, foreign citizen, who was jailed by the British for six months, and extant, high-criminal de facto President.
What sort of corrupt state (Colorado) has a supreme court (all democrat) so LAWLESS that it finds THE leading presidential candidate (Trump) GUILTY of “insurrection” — a crime for which he has never been charged, much less tried and convicted — in order to disqualify him from running for president in that state?
SCOTUS needs to drop an atom-bomb ruling on the Colorado Supreme Court, and do it without further delay. If things get any sillier in this country, there can be no recovery short of a second civil war that will make the first civil war look like a junior varsity scrimmage.
The totally corrupt U.S. Supreme Court, 1973, found a federal right to abortion in the Constitution that quite simply was not there then, and is not there now.
Communist is the sort of corruption slithering out from under its rock in Colorado.
It’s more fascist than communist, but the POINT is that it’s lawless.
We understand that Americans are not feeling it (the great economy) right now, thats why we’ll continue to talk about junk fees”
KJP today, cheered on by brandrunner aka bad runs
Tuesday’s Close:
Stock Market Nearing All-Time High
The stock market just can’t seem to stop going up right now, and the S&P 500 is within striking distance of hitting a record level.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 252 points, or 0.7%, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.7% and the S&P 500 advanced 0.6% to 4768.
The S&P 500 just needs to gain a little less than 1% to reach its record closing level of 4796, hit in January of 2022. The index is up about 25% for the year.
The Dow and the Nasdaq marked their ninth day of gains. The Dow had a new record close.
The market is confident that the economy can keep growing as the Federal Reserve moves closer to cutting interest rates, with the rate of inflation having declined.
Edited From:
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-121923
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Key Passage From Article:
“The market is confident that the economy can keep growing as the Federal Reserve moves closer to cutting interest rates, with the rate of inflation having declined”.
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Tom/Estovir and all the puppets claim the economy is ‘terrible’ right now because of ‘Biden’s inflation’. It seems
Estovir doesn’t follow financial news. Because he’s too busy posting turds on this blog.
Steaming turd^^^**
Coprophilic commenter^^^^^
Kunt commenter^^*^
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Key passage
“70% of Americans pay more attention to their bank accounts than the steaming turds in the Financial News. The other 30% read it while watching the pee tape”
Steaming turd vvvvvvvvv
This UK Telegraph on Biden’s death grip on America is on point. One has to read overseas news media reports on America to get an objective and critical view. The narcissistic 24 year old Democrat Senator’s aide who video recorded himself having sex in the Senate room, is like HIV: the gift that keeps on giving. Democrats have unleashed a contagion of evil in America
Damning factual summary of Biden’s failures follows.
Biden has lost the battle for the soul of the nation
A video purportedly showing a congressional staffer having sex in a Senate hearing room has rocked Washington. An element of cruelty permeates these media feeding-frenzies, in which an inopportune moment from a person’s life suddenly rockets through global headlines. The staffer allegedly shown in the video has now left the Senate and is now a character in the Beltway drama factory infamous for cycling through the young and ambitious.
For many observers, this latest controversy only underlines how politics has not yet returned to normal under Joe Biden. “Decency is on the ballot,” Jill Biden proclaimed during the 2020 election. Biden ran under the banner of a “return to normal,” and Biden and his allies have trumpeted that they are engaged in a “battle for the soul of the nation.”
Yet this high-toned rhetoric has collided with the realities of the Biden administration. The legal challenges of Hunter Biden, the president’s son, provide fodder for news coverage. House Republicans have now opened up an impeachment inquiry related to the president’s potential involvement in Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Far from tempering cultural battles, the Biden White House has often exacerbated them.
In the first two years of his presidency, Biden dumped political capital in a failed effort to eliminate the Senate filibuster, one of the major checks on centralised controls in that body and something Biden once called essential for preserving American democracy. The unprecedented prosecution of Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor and leading political challenger, has only added to the sense of existential political conflict during the Biden years.
The White House has adopted maximalist positions on abortion, gender, and sexuality. Biden’s immigration policies have helped precipitate a historic crisis at the Southern border. The shockwaves of these policy choices echo throughout the Americas. An Associated Press report recently highlighted the Darien Gap, which bridges Colombia and Panama. Prior to 2022, the record for migrant crossings in that area was 30,000 people. This year, it has been over 500,000.
The aftermath of Hamas’s terrorist onslaught on Israel has heightened the sense of American instability. Antisemitic demonstrations have erupted in major American cities and college campuses – a sign, for many, of the fraying civic fabric. The White House has offered some support to Israel in its anti-Hamas military operations, but the national Democratic Party’s divisions have spilled into public view.
While some elected officials like Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman have unapologetically defended Israel, Democratic White House and congressional staffers have initiated a campaign of open letters and demonstrations in order to undercut Biden’s Israel policy. The strident activism that has transformed so many elite college campuses risks destabilising the Democratic Party, which has increasingly become the party of the meritocratic elect
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2023/12/18/joe-biden-senate-sex-tape-hunter-biden-corruption/
Jews are dumbing down America with more brown people. So the evil Jew can try to build an army or morons who do the Jew war bidding.
I thought you killed yourself in your bunker 80 years ago.
Clever!
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
18 USC 2383
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
There is not a legal question here.
The colorado supreme court is obviously made up of 3 democrats and 4 MORONS
Their ruling only confirms what Americans believe about the legal system in America: partisan 110%.
The Colorado Supremes are the emperors with no clothing, a ghastly sight. Same applies to the disgrace of a SCOTUS Justice, ketanji Brown Jackson: zero credibility. The Dems were keen on undermining the SCOTUS Catholic Justices. Now Americans have turned the tables on Democrat Judges. We are in unchartered waters.
Ketanji Brown Jackson targeted in ethics complaint over husband’s income
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/ketanji-brown-jackson-targeted-ethics-complaint
“AN ARMED UPRISING THAT QUICKLY FAILS OR SUCCEEDS”
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Merriam-Webster
RIOT
noun
ri·ot ˈrī-ət
1a: a violent public disorder – specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent
b: public violence, tumult, or disorder
2: a random or disorderly profusion – the woods were a riot of color
3: one that is wildly amusing – the new comedy is a riot
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Merriam-Webster
INSURRECTION
noun
in·sur·rec·tion ˌin(t)-sə-ˈrek-shən
: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government
Choose the Right Synonym for insurrection
rebellion, revolution, uprising, revolt, insurrection, mutiny mean an outbreak against authority.
revolt and insurrection imply an armed uprising that quickly fails or succeeds.
a revolt by the Young Turks that surprised party leaders
an insurrection of oppressed laborers
Lets try this again, for the reading impaired like svelass, who thinks an originalist would ignore section 5 and 18 USC 2383.
Section 3
engaged in insurrection or rebellion
Section 5
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
18 USC 2383
rebellion or insurrection
End of story
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President,
Note the first sentence specifically exempts the President and Vice President from the amendment.
ALSO, the Constitution uses the term Officer of the United States, and it never encompasses the President.
Congress can refuse to accept the EC votes using the 14th amendment for cause. The difference to what Colorado is doing, is the People have recourse to vote out Representatives voting to not honor their vote. Every voter of the nation is robbed of their vote for president, by unaccountable Judges.
It does not exempt them. They are both officers of the U.S., which you purposefully omit in you cut-off quote.
A boon to the many excellent faith based schools in Chicagoland.
This is from the UK but it is easily applicable to the failed educational system in the US which needs competition: school vouchers to parents for them to choose the best schools for their children.
Trans guidance offers route back to sanity
An interview on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme with the mother of a girl who identified as a boy at school exemplified the difficulties facing parents and teachers in an era of ideologically driven gender wars. The pupil used male pronouns in the classroom with the connivance of teachers, and yet her parents were completely unaware that this was happening. The mother said it was kept hidden from her for four months and she made a perfectly reasonable point that this was totally unacceptable.
After spending years mulling over new guidance for schools, the Government has finally sided with the parents, thanks principally to the fine efforts of Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister. Only in the most exceptional cases would they not be told at the first opportunity if their child has indicated a wish to adopt a different gender
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/12/19/trans-guidance-offers-route-back-to-sanity/
Estovir rules!!!!!
Posted for the poopy head known as “bad runs”, i assume because his mouth has a case of them.
I have no comment because it wasnt my post, except to say…LOSER
Still not sure why he needs do differentiate all of his Estovir nightmare characters but if it helps him cope….
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-evidence-of-direct-payment-to-joe-biden/
He’s probably just basking in the glow of his debut on the Lefty Turd Farm!
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In the real world there are those who are more gifted. The simple fact is that these are the people who build the bridges, airplanes, medical equipment that saves lives, and have allowed the world to feed the hungry. In the name of equity we now don’t allow any assistance to help them achieve their highest level of productivity. Without the knowledge that has been encouraged in the past the future devices that they say we need to save the planet will take longer or may never come to fruition. In the old days this would be known as shooting ones self in the foot. This is coming from people who are not among the gifted in the incorporation of logic.
Every study of IQ shows racial differences in intelligence with blacks in the United States having a median IQ of 85. The average is still lower in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whites are higher and Asians a little higher still and Jews at the top.
Any group with an average IQ of 85, whether it be selected by body mass, age, red hair, skin color, or whatever, is going to have about half of its people with an IQ of 85 or less which is not likely to perform at or near the top in any honest academic task. They simply are not very smart.
Progressive academia is doing everything it can to hide basic biological facts that almost inevitably yield to differences in performance. They would prefer to destroy opportunities to excel rather than admit that these differences in IQ exist.
Average IQ is of a population as a whole and essentially nothing can be predicted about anyone using only skin color. Since IQ falls along a Bell Curve there are a large number of black Americans who are smarter than most whites. Those black students who could excel academically have their opportunities destroyed by dishonest systems that lower expectations and challenges to pretend that average differences between races do not exist.
And it is a pretense; if they truly believed that everyone was essentially identical intellectually they would make a genuine effort to actually teach rather than abandon teaching and resort to grade inflation and elimination of truly challenging programs. It is racism wearing its most deceptive and destructive mask.
Ah, that age-old logic and pragmatism.
“DR. WATSON WAS CORRECT ON ALL ACCOUNTS”
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James Watson tells the inconvenient truth: faces the consequences
Jason Malloy
PMID: 18440722 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.03.041
Abstract
Dr. Watson was correct on all accounts: (1) Intelligence tests do reveal large differences between European and sub-Saharan African nations, (2) the evidence does link these differences to universally valued outcomes, both within and between nations, and (3) there is data to suggest these differences are influenced by genetic factors.
The media and the larger scientific community punished Dr. Watson for violating a social and political taboo, but fashioned their case to the public in terms of scientific ethics. This necessitated lying to the public about numerous scientific issues to make Watson appear negligent in his statements; a gross abuse of valuable and fragile public trust in scientific authority. Lies and a threatening, coercive atmosphere to free inquiry and exchange are damaging to science as an institution and to scientists as individuals, while voicing unfashionable hypotheses is not damaging to science.
The ability to openly voice and argue ideas in good faith that are strange and frightening to some is, in fact, integral to science. Those that have participated in undermining this openness and fairness have therefore damaged science, even while claiming to protect it with the same behavior.
– NIH National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18440722/
Thanks, George. Good quote and citation.
Ah, that age-old logic and pragmatism.
You gotta love it.
Now you know why we’re the chosen.
The same day that Jim Biden got a check for $200k from Americorp, he wrote a check to Joe Biden for $200k.
Nothing to see here.
REGARDING ABOVE:
Nothing to see here, indeed! No link from even Newsmax.
This is Tom the turd guy, of course. He is also Estovir, Upstate Farmer, Iowa2, Hullbobby, Edward Mahl, Shakdi, Guy Ventner, Margot Ballhere, dgsnowden, Mistress Addams and many, many more.
“Regarding above” lmao
Brandrunner is a poopy head who obviously doesnt realize that when u post a response, it appears below the post you are responding to, negating the need to type “regarding above”
Can we get somebody in here with an IQ above 80? Where is ATS?
This turd brain also forgets himself, because he tries (incorrectly) to identify the poster, when he already identified all posters as one and the same.
Yabadayabadayabada woo hoo.
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Every story on Amerika should start and end with, “Communism is fun!” Just for the sake of diversity.
The anti-Asian sentiment in big cities is frightening. This is yet another assault against the Asian community.