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I know allot of teachers and think they are pretty smart people. Then I thought, there are allot of teachers I don't know. Maybe Rauner was trying to say something. Perhaps his comments were taken out of context. Then just as fast, in what has become his typical wimpy self, Rauner is on TV apologizing for...........trying to have a conversation? The full text of what he wrote is below as reported in the Chicago Tribune.
What kind of leadership is that? He is the governor in a state where the quality of education in the largest school district, is questionable at best. He speculates as to what the problems could be and as soon as he is challenged he apologizes and runs away.
So what is the truth? Do we have a problem with the quality of some of our teachers? Are problem teachers being protected by the huge bureaucratic CPS? Are we doing everything we can to properly educate the children or are we turning a blind eye to the problem?
Gov. Bruce Rauner once told some of Chicago's wealthiest and most influential civic leaders that half of Chicago Public Schools' teachers "are virtually illiterate" and half of the city's principals are "incompetent," according to emails Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration released Thursday under a court order.
Rauner made the assertion five years ago when he was a wealthy private equity executive and an active participant in Chicago school reform. His emails were part of a discussion with affluent education reform activists connected to the nonprofit Chicago Public Education Fund, including Penny Pritzker, now U.S. commerce secretary; billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin; Chicago investment executive Mellody Hobson; and Helen Zell, wife of billionaire real estate magnate Sam Zell.
"Teacher evaluation is critically important, but in a massive bureaucracy with a hostile union, where 50% of principals are managerially incompetent and half of teachers are virtually illiterate, a complete multi-dimensional evaluation system with huge subjectivity in it will be attacked, manipulated and marginalized — the status quo will prevail," Rauner wrote in a December 2011 email arguing for a strong system of teacher and principal evaluations in the district. "It's much more critical that we develop a consistent, rigorous, objective, understandable measure and reporting system for student growth upon which all further evaluation of performance will depend."
Asked on Thursday about the governor's characterization of Chicago educators, Rauner spokesman Lance Trover issued an apology on the governor's behalf. Chicago Tribune
Paid too much.
ReplyDelete"Let me very clear, I apologize for the statement that I made in that email in 2011. The remarks I made were inaccurate and intemperate, and I apologize to the teachers and I regret those comments," Rauner told reporters.
ReplyDelete"I am passionate about education," Rauner said. He said one of the reasons he ran for governor in 2014 because education fund had been cut four times in the prior ten years by previous governors.
"We are going to redo our state funding for education. I'm committed to that," Rauner said. "Unequal funding denies the American dream from too many children in low income neighborhoods."
Before signing the two bills into law, three Chicago public school teachers read statements indicating their outrage with the governor's email comments, assuring the governor that "we are not illiterate."
Perhaps he should have used the term functionally illiterate.
DeleteI was educated by the CPS. I'd say if you think they are illiterate just ax them.
DeleteRemember in English you use the word "their" or "they're" but in Ebonics it would be "they" either way.
Half being illiterate is about right.
DeleteYeah, functionally illiterate about right. However,hundreds were from sharecropper families in the Mississippi Delta who were credentialed based on three year full time basis status in the 70's. Some became principals and trained at Chicago's wisdom seat namely Chicago State. Rauner's comments about right and let's not forget the scores of other hustlers who went into teaching for less than honorable reasons.
ReplyDeleteTwo things come to mind. Didn't Rauner bullshit about his residency to try to get one of his kids into a selective enrollment school within the CPS system. And secondly, a billionaire who pronounces words ending in "ing" as "in" sounds like a hick.
ReplyDeleteHow do you explain to somebody retarded that they are retarded?
ReplyDeleteRauner is right. He shouldn't apologize. Statistically, it has been shown that CPS teachers had ACT scores pretty average at best. They have produced a product - the student - that is proof of their inability. Whether they are illiterate or not. They are not too bright. They are paid for more than they are worth. It has been shown in studies that they are paid for more than people in the private sector who are similarly educated and intelligent. Once again it takes a Republican to speak the truth.
ReplyDeletewas a cop for 30 years and had numerous occasions to ""visit" various schools and my observation was that the teachers were dumber then the kids they were suppose to teach,we used to ask them ""who was president during JFK administration" the answers would make you want to grab the pitch forks and torches,Lincoln,Carter, Reagan, and list went on' its the unions fault that these ppl are ""teaching""
ReplyDeleteI LIKE RAUNER,HES A WASP. WISH WE HAD MORE IN ILLINOIS,
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