| Educational Funding and Class Size Reverend Meeks Boycott for School Funding: I gotta give the man credit. The disparity in funding for Illinois schools is ridiculous. It is NOT the condition of the school building, or supplies and materials, or books where the greatest disparity lies. Where it is felt most is in staffing and class size. A school in the heart of the inner city with ONE security guard. ONE counselor, and only TWO administrators is set up for failure. How can you have 36 children in a kindergarten class, or 35 in one 8th grade class, or 34 in one 2nd grade room. I bet it ain't 36 kids in a Flossmoor kindergarten room, or 34 in a Bolingbrook 2nd grade class , or 35 in a Highland Park 8th grade classroom. Those Parents would not stand for it!!! Why do OURS!!!! Chicago Public Schools: While on the school subject, I got numerous 1st and 2nd graders, about six to ten 3rd graders, four 4th graders, and 2 fifth graders WHO literally, CANNOT READ!! Some don't know the difference betweeen consonants and vowels, and cannot name and identify consonant/vowel sounds. But what does the Board of Education tell us to do. "Use differentiated instruction" (meaning place your class in small groups and teach each group according to their ability level.) Tell me, how does a teacher manage/teach her class when the ability level from one child to the next is that dayum great. A fourth grader who is barely reading should not be in the same class as another fourth grader who is reading at the 5th or 6th grade level. In addition, most elementary schools have a "split" classroom (two grade levels in one class: like 5th & 6th). Then if a 6th grader does poorly on the ISAT test they wanna fail him. It ain't his fault. You got 5th graders in his class. DUH!!!! |
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