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by HDThoreaun
783 days ago
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I went to CPS k-12. One important thing to note is that CPS is absolutely full of amazing schools, its just that its full of utterly garbage ones too. Now, as for that data, it exists because a lot of the kids cant read at all when they enter. To CPS's credit they do pretty decently taking all these kids who are far behind and brining them almost to grade level, but its just hard for me to say thats a huge accomplishment when tons of kids are still so far behind. |
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No one ever wants to provide it, though.
> cant read at all when they enter.
That's a pretty important confounding factor, don't you think? Might that change the way one should interpret the data - knowing that kids weren't starting at a level playing field, but in fact playing catch-up from the beginning?
> To CPS's credit they do pretty decently taking all these kids who are far behind and brining them almost to grade level, but its just hard for me to say thats a huge accomplishment when tons of kids are still so far behind.
What precisely do you expect a school district to do? If kids are behind, it's going to take more time and effort to get them up to speed and there are only so many hours in a day; only so many days in a year; only so many years before the kids leave at 18. Sounds like you expect a miracle, and I don't think any other district could do what you're expecting either.
CPS does a pretty damn good job, even by your own account.