80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read

Considering New York spends $18,126 per student, the highest in the nation, one can only ask where does all that money go? 80% can't read well enough to even do community college level school work. What a dismal failure and what a colossal waste of New Yorkers hard earned tax dollars. Please remember this the next time some liberal Democrats starts passing gas from one of their orifices that they need to raise taxes "for the kids" that more money certainly doesn't equate to better education, New York is proof of that.

 

There is a difference between being unable to read and unable to complete college level work. The simple skill of writing effectively has been neglected. (Have you read some of the posts here?)

 

New York spends the most money on education out of all the states in the country and nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics???????? That's a big problem don't you think?

 

With $18,000 one could send a child to some of the best private schools in Atlanta.......but "progressives" will tell us this is OK because these chilrens are gradumacating with high self-esteem and knowledge of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Eldridge Clever.......none of them could tell you who Thomas Jefferson might be of course. The extent to which this country has descended into a virtual third world country in a couple of generations is mind-boggling.....and the "progressives" have no problem with that....

 

So they don't know that they can't order the Big Gulps anymore, huh?

 

Not surprising at all.....

But, PP, this has been a problem for a long time and every time I heard about some Johnny or Sally graduated, but couldn't read, my 1st question was "why didn't the parents know this?" That's always blown my mind..... all those yrs of their kid in school and they didn't know he/she could barely read? but it keeps happening.... teachers don't give a dam and neither do the parents.

It's a lose/lose situation for the kids......

 

How right you are......

 

I fully agree about the parents, they have to care if their kids get a good education. The ones that don't have no business having kids.

 

The same intellectually "superior" progressives who administer the "education" of America's children
can't understand why the entry-level labor market will never support a "living wage"....(enter: their class warfare and "benevolent" coercion)

I can explain it in eight words "labor glut for the low skilled and uneducated"....
but it'll still soar over their heads. They just don't seem to get the whole "scarcity = value" thing.

These are the same folks who think it a grand idea
to open the borders and flood the entry-level job market
with millions and millions more low skilled, uneducated illegals [Democrat voters] looking for
would-be legitimate work.

 

Apparently neither can the OP.

 

The thread title is lie. Needs to be fixed.

 

I'm sure CBS News NY will be glad to fix it, you should ask 'em.

 

Well, they have them anyway......

When each one of my 3 got into 1st grade, every eve we'd have a little reading lesson and I kept it short, but I knew how they were progressing and they enjoyed their story books..... and some of my friends did the same thing w/their kids.

Then when I'd hear about a graduating kid who could barely read, I'd wondered 'WTH?! Didn't that kid ever read a newspaper, checking out the movie section or something?" There are things kids normally read during their growing up yrs and the parents never noticed he/she never did? Amazing....!!!

 

Lets do the math. If 12,500 per student is going to teachers salaries and benefits and the average classroom is 20 to 30 kids that means the average teacher in NY is making over $300,000 per year.

I hope they can pay off their student loans.

 

You're a Good parent! Too bad there are so very many bad ones who have no business having kids.

 

In my experience, it's less an inability to read and more of an inability to write.

 

Yep. What do you think happens when your funding is dependent on standardized testing?

 

The funding for the classroom shouldn't get cut, but the teachers salaries should depend on it.

 

Well, my kids are raised and I have a 12 yr old granddaughter and her parents make sure she's on top of her classes and same w/my 6 yr old grandson who lives out of state.... I guess it's a learned thing.

Come to think it it, last yr I had sent my grandson a bunch of flash cards - math, alphabet, etc, map of the US, educational stuff.....

Phonics is so important. Know this woman, when her husband was a boy, they took phonics out of the schools and what a mistake for many kids. Joe had always struggled w/reading......

 

The system is working as designed. The kids are now so ill-educated that they have no clue what their government is doing to them and even if they figured something of out it, they'd have no idea what to do about it. The mistake people make is believing that the primary purpose of government run education is to provide academic skills. That was never the primary goal.

 

Well, since they aren't good at math, the government can just insist that the 32oz cups be eliminated and henceforth the 16oz be referred to as a Big Gulp. Poor math skills, poor knowledge of history, and poor communication ability means that they will forget about the old size cups within a few months. Ever read 1984? The destruction of thought through the reduction of language is being accomplished right now.

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There's probably a large amount going into the pension funds of former teachers. Pensions are a huge burden on states and other local governments now, as politicians, for a long time, got away with promise all sorts of future benefits that cost taxpayers nothing at the time.

 

Are you a NYC high school graduate?

You obviously didn't pass any math classes.

You think teachers get paid by the number of students in their class?

Very funny, but also very sad.

 

It's because they're not spending enough.

 

The fix is obvious, colleges simply need to lower their standards. We certainly can't have something as mundane as standards getting in the way of the 'everyone is a winner' mentality...

 

A couple of generations? So things went to hell in a handbasket with Brown v Board of education in 1954.