New Mayor of Chicago

[Ark]

Bumping this one in light of some new information out today on the absolute academic collapse of Chicago's schools.

Not A Single Child Tested Proficient In Math In 67 Illinois Schools | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Across 67 schools serving over 12,000 kids, not a single child tested grade level proficient in math. 32 schools had no children proficient in reading.

Take Collins Academy High School on Chicago’s West Side. With 219 students and 55 employees, Collins spends $27,163 per student. The Illinois State Board of Education declares the school “commendable,” the state’s 2nd-highest rating. Not a single student tested was proficient in reading or math in 2023. And yet 79% of students there graduated.

Nearby North Lawndale Prep Charter-Christiana spends over $20,000 for each of its 308 students. It’s also rated “commendable” by the state. Not a single student tested was proficient in math and only 1 student tested proficient in reading. The graduation rate? 85 percent.

Far to the south, about 60 miles west of the state’s capital of Springfield, there’s the three-school district of Meredosia-Chambersburg 11. Not a single student tested at the elementary school could read at grade level. At the middle school, none were proficient in math. And in Meredosia-Chambersburg High School, where 75 percent of students graduated, not a single student tested was proficient in either reading or math.

This is not a new problem, but has exploded in severity since the covid school closures. Chicago had one of the most intransigent teachers unions in the country and as a result suffered one of the longest periods of lockdown, cancellation, and "remote learning".



The article points out one more factoid:

But we could have just as easily looked at the 408 schools where only 1 out of 10 kids or fewer can read at grade level. Or the 873 schools where just 1 out 10 kids or fewer can do math. That’s 12% and 25% of all grade 3-12 schools in the state, respectively.

Next time you meet someone from Illinois and they seem a little...slow, be nice to them. They probably can't read.

 

[Ark]

Another winner coincidentally today. Chicago mayor ends Shotspotter contract because it keeps sending police response to black neighborhoods...where the gunfire is...

Chicago mayor cancels gunfire surveillance system because it "unfairly targeted communities of color"

I wish this were satire.

notthebee.com

Editorial note: I have a high level of skepticism towards Shotspotter, but the tacit admission is hilarious.

 

[printcraft]

Let it burn.

 

[Shadow01]

Another winner coincidentally today. Chicago mayor ends Shotspotter contract because it keeps sending police response to black neighborhoods...where the gunfire is...

Chicago mayor cancels gunfire surveillance system because it "unfairly targeted communities of color"

I wish this were satire.

notthebee.com

Editorial note: I have a high level of skepticism towards Shotspotter, but the tacit admission is hilarious.

Still curious if a high quality recording of gun fire could be played to “fool” the system…

 

[Ark]

Still curious if a high quality recording of gun fire could be played to “fool” the system…

Basically any loud, sharp noise triggers it. Tons of data out there on false positives.

 

[Leadeye]

Another winner coincidentally today. Chicago mayor ends Shotspotter contract because it keeps sending police response to black neighborhoods...where the gunfire is...

Chicago mayor cancels gunfire surveillance system because it "unfairly targeted communities of color"

I wish this were satire.

notthebee.com

Editorial note: I have a high level of skepticism towards Shotspotter, but the tacit admission is hilarious.

Maybe Shot Spotter didn't kick back enough to maintain the contract. The chicago way.

 

[actaeon277]

WOKE Mayor Brandon Johnson BOOED At Music Festival​

As Chicago Democrat Ends 'Racist' Crime Alerts!​

Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th Ward) wants to cancel crime alerts, because they are making people "feel unsafe".
And that's what the people want.
People interviewed in the street say, they wanted to feel safer, cause the CITY WAS DOING SOMETHING. Not because the city stopped telling them about crime.

 

[cobber]

WOKE Mayor Brandon Johnson BOOED At Music Festival​

As Chicago Democrat Ends 'Racist' Crime Alerts!​

Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th Ward) wants to cancel crime alerts, because they are making people "feel unsafe".
And that's what the people want.
People interviewed in the street say, they wanted to feel safer, cause the CITY WAS DOING SOMETHING. Not because the city stopped telling them about crime.

Say hi to Detroit on the way down.

 

[printcraft]

You gets whats yous votes fur.

 

[renauldo]

I lived in Chicago in an all white south side neighborhood from age 6 mos to 17 starting in '47. There was absolutely no problem in the city in white areas. We lived close enough to the lake that me and my friends could swim their every day of the summer. . Chicago however was a big time city and my father was from the Ozarks and couldn't stand the crowding. We moved to Indiana after I left H.S. in '63.
Police were obeyed or you went to jail or at the very least got your butt kicked. Chicago has now dumped law and it's enforcement to satisfy it's inhabitants that cry racism is at the heart of all the cities problems. Liberal Democraps have destroyed all the cities in the U.S.. Brandon Johnson is a fool that will destroy what's left of the town.
The following link will lead to what is actually happening in Chicago.

Second City Cop

secondcitycop.blogspot.com

 

[actaeon277]

WOKE Mayor Brandon Johnson BLAMES ALL Chicago Problems On Racism In DELUSIONAL Reparations Speech!​

 

[renauldo]

This statement was posted this A.M. attributed to SSC.​

Pandering Again​

We'd just like to make an announcement to all the black people in Chicago:

• You aren't getting reparations. Ever. It's a political ploy to "buy" your vote....except you'll never see a dime. Reparations are paid to survivors of an atrocity, not six or ten generation out. Any effort to dish out taxpayer money will be met by massive lawsuits, which will delay and diminish any expected cash. Not to mention that Illinois was never a slave holding state and in fact sent tens of thousands of troops to put an end to the entire thing.

That being said, here's another dumb idea by Conehead to attempt to shore up his dwindling voter base:

• The city on Monday issued a formal apology to Black Chicagoans for the harm that slavery, Jim Crow laws and present-day policies have had on them and their descendants.
  The acknowledgement is included in Executive Order 2024-1, signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, creating a “Reparations Task Force to develop a Black Reparations Agenda” that will ultimately offer recommendations on remedies to the polices that have harmed African Americans in Chicago for generations. He previously earmarked $500,000 in the city budget to study the issues.
  “Today’s Executive Order is not just a public declaration; it is a pledge to shape the future of our city by confronting the legacy of inequity that has plagued Chicago for far too long,” Johnson, the city’s third Black mayor, said in a statement.

We're all for apologies. Sorry about what happened to your ancestors as perpetrated by someone else's ancestors way back in the history books. Our personal ancestors were busy making love, war and business a few thousand miles away on another continent.
Moving on, this is a money grab for an unaccountable, unelected "task force" to read history books and tell the "aggrieved" that "By golly, you deserve a boatload of money you never earned! Vote for us and we'll make some vague promises to pay you somewhere down the road with money we don't have and/or doesn't exist."
Note that WGN points out how racist Chicago is by having three black mayors, when it's actually four of last seven - they always forget Eugene Sawyer's year-and-a-half - along with sixty or eighty black aldercreatures since the turn of the last century.

 

[Shadow01]

Hopefully Chicago doesn’t survive. The people voted for this and they deserve what happens to them.

 

[cobber]

WOKE Mayor Brandon Johnson BLAMES ALL Chicago Problems On Racism In DELUSIONAL Reparations Speech!​

Who’s been running Chicago for decades? Just checking.

 

[Scott58]

Is this the guy that spent $35k on hair and nail products?

 

[Refrigerator27]

Is this the guy that spent $35k on hair and nail products?

Yes https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-wa...n-hair-care-makeup-campaign-spending-palatine

 

[Leadeye]

Chicago, the mentor for dc.

 

[bgcatty]

Chicago is a lost cause because of the Democrat politicians and the stupid ignorant sheeples that continually vote for these incompetent morons. This idiot mayor is the embodiment of all that is wrong with Chicago politics. Unfortunately the sheeples are too stupid to realize this hard fact!
And that obese idiot of a governor also shares a huge part of the blame for the disaster that is Chicago and by extension the entire state of Illinois.
Between these two idiots, the entire state of Illinois is $crewed!

 

[cobber]

Is this the guy that spent $35k on hair and nail products?

He’s a real Dapper Dan.

 

[printcraft]

That being said, here's another dumb idea by Conehead

Turds are pointed at the end...