U-46 town hall provokes debate
17 February 2010
RS
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The town hall event held by U-46 last week apparently drew a large crowd (700 according to one commenter on the Daily Herald) and inspired passionate comments on the Daily Herald site. The event was attended by area legislators Michael Noland and Keith Farnham.
If you attended perhaps you can give us your impression of the event, and even if you didn’t, what impact do you think U-46’s budget woes will have on the reelection bids of the incumbent legislators? It seems that many of the 91 comments on the Herald site were critical of the incumbent legislators, both of whom are up for reelection this year. Will this be a hot issue in the campaign?
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U-46 is a cesspool and the voters are to blame but not for the state elections, for the BOARD elections last April. The same ones who gave Connie Neale her day in the perpetual sun were re-elected!
The 12 years a child has to become educated before college are ONCE in a lifetime years. Sending your children to a U-46 school is like sending them to play on the tollway. They might make it home, but I don’t like their chances.
Let the illegal aliens and their children continue to ruin this district and the cities they inhabit. In the meantime, get your kids somewhere else. The time will fly by and you’ll have a better chance at turning out a productive member of society if you keep them OUT of U-46.
But don’t take my word for it, just look at the test scores, the low-income rate of enrollment, a violent, mis-managed Larkin High School and the long, long lines of those who elect not to speak English and their equally antagonistic parents. Look at the signs in front of the schools all in Spanish. That should tell you to look elsewhere.
No sir, this district is only for lazy parents, and illegal aliens and their children.
My daughter went to U46 from 7th grade at Kimball to 12 grade at Larkin Academy of Performing Arts in Larkin High School.
Before that she had gone to Kindergarten through 6th grade at Christian Learning Center in Elgin which is now called Highland Christian Academy on Highland Ave. just about a block East of Randall Road in Valley Creek.
As a parent I was happy to find out at her Lewis University graduation that in spite of carrying courses to get both special education and elementary teaching certification she had the highest grade point average of all 36 teachers they graduated that day.
So I appreciate the teaching in all area Elgin schools, public and private.
Or Boxcar should I just assume she did so well because of the genes she inherited from her Dad?
Thanks to ALL Elgin teachers who taught both of my kids. You are ALL appreciated for your dedication and teaching skills.
Common Sense, Independent, Clarence Hayward
I have lived in Elgin for 10 years now, and have heard from neighbors how bad the school district is. While I do not have children who would have to attend these schools, it does effect me in property value.
U46 is known across the region as a horrible school district, and people WILL NOT move to Elgin for this reason!
So why is the current School Board full of incumbents who have been there for years? Why is superintendent Torres not held accountable? Why is his fiance running Channing School? Why is Channing Prinipal Gonzalez absent almost constantly? Why are there SO MANY administrators being paid incredible salaries while our teachers and children suffer?
And WHY isn’t more attention paid to this critical issue? We can not just bury our heads in the sand and hope it fixes itself - U46 needs a major overhaul starting with the School Board so everyone get out and VOTE this next election!
Note all the responses to Julie’s legitimate cry of concern.
Not one.
Hers is a voice in the wilderness because when it comes to providing good public education in Elgin nobody cares. The conditions which promote good public education aren’t the conditions that fit our local leaders’ agendas of Diversity and Sustainability.
And Julie, I’m not being critical here, but if you were concerned for good public education why would you ever have moved to Elgin ten years ago? Sure, there are many people still alive who benefitted from Elgin’s public schools when they were some of the state’s finest. But the destruction of public education in Elgin is a tragedy that has been playing out here for over a generation.
Elgin spearheaded the teacher’s union movement forty years ago, and it has been a leader in the illegal alien movement today. Both movements contributed to the loss of middle-class families and values from Elgin and have been major factors in killing quality public education.
Moreover, American history is pretty clear on one point: where white Democratic party elites rule over environments of non-white poverty and ethnic division you have bad public education. That’s the rule from the Plantation South to the Jim Crow South to Daley’s Chicago. Elgin is now part of that political culture. Of course, this culture doesn’t provide a bad education for everyone. Our Master Class can always pay to send their kids to good private schools, whether at Francis Parker or the Elgin Academy, or play the system to get their kids into elite and restricted public school programs. Ask some of the NENA leaders; they’ll tell you how it’s done.
Certainly the consumers of public education in Elgin won’t be changing things for the better. As American citizens and taxpayers we are not allowed to know much about the identity of these consumers, but some things are clear: they are largely “Hispanic” and poor. We are not permitted to know how many of them are citizens of foreign countries or illegal residents. In light of this coverup we should probably conclude that most consumers of public education in Elgin come from nations and cultures that do not promote good public education or civic involvment. And that a lot of them are here illegally. And if you’re here illegally are you going to speak up - in any language - for good education?
And don’t wait for what’s left of the local media to help you. The Herald was happy to whip up all kinds of public frenzy about Connie Neale’s contract, but they won’t print anything that threatens Paddock Publications’ plantation agenda of repopulating the suburbs with cheap Mexican labor. A key element of the bloodsucking Futterman lawsuit against U-46 is the claim that Elgin’s East Side - once a great family neighborhood - is now too poor to sustain neighborhood schools. Well who created and profited from that transformation? Don’t look for the answer in the Herald which is too busy trumpeting the end of “Ozzie and Harriet” in the suburbs.
Our leaders won’t be changing these realities, either. Obama was educated at elite private schools and universities and made his Ivy League buddy Arne Duncan the U. S. Secretary of Education. Duncan’s tenure leading the Chicago Public Schools left it an efficient instituion for killing black kids. You probably noticed that Arne just appointed a new national commission to examine “school finance and its effects on equity and achievement…” Arne probably would have liked to have appointed his successor at Chicago Public Schools, but that guy found it all so bad that he went out and killed himself. So Arne has appointed another Chicago Public Schools guy, our own Mr. Torres.
And as for Illinois… What kind of public education do you expect when the state has a governor whose entire education came from elite private schools and whose political power rests on keeping black people poor and isolated? Or from a state education board whose chair is a “Hispanic” activist and Blagojevich contributor? Public schools for these guys are just tax-funded day care centers for non-white kids with heavily unionized staffs who will kick back portions of their salaries to Democratic PACs and campaign chests.
All this adds up to why we have things like Larkin High School, a once outstanding facility that has essentially collapsed as a functioning American school and which had two of its students murdered on Elgin’s streets during the last school year.
That’s the reality. And to change it means you have to change the leadership of Elgin and Illinois and the conditions that sustain that leadership. Watch Egypt. It can happen if you’re angry enough.
PS: There is still one successful, publicly-funded educational institution in Elgin… Elgin Community College. ECC has been vital in so many dimensions but especially by providing a second chance for kids victimized by U-46. But how long can ECC retain its integrity with John G. Dalton - a man whose sinister reputation “needs no introduction” - running for ECC’s Board of Trustees?