I always love reading your comments because they are so insightful thus it's very depressing to read this comment and have to accept that this is probably who you really are.
Your comment (and assumed mentality that comes with it) are what is wrong with our educational system. I went to school with people that could not add and were functionally illiterate - they graduated too so I can assure you this is not fake news.
Outside of your "Catholic college prep high school" is the world that the rest of us live in and in that world this is a reality. A reality that can not be addressed because the well off people like you say: This is fake news because my kids are fine. If you have not please educate yourself on things like: White Flight and the correlation between property taxes and education. I have posted one link below but you can google to learn more.
Note: My father is a social worker who deals with these uneducated people for a living. For the first 17 years of my life I heard story after story like this, I also have spent years tutoring kids and adults in prisons and jails so I do not consider my experience to be anecdotal.
I 100% totally missed that and I am very sorry. I thought your comment was simply that because your kids are doing well then all kids must be doing well.
My kids are in public school, not Catholic school. I was comparing a system that was designed specifically to produce college students to the default for people in my area of Chicagoland, and finding that the default was if anything more rigorous than the selective private school.
The point isn't that they're "doing well". It's that the coursework they're assigned is rigorous. You could also have students doing poorly on such coursework, but that would also contradict the anecdata in the main article.
Your comment (and assumed mentality that comes with it) are what is wrong with our educational system. I went to school with people that could not add and were functionally illiterate - they graduated too so I can assure you this is not fake news.
Outside of your "Catholic college prep high school" is the world that the rest of us live in and in that world this is a reality. A reality that can not be addressed because the well off people like you say: This is fake news because my kids are fine. If you have not please educate yourself on things like: White Flight and the correlation between property taxes and education. I have posted one link below but you can google to learn more.
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-school...
Note: My father is a social worker who deals with these uneducated people for a living. For the first 17 years of my life I heard story after story like this, I also have spent years tutoring kids and adults in prisons and jails so I do not consider my experience to be anecdotal.