Let’s assume that I have a friend who lives in Baltimore and is thinking of moving to Chicago. “Why?,” I ask him.” He explains that it’s because of the educational system in Baltimore. He has two small children who are going to be starting elementary school, and he is concerned about them getting a reasonable education, and a lot Baltimore schools are not very good as the following headline points out.
Trying to be a good friend, I point out to him that he must be cognizant that all is not perfect in Chicago. In fact within Illinois, there are 53 schools in which not a single student can do math at grade level, and almost half of these schools are located in Chicago. I also warned him that the cost per student can range all the way up to $56,000. Likewise the size of the school doesn’t really matter as a class size of 44 students up to 469 students can be equally inept!
After I sent him a copy of the above, he called me and said that he and wife had decided to either remain in Baltimore and home-school the kids, or move to a red state instead of to Illinois!
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