Awake Illinois

VICTORY: AFL has won a complete legal victory for its client, a Chicago mom who was sued after standing up to her woke school district. The Plaintiff's case has been dismissed with prejudice.

VICTORY: AFL has won a complete legal victory for its client, a Chicago mom who was sued after standing up to her woke school district. The Plaintiff's case has been dismissed with prejudice.

Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.

Not a single child is proficient in math in 80 public schools in Chicago. They spend $30,000 per student annually.

“If driving is made difficult enough, this thinking goes, more people will abandon their cars.” Today’s bike lane movement is driven by irrational car hatred more than rider safety. It is led by fringe ideological zealots and must be completely dismantled.

Chicago train rider: "I'ma kiII whites. I got out 2 days ago. I finna kiIl for real."