Suppose you had a school built to teach 1,300 students, but just 64 students were actually enrolled....

If you were a businessman and had half a dozen factories doing well, but one or two that were only producing, say, five percent of their known capacity, would it occur to you to ask WHY they were only being used at five percent?  Would you look for problems that could be solved, and if they couldn't be solved, would you continue to  keep them open? 

Welcome to Chitcongo, where the notoriously corrupt, left-wing, inefficient Chicago Public School system has two schools with enrollments only five percent of capacity.  Another couple are at 8 percent.

Why in the world are they still open?  Answer: Teachers' unions.

If that doesn't seem absurd enough, look at the last two columns on the right, above: They show the percent of students in each school who are proficient in reading and math, respectively.  Look at all the zeroes and ones.

Of course nothing will be done.  Public schools could graduate students when just one or two percent were barely proficient in any subject, and nothing would be done, because the schools have an infinite amount of taxpayer money.  The officials--and union officials--don't actually give a damn about whether their "graduates" can spell cat or add nine plus eight.  The teachers might, but the teachers don't get to make the big decisions, like what schools to close.

Rank-and-file teachers (i.e. not union officials) have no more say over school management than you have over the policies of the biden regime.

If parents complain, the teachers go on strike for more money, and the city gives them whatever they want.

Charter schools would be an immense help, but that would reduce the power of the teachers' union, so Chitcongo pols like Lori Beetlejuice will continue to block 'em.

But don't worry, citizen: the biden regime has a hand-picked Secretary of Education, a guy who formerly presided over New York City's notoriously shitty and corrupt school system.  Say THERE'S a guy who will surely tell Chitcongo pols how to cut costs while improving the quality of education!

Hahahahahahahahahaha!  Oh yeah, you bet.

With insanity and waste and corruption like this, does anyone really think we're NOT doomed?