13 Baltimore schools have zero students
pass math proficiency exam
Hot Air,
by
Jazz Shaw
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
9/23/2023 10:44:24 PM
If you happen to live in Baltimore and are looking for something else to be incensed about apart from the rampant crime and government corruption, look no further than the public schools. The kids are back in class for the semester, or at least some of them are, and a public activist group has conducted a review of the latest round of state standardized testing. Across the city, 13 schools (that’s 40% of the schools) failed to produce a single student who tested as “proficient” in math. And most of the others didn’t produce many. This has resulted in some understandable outrage,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mseegal 9/23/2023 10:54:27 PM (No. 1562083)
I'll bet they can tell you about the 57 genders even if they don't know 2+2=4
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It's truly sad that everyone knows what the root cause is but no one is allowed to address it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DanvilleBill 9/23/2023 11:08:33 PM (No. 1562087)
There is an entire continent that explains this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 9/23/2023 11:28:38 PM (No. 1562095)
In about 10 years this will pay huge dividends for Baltimore. With kids too ignorant to hold a job, Baltimore will experience a huge cash influx from the Dem controlled Federal goobernment. It will be rainbows and unicorns cause Dems know incompetence and low productivity pay. Its a new economy thanks to Obambi and Diaper Joe! Gone are the days of excellence and hard work. Just get the rich to pay for it!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
weirdone 9/23/2023 11:30:39 PM (No. 1562097)
ELIMINIATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEST SCORES HAVE BEEN FALLING FOR DECADES AND THE U.S. CURRENTLY IS 38TH AMOUNG DEVELOPED COUNTRIE IN MATH AND SCIENCE. Saving $629.8 Billion annually.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/23/2023 11:38:17 PM (No. 1562099)
THIS is racism in its ugliest form - the failure to teach minority children in the schools where they comprise most of the student body.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/23/2023 11:47:09 PM (No. 1562104)
It isn't just the CEO...they need to bring all of the Principals, and The Union Reps in, and give them a "Come to Jesus".
FIX THIS! Or you are ALL fired.
Rule 1: If the Student has not learned then the Teacher has not Taught!
No excuse is acceptable for NOT being "Able" to do the Job you were hired to do. If you cannot? Leave...we'll get someone else.
If you will not leave, we will fire you 'For Cause" and get someone else.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slsusnr 9/23/2023 11:47:45 PM (No. 1562105)
Many, if not most, of society's problems bubble to the surface in schools. Schools cannot fix these problems, but are somehow expected to. Not making excuses for bad schools here. Families are broken. Sixty-one percent of the kids in my JROTC program have had some trauma in their families: a parent(s) incarcerated, parents on drugs, kids who've never met a parent, kids living with aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, kids living with neighbors, and the list goes on. It's bad, but Baltimore seems like the poster child for an almost completely dysfunctional city. Why would anyone expect the schools to be able to fix Baltimore's massive family breakdown?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/24/2023 12:07:10 AM (No. 1562111)
This is as much a national security issue as the border, law and order, the national debt and the FJB administration is all in. For all the screaming about slavery keeping people ignorant (uneducated) is one of the easiest ways to control them. Someone needs to tell Randy Weindgarten to shut up and go away. These kids can't read, write a complete sentence let alone construct a paragraph, do basic math. And you can completely forget about history and science. And they are passed on again and again. This is why they can be convinced that socialism/communism/progressive ideas are the best thing since sliced bread. They cannot think or reason or have a clue what freedom or a democracy is. Totally pliable and easily led.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 9/24/2023 12:26:13 AM (No. 1562117)
"Teachers" who can't teach anything that is real, or of value need to be fired immediately.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/24/2023 12:43:18 AM (No. 1562124)
But they know their pronouns and that's the only thing that is important.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/24/2023 2:16:18 AM (No. 1562154)
This isn't surprising. After all, isn't CRT and sex education more important than actually learning reading, writing and arithmetic?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 9/24/2023 4:33:36 AM (No. 1562169)
Lots of contributing factors here. Teachers who are more concerned with political activism than they are with teaching basic skills. Children raised with no father, and sometimes no mother (thanks, Grandma). Low expectations set by the school so no one feels bad about poor performance. Throw in drugs, crime, and apathy, and you have a public school.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
watashiyo 9/24/2023 4:59:36 AM (No. 1562177)
Hated when my mother forced me to memorize the multiplication table and learn the abacus in grade school. Hated the Calculus, music, and martial arts classes. Today, I'm so grateful for what she forced me to do.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
5 handicap 9/24/2023 6:49:00 AM (No. 1562202)
Having lived in Baltimore, I can tell you that since the system is completely controlled by the Unions...very few of he politicians can pass a math test. The wholly corrupt system requires complete overhaul and jailing the superintendent and cohorts.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Peregrine 9/24/2023 7:49:23 AM (No. 1562215)
Schools are only as good as the citizens of the community want them to be.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lazyman 9/24/2023 8:02:21 AM (No. 1562220)
One big gig of idiots receiving and keeping jobs without merit or accountability. They do have courage to go in there and attempt to babysit. Maybe classes should all be on cams so the public can see where their 2 Billion go.
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And when the next election rolls around, the parents of these kids will go to the polls and vote Democrat again.....and wonder why nothing changes.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 9/24/2023 8:30:00 AM (No. 1562231)
Folks, this isn't about teachers, unions, or inadequate spending and we all damn well know it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/24/2023 8:33:59 AM (No. 1562234)
The standard solution to the problem, from both sides of the aisle, seems to be, "We need more money for teachers and schools." So far, it's gotten us nothing in return.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/24/2023 8:49:42 AM (No. 1562239)
They can all tell you how many bullets their 9 will carry.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 9/24/2023 9:16:48 AM (No. 1562263)
Well, Balmer is da hood, and the teachers union has an iron grip on inner city schools. Their plan to keep 'em stupid and malleable in da hood is clearly working.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/24/2023 9:31:34 AM (No. 1562279)
The Leftist Commie Plan to INDOCTRINATE the Children is WORKING!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
red1066 9/24/2023 9:38:56 AM (No. 1562294)
My wife taught for a year in a middle school in an area bordering on the city of Baltimore. She taught 7th grade. Almost every day, police officers would come to her classroom looking for so and so concerning a robbery or car theft. For years after she left, she would see the name of students she taught in the paper's crime file about arrests. Whenever she tried calling a parent concerning a student's academic performance, she would end up talking to a grandparent or aunt. Never the actual parent of the student. The thing she often was amazed about, was that for the most part, these kids were well behaved in the classroom. It was only after they got out of school that they many got into trouble.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/24/2023 9:59:43 AM (No. 1562309)
We don't need no stinkin' math. We've got the ghost of Pelosi's pa for back-up. Besides, we are close to Washington DC. Verry close.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
formerNYer 9/24/2023 10:54:06 AM (No. 1562353)
I blame Trump. s/
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 9/24/2023 11:50:11 AM (No. 1562403)
I used to teach in high school. Very few of the black kids made any effort to learn anything.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ironchefw 9/24/2023 12:22:39 PM (No. 1562423)
Must be because of the white racists who live thousands of miles away from Baltimore, and not the black Baltimore parent(s), the black Baltimore teachers, or the black Baltimore politicians. or the black Baltimore students.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 9/24/2023 2:02:55 PM (No. 1562494)
#27 - Middle and high school Alegbra & Geometry for 3 years. I concur with your experience with this additional caveat - how many didn't put forth the effort because they didn't have the foundations (from both parents and schools) to even grasp the more rigorous material at the high school level. I experienced this 20 years ago. The probability that it is even worse now has got to be high.
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Yes, but do they know their pronouns?
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