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There’s only one solution for this…ban math. And while we are at it, ban English and make looting legal.
1 posted on 02/14/2023 3:20:56 PM PST by thegagline
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Does anyone remember the high school in the NE area...New Jersey I think...that made the news about a year or so ago because something like 95% of the kids there either dropped out or couldnt read? It was a focus on the Black education “crisis” or similar. Thanks for any help.


68 posted on 02/14/2023 4:40:58 PM PST by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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Disgusting

Targeic for the students


69 posted on 02/14/2023 4:41:27 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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LMAO! That’s funny, yet is should not be. The stupid and hence, jobless, will eventually be kicked out of the home to fend for themselves. With WHAT? Stupid will reign the day. And the only way to survive is to take from others. The rats are spawning the perfect stupid class, voting rat in perpetuity!


70 posted on 02/14/2023 4:42:28 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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Gee...what do those schools share in common?

Democrat owned and operated.


71 posted on 02/14/2023 4:42:40 PM PST by simpson96
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Raising compliant serfs who couldn’t question their political betters if they had the will to disagree.


72 posted on 02/14/2023 4:46:39 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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I’m willing to bet standards for reading and math are low. After all, a standard is an expectation. That means more kids in Illinois are getting ripped off. Furthermore, today’s standards are not even comparable to 50 to 60 years ago.

When I homeschooled my children, my standard was “mastery and move forward”. That was based on my personal experience of being bored out of my skull in school because of constant review and slowly moving forward. My kids were always reading three or four grade levels beyond their age. By age 12 they could read anything. I didn’t really think of grade level per se. It was judged by other’s grade level designations of reading materials. As for math, the same approach was taken. By age 17-18, they made it through Calc III and a calculus-based prob and stat course.

There was nothing aggressive about that. It was a simple as moving from topic to topic after mastering a topic. The key to that, at least in math, is making exercises that required previously learned material. Use it or lose it. Some topics took longer than others, but they didn’t move forward until mastery because ultimately it would drag them down later.

Anyways, my experience with government school teachers is they lack rigor and personal standards. There isn’t much more pansy-assed than an Ed degree. When I was in college I saw people change majors and drop courses. For instance a physics major becoming a mathematics major, and when that didn’t work out, a down grade to Math Ed, followed by El Ed.

73 posted on 02/14/2023 4:47:01 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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Brooklyn, Illinois (Lovejoy) is a village just outside East St. Louis.

Manley Career Academy is in a large, old high school building (like you’d expect for an older city neighborhood) in one of Chicago’s worst neighborhoods. It has fewer than a hundred students...an obvious waste of city money (they could rent a large storefront for less), but they won’t close it because to do so would be “harmful” to the community.


74 posted on 02/14/2023 4:55:30 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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Maff be hard, yo!


75 posted on 02/14/2023 5:18:37 PM PST by Old Yeller
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With all the time schools are spending teaching CRT, an alphabet of sexual perversion and grooming kids to change their gender, there is no time to teach math reading or much of anything else.


76 posted on 02/14/2023 5:41:26 PM PST by The Great RJ
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Illinois is very close to accomplishing equality for all. Kudos


78 posted on 02/14/2023 6:03:52 PM PST by Nashcash
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Just say Chicago.


81 posted on 02/14/2023 7:43:49 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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Hey, it takes time to turn a first-world nation into a third-world one.

One school district at a time.


82 posted on 02/14/2023 7:48:57 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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Why study math? I have a cell phone.


83 posted on 02/14/2023 8:14:12 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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"That's nothing," says Baltimore. "Hold my coke."

Not One Student Was Proficient In Math In 23 Baltimore Schools

84 posted on 02/14/2023 8:18:25 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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Demographics of Chicago Public Schools

Student Racial Makeup Information Percentage
Hispanic 46.5%
African American 35.8%
White 11.0%
Asian 4.4%
Multi-Racial 1.5%
Light Not Available 0.4%
Native American/Alaskan 0.3.
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.1%
Asian/Pacific Islander (retired) 0.0%

This might explain at least some of it.


88 posted on 02/15/2023 8:14:44 AM PST by jimwatx
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The tests will be banned, just as SAT and ACT tests are being banned all over the country b/c they’re racist.


91 posted on 07/29/2023 7:52:45 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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