City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA [Baltimore]

https://foxbaltimore.com ^ | Monday, March 1st 2021 | by CHRIS PAPST, WBFF

[Fzob]

shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing.

This is not shocking to a single person paying attention. This story has been repeated for decades in Baltimore.

[Saltmeat]

“There are many details missing from the story - chief among which is any mention of what kind of problems the student might have been causing in class to lead his teachers to just pass him on as a way to get rid of him.”
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please recall that this kid was in the upper half of his class. If the school held back every kid in his situation, then in short order the entire school would consist of ninth grade classes. Those teaching tenth and above would have no classes and logically no jobs. This is why they promote them no matter what their grades are.

[redgolum]

Pretty typical actually.

My wife is a teacher. She rarely sees parents of these kids. Sometimes the mom will threaten her “You BETTER NOT FLUK MY BABY! I WILL SUE!”

See does and sometimes they do.

It is a mess.

[Little Ray]

“He's stressed and I am too. I told him I'm probably going to start crying. I don't know what to do for him,” France told Project Baltimore. “Why would he do three more years in school? He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that's the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that.”

"My boy dindoo nuthin' wrong. He didn't deserve to be shot for holding up that store. How else he gonna get his money?"

Same mindset anyway.

Did she she check his homework? Monitor his grades? It isn't the school's job to raise her kid.

[dforest]

I bet he could play a mean game of Mario Kart with Sleepy Joe.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Close enough for government work.

[Red Badger]

How Republicans are unable to make hay of this is beyond me.

Easy. It's Baltimore. There aren't any........................

[Red Badger]

I bet he can dunk a bassetball like Lessbrains can...............

[redgolum]

What parent doesn’t take a look at their kids grades every semester? Does she not go to Parent-Teacher conferences either? How disengaged is she?

If you lived in a disadvantaged area, you would realize the answer is "most". Not racial, but most view school as a hinderance and a bad thing, since they struggled in school. My wife is often threatened by angry mothers who say she is "Disrespecting" them by flunking their kids who never bother going to school. One said "My baby is going to the NBA! Why axe him about Math?"

The online learning has made it worse, as most kids will not log in, and the state is scared to address it.

[redgolum]

How Republicans are unable to make hay of this is beyond me.

Because the focus is on cheap immigrant labor, which is often better educated, and keeping the lower class out of everyone's hair.

[Buttons12]

Textbook Democrat voter.

But she works three jobs.

[Little Ray]

Lets be fair on that social promotion part - do you want those bigger, older kids in the same classes with younger students?

I guess there needs to be some sort of lateral promotion track that separates the two. One that, if they can't be taught, prepares those students for vocational training suitable for their intellect and talents, or for their life behind bars.

[Arones]

The good news is that he can still have a career doing TV commercials.

[Saltmeat]

“Sounds like this mom had zero interest in helping him with schoolwork or school activities. Don’t blame the 3 jobs. She needs to look in the mirror as well. The school dropped the ball as well. No innocent victims here.”

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How can you say don’t blame the jobs if you do not know her work hours. If she is truly working three jobs then I salute her. At the same time I abhor those Ivy League and highly elite college graduates that whine because they can’t pay their college loans yet they seem to have the energy and drive to work only one job. Perhaps it has nothing to do with their drive and energy and everything to do with the ego—to proud to work multiple jobs.

[Hot Tabasco]

“Why would he do three more years in school?

The basketball team needs him?

[Texas Eagle]

True enough. But this problem is not unique to Baltimore. Baltimore may be one of the worst examples of it but this is a nationwide problem.

School vouchers is a winning idea for parents in these schools. The parents who give a flying fig anyway.

Republicans have been talking about vouchers for years but have done nothing of substance to bring them about.

[Pollster1]

I’m surprised that the father didn’t do something about his son’s failure sooner.

[Red Badger]

.... Me too...................

[logi_cal869]

Mother AND son.

[metmom]

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