Posted on 09/22/2023 3:29:14 PM PDT by Morgana
A slate of Baltimore schools have sparked outrage after zero students passed their state math exams - with almost 75 percent testing at the lowest possible score.
The poor performances came in the latest round of Maryland's state testing, where 13 high schools in the city - a staggering 40 percent - failed to produce a single student with a 'proficient' score in math.
'This is educational homicide,' said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of Baltimore-based nonprofit People Empowered by the Struggle, to Fox Baltimore.
The activist said there is 'no excuse' for the failure, which has come after years of warnings over the city's poor education standards.
It also comes days after a scathing new study found that schooling across America fell to dire lows during the pandemic, concluding that one-third of fourth and eighth grade students can't even read at a 'basic' level.
The concerning results, which were first raised by Project Baltimore, also saw 74.5 percent of students in the 13 failing schools score just a one of four on their test - the lowest a person can score.
Some of the city's best-known schools, including Patterson High School, Frederick Douglass, and Reginald F. Lewis, made their way onto the list, while Baltimore City Schools also received $1.6 billion last year from taxpayers.
It was the largest funding the educational authority has ever received, leading to questions over where the money went.
'So, it's not a funding issue. We're getting plenty of funding,' Rodriguez said. 'I don't think money is the issue. I think accountability is the issue.'
Alongside the huge investment from the taxpayers, the school district also received $799 million in Covid relief funding from the federal government.
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MAFF BE RAYCISS
Close
the
public
schools
The sharpest person I ever met was a black person at my high school.
She was brilliant.
Read and Write? That be actin’ White.
Dr. Thomas Sowell looks like he’d be fun to have a conversation with. He’d certainly keep anyone on their toes.
Ban tik tok and social media. Problem (partially) solved.
Testing is woke education killer. Demand more tests. Teacher unions believe in collectivism. Fire them all.
We have to burn the village to save it.
Testing is woke education killer. Demand more tests. Teacher unions believe in collectivism. Fire them all.
We have to burn the village to save it.
The creme is not in this crop I surmise. If you no wha i sain.
The schools clearly need more money!
(Contrast this with “defund the police.”)
But but but Wakanda...
We need mo muna.
yet they vote to send the same people back to the offices where they grift and fail. I have no sympathy.
I have mentioned this before. I taught algebra at a high school where most students attended every day.
And I taught algebra at a high school where most students missed two or three days a week. Lots of disruptive behavior in that second school as well.
Exact same teacher in both cases (me). Guess which school did much better on standardized tests.
99% democrat families, I’ll wager.
For crying out loud, how could they possible read and write and do math when the teachers don’t have time for anything else when they teach wokeness and all it entails. After all, it is no easy task trying to convince little Johnny that he is really a girl and trying to convince little Susie that she is a boy.
And then there is scheduling drag shows, having hate sessions about America, schooling on Satanism, just to name a few.
Yes, indeed, that's a real thing. In fact, your life might be endangered as a diligent black student who seeks to excel in academics. I've seen it too many times in college as a tutor. It's a very dark culture (excuse the pun.)
It’s an insult to schools, to call these places, “schools”.
“Demand more tests.”
And just who do you think writes those tests?
He who writes those tests controls the curriculum, and if schools want to get a passing grade, they have to teach what is on the test.
Those tests are written by American-hating bureacrats in the state education departments, and the tests emphasize things that tarnish America.
Talk to the kids that are in high school and ask them basic questions. You will be surpised.
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