Posted on 02/13/2023 5:50:26 AM PST by Rummyfan
Democrats are constantly telling us how great public schools are and how much we must value school teachers. So what happens when a Democrat-controlled city has almost two dozen schools with zero students performing at grade level?
FOX 45 News in Baltimore reports:
23 Baltimore schools have zero students proficient in math, per state test results
Baltimore City is facing a devastating reality as the latest round of state test scores are released.
Project Baltimore analyzed the results and found a shocking number of Baltimore City schools where not a single student is doing math at grade level.
“We’re not living up to our potential,” said Jovani Patterson, a Baltimore resident who made headlines in January 2022, when he filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools. The suit claims the district is failing to educate students and, in the process, misusing taxpayer funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
It’s “Nomsayin’?”
Students. Family. Neighborhood. Welfare State. Great Society. Government.
We all know that journalism is negative and superficial, because that is what sells journalism. And since the last thing negativity suggests is gratitude, and since ingratiate and unhappiness are essentially synonymous (see Dennis Prager), negativity is unwisdom - just as superficially, inherent in short deadlines, is inconsistent with wisdom. Consequently an artificial intelligence which is not trained with intensive, uncritical exposure to journalism (and Wikipedia) is needed before it is ready for prime time for tutoring the world's children.
But once AI is truly trustworthy, AI - say rather, AI-enhanced homeschooling will take over education.
White think.
The other end of the spectrum. Interesting there is no Travon on the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award honours the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.
The Fields Medal is regarded as one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive, and has been described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, although there are several major differences, including frequency of award, number of awards, age limits, monetary value, and award criteria. According to the annual Academic Excellence Survey by ARWU, the Fields Medal is consistently regarded as the top award in the field of mathematics worldwide, and in another reputation survey conducted by IREG in 2013–14, the Fields Medal came closely after the Abel Prize as the second most prestigious international award in mathematics.
““I lay the blame in two places,” U.S. Army veteran and Baltimore resident Evie Harris said on “Fox & Friends First” Friday. “I would start with the board of schools commissioners or the Board of School Administrators. And I’m going to also add in some parents…”
It absolutely starts with the parents IMO........or in many cases only ONE parent.
And that’s a big part of the problem......you’ll never convince me that one parent raising a kid is anywhere near as effective as being raised by a mother AND a father......and it’s gotta be a stable environment as well.
It may be 230 schools but they were confused by the "0" and just left it out.
No sure why this is even news, nothing has changed in nearly 2 decades at those schools.
I currently teach industrial controls for a power plant and it is now laissez faire to accept engineers (4 yr degrees!) from certain MD universities who have not mastered Algebra.
Read between the lines, yes it is exactly what you think.
> Is that the fault of the teachers or students? <
I taught for most of my career in urban high schools. So I’ll field that one.
Maybe 5% of the teachers I taught with were not up to the job. That’s a problem. But it’s a relatively minor one. Here are the big problems.
1. Student attendance. At the beginning of my city career I taught basic high school math (pre-algebra). Students in my class attended an average of three days a week. I’d call home, and the counselors would, too. No effect. How much can a student learn when he’s absent toughly half the time?
2. Classroom discipline. When I first started teaching, most school administrators really tried to keep classrooms orderly. That’s long gone now. Administrators now try to keep suspension rates low. That’s how they get promotions and bonuses. So if you have one or two students running wild in your room, that’s your problem. It is quite difficult to teach anything under those conditions.
3, Pressure to pass. Today’s administrators want to keep passing rates high, again for their promotions and bonuses. Most teachers try to resist that. If a kid deserves to fail, we would fail them. But now, in my district at least, computers are programmed to make every test grade at least 50%. So if a student scored 10% on a test, the computer changed it to 50%. Way more students now pass.
There you have it. And I don’t think it’s fixable. That why I advise new teachers not to apply to a city school. And I advise parents not to send their kids to a city school (if they can help it). It’s tragic, really.
“Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade. “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.”
“THEY failed.” There is plenty of fail to go around. The mother, the son, the school. None of them are taking any responsibility.
I won’t argue that. In the end, it falls to individual’s decisions.
My experience, living in the Philly and Wilmington areas, is that the majority will never change or learn. I’ll continue my plan of “moving away from them” due to experience.
I used to care, I don’t anymore.
Interesting points. When my son was doing in class observation while in college working on a degree in history/teaching, he told me that when the Pledge of Allegiance was recited each morning not a single student, not one, stood.
This was in high minority school in Eastern NC.
Oh but the schools need more Mon——ey!! What are they doing with the tax dollars they get now? (Rhetorical..)
“Baltimore: 23 Schools Have Zero Students Who Can Do Math at Grade Level”
How many have been admitted to Harvard? How many are in med school?
Back many moons ago a teachers usually held a degree in the subject they were teaching. Then along came the BS in Education degree. Get the degree, apply for a job and get placed wherever you were needed. I know too many teachers who have no clue. I agree with the old saying. Those that can do. Those that can’t teach. Okay. Blast away.
“Is that the fault of the teachers or students?”
IMO it’s the fault of the student’s parents.
Well said. How many of us keep our jobs while failing to produce?
Here in Alabama the woketard laziness hasn't infected the higher math majors. My son describes his trig and calculus courses for his computer science major as being like when I got my BS in CS. The only woketard laziness he's seen are in the liberal arts "core" courses (similar to mine decades ago, only mine weren't half as woke as they are now).
More money to the teachers unions will fix that.
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Low test scores are actually good news for the teachers and administrators. It serves to justify bigger school budgets to bring up test scores. Its all a giant scam.
That’s what you get when math is raciss...and when the geniuses, who know how to count stolen cash, rape, pillage and plunder, it’s Trumps fault, or something!
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