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6 Baltimore schools, no students proficient in state tests
WBFF FOX 45 ^ | May 17, 2017 | Chris Papst

Posted on 05/30/2017 6:56:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

BALTIMORE (WBFF) -- A Project Baltimore investigation has found five Baltimore City high schools and one middle school do not have a single student proficient in the state tested subjects of math and English.

We sat down with a teen who attends one of those schools and has overcome incredible challenges to find success.

Navon Warren grew up in West Baltimore. He was three months old when his father was shot to death. Before his 18th birthday, he would lose two uncles and a classmate, all gunned down on the streets of Baltimore.

“I’ve lost a lot of people, so I’m used to it. It hurts,” Warren said. “I just chose not to show it. I just keep it in. You just have to live on and keep going on every day. You have to do it somehow.”

Despite his tremendous loss, Warren is set to graduate this year from Frederick Douglass High School. It’s a school where only half the students graduate and just a few dozen will go to college. Last year, not one student scored proficient in any state testing.

“That’s absurd to me. That’s absurd to me,” says Warren’s mother Janel Nelson. “That’s your teachers report card, ultimately.”

Project Baltimore found Frederick Douglass is not alone. Four other city high schools and one middle school also have zero students proficient.

The schools are:


High school students are tested by the state in math and English. Their scores place them in one of five categories – a four or five is considered proficient and one through three are not. At Frederick Douglass, 185 students took the state math test last year and 89 percent fell into the lowest level. Just one student approached expectations and scored a three.

Despite the challenges at his school, Warren found a path to higher education. He’s the reigning Baltimore City 50 and 100 freestyle champion who competed at the junior Olympics, finishing in fourth place. In the fall, he will leave the streets of Baltimore and head to Bethany College in West Virginia, where he will swim.

“It’s exciting for him to get out of the city and exciting for him to start a new chapter in his life,” says Nelson.

Warren told FOX45, he believes zero students are proficient at Frederick Douglass, because the state tests are more advanced than what the students are learning in class.

Editor’s Note: We spoke with the executive director of teaching and learning for Baltimore City Schools about this data. She told us some of those students might be considered proficient, even though they did not score a four or five on the state tests. Baltimore City Schools later told us that was an error in statement.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: arth; baltimore; baltimoreschools; bluezones; education; english; hsproficiencytests; maryland; math; miserablefailure; nea; proficiencytests; schools; urban
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The tyranny of low expectations. The community places no value on education.


21 posted on 05/30/2017 7:20:17 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So much for investment, empowerment, etc.


22 posted on 05/30/2017 7:20:38 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Mears

Evergreen comes immediately to mind by the looks of what’s going on there.


23 posted on 05/30/2017 7:21:32 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“That’s absurd to me. That’s absurd to me,” says Warren’s mother Janel Nelson. “That’s your teachers report card, ultimately.”

Ma'am, that's the culture.

24 posted on 05/30/2017 7:22:17 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: SkyDancer
And there it is. It's racist to demand blacks perform to reasonable standards. Can't paddle them. Can't expel them. Can't force them to learn.

So, teachers, being the liberals they are, simply pass these non performers on till finally they get to graduation where the hood gathers to scream like fools cause 19 and 20 year old Latishas and Treyvons finally be graduating.

Now it's society's problem. And a big problem it is. These leeches are sinking the boat.

25 posted on 05/30/2017 7:23:55 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: montag813

Frederick Douglass High School


I’ve read how Frederick Douglass basically “stole” his education by copying out his master’s son’s exercise books in the attic while everyone else was asleep. He refused to be illiterate. I wonder if the students at Frederick Douglass High School have any idea what he went through to learn.

One advantage of his education is that he is much easier to read than most 19th century authors. If you have not read his Autobiography give it a whirl. It is a shame that so many Americans who happen to be black reject what education has to offer them.


26 posted on 05/30/2017 7:24:07 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Clearly, there needs to be boatloads of extra cash thrown at this problem. With more money, the teachers will finally start trying to be successful.


27 posted on 05/30/2017 7:24:54 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
When slavery was legal, DemocRats made laws against educating slaves. Now they keep them ignorant by trapping them in the worst inner city schools in the nation while opposing school choice. DemocRats accept millions from teachers’ unions whose job it is to keep crappy teachers on the job.

I know we all would like to think that, but closer to truth is this: when education was a privilege, people wanted it. And when they got the opportunity, they made the most of it. Then we made education a right. Now it's a requirement. Nothing sours people on anything like having it go from a privilege to a requirement. It's kind of like the joke about the sobering effect of wedding cake.

28 posted on 05/30/2017 7:25:36 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: onedoug

Evergreen is a disgrace——what the hell is the matter with the citizens of Washington??

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29 posted on 05/30/2017 7:26:40 PM PDT by Mears ("It takes a lot of clout to be a victim."---Joe Sobran)
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To: All

These tests are racist obviously.


30 posted on 05/30/2017 7:26:45 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Henchster
Requiring students to be proficient in math and English is racist. </sarcasm>
31 posted on 05/30/2017 7:27:51 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

High school students are tested by the state in math and English. Their scores place them in one of five categories – a four or five is considered proficient and one through three are not. At Frederick Douglass, 185 students took the state math test last year and 89 percent fell into the lowest level. Just one student approached expectations and scored a three.

32 posted on 05/30/2017 7:38:35 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could discuss these education scores tomorrow, and the media won’t even discuss it.

Sad. Sad for Baltimore.


33 posted on 05/30/2017 7:38:58 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Time to shut down gubmint skools. Education is not a constitutional right.


34 posted on 05/30/2017 7:39:35 PM PDT by sagar
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To: SkyDancer

It IS racism! It is the Democrats making sure they stay on the plantation. Making sure they will always need Big Government so they can get their vote.


35 posted on 05/30/2017 7:39:38 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hopefully, Bethany College will have tutoring available for him, because he wasn’t given the opportunity to learn at grade level in Baltimore. Those who manage to bloom in such an arid place deserve some extra attention.


36 posted on 05/30/2017 7:41:21 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Enchante; ExTexasRedhead

“I will guess that what the state of MD considers to be “proficient” is not exactly advanced, either. This is horrendous. I wonder how many of these students are beyond a 7th grade proficiency at better schools?”

They’s been too busy larnin how to screw and how to hold a pistol sideways. I’d suggest that Nancy Pelosi (D’Alessandro) needs to go home and help “her people.”


37 posted on 05/30/2017 7:46:04 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s because they are proficient in rioting


38 posted on 05/30/2017 7:49:44 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A large number of these kids are young businessmen who excel in weights & measures and monetary issues.


39 posted on 05/30/2017 7:53:57 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The real problem isn’t with the teachers or principals.


40 posted on 05/30/2017 8:04:57 PM PDT by PAR35
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