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.
Is there a complaint? They're perfect Democrat voters.
This result can't be anything but a win for the left, so I'm baffled at the concern.
Did you see Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, ‘Hillary’s America’? He makes these points vividly. A must-see.
Defense of government schooling, and racial prejudice. What could be better in a forum dedicated to freedom?
The socialist government school system just happened to target black people before it targeted those of us who are not black. Rest assured, they are now working on us whites too (see: antifa). If you think government schooling is “good” for people who are not black, consider than 80-90% of Christians are converted to secular humanism by the system just in time for high school grad. That is what birthed antifa. Whoopie! So what are you doing to convince others to abandon government schooling?
It's fake concern. Just enough "concern" to alarm people and fool them into throwing more tax dollars toward the teachers, teachers unions, and most of all, the administrators.
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So they went O for the year. The schools are just in a little slump.
Glad I’m old. By the time these kids get old enough to “make a difference,” I’ll be gone.
I’ll bet they don’t even know cursive.....
Not time to learn - too busy burning the city down.....
What are the demographics of the administration, the teachers and the students? Silence.....
That, and under-funding.
I would laugh, but someone somewhere is saying exactly that.
No, no, that's Maya Berry.
There is no one "real" problem. Everything is the problem. There is no part of public 'education' performing acceptably. Not administration, not teaching/teachers, not students.
It would be impossible to design a system that works worse than this. There's no accountability anywhere.
6 Black success stories!
Not one black kid caught "acting white" by learning anything!
Colleges that offer extremely remedial courses in math/english in the 'students' first year of attendance. Colleges that process the tuition aids, grants only to let these 'students' fail in their subsequent years.
“There is no part of public ‘education’ performing acceptably. Not administration, not teaching/teachers, not students.”
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Of course there is——lots of great public schools.
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Can’t they just lower the racist standars?
“Colleges that offer extremely remedial courses in math/english in the ‘students’ first year of attendance. Colleges that process the tuition aids, grants only to let these ‘students’ fail in their subsequent years. “
Aha!
Grifter U.
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I’m not. In fact, I am an E V I L teacher. Get a grip. Not every teacher is out to fill all of those little heads with mush.
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