Posted on 02/06/2022 1:09:33 AM PST by lowbridge
More than three quarters of students at one Baltimore high school are reading at an elementary level, with many reading at a kindergarten level.
Fox Baltimore reported that a teacher at Patterson High School, one of the largest high schools in the city, came forward with information showing 77% of students at the schools were found to have an elementary school reading level. Patterson has a 61% graduation rate and a $12 million budget. The teacher has not been identified to protect them from retaliation.
“iReady assessments are given in Baltimore City Schools to help determine at which grade level a student is performing in math and reading. The scores are not made public. If the media requests them, the district will redact most of the results. But Project Baltimore obtained the results for all of the students tested at Patterson High School,” the outlet reported. “In reading, 628 Patterson High School students took the test. Out of those students, 484 of them, or 77%, tested at an elementary school reading level. That includes 71 high school students who were reading at a kindergarten level and 88 students reading at a first-grade level. Another 45 are reading at a second-grade level. Just 12 students tested at Patterson High School, were reading at grade level, which comes out to just 1.9%.”
When Fox asked the teacher how a student with such a low reading school could make it to high school, the teacher said “They’re pushed through.”
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Fox noted that Baltimore City Schools have a “one fail” policy, meaning that students can only fail a grade once before ninth grade. After one fail, the student will be pushed onto the next grade no matter how poorly they have done.
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Looked up the demographics for this school...Almost 90% black and Hispanic
I bet that high school diploma opens doors for those kids future!
(/sarcasm)
No wonder the education associations (aka teacher’s unions) are so against standardized testing. No wonder progressives are so against SAT tests to be used in determining who gets into college.
Every now and then we talk about how horrible it is to be in a failed state. To be in a failed education system, denies a child of almost all hope for making a decent life for themselves.
Racist educators, administrators, politicians. Most racist.
Just 12 students tested at Patterson High School, were reading at grade level, which comes out to just 1.9%.”
***These numbers are astonishing, even after I have long lowered my expectations.
And yet, these children are well versed in how much they are entitled to. Dangerous seas ahead.
I’d make a joke about Patterson but in my day, they were not known as an academic powerhouse, but they did graduate most of their students.
After all these years, there should have major improvements but the new leftist Dems, including their Great Black Hopes, have totally failed their children. The kids deserve better.
This is an atrocity.
No one cares. It’s Baltimore. The Politicians don’t give a ****. Parents are clueless. Remember they are living in poverty. This teacher did a noble thing but it was ultimately futile.
“Baltimore is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”—Donald J Trump.
but we don’t need no stinking sat’s or act’s to judge these kids.....just put them in college, pay for them.....its called equity....
I do not like green eggs and ham.
“The public school system is usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.”
-Walter Karp [American Journalist and Historian]
Are these young skulls full of mush still being told that even they could be POTUS someday?
I bet there are a few of these kids that would be better than who we have now.
With the expiration of so many aspiring rappers lately, it’s good to know there’s a pool of talent coming up.
Yes, but they will vote Democrat 200% of the time 🤣
RACISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn white people ruin everything!
With all due respect, I think you would lose that bet.
A work ethic for this century: As long as you don’t work too hard, everything in life will be given to you.
Republicans need to be making an issue of educational failures like this, but Maryland’s RINO Republican governor is better known for attacking Trump.
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