At 13 Baltimore City high schools, zero students tested proficient on 2023 state math exam

WBFF ^ | September 18th 2023 | Chris PapstMon,

[Rummyfan]

“This is educational homicide,” said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of People Empowered by the Struggle, a Baltimore-based nonprofit.

PEST? They need a better title.

[Redmen4ever]

Finally, equality!

Now those racist employers can’t discriminate on the basis of math.

[Magnum44]

[USCG SimTech]

There’s no time for all that.

Everything’s about skin color and/or sex organs.

[Leaning Right]

It would be interesting to see detailed attendance figures for the students.

I taught Algebra 1 in a school where darn near every student came to my class every day. A good half of those students didn’t miss more than one or two days all year.

I also taught Algebra 1 in a school where the average student attended class maybe three days a week. Some students only attended once a month, on bus pass day (if you’re in school on that day, you get a free monthly bus pass, good anywhere in the city). And I won’t even talk about the disruptive students.

Guess which school scored higher on standardized algebra exams.

[VanShuyten]

You can’t have a real turd-world city if the residents aren’t illiterate and innumerate.

[bort]

Actually, this is an improvement for Baltimore. Keep up the great work!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“This is educational homicide,” said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of "People Empowered by the Struggle"

Mr. Rodriguez went on to say the only solution is to lower standards so everybody gets an A.

"Judging '2 + 2 = 4' is a fictitious white social construct with no bearing on reality. We must continue the struggle to get everybody to believe '2 + 2' equals whatever anybody wants it to equal. Oceania was always at war with East Asia."

[ConservativeInPA]

Give those groomer teachers a raise! They are do exactly what the Marxists want.

[Lurker]

The Democrat party hates black children.

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[hanamizu]

Your experience shows what Baltimore schools’ real problem is. Oddly omitted in the article.

[Salman]

No matter what the dreary facts of heredity or environment may be, there are always a few outliers.

If it's really zero proficiency it means they are not being taught.

I'd like to see the teachers to take the same proficiency tests.

[samadams2000]

Our future doctors will not know how to spell scalpel.

[Hiddigeigei]

"Yet another Democrat success story."
"Maryland My Maryland." It too is now gone, but unforgotten.
Such articles sadden me. My paternal grandfather was born in Baltimore. I think of Chesterton's poem, 'Memory'.

"I shall not travel the tracks of fame
Where the war was not to the strong;
Where Lee the last of the heroes came
With the Men of the South and a flag like flame,
And called the land by its lovely name
In the unforgotten song."

[Dilbert San Diego]

Zero students in every school were proficient.

It’s stunning to think not a single student in any school met the standards.

But of course we are handicapped by certain factors.

We aren’t allowed to criticize a culture in which doing well in school is derided as acting White.

We aren’t allowed to criticize some teachers who just are not up to the task of teaching.

We aren’t allowed to talk about discipline problems in schools which detract from the learning environment.

We dare not say anything about the ethnicity of the student body or of any teachers or administrators.

We are only permitted to say that schools need more money or resources and that the lack of money and resources is the reason for these terrible test scores.

[Chgogal]

For starters, stop teaching 2 + 2 = 5.

[The Antiyuppie]

How can any company actually hire adults from this environment?

[DownInFlames]

They can count the number of bullets to load a Glock.

[minnesota_bound]

How can the kids do their drug deals without knowing math?....

[Uncle Lonny]

Math is racist. This is just another example of that fact.