sad part is, some will fail even that test...
Posted on 08/23/2017 7:30:04 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Project Baltimore has obtained a test given to seniors at Northwood Appold Community Academy II, or NACA II – the same Baltimore school now under investigation by city schools over allegations of grade changing that were reported by Fox45.
The questions came from a final exam. The teacher who gave the test to Project Baltimore, said these questions were for a senior level course at the northeast Baltimore school.
The test begs the question, are Baltimore City students being held to a high enough standard?
With these questions, from different sections of the test written on a white board, we gave the marker to folks in Fell’s Point. Most were surprised by the simplicity of the questions.
These were the questions:
1) Draw the punctuations on a keyboard
-Question Mark:
-Exclamation Point:
-Period
2) True or False?
-A small defect or fault in a program is a bug.
3) Acronym for Random-Access Memory
Several people thought the test was for elementary school students, as young as first grade.
"It makes me sad about our school system," said one woman who answered the questions.
“I don’t know what they are teaching in school now-a-days, but these seems really easy,” said another person.
“It’s a justice issue and a testament to how broken the school system is,” said another person who answered the questions.
Project Baltimore spoke with a teacher from Northwood Appold Community Academy II, or NACA II, where the test was given to students.
Upon request, we are disguising the teacher's identity. But Fox45 was told, by the teacher, that this type of test with these types of questions are standard for senior level courses at NACA II.
"That should be for an elementary school student," the teacher told us. "A lot of the kids were not at grade level as far as being able to function and read accordingly.”
In early August, a Fox45 investigation exposed allegations of grade changing at NACA II, so some seniors could graduate. Two days after that first report, North Avenue launched its own investigation into the school. For legal reasons, school officials will now no longer comment on NACA II. But Project Baltimore showed the test to Baltimore City Schools’ Chief Academic Officer Sean Conley before their investigation was launched.
"Our work is aligned to the Maryland Career and College Readiness Standards. Point blank," Conley said. "I would have to look into this and look at each of the questions to see if it would meet the standard."
When asked for his first impression, he responded, "I don't like to assume or jump to conclusions. But it is definitely something I would want to look at."
Governor Larry Hogan was willing to share his thoughts, especially after Fox45 informed him the senior who took the test had failed, yet still received a high school diploma.
"It's shocking and outrageous and needs to be investigated,” Hogan said. “We're glad that you're working on this entire investigation of the Baltimore City School System. I think it's great that the school board decided to act. It was the right thing to do. They have to get to the bottom of this."
This is pretty tough, how much time do we have?
Are the answers in the article?
sad part is, some will fail even that test...
Want to bet that the fail rate was still considerably higher than the pass rate?
In the running for Cheech and Chong’s alma mater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ60AA9ZvM4
What color is George Washington’s white horse?
That’s racist.
12 years of public schools and they want to increase the number of years? My guess is that liberal colleges aren’t much better today either.
Wasn’t the end of Blackboards racis’?
This crapola....has been going too long.
So Baltimore schools are truly turning out the marching morons. This is pathetic. Every Baltimore school should be taken over by the state (not the feds) and returned to standard. Maryland being what it is, however, don’t hold your breath.
? There are lots of black folks named Washington
I was joking about the ‘white’ horse.
They could save a lot of money by just building basketball courts, give the kids basketballs and give diplomas for putting the ball through the hoop from a distance. Kids would be happy, taxpayers would be happier. Skip the exams, lay off all the “teachers”.
I once saw a test that required passing to graduate 8th grade back at the turn from 19th to 20th centuries. I consider myself pretty well read and well educated, but I wondered at the time, whether a college grad of today could pass it.
Open book test? That only works if you can read.
Our home schooled daughter took the SATs a few weeks after turning 13 (she was not in HS yet) & then ranked in the 86th percentile of “college bound” high school students. This was in 1997. She said that something was wrong if she was that much better than all these other kids that had already had 3 years of HS and were supposedly college material.
I told her the truth. That she was indeed smart & educated. At the same time, most of them were severely lacking in real education, that they had been cheated and lied to by the school system. I also told her that she had an obligation to herself to make the most of her skills. She has.
What’s wrong with his white horse?
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