13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math

Fox ^ | 11/9/2017

[Altura Ct.]

An alarming discovery coming out of City Schools.

Project Baltimore analyzed 2017 state testing data and found one-third of High Schools in Baltimore, last year, had zero students proficient in math.

But that’s not all we found. In the midst of that troubling number, there are some bright spots.

Most mornings, at Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, start the same way – with students chanting the school’s motto in the gym.

“There’s an urgency about the work we’re doing,” said Jack Pannell, the school’s founder.

That urgency was born out of need.

“Nine out of ten black boys in Baltimore City are not reading at grade level,” added Pannell.

That grim statistic, lead Pannell to open his north Baltimore school three years ago. As the name implies, in these halls, there are no girls.

[Ancient Man]

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[rdcbn]

The 8 years of Obama have devastated the Black Community.

[Right Republican]

Yes, but most of the schools cited are already the regular schools’ names for their alternative schools, those for delinquents, moms, and pregnant girls.

[FES0844]

Did they test the common core kids?

[FES0844]

Paging Betsy DeVos. Go back to the 3R’s. End CC.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

I’m beginning to think that liberals are slowly giving up on the notion that they can achieve universal equality by dragging low IQ types up.

No matter how much money they throw at government schools not much has changed since LBJ began The War On Poverty.

It looks as if they are beginning to accept the idea that the best alternative is to just dumb down everyone until all are equal at the bottom of the performance chart.

Well - not everyone.

High ranking government officials, bureaucrats and wealthy elites will still have exclusive schools like Sidwell Friends to keep their offspring separate from the commoners.

[SMGFan]

“math class is tough” said Teen Talk Barbie

[equaviator]

That’s why they put pencils on erasers.

[ETL]

May 2015

Dundalk lawmakers: Close Baltimore Community High School

Those arrested and charges as adults in the beating of a 61-year-old Dundalk man are, from left, (top row) Mya Stewart, 15; Antoine Lawson, 17; (bottom row) Andrew Allen, 15; Yahkeem Wheatley, 15; and Samtoya Wiliams, 17. Police said a warrant has also been issued for Keenan Tylike Holloway, 20, and charges were also filed against another person who police did not identify.

Pamela WoodPamela WoodContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
Following brutal attack, Dundalk lawmakers want Baltimore Community H.S. closed.

Following the brutal beating of a Dundalk man, local lawmakers are asking for the closure of a Baltimore City alternative high school where students allegedly involved in the attack attend.

In a letter sent to city school officials on Tuesday, Dundalk representatives asked for an immediate closure of the Baltimore Community High School. City school officials have said that the school, which is an alternative high school, is already scheduled to close in 2017.

But that’s not soon enough for the Dundalk lawmakers, who wrote, “We request expeditious closing of this school for the good of the students and the Harborview Community in Dundalk.”

The letter was signed by Baltimore County Councilman Todd Crandell, state Sen. Johnny Ray Salling, Del. Robin Grammer, Del. Bob Long and Del. Ric Metzgar, who are all Republicans representing Dundalk.

On April 22, Dundalk resident Richard Fletcher, 61, intervened in a fight between girls outside his home on 45th Street. The group of teens turned on him and beat him so badly he ended up in the hospital with a brain bleed, nasal fracture, orbital fracture and possible broken ribs, according to charging documents filed in court by Baltimore County Police.

Seven young people have been charged in the attack, with several facing charges of attempted first-degree murder. The school’s principal has acknowledged that students were involved in the attack. The school is located just over the city line from where the attack occurred.

School officials helped police review cell phone and surveillance video of the attack to identify the students who were allegedly involved.

Since the April 22 attack, county police increased patrols at dismissal time, when students leave the school to walk to MTA bus stops. The MTA has moved one of the stops closer to the school.

But the Dundalk lawmakers believe the city police and school officials “have shown little commitment to solving this systemic issue.”

Neighbors have complained that students leaving school have long been disruptive in the neighborhood, blocking traffic by walking in the middle of the street, littering and fighting.

“Recent arrests and increased police presence has only served to heighten tensions and further increase the danger to both students and residents,” the lawmakers wrote.

“Perhaps at no time in the past decade have things become more dangerous than they are right now.”

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-co-dundalk-school-20150519-story.html

[vooch]

government schools operated by unaccountable unions

[sphinx]

An alarming discovery

Why should this come as a "discovery" to anyone? This kind of thing is common knowledge to anyone who cares to look.

The story focuses on one charter school that seems to be doing somewhat better; it seems to be highly focused and has gotten its math proficiency up to 14 percent, which is pretty mediocre on a national scale but a stupendous success when most of the rest of the city schools are at or near zero. Good for them. Time will tell if they can keep raising the bar. My guess is that they would need feeder schools in the earlier grades doing the same thing. At the high school level, they're already faced with deep remediation problems.

Is "North Avenue" Baltimore lingo for the central school administration? The story seems to read that way, as the reporters reached out to "North Avenue" for comment. No one at North Avenue would talk to them, but "North Avenue" released a statement. Note this: The statement concludes, “There is no simple answer that will close the achievement gap for Baltimore’s students. Though we all want to see results quickly, the work is hard and will take time.”

Where to start? North Avenue says the work is hard and will take time? They've had control of the system since forever, and they've had the current group of failing kids since pre-K. And they plead for more time? How many more generations of students will they fail? And note that they still put the issue in terms of "closing the gap." No. The issue is "can you educate poor black kids from black neighborhoods, often the projects, most of whom don't have fathers at home, who are growing up in a street culture that is hostile to academic achievement?" They are not going to get real solutions until they are willing to face up to the real problems.

[SpaceBar]

You couldn’t construct a more nightmarish crime infested social wasteland than today’s democrat controlled inner cities if you actually tried to do it by actual design and planning rather than it being the consequence of well-meaning but failed democrat policies.

[kearnyirish2]

“Most mornings, at Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, start the same way – with students chanting the school’s motto in the gym.”

The making of brain-dead Democrats: “Four legs good, two legs bad! Brown eyes good, blue eyes bad!”

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

FIRE THEM ALL AND START FRESH!!

[jiggyboy]

Baltimore high school basketball star Ja’Quané won’t be able to play in the big game because he just failed math for the marking period. A group of Baltimore high school math students convinced the math teacher to let him take a one-question make-up test.

“What’s six times eight?”
“Twelve?”
“GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE!”
“What’s five plus two?”
“Fifteen?”
“GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE”!
“What’s the next number after three?”
“Four!”
“GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE!”

[Truth29]

Clearly,the reporting of these results is racist and Pannell should be dragged out and reeducated until he changes his views or dies. Do I need a sarcasm tag?

[kearnyirish2]

“Let’s go shopping!” Malibu Stacey (Simpsons)

[sphinx]

Your #7 nails it. The liberal elites abandoned urban public schools long ago. They themselves have fled to upscale suburbs where the public schools are screened by mortgage payment, or to private schools. And they continue to oppose almost everything that would actually make a difference in the battleground schools that they've left behind. There are dedicated teachers in those schools who work miracles and salvage some of the kids, but the system conspires against them. Here and there, a charter gets the formula right and succeeds, usually because it has dynamic leadership that is able to fight off interference from downtown and keep everyone focused on the mission. The challenge is replicating these scattered success stories. The record is not good.

And it continues to be the case that the best bet for kids in the tough neighborhoods is the local parochial school, if the parent(s) can scrape together the tuition or if they can get scholarshipped. The parochial schools have some inherent advantages. They can fire teachers who don't cut it in the classroom. They maintain clear standards of conduct from day one, and train the kids consistently from the earliest grades. They can expel chronic troublemakers. They don't try to mainstream severely learning-disabled kids. Public schools could and should do these things. They don't. That's a governance issue, and until public schools change, they will continue to fail in the really tough neighborhoods where kids aren't getting discipline and support at home.

[Ann Archy]

IF the blacks EVER wake up to how the Democrats have RUINED them, it will be Bloody....but alas, I think they will NEVER want to figure it out since they like the FREE crap they get!