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13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math
Fox ^ | 11/9/2017

Posted on 11/10/2017 2:40:31 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbaltimore.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; arth; baltimore; commoncore; highschools; math; miserablefailure; urban
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To: sphinx
if the parent(s) can scrape together the tuition

Yeah everyone is blaming the school system for the failure and no one is blaming the gimme dat tribe welfare hustling parent(s)(like you put it but more than likely parent). They are the failures here.

They hatch them but do not raise them or even try to educate them at home and they damn sure would not try to "scrape" together tuition to send them to a private school. They would wait on you and me to GIVE it to them. You knew that right?

41 posted on 11/10/2017 4:20:17 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Altura Ct.

I thought that was the objective? To dumb everybody down to the lowest common denominator? Isn’t that what common core is all about?


42 posted on 11/10/2017 4:20:41 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Change the textbooks a little:
1. If Quantell steals a loaded six-shot revolver and shoots the dealer four times, how many bullets does he have left?


43 posted on 11/10/2017 4:20:45 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: SkyPilot

Great post. Powerful image.


44 posted on 11/10/2017 4:22:33 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR page)
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To: Wuli
"At work Excel spreadsheets or the company computer can do all the math you need... "

Sit one of thes imbecile gardutes in front of a screen with a blank spreadsheet on it, and you'll get, "Huh? That thing's too big to play tic-tac toe on!"

Someone has to set up those spreadsheets -- and enter the formulas appropriately. Try that with recent high school graduates...

45 posted on 11/10/2017 4:30:29 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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To: dljordan
“The 8 years of Obama have devastated the Black Community. “

Obama didn’t keep them from learning.


Actually, he did.

Not directly, perhaps, but the policies he pushed and the attitudes and tone he set have had profoundly negative impact on not just the Black community, but society as a whole.

Education at all levels took a major hit as Obama politicized every aspect eduction and geared our schools up to indoctrinate students on Marxist ideology, identity politics, racial grievance , homosexual and transsexual issues and environmental radicalism.

Not much time reading , writing and arithmetic after all that and who cares anyway because all that old school is white privilege and if you are acting Black you have no time for that

At the same time our schools have been fundamentally transformed by the tsunami of illegal immigration. The demographic shift has been both sudden and extreme. Went to graduation ceremony this year at a local high school with the ex Principal of the school , now retired.

He was stunned because 90% of the graduating class was Hispanic.

When he retired 10 years ago the demographic make up was more like 15% Black, 40% White and 45% Hispanic and the socio economic demographic changed from working middle class to government assistance

Teachers have to deal with students who do not speak English, have no desire to learn English and who are illiterate in their native language.

Our public education system is real mess.

46 posted on 11/10/2017 4:35:14 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Altura Ct.

I really don’t see a solution here; not a legal one anyway.


47 posted on 11/10/2017 4:37:16 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Altura Ct.

Go to liberal schools, get a liberal education. At least they could name one of Maya Angelou’s poems. Baltimore will do the right thing and lower the score to pass math to 10.


48 posted on 11/10/2017 4:39:39 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: ETL

Disgusting sub-humans should never see the light of day again.


49 posted on 11/10/2017 4:46:34 AM PST by Pravious
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To: SpaceBar

I am not convinced that the motives were “well meaning”.


50 posted on 11/10/2017 4:48:09 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: rdcbn

7 percent are white so they can’t count to 10 either. I just find this hard to believe. I would love to know what the minimum score needed was. A lot of tests require an 85 to be considered proficient.


51 posted on 11/10/2017 4:50:05 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: wintertime

I threw the “well-meaning’ part in there to be charitable and give them the benefit of the doubt, which they really don’t deserve.


52 posted on 11/10/2017 4:52:19 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: rdcbn

Those schools must be run by right wing racists.


53 posted on 11/10/2017 4:56:05 AM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Strangely Maryland is the number 1 state in Education in the entire United States so there are so incredibly great schools. Why not send some of the students to Montgomery and Anne Arundel or Howard country where the schools are top notch. Howard county is a phenomenal district and it is not that far from Baltimore. Surely they can do a better job helping these kids then the schools in Baltimore. Can you imagine how much higher Maryland would be if they could get rid of Baltimore? It would leave the rest of the states even further in the dust.

https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-school-districts/s/maryland/

Get these kids out of Baltimore Schools and into one of the fantastic districts that are turning out the best of the best in America.


54 posted on 11/10/2017 4:57:23 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: napscoordinator
7 percent are white so they can’t count to 10 either. I just find this hard to believe. I would love to know what the minimum score needed was. A lot of tests require an 85 to be considered proficient.


The schools exemplify the ghetto mentality which has spread wider under Obama.

The ghetto mentality destroys everyone it touches.

Spent a good part of my younger days trying to help lift kids out of the ghetto and it breaks your heart. You really have to experience it yourself personally to under stand because it's difficult to describe.

55 posted on 11/10/2017 5:01:01 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Altura Ct.

If any of you have difficult suppressing lingering thoughts of mental deficiencies related to race, try reading some of Thomas Sowell’s work.

Better yet, read ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’.

Admittedly, these are two very exceptional people. However, the problem is the ghetto entitlement ‘culture’ and the liberal aversion to accountability.


56 posted on 11/10/2017 5:01:46 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: New Jersey Realist

“I really don’t see a solution here; not a legal one anyway.”

There is no easy solution, especially since over time those doing the teaching are lacking too.

A good first step would be to repeal mandatory education laws so only those students who actually want an education will be in school. The criminal element would then be out on the streets where law enforcement can properly deal with them.


57 posted on 11/10/2017 5:02:35 AM PST by Shadow Deamon
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To: Altura Ct.

Incredibly sad.


58 posted on 11/10/2017 5:05:36 AM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: rdcbn

I really wish they would close down the schools in Baltimore and send the kids to Howard, Anne Arundel and Montgomery County. It would actually save money in the long run and these kids would go from lowest in the United States to the highest in the United States. That would be worth the 30 minute bus rides for them. I just can’t believe that Maryland is number one in education in the country and yet allows Baltimore schools to fail.


59 posted on 11/10/2017 5:05:49 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Democrats are creatures held on the plantation. If you can even do simple math you aren’t likely to be a democrat for long. Count the black babies aborted or the shootings in democrat strongholds and your viewpoint changes. Public schools teach approved feelings and abhor facts.


60 posted on 11/10/2017 5:07:54 AM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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