Baltimore: 41% of high school students earn below 1.0 GPA

[Unemployed GM]

I mean honestly, I know the first thing you may think is "man these kids are dumb" but school itself in america is stupid as shyt, the main thing they should teach is math and reading comprehension and once the kids are like highschool age they're better off working, that's how it's been for like thousands of years for most people. These kids just can't focus on school.



Y'all remember that one scene on the wire where Micheal b Jordan was helping this kid with his homework, it was math right, the hw, kid wasn't fukking with it, couldn't figure it out, but Jordan asked him how to add up them packs right and that kid had it figured out in like a second. These kids are capable but the environment of school ain't really where it's at for them.


I'm kinda rambling but education period in America is really a scam.

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Education is for the teachers not the students.

 

[UpAndComing]

That's sad.

School is so easy when you think about it lol

Exactly. School is 90% effort, 10% natural intelligence

 

[Manolo]

But yeah getting below a 1.0 must be just a pandemic thing with people just not caring.


If you attend class (in a non pandemic), you can fukk around and get at least a 1.5

I feel where you’re coming from but it’s not really true if you think about it. I’m gonna assume you graduated and from our POV, we may have bullshytted most classes and still passed. But there was still some effort put in. These are the kids who come to school with no backpack or supplies and no intention of learning. School is just a place to get at girls and hang with their nikkas. And there’s nobody in or outside the school invested in these kids’ futures enough to get them on track.

 

[eXodus]

A lot of that money doesn’t actually reach the students tho. You got people working for the school board making six figures who don’t actually show up for work. I remember some report came out about people on the payroll who weren’t actually employees or some shyt. Or people were getting more than one paycheck or something. I can’t remember the full details

I spoke to a principal today who a month ago thought he/she would have funds to easily afford to implement a certain program in their school.

today, I don’t know what the fukk shifted from then but those funds now have to be used for staffing costs and the brother/sister said “we gonna he scrapping money together for toilet paper til January”

im not saying there’s mismanagement or anything funny happening but at times I often question whether the district offices can plan and implement systems more consistently. The whole “most well funded district” thing doesn’t land well, because it’s definitely not the reality in terms of principal/teacher experience, from a resource standpoint.

I’ll just leave it at that.

 

[Deus]

That's a failure of the system. The White US Government impoverished the
neighborhoods and then made education funding come from the neighborhood which created a vicious cycle. But since White Supremacy works by throwing a rock and hiding their hands the cause of this disaster is somehow unknown

• OMG is it the parents?
• OMG is it their culture?
• OMG is it the rap music?
• OMG is it their DNA?

No, it's muthafukkin' wide scale disenfranchisement in every facet of society thats the issue.

It's also on the parents. At the end of the day, parents are your only champions.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

That's a failure of the system. The White US Government impoverished the neighborhoods and then made education funding come from the neighborhood which created a vicious cycle. But since White Supremacy works by throwing a rock and hiding their hands the cause of this disaster is somehow unknown

• OMG is it the parents?
• OMG is it their culture?
• OMG is it the rap music?
• OMG is it their DNA?

No, it's muthafukkin' wide scale disenfranchisement in every facet of society thats the issue.

yep it's all by design, not to mention school funds being tied to property taxes rather than being allocated equally across all schools. These cacs play a dirty game.

 

[eXodus]

And that data point regarding per pupil spending is misleading, Fox always likes to use it to disparage BCPSS. Its not actually the highest paid districts in the US.

It’s actually a ranking of the LARGEST 100 school districts in order of per pupil spending. There are 13,800 school districts in the US, that list only is looking at the 100 districts with 43,000 students or more.

 

[Absolut]

People keep bringing up covid like this number wasn’t 1 in 4 students below a 1.0 before covid. Covid isn’t the root of the issue

 

[dblive]

She saying that the reason this happened is because nobody cared.
Everyone figured it out, masked school attendance, social distancing, hybrid, or remote learning, except for Baltimore.
Many could not afford a laptop for remote learning and nobody cared.

Also she said that all those students are going to be pushed to the next grade regardless, because that's what they decided to do.
So people with below 1.0 GPA will pass their grade and move on to the next grade.

She wasn’t lying. I always thought the school lock downs hurt impoverished communities more because of lack of internet access, computers and overall structure. In Cincinnati, they opened the neighborhood libraries to allow internet access for schooling during the lock down

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

That's straight up inexcusable

 

[Big Boda]

First replies deflect away from white supremacy like clockwork.

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[BobbyWojak]

It actually takes some skill to have a below 1.0 GPA .
Just showing up to class should already have you above it.

This actually isn't true I was still going to school when my GPA plummeted, I got a D in P.E. ...

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

Well, they weren’t in classrooms during the period in which this stat applies

and let’s not act like there isn’t a sizable amount of kids in low income schools that don’t show up just to socialize and/or be a distraction. My middle school not a day went by without a teacher getting cussed out, a fight erupting or kids boldly walking in/out the classroom late or early...the only classes that didn’t happen in were my gifted classes

it's true
my AP classes felt like pretty much everyone gave some type of fukk while everything before that was chaos
you could tell who was there to learn and advance to the next grade and who was there to engage in fukkery

 

[qashif]

in Baltimore the mayor appoints the school board members.
they need to change this

 

[Aprogressivone]

It's not the parent's fault. It's the school district(s) fault for not putting in the effort to make a difference in these kids' lives when they enter that school building for the next eight hours.

The majority of (white) teachers are coming from white suburban areas and driving nearly 30-40mins to the inner-city schools just to collect a paycheck (out of town teachers get paid more to teach in the inner city) and don't really care what happens to these kids because they don't have any personal feelings nor interest in connecting with the students.

Breh. You capping. I have friends who are black teachers. Teachers can legit only do so much. These kids come from failed households. They are lost. If you have a few kids below the poverty line in a regular class you can make a difference, but when it gets to a large percentage.... GAME OVER! When you have magnet schools that have a high poverty rate but gifted kids or high poverty but parents who care it is not the same. But regular high poverty kids with struggling parents who don't want to put in the effort or can't. Most of those kids are fukked. They got passed along from elementary > middle > and now high school.