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

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Baltimore City Schools are actually one of the most well funded public schools in the nation -

U.S. Census: Six Maryland Schools Among Nation’s Most Funded

Per pupil spending according to 2020 U.S. Census report:

  • New York City -------------------- $26,588
  • Boston ----------------------------- $24,177
  • Atlanta ----------------------------- $16,402
  • Montgomery County ------------ $16,005
  • Baltimore City -------------------- $15,793
  • Howard County (6) -------------- $15,595
  • Prince George’s County (8) ----- $15,334
  • Baltimore County (15) ---------- $14,122
  • Anne Arundel County (17) ----- $13,866
This ain’t right because I know Bay Area counties spending more than this per pupil

but spend per pupil doesn’t tell the full story, with a lot of inner city districts, more of that goes to things like special ed, social services, meals, etc and not necessarily things like supplies, technology, facilities, books and instructors
 

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And yall are keep overlooking the fact that the 1.0 and under segment grew by damn near 20% during Covid - why are we not discussing the huge failure that distance learning was and how people just let governments and school districts throw the most vulnerable to the wolves?
 

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I'm done talking to both of y'all CLASSIST HOUSE NIKKAS, wannabe white classist nikkas.

It's a waste of my time. Y'all don't get it whatsoever but it doesn't surprise me...both of y'all probably the type that'll be in threads not wanting to talk about how businesses don't wanna pay living wages, landlords being greedy just because, teachers half-assing on the job, etc and that it's just the ppl's fault for their problems. Black Ppl's fault for these situations.

I'm going to turn off the thread notifications so I don't have to see any more replies.
Breh :russ:

I live here. I am the product of this school system. My mother is retired from this school system. One of my sisters teaches in this school system. Three of my cousins teach in this school system. I have friends with kids in this school system. I know exactly wtf I’m talking about
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Project Baltimore obtained a chart assembled by Baltimore City Schools. The chart shows the average GPA for every high school grade in the city – freshman through senior. In the first three quarters of this past school year, according to the chart, 41% of all Baltimore City high school students, earned below a 1.0 grade point average. In other words, nearly half of the 20,500 public high school students in Baltimore earned less than a D average.

How did the kids do during the 4th quarter? They have the data. Why did they exclude it from the article?
 

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Aren't balck middle-class/suburban communities doing alright?

I think in these areas like Baltimore and shyt, it may be more localized cultural decay. If a drug dealer lives next door in some cramped housing project in a community with poor school funding, that whole problem perpetuates itself.

In some areas I agree these kids are almost pre destined to fail. I had to take a trip to some neighboring projects the summer before Covid hit. I hadn't been up there since I was a kid when I had friends up there. It was appalling to me. No child should grow up under those circumstances. Here's what irritates me though; instead of making the best of those circumstances, the adults make the worst of it. They don't set a good example. They don't take charge, or encourage the kids to do something positive. There is no urgency placed on the kid to hit the books. That's a large part of the problem as I see it. The adults have largely failed the youth. What happened to Indian Red last weekend is a prime example of adults failing the younger generation. Sorry ass OGs.

The whole culture needs a reset. You look at music, Rock, Blues, Jazz, R&B, golden era Hip Hop, ya know music that was respectable has been replaced with degeneracy. Black consciousness and awareness has been replaced with ignorance. Solidarity has been replaced with self genocide. I doesn't have to be like that. Every now and again I'm surprised when I pass a brother in the grocery store or on the street and despite not knowing him, he asks me how I'm doing. That tells me what we're capable of.
 

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"It's a failure of the culture" is a such a terrible statement. These kids don't even have up to date books, knowledge actively being supressed. Yes, parents could do more, but parents can only do so much because they're struggling too, to keep the quality of life at home at least passible. It's the fault of Capitalism intersecting w/ education.

Also, I keep seeing "well immigrants do this and that", y'all don't get to see the failure of immigrants and their children, because they aren't blasted. For them to even come here, that's mounted the many failings of other people.

If you use the article to talk down about black children and their parents, you have no love for them and no stake in this convo.
 

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How did the kids do during the 4th quarter? They have the data. Why did they exclude it from the article?
This is largely being pushed by the Cato Institute - so if they're excluding data, its because it doesn't fit the "schools are failing our students" narrative.

The whole thing is predicated on getting people mad about GPAs during COVID.

If this they were serious, they would chart out the obvious differences between the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, note any obvious variables that may affected it, and then use that to analyze the 2020-2021 data. This is just obvious nonsense, but its funny how you can see how easily Coli posters fall for it.
 

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Man I couldn’t get a 1.0 if I tried when I was in high school. There’s something major happening and it’s not just in the classroom. Imaging going around saying you have a 1.0 GPA:picard: Good Lord
 

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That's sad.

School is so easy when you think about it lol
Exactly, so just imagine what must be going on that these kids can't even do the bare minimum of showing up and getting participation grades.

I doubt they're going home to functional house holds and quiet streets.
 

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Who cares why they can't pop in their own country? That's off topic. The point is they can come over here and and be successful. They see opportunity while too many of our own mistakenly see the impossible. That's the minority myth dudes like you perpetuate. Its about perspective and false narratives. There are plenty of black people in this country who are thriving, plenty who have come out fukked up neighborhoods because they had a goal and their parent(s) kept a fire under their ass. Too many folks over here look at life from the perspective of what they can't do and instead of what they can do. Until that changes, nothing will change.

The whole point of bringing up their homeland is to demonstrate that if they were culturally superior they would be replicating that same success at home. But since that is not the case, what's the difference between their homeland and America that allows their culture to thrive here but not at home? Mmmm...let me guess...maybe it's the fact that in their homeland, the government split the population into winners and loser, they fell into the loser group, were deprived of opportunity and instead of fighting, fled to the USA for a different fate.

This is the same thing that is happening in the USA...the government split the population into winners and losers by race where White = winners and Black = losers. These immigrants are being slotted in the middle between the Whites and Blacks and being given a lane to succeed and you're falling for it and saying "see those immigrants are succeeding...you negroes are just lazy".

When the reality is that many of these immigrants are getting the same perks the Irish and Italians got...first they were considered "ethnic" but were slowly assimilated into Whiteness and got to partake in the benefits of such. We've built towns, grew our literacy rate to damn near 93%, had our own banks, infrastructure, etc and it kept getting burned down, bombed, claimed via eminent domain, and now we are seeing the result of hundreds of years of attacks.

To sit here after all this struggle and to say that some people riding the backs of the civil rights act our what we should emulate is foul and c00nish. We do need to group together to succeed but to pretend like our struggle is going to be the same as Vietnamese and Chinese who are given a lane to succeed is false and is going to set us up for failure.

We are not a preferred group...we are this nation's enemy...it will fight us tooth and nail for every gain while it lays down gentle for those immigrants.
 

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"It's a failure of the culture" is a such a terrible statement. These kids don't even have up to date books, knowledge actively being supressed. Yes, parents could do more, but parents can only do so much because they're struggling too, to keep the quality of life at home at least passible. It's the fault of Capitalism intersecting w/ education.
The "culture" argument is the new way to effectively argue for "inherent" racial differences, it carries the same stigma.

Even though it has been consistently shown for damn near 100 years just how clearly class/wealth/income, school resources, and outside programming are tied to student performance, you can get free-marketeers, racists, and their mouthpieces to argue that it must be "culture" or "race" that decides a student's "performance."
 

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He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He started off wrong when he talked about white teachers and snowballed from there. Most of the teachers in Baltimore are black. But NOBODY wants to be a teacher in Baltimore. It’s gotten so bad they have had to hire teachers from countries like the Philippines. And of course they get walked all over
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Man I couldn’t get a 1.0 if I tried when I was in high school. There’s something major happening and it’s not just in the classroom. Imaging going around saying you have a 1.0 GPA:picard: Good Lord
The global pandemic and mass student absences :mjlol:
The federal government didn't provide an increase in funding to cover the need for remote learning, states acted like they didn't have room in their budget to provide the necessary materials, and the mass shift in resources that like half of the urban populations in the country felt from the restrictions all played a major role.

This study is relegating that to the backburner in favor of arguing that its public hands that are the issue.
 

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That's sad.

School is so easy when you think about it lol
Its harder online during a global pandemic.
If the teachers are checked out so are the students. And corrupt government officials aren't interested in having people smart enough to actually demand that they do their fukking jobs so they'll only express fake concern since this is to their benefit
It's not teachers being checked out, kids just aren't coming to class. Either they don't want to, or they don't have access to a reliable computer with a webcam and internet, or they have other responsibilities during the day.
My sibling taught class every day during the pandemic, and some days only got 2-3 students who came in physically.

Once school districts tried to bring back in-person classes in April, they literally could only get 10-15% of the student body to even show up.
It actually takes some skill to have a below 1.0 GPA .
Just showing up to class should already have you above it.
They aren't showing up.
okay she's a republican but she gives an interesting take on it


Her take isn't interesting. She's full of shyt, and you're gullible.
It's very easy, but watch the excuses mound up:unimpressed:
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