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

[BmoreGorilla]

The sad part is my mother spoke about this shyt over a decade ago

 

[Gold]

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

 

[Easy-E]

It starts in the home, these teachers can’t make miracles happen

True, but, look at the conditions people are having to raise children.

I'm not to lilly liberal I was ten years ago--so, I'm not gonna always blame "the system."

There are outliners that straight up don't give a fukk about their children.

But, I find it hard to believe half of Baltimores parents just don't put in any effort.

My dad was never on my ass day to day about school, but, I was raised in a solid environment and was always able to get to school every day with no crazy conditions.

It's got to be more than "well, the parents don't help with homework."

 

[GreenGhxst]

I blame the school system

That's ridiculously low

Its way too many students for me to put all the onus on the parents

I mean, what in the fukk is going on inside these classrooms

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

"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.

Except you don't need books. Have you ever looked at these books? There's barely any updates in the new versions.

Youtube and Khan Academy can teach in damn near any subject and way better than those books.

 

[chkmeout]

But here's the thing...why can't those Nigerians and Asians make it pop in their own country? Why do they have to come here to make it pop if they are so culturally superior? This is why you can't compare us to them because if they faced the same barriers as us, they would just go back home. Your kids will not just be able to get an education and succeed...Black Americans have to raise kids that are READY TO DIE to get what's there. There is no pathway built for us to succeed like Nigerians and Asians have. Don't compare our struggle to the struggle or lack there of, of White Supremacies tokens. That's how you reinforce the model minority myth.

another fukking dumbass nikka

 

[Uitomy]

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.

 

[phcitywarrior]

Folks will make a priority for whats important to them and will demand better.

Baltimore city schools have been a problem for a while now. There are failings on all sides as far as I’m concerned, but I’ll always put more blame on the folks at home since they can control their own actions.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I blame the school system

That's ridiculously low

Its way too many students for me to put all the onus on the parents

I mean, what in the fukk is going on inside these classrooms

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

 

[concise]

Obvious propaganda

They’re using the GPAs of students during the middle of a global pandemic - all to push privatization. Meanwhile Baltimore schools already got worse in private hands

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?

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

yea, these numbers are skewed like CRAZY.

if GPAs went DOWN during the pandemic, obviously something is wrong with the remote learning process.

I'd also love to see the gpa drops in other cities, especially other big cities.

 

[Deuterion]

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.

Yeah I feel like high school leans way too much on College Prep…College Prep should just be one track you can follow with other tracks being actual trades like Plumbing, Auto Mechanic, Network Technical etc so kids can graduate with carts they can actually use fresh out of high school to get a job. You should be able to graduate high school with ASE certification, A+, etc… that would help keep students involved.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

As some other brehs have said, it takes effort to get a 1.0 GPA

Eveerone is failing. The kids, parents, teachers, and administrators.

No it doesn't. That's the point.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Yea wife scale disenfranchisement is the root issue. But that doesn’t excuse parents from not giving a fukk

Some don't give a fukk. Some can't give a fukk. Let's try to help the ones that can't give a fukk. And see if we can shame, then empower the ones that don't.

 

[El Bombi]

"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.

You have to understand these threads are only made for the purpose for undercover CAC and NON-AADOS/FBA to shyt on American Black people.

Know a troll thread when you see one.

 

[NZA]

what kind of jobs do the parents have?