Fury as ZERO children at 13 Baltimore state schools pass math exam

[ShadowBroker]

Community failure. School principals, faculty, parents. All of it. The schooling during Covid lockdown did it. Schools and students already struggling in districts got the final nail in the coffin with Covid.

Teachers had been sounding the alarm just a few months into the lockdowns. Parents don’t want to hold their kids back, so we’re basically here. This is incredibly disturbing.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

That side of the convo has been had for as long as I've been alive.

Women need to choose better. A man cannot lay seeds without access to the womb.

Women definitely need to be held accountable, because they get stuck with most of the work, and it’s their bodies. However, men are losing their licenses, and getting locked up over child support. Besides the financial consequences, we need to take bringing a human life into the world seriously. We are spreading our seed to multiple women, and not fathering them in a healthy way. A child needs to see you moving in your day to day life. All kinds of situations pop up where a phone call is not sufficient.

 

[IIVI]

What happened right after 2012 that caused such a sharp drop in reading and math.

How do you go from an all-time high too damn near an all time low in 10 years

My guess is instagram/vine/worldstar and going online for clout chasing while the rest of the world went online to Khan Academy.

Notice how it got steeper in 2020 - that was TikTok.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Who would've thought exchanging fathers for govt welfare, food stamps, section 8, homosexuality and abortions would produce communities of cannon fodder, unproductive idiots and crash test dummies.

Even in the heart of Jim Crow, black folk valued education

I've said it before, once the black boomers transition its a wrap...straight up permanent underclass status

Meanwhile next week is the 1st, instead of helping their kids with their hw, the parents will prepare for the weekly dumbass relationship debates (50/50, divesting, leading/protection)

i cant wait till you clowns stop preaching stupid fukking narratives

 

[Uachet]

The Failure can be distributed in order of culpability:

1. Parents - First teachers and enforcers. If the parents don't care about education, many children will not care about it (Only a few children will have the wherewithal to understand the importance of an education without their parents pointing it out). A present parent who stays on top of their child to get the homework done and keeps in contact with their teachers can be a massive help to making sure children are receiving the lessons they need to succeed.


2. Administrators - Often the admins are not even supportive enough to make sure the children are well disciplined, and the disruptive ones are removed from the general population when warranted. Hell, some of them hide away in their office or walk the halls with blinders on. Their higher ups sending down requirements that go counter to what is needed to make sure children are learning the basics. Focusing on creating new requirements that maintain the bureaucracy instead of focusing on procedures that have a history of working.


3. Teachers -
A. Some of these teachers are woefully ill-prepared and outright incompetent. Some of them are teaching subjects that their degree says they mastered but come to find out they must have cheated their way through college. I've come across plenty who could not perform Algebra 1, yet they are teaching the course. This goes for other core subjects too.

B. Another group of teachers are committing the sin of having low expectations for our children. They do not put any effort in because they have become despondent about the actions of 1 & 2 above. Others hand out passing grades to objectively failing children, because the School District leadership has made rules that stipulate a child cannot receive a grade less than 50. So, you have children passing to the next grade, but failing their standardized tests.


4. 6th-12th grade Students - Some of the older students don't care about school education no matter how involved the 3 above are in the process. Sometimes there are children who seem to be disrupters by nature. A lot of times those students who are outright incorrigible are sent to specialized schools just for them. We talk about a school to prison pipeline; well, those specialized schools are exactly that for most of the students there. For many of those students, the Streets are the schools they desire to focus on.


This is my take on it after listening to the years of my wife & grandmother (when I was a teen) talk about it and seeing it up close when I attended schools in L.A. and Baltimore. I also saw a bit of it when I participated in the Morehouse NROTC's outreach to the nearby communities' via being elementary school tutors. The problem is multifaceted, and so the solution will require understanding that all the above needs to be worked on:


1. Parents need to be intimately involved in their children's education. It does not take much time each night to ask a few questions about what they are doing in classes, how are their grades, do they need any help with certain classes, and how to stay on top of their children getting homework and projects done. Add in making sure the teachers know how to contact you if your child is acting up and chastising that child for being disruptive.

2. The Administrators need to create an environment that encourages effective teaching and learning, while also making sure discipline is maintained. Not putting in place asinine policies that on paper look like they boost graduation rates but send out into the world new adults who are ill prepared for any position but low wage service jobs. Last, treat their teachers like the adults and professionals they are, so they do not end up losing good instructors because of the admin's ego.

3. The Teachers need to be competent and maintain high expectations for their students. They need to keep up with the changes in the fields they teach, while also not allowing laziness to keep them from maintaining good classroom management. They need to seek to develop a respectful relationship with the students and their parents. They also need to understand fully the material they are teaching to the children. That means them continuing to read the material at home, and correcting themselves in class if they accidentally taught the children something incorrect.

 

[Shadow King]

Women definitely need to be held accountable

All that matters.

 

[IIVI]

Too many distractions online. Kids would rather do anything else but learn and study.

Yup.

Terence Tao himself can teach these kids and it wouldn't change anything.

Math isn't a spectator sport. To learn math you got to do math. To do math you got to go out and learn why you made the mistakes and correct them.

There are numerous websites everyone knows about. They're all free and have terrific explanations. There's ChatGPT as well.

So there really are no excuses.

It's because people aren't pointing their web browsers to those sites. They aren't interested and would rather clout chase on other websites.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Community failure. School principals, faculty, parents. All of it. The schooling during Covid lockdown did it. Schools and students already struggling in districts got the final nail in the coffin with Covid.

Teachers had been sounding the alarm just a few months into the lockdowns. Parents don’t want to hold their kids back, so we’re basically here. This is incredibly disturbing.

This has been an issue prior to Covid.

 

[Jean toomer]

With all the free resources online, you think the pandemic is a good excuse? Sounds like those kids were already borderline failing.

So many of these kids have ADHD and other undiagnosed behavioral issues online learning isn’t even an option. The pandemic was an educational catastrophe for poor children.
This is a brutal story.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

There’s alot of blame to go around for this. But part of the problem nobody mentions is the emphasis put on statewide testing. Teachers can’t teach the traditional way anymore because everything is centered around preparing kids for a state test instead of catering to the needs of the students. It’s one of the reasons my mother retired. She had enough of the bullshyt

The type of testing schools do is standard around the word. This argument has always been weird. There would be an issue if the testing and curriculum have nothing in common but they are based on each other. The issue is that the kids are not at the same standard from school to school for the grade level they are in.

The tests are exposing an issue but people react by saying that testing is wrong. Not addressing the issue, the kids are not up to the standards. The standards are international, not state wide or country wide alone. Can't take away the tests because people can't pass them. They will not be fit or able to be successful further in education if they can't pass those tests competing with other candidates. Not in college, University or employment. That's what those tests are gauging. The alarms are most definitely necessary.

 

[ShadowBroker]

Community failure. School principals, faculty, parents. All of it. The schooling during Covid lockdown did it. Schools and students already struggling in districts got the final nail in the coffin with Covid.

Teachers had been sounding the alarm just a few months into the lockdowns. Parents don’t want to hold their kids back, so we’re basically here. This is incredibly disturbing.

This has been an issue prior to Covid.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

The type of testing schools do is standard around the word. This argument has always been weird. There would be an issue if the testing and curriculum have nothing in common but they are based on each other. The issue is that the kids are not at the same standard from school to school for the grade level they are in.

The tests are exposing an issue but people react by saying that testing is wrong. Not addressing the issue, the kids are not up to the standards. The standards are international, not state wide or country wide alone. Can't take away the tests because people can't pass them. They will not be fit or able to be successful further in education if they can't pass those tests competing with other candidates. Not in college, University or employment. That's what those tests are gauging. The alarms are most definitely necessary.

The red is definitely what I was getting at. These kids are taking the same test as kids in other jurisdictions who come from backgrounds with more resources

My mother started teaching in the 70s in Baltimore City public schools. She said it became much more difficult to teach and focus on the shortcomings of certain students when everything became centered around preparing them for this state test. People’s jobs are on the line when it comes to the scores so it puts a ton of pressure on the teachers and as a result they end up caring more about test scores than the students themselves

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[tuckgod]

"School aint for everybody " - Coli Brehs

Having kids ain’t for everyone

 

[TheNig]

Not a fan of this publication..

But we as people have to feel.. there's some truth to this..

Welp..

Turn up the music.. let's gyrate



That's all we do right ?