Only 17% Of Black Students In Maryland School District Scored Proficient In Math

[get these nets]

no one said it was

its a human thing.

and most humans suck at math, black, white, Hispanic suck at math.

with asians being the less likely to suck at it (i have an asian friend who sucks at math but shes mixed with white so its probably the cac side that made her dumb)

and memory has everything to do with it and intelligence in general

People with good memories are more likely to excel in mathmatics

OP article isn't about excelling though.
It's about minimum basic skills exams.

 

[Pure Water]

This shyt is sad.

 

[Dad]

Unless I’m mistaken, isn’t Maryland home to 8 of the top 10 wealthiest black communities in America?

What does that have to do with the children?

 

[Absolut]

These tests are retarded anyways and the math they assess have almost zero real world applicability.

Imagine thinking basic math and algebra have no applications in the real world

 

[Absolut]

Wait, you use the Pythagorean theorem in your job? fukk outta here.

Yes

 

[ThatTruth777]

math isn't hard though for the most part

 

[Kings County]

i suck at math...terribly.... anything past basic algebra i want no smoke with and still managed to get a high paying job
literally just used rate my professor and found professors who were easy/cared about their students and finessed my way through college as long as i could

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I had two calculus tutors

 

[GhettoTeK]

I could write a fukkin novel on this. In my special needs class I have a 5th grader on a kindergarten reading and writing level.

Parents should really start to read to their kids as early as possible, stay on them about school work & be active in your child’s school.

Every day I ask the kids what did they do at home and I always get the same answer..”played fortnight all night” or “watched the Bobby brown movie” or some other shyt they have no business watching.

If you’re not ready to have kids then don’t fukkin have them. bytches just be popping out kids expecting their family and teachers to raise them and teach everything when in reality YouTube, TV & social media is raising them.

Sad man. At least you do your part in educating children still

 

[TeenTitansGo]

People assume that if you add 2 parents in the home, these issues will automatically go away.
My mom grew up in a 2 parent household and still didn't do well in school. She said her mother (my grandmother) and her stepfather didn't pay attention to how she did in school nor did they try to help. Same thing with my grandfather, he had his own life with his new wife.

My mom was a single parent and she was very into my education even though she had to work 2-3 jobs. She put us in special programs for low income families and they had us visiting colleges, tutoring, taking community college classes while in middle school. That's why I turned out okay, it really just takes one parent paying attention, but if neither are, then the child is doomed.

Black people who question the importance of two parent households:

Please recognize you are the only race/culture who constantly does so.

Common sense should tell you on average, children reared by both parents who created them adjust to life much better than when reared by single parents.

Stop looking at outliers because there's more positives than negatives.

Stop questioning its importance and apply basic, critical thinking skills. You look like an anomaly and present yourself as slightly 'touched in the head.'

Signed,
Black woman (who turned out well via society's standards) raised by a single mother.

 

[NoMayo15]

This is sad and algebra is really simple, but a lot of kids don't understand the basics in elementary school, get too far behind, and have no chance with algebra.

I'm helping a cousin now who's a freshman in high school, and it's sad because it's very apparent that she never understood the basic principals that you should learn early in school ... and I mean the basics of fractions that you should learn in like 4th and 5th grade. And neither her, nor my mom can help her because neither of them know like... what a linear equation is or how to solve these problems. So I can't even imagine what it must be like for students who want help, but can't even get it from someone close, because even family and friends don't know algebra.

And I also wanna... take umbrage at people who say you need two parents to raise a child. No... you don't. Plenty of intelligent, productive people are the products of single-parent households. And I don't exactly have any basis for this, but I don't believe only certain people are smart enough to do well at math. But again, math is something you build on, and if you don't understand earlier concepts, it's only going to get harder as you go on.

 

[PikaDaDon]

food for right wing propaganda

 

[hashmander]

People assume that if you add 2 parents in the home, these issues will automatically go away.
My mom grew up in a 2 parent household and still didn't do well in school. She said her mother (my grandmother) and her stepfather didn't pay attention to how she did in school nor did they try to help. Same thing with my grandfather, he had his own life with his new wife.

My mom was a single parent and she was very into my education even though she had to work 2-3 jobs. She put us in special programs for low income families and they had us visiting colleges, tutoring, taking community college classes while in middle school. That's why I turned out okay, it really just takes one parent paying attention, but if neither are, then the child is doomed.

typically when they talk about a two parent household they're referring to two parents invested in that child. the situation you described had a stepfather in one case and a stepmother in the other. unless it's a situation where the step parent adopted the child, a lot of step parents don't want to really get involved with how their partner is raising "THEIR" kid.

anyway you just need an involved parent. two is better, but one can suffice.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

It wasn't "predicted."
The Black achievement gap has existed for over a century, he wrote his books in like 2000 and 2004.
He, like a lot of commentators, overly inflates the importance of his specific variables.
While there definitely are cultural points that undermine Black students, they can't be divorced from household structure, income, class, social sphere, parental involvement, school structure, and instructor involvement. Its all taken as a whole, and just like Thomas Sowell's critical commentary, he didn't tie it all together as he should have.

eh, he tied his points together very well which is why people pretended to hate the book

mchwhorter was the only one brave enough to actually call out the core problem with our black achievement gap

which is our own culture - we look down on and shun education and celebrate anti-intellectualism, and we embrace "victimhood" too much

this is what sparked the reaction to the book the way it did - right wingers loved it too much.

but ultimately it was actually a call to action, our own culture and black leadership was the reason for our academic underachievement and he was right.

 

[Micky Mikey]

food for right wing propaganda

Yes it is but instead of factoring in all of the reasons they'll simply attribute it to some genetic predisposition. And then use that as a justification for the mistreatment of black people.
The real problem I see is that our culture doesn't value eduation and learning as much as it should. We do not participate in our childrens education and instead rely on the schools to do it for us. Furthermore, I believe that our children are not raised with a certain level of discipline in order to excel at math or complex subjects that require a steady diligence. And if you factor in the rate at which our children consume television and other forms of media it should be no surprised when they have issues concentrating. Math requires a different level of thinking. You cannot coast your way through as you would english or history.