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

[YeLovesBoston]

Perhaps the biggest reason is that those white and Asian kids have parents pushing them and making them study.

I did great in my math tests without studying during my time in public schools, but my bad studying habits killed me in my first two years of college. A lot of black parents will say they have high expectations for their child, but won't be active in making them be a great student.

Black people are just as smart as Asians and white people. We need to start taking our academics much more seriously if we want to truly compete though


Edit: Obviously, there are systemic reasons as well, but nothing beats taking a subject from school home with you and actually spending time to sharpen your skills and knowledge of it in your own way.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

food for right wing propaganda

not to single you out, but this is why we will NEVER fix this problem, every time we try to have a discussion about it - this argument pops up.

if we can't critique and look at ourselves and what we are doing to contribute to this problem without worrying about what white people will say, then what do we expect?

 

[PikaDaDon]

Mostly white Maryland school district thinks Baltimore is too violent for field trips

 

[MikelArteta]

i suck at math as well

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Math needs to be taught in a way where the child can understand the real world applications. Once children stop seeing how they can use math in their day to day life it just becomes abstract formulas.

 

[staticshock]

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

Preciate that bruh. It’s a cool lil gig. For every lil dude that don’t wanna learn but would rather quote 21 savage lyrics & curse
you out, there’s 9 good ones that want to learn and give you hugs every day

Perhaps the biggest reason is that those white and Asian kids have parents pushing them and making them study.

I did great in my math tests without studying during my time in public schools, but my bad studying habits killed me in my first two years of college. A lot of black parents will say they have high expectations for their child, but won't be active in making them be a great student.

Black people are just as smart as Asians and white people. We need to start taking our academics much more seriously if we want to truly compete though


Edit: Obviously, there are systemic reasons as well, but nothing beats taking a subject from school home with you and actually spending time to sharpen your skills and knowledge of it in your own way.

100% facts.
I’m sure a ton of black parents stay on their kids to always learn..but whenever id would go into this Chinese spot in my neighborhood, no matter if it was summer or any other time of year, the owners had their kids sitting in front doing school work.

not to single you out, but this is why we will NEVER fix this problem, every time we try to have a discussion about it - this argument pops up.

if we can't critique and look at ourselves and what we are doing to contribute to this problem without worrying about what white people will say, then what do we expect?

Also true. You gotta ignore the trolls bruh.
You can’t blame everything on the white man. It comes down to the parents staying on their kids asses about work.

 

[staticshock]

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

Preciate that bruh. It’s a cool lil gig. For every lil dude that don’t wanna learn but would rather quote 21 savage lyrics & curse
you out, there’s 9 good ones that want to learn and give you hugs every day

Perhaps the biggest reason is that those white and Asian kids have parents pushing them and making them study.

I did great in my math tests without studying during my time in public schools, but my bad studying habits killed me in my first two years of college. A lot of black parents will say they have high expectations for their child, but won't be active in making them be a great student.

Black people are just as smart as Asians and white people. We need to start taking our academics much more seriously if we want to truly compete though


Edit: Obviously, there are systemic reasons as well, but nothing beats taking a subject from school home with you and actually spending time to sharpen your skills and knowledge of it in your own way.

100% facts.
I’m sure a ton of black parents stay on their kids to always learn..but whenever id would go into this Chinese spot in my neighborhood, no matter if it was summer or any other time of year, the owners had their kids sitting in front doing school work.

not to single you out, but this is why we will NEVER fix this problem, every time we try to have a discussion about it - this argument pops up.

if we can't critique and look at ourselves and what we are doing to contribute to this problem without worrying about what white people will say, then what do we expect?

Also true. You gotta ignore the trolls bruh.
You can’t blame everything on the white man. It comes down to the parents staying on their kids asses about work.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

That's the thing, math classes since the 70s have stressed real-world application.
I grew up w/ old textbooks, but literally every section, of every unit, would talk about Real World application, this is from 3rd grade all the way to college.
It does help, but its not enough either.

You do realize there are literally hundreds of text books out there right? And each individual state sets their own curricular based upon generic templates set forth by the Federal Government. That's why Texas can keep Moses in the history books and Helen Keller out.

When I was growing up these text books did not show me any real world application of math. It was just, here's a formula, now do it. Why do you think so many people who could excel at this stuff at one point are no longer able to comprehend it? There was little to no real world application taught. It was just enough memory of one formula to carry you over to the next. When I was plotting points on a number line or graph that's all I was doing. It was not showing me the real world application of this skill or how learning these basic formulas are the essential building blocks to more advanced concepts that shape the world around us.

I'm glad you had some good textbooks but everyone wasn't/isn't so fortunate. You all have the fatal white flaw in your thinking; "if it went this way for me assuredly everyone else had this same advantage and squandered it."

 

[BigMan]

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

People who can afford it in Maryland go to private school

 

[BigMan]

Bu bu bu bu bu but Asian kids cheat on exams.Isn't that the mantra when these topics come up?

OP article is sad. Terrible parenting going on in that school district.

They do cheat. I’ve went to school with them my whole life.

 

[OC's finest]

Asians and Indians have a culture of academics

Go to any college engineering class and tell me how many non asian or Indians there are. There's a reason for it...

 

[ogc163]

 

[Gold]

I'm somewhat biased but I believe the single most important subject you will ever learn in school in Math.

You cannot succeed in STEM without it.
These results sadden me because that means more STEM jobs for the Asians and cacs if we dont get our shyt together

 

[Shang Tsung]

people blaming teachers like you cant pull a youtube video and have someone lecture you on any subject you want. The problem is the kids have no motivation to succeed and no one to instill that motivation in them

 

[Gold]

people blaming teachers like you cant pull a youtube video and have someone lecture you on any subject you want. The problem is the kids have no motivation to succeed and no one to instill that motivation in them

Exactly, its 2018, if you are relying on teachers to teach your kids everything then you will lose.
If those kids are relying on school to learn everything they will lose.

I can honestly say that as a black man in America, Math is the PRIMARY reason I have been able to succeed.
I had to know my shyt twice as good as the all the cacs around me to get the same jobs.
Luckily I started programming at an early age so I had a means to apply the algebraic and trigonometric concepts I learned in school.
I would learn a new equation and go home and try to think of a useful function for it.


If you are raising black boys and girls, as a parent you have to know that it isn't enough for the them to scrape by.
They have to have a desire to be better, because they will only get taken seriously if they are better.
My parents are terrible at math, both of them. But that didn't stop them from giving me every resource I needed to excel at it.



This just makes me sad. Education is so important for us. We are not in a position where we can ignore it.