Only 17% Of Black Students In Maryland School District Scored Proficient In Math
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He’s not trolling, that’s the reaction we give anytime one of us “airs dirty laundry” - we’re giving ammunition to our detractors and whether it’s true or not is irrelevant.
Did the article breakdown the household demographic of the students or is this single parent household talk assumption
the bossman
Superstar
It's more like a mix. The homes are more expensive in MoCo so if you can afford a house in a zip code of a good public school district then you move. Otherwise you can get that cheaper house in PG then send the child to private school.
That whole school district zoning bs needs to change to be honest
It's ridiculous that if I can't afford a 800k house then my child isn't entitled to a good school
discipline is so underrated and yet it's arguably the most important trait in any successful person
in 2018 there's no excuse to not be cultivating discipline in your child, so many parents are comfortable with letting children do whatever they want and then want to be surprised when there's no drive or motivation for finding solutions to things that are challenging
obviously this particular issue goes a lot deeper than this but i feel like this is one of the things that the majority of parents can actually change in their children at any age
in 2018 there's no excuse to not be cultivating discipline in your child, so many parents are comfortable with letting children do whatever they want and then want to be surprised when there's no drive or motivation for finding solutions to things that are challenging
obviously this particular issue goes a lot deeper than this but i feel like this is one of the things that the majority of parents can actually change in their children at any age
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
Can't speak for all of engineering but I'm a Computer Science Major and I'm currently the only black person in all my classes this semester. There's literally every other ethnicity of both genders white , Asian, Hispanic, Indian, Middle Eastern, even some Russian kid who can barely speak english
And don't get me started on the Math classes I've taken, Probability, Ordinary Differential Equations, partial Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math not another black person in sight. There was one breh in my Multivariable Calculus class but he ended up dropping the course
Un-AmericanDreamer
Simp City
Surprised Asians are less proficient than whites, on average. The culture does need an adjustment. The worse thing you can be in the BC is an educated lame. I remember reading somewhere that black overachievers we're more like to be ostracized by their peers than other groups, not sure how factual it is, but when I was in school, the emphasis on black boys was on how cool you were.
Un-AmericanDreamer
Simp City
Your boy got icy J's but he don't know how to solve for y
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Piff Perkins
Veteran
The thing that scares me is how we often can't even have a convo about "personal responsibility" without someone getting upset, accusations of victim blaming, etc etc. What is going on with black parents and standards for children? We know what Asian parents demand/expect. We know what white parents demand/expect. What are the demands and expectations of black parents? What can be done? My problem with BLM and so much of the "black activist" movement is that it's almost entirely focused on reacting to white people, demanding white people do certain things, etc. Where is the focus on the black community?
My mom made me and my brothers read multiple books to her each year. That alone increased my vocabulary and diction significantly from an early age, past my peers. Obviously this thread is about math but if you don't have a proper grasp of English you're not gonna be able to grasp anything in school, including math. I was never great at math but my parents pushed me. They made me study math throughout the summer. If I watched sports with my dad as a kid, he would constantly ask me sports math related questions ("how much are the Lions up by?") and if I couldn't answer quickly, I couldn't watch sports with him.
I don't get it. Yes being in economically disadvantaged plays a huge role in how you do in school. If you're poor and don't have much food as a kid, you'll do terrible in school. We know these things. But we also know parental involvement is essential. And based on these numbers I just don't get the impression black parents are doing their part.
My mom made me and my brothers read multiple books to her each year. That alone increased my vocabulary and diction significantly from an early age, past my peers. Obviously this thread is about math but if you don't have a proper grasp of English you're not gonna be able to grasp anything in school, including math. I was never great at math but my parents pushed me. They made me study math throughout the summer. If I watched sports with my dad as a kid, he would constantly ask me sports math related questions ("how much are the Lions up by?") and if I couldn't answer quickly, I couldn't watch sports with him.
I don't get it. Yes being in economically disadvantaged plays a huge role in how you do in school. If you're poor and don't have much food as a kid, you'll do terrible in school. We know these things. But we also know parental involvement is essential. And based on these numbers I just don't get the impression black parents are doing their part.
David_TheMan
Banned
This failure is solely on the parents of these kids.
Agreed with everything except the BLM part.
We can react to police brutality and what white people are doing to us regardless of test scores.
One doesn't mandate the other, I see these are separate issues
Good parents will beat a bad school 100% of the time.
ogc163
Superstar
This is asinine.
OK. What percentage are you happy with?
60%?
70%?
80%?
Theres valedictorians at these schools, you know....where did THEY come from?
Teachers aren't baby sitters. If you come unprepared you're going to have an even harder time.
Plus, if yall really cared, you would call for the shortening of the summer break to at 1 month at the max and keep kids in school longer.
Yeah sure there’s definitely no one in PG that went to good schools you got it buddy
