23 Baltimore schools have zero students proficient in math

But it is even worse than that. Of course they will not be allowed to send their kids to charter schools because the Unions will prevent that from happening yet it is the teachers union that covers for these results and will stand by their activist teachers. We know they don't know math or their ABC's. I bet they know their LGBT's

That was a joke but probably not far from the truth. Shameful that this is allowed to happen and the Democrats will defend it because you can't rob failing schools with corrupt teachers unions of funds to send kids to a place they can actually learn.


23 Baltimore schools have zero students proficient in math, another 20 Baltimore City Schools had just one or two students test proficient in math.

Baltimore City’s math scores were the lowest in the state. Just 7 percent of third through eighth graders tested proficient in math, which means 93 percent could not do math at grade level.

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Baltimore City is facing a devastating reality as the latest round of state test scores are released.

Project Baltimore analyzed the results and found a shocking number of Baltimore City schools where not a single student is doing math at grade level.

“We're not living up to our potential,” said Jovani Patterson, a Baltimore resident who made headlines in January 2022, when he filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools. The suit claims the district is failing to educate students and, in the process, misusing taxpayer funds.

“We, the taxpayer, are funding our own demise,” Patterson said at the time. “My immediate reaction is, take your kids out of these schools,” said Patterson.

77% tested at Baltimore high school read at elementary level, some at kindergarten level


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In reading, 628 Patterson High School students took the test. Out of those students, 484 of them, or 77%, tested at an elementary school reading level. That includes 71 high school students who were reading at a kindergarten level and 88 students reading at a first-grade level. Another 45 are reading at a second-grade level. Just 12 students tested at Patterson High School, were reading at grade level, which comes out to just 1.9%.

Sounds about right, make them ignorant so they rely on big daddy gubmint to pay them to sit around the same neighborhood they grew up in.

Any politicians against school choice should be forced to answer to about things like this, those kids post school options have now disappeared.

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I took Latin in high school

Nowadays, kids need remedial English in College....


FFS...

Critical math theory is doing an amazing job I see.

To think that going to school is the only way you'll eat each day is definitely improving math scores.

These kids and their future victims don't stand a chance.

Double post.

a reply to: infolurker

They will vote - and post their opinions on social media.

a reply to: infolurker

But remember, if conservatives disappear, their IQ s will magically go up.

Ok, I know; they are ignorant, not necessarily stupid, but the effect here is the same.

Ummm. Just what are the teachers doing all day?

Is there something in the water? Lead pipes? Mercury in the food dye? Just wtf are these pupils wasting their time doing?

a reply to: infolurker

Me too!

a reply to: M5xaz

New math: How many quadrangles does it take the oppress a uterus-bearing person?

Sorry... was that offensive?

This is in my neck of the woods... and yes... the educational deficiencies in this area are palpable...

Thank goodness some kids are actually resentful about the lack of actual teaching being done in school...

They can tell somethings not right about it...

But they have to learn what the teacher 'teaches' or fail the class... go figure.

a reply to: Irishhaf

I doubt that's the reason... why is China hell bent on educating its population then? Especially in maths.

a reply to: strongfp


China understands the importance of a real education and the benefits it receives as a country to have that edge, that’s why.

a reply to: infolurker

That's because they are to busy teaching that up is down instead of 1+1. They are failing to teach reading by questioning the gender of a character in books instead of focusing on the story.

When basic education gets politicize what else would people expect to happen.. you want to teach gender equality, wait til they are in home economics and teach boys to sew and girls to fix cars.. meanwhile focus on educating children not confusing them.

Keep clowns out of the classroom, and keep to real education problem solved. But yes, everyone in those districts should protest and stop paying for it til they get their heads on straight.

Bring back competition, stop holding kids back because one person fails.. sorry the world isn't fair if your kid is struggling to keep up get a tutor. You know the rich have em and are giving their kids a head start over your own, by teaching proper bullsnip. Trust it's better they learn the world is unfair in school when they can still make strides in life to where they want to be then to get thrown into it unprepared.

No more "when I grow up I want to be a boy". "What do boys do Sasha?" "They pee pee standing up and are tall and strong" Says the girl. "Yes boys are taller and stronger, and pee pee standing up. Can girls pee pee standing up?" The teacher says "if they want to.. last time I did I pee pee all over my pants and the kids make fun of me." says Sasha with a reluctant ew on her face, "oh that's not nice, you can pee pee standing up if you want with me Sasha." Says the teacher. "No one will bully you for being a boy who peed himself."


Bring back "when I grow up I want to be a vet, or an astronaut". "What do astronauts do jimmy?" Says the teacher. "They go to space!" Says the kid, "what might they see in space jimmy? Can you name something for me.". "Planets, Mars it's red" jimmy says "good job jimmy can anyone else name a planet?"

Sorry had to do it, it's just been that damn stupid based on videos released from these classrooms. I don't care if it's insensitive, it's literally how stupid it looks and is. When the second is what should be happening.

a reply to: Dalamax

There are more important subjects now: the 1619 Peoject, Critical Race Theory, Social Justice Activism, and Gender Theory.

What is the Political leanings of those districts, then ask yourselves, who voted those people in and what were they expecting?

a reply to: infolurker

Aaaaaaand this is how the communists win!

a reply to: KTemplar

I get that. What I'm arguing is that why would a nation want to purposely dumb down their population for "control" purposes. The CCP has always been about control over its people, yet they strive to educate beyond the baseline of most western nations, and woven into that education is control.

I read a book a few months back from the 1960s, a poly sci look on the future of the US in the coming near future - so the 1970s to 2000 - and it had an extensive look and comparison between the USSR and the US from the last couple decades, so between 1940s - 60s, and it got me thinking. The US began to concentrate most of its federal funding on STEM, while the USSR continued to fund all over the place, and leaning more towards social sciences, and political matters, that left them behind.

It started to sound familiar. The USSR was a huge nanny state, that offered all funding pretty much to education and welfare, it spread its resources thin and tried to tackle things like gender equality, workplace equality, equitable outcomes, social services etc. The education in STEM suffered. And well, they started to lag behind and well you know.

Sound familiar in some places of the US?

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I see what you mean.

Although Russia’s studies were more based on gender equality not the perverted crap that is being pushed in the US today! I can’t blame them for wanting NOTHING to do with that crap!

Are you referring to communism?


I still read and hear of people getting cut off social programs, losing their housing. Not getting approved for ssdi! While others are accepted no problem, the worst are the cases of lazy f@//ers who have never worked before or hardly ever worked. Is this a selective communism you are speaking about?

I wouldn’t worry about it; they can’t even figure out where the balloons came from!

Scores may rise again now with in-class learning back on track.

Carnoy, who has spent more than 20 years researching international education, says the rise and fall of PISA scores typically has less to do with a country’s education system and more to do with demographic changes. He warns educators and policy makers against comparing countries with completely different populations, cultures, economies, and attitudes toward education.

“The biggest problem is presenting test scores without correcting for social class differences, both between countries and within a country over time,” said Carnoy, “One should be very careful about jumping to conclusions about what these test score comparisons mean: These tests were never meant to be a race, and we weren’t supposed to be the horses.”

Carnoy says U.S. educators trying to make sense of PISA can learn more from what’s happening in some of our states’ most successful education systems, like the one in Massachusetts, rather than from what’s happening in South Korea.

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In a statement, Harry Feder, executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, warned against assigning too much significance to these latest NAEP scores, saying they only “demonstrate what educators and parents already know — the pandemic was bad for kids.”

Feder, who is skeptical of high-stakes testing, added that “now that children are back in school, in-person learning has gone back to normal” — something that rebounding MCAS scores may reflect.

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