THIS is why overturning affirmative action was an absolute must. Those kids were enrolled in that school and received a diploma based on their skin colour, not merit and would in the future be employed in the same way.
@@radagast7200 Why would college be brutal for them? They will just pick all the social justice course, and submit their performance based social study (which involve fighting the system on the streets). Then you may say their student loans would be brutal, but that too may just go away thanks to biden.
@@garytsang5673 You’d have to get to those classes first. Most colleges have gen ed classes that must be completed regardless of major. Based on how these students are doing, there’s no guarantee that they’ll pass even with accommodations.
The other problem is that the school is trying to counter criticism by saying "Despite not mastering the grade-level standards, 42 percent of students demonstrated growth in iReady math across their 7th grade school year." They are defending themselves by saying less than half learned anything at all.
it's a iq issue unfortunately, not something you're going to fix legislatively or through education. an 80 iq person, which is the average iq of african americans, will not benefit significantly from any form of education.
All these people want to pretend that dumb kids don't exist. If only we taught them more, they would do better. Unfortunately many will not overcome a low IQ. Combine that with laziness and excuse making and all you are doing is giving these kids an unearned sense of accomplishment so they can go out into the world and fall flat on their faces. These aren't future engineers or physicists...these are future low skill workers who probably would have been better served learning a trade so they could accomplish more in life.
I realize these kids aren't meeting state education standards by a country mile, but I'd like to point out that every child in Akron is _at or above_ LeBron James' own academic standards. Really inspiring.
I have seen a similar situation near me. A charter school for underprivileged children (low income, typically single parent and/or homeless) had failed to achieve the target grade average that was set by the state education department. The students were about 20% higher than the average of the schools nearby but failed to achieve the 75%(?) grade average demanded by the state education department. The school was closed but there was plans to reopen it with adjustments to hopefully reach the goal. It is a shame if the students are improving that the school be stopped, but it should also make the leaders of the school re-examine their methods and improve and adjust their means.
What could it be about Baltimore that they can't achieve basic education results despite an excess of money thrown at the issue? Unrelated query: Which demographic is *least* likely to read bedtime stories to their children?
@@docsavage8640 .... I am not and have never been a fan of basketball, but yes... I absolutely respected his play and was indifferent to him personally. While, he certainly has amazing skills, his off the court BS turned indifference into disgust. I mentioned the officer, to which he called upon the mob to "harm" him, his insanely moronic take on China, his criticism of... forget the coaches name (Steve Kerr?) who gave support to Taiwan, his race-baiting hoax of N-word on his wall. He is on even par with Lance Armstrong, so both of them disgust me.
markpaul1383 Absolutely. They might be failing at math, but I would be willing to bet that they acing the classes in "systemic 'RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcism!'"
Especially since the basic concept math is built on, the existence of the number zero, is from second century AD India and that was 'culturally appropriated' centuries later by invading tribes from the middle east. Nothing says white supremacy like Indians and the Arabic mobs...
@@randylahey8207 Yep. To quote the great Thomas Sowell: Arabic numerals are not merely different than Roman numerals. They are better than Roman numerals.
Nah, students fail math because there isn't constant jingling keys to keep their attention for more than 2 seconds. They also don't see how it is going to help their desired future careers of Tik Tok influencer and Soundcloud Rapper. Most students try to cheat on math homework, get the answers wrong because they don't know enough to cheat properly, and then bomb the test. Then their parents, who have never tried to help their students with anything related to academics, blame the system.
He is both if those things in his own mind. Have you never noticed how massive his inflated ego is? He's the greatest person that's ever lived in his own mind.
It's a shame the white man has prevented him from living his dreams. If only he could have been born in a country that wasn't racist and holding blacks back he could have been successful. So sad how awful America is. The nation so racist they won't even let him speak his mind and criticize society because he's black. Isn't that the narrative?
Lower IQ people are more interested in 'being' than 'doing'. They want to 'be' a certain thing, but they don't want to actually have to do the the thing. Look at the farmers in Africa... they looked at the farmers and said 'I want that... I want to be a farmer'. So they took it and gave them the farms... the problem was they had no interest in farming. They wanted to 'be farmers', because farmers had money and power. Hence... famine... These people want to 'be' academically successful... but they didn't want to 'do' academics.
@@Angelcynn_ he won the genetic lottery for the society and eta that he lived in. In most of history he would have been made a beast of burden. Too much brawn and too little brain for polite society. The wild thing is that he thinks he’s self made and brilliant.
I am a former teacher who spent quite a bit of time in charter schools, and I'm here to tell you that epic failure is the norm rather than the exception. Even "decent" public schools only get around 40% proficiency in math or science, and is typically lower in Social Studies. The issue at heart, as I see it from my experience, is that they will justify keeping the most disruptive students at the expense of all the others, just to keep them in the school. It only takes a couple very disruptive kids to destroy the classroom environment and school culture. I'm sorry to say that the black community are suffering a cultural problem more than anything else. Who they idolize. Who they disdain. What they choose to accept as being "educated". Its a deeply rooted, cultural, problem.
Yep. They'd why I support charter schools. Not because they will all succeed, but to break the stranglehold of a failed ideology. Give charters the ability to discipline and expel unruly kids and you can change the culture to where even the slower and more disinterested kids will at least try. As it stands, much of the failure is from a lack of effort.
All facts,I went to one of the best schools in Tennessee and it use to be a joke that "my kind" was just here for sports so they would take the drop in cumulative GPA😂 but I didn't cry about it. I put on my big boy pants and took some really hard AP courses(even tho my coaches argued against it)
It's all planned this way, think of Margaret Sanger and the ideology behind her. Look at LBJ and what his administration did to the black community, look at all the race baiter making millions off the backs of blacks, the shit is disturbing what they can do to an entire race of people, "we'll have ni***rs voting democrat for two hundred years"< that was Linden B Johnson, a democrat president.
I worked at a black high school in North Carolina. I was shocked at how bad it was. No one cared about anything. Miserable students and absolutely embarrassing principal. I heard her say ax instead of ask multiple times. The whole thing felt like a scam and was just slapped together to somehow convince people they were a real school. Every student was the most defeated and drained group of young people I have ever seen.
Democrats rule the NEA and Teachers Unions. And are always telling(trying to tell, from what I see their message is finally failing many black folks) black folks what to do and think, and have been for the past 35/45 years.
How was a school edifying a superstar athlete who shunned formal education ever going to inspire anything beyond precisely what is being seen in “his” school?!
Him shunning formal education is nothing new. Lots of people on this channel shun formal education because “it’s worthless unless you’re going to be a lawyer, doctor or engineer” and push trade schools as if everyone should be a blue collar worker
I've taught before, and I had a simple maxim: if I had a student fail, that was their fault. However, if most or all my students failed, that was MY fault.
While thats a good professional axiom to work by as it does help push a good work ethic, its actually kinda bullshit. The students and their parents are first and foremost responsible. If a school is within a culture that soesnt value hard work or education then there would be little the teacher could do. The sad fact is teachers are too compassionate and are taking too much blame for themselves when they should be telling the culture what they are doing wrong.
I taught at algebra at community college for one term and I failed half my class. There were a couple of students who failed on their own (de)merits. There were a couple who tried really really hard but didn't have the arithmetic skills or reading skills for the math and word problems. And the rest? I wish i had been able to better explain things. I tried, but I feel like I wasted their money. I also think the community college students were more afraid to ask questions than my fellow students were at university. They were still in an elementary and high school mode of trying not to get in trouble or draw the teachers attention instead of looking at it as something they were paying for and had a right to get the most out of.
You are so correct! Public schools are designed to make everyone the same average student. Now Public Schools are closing the learning gap by bringing down the top students (not offering honor classes) to level of lower students because it is way easier! Talk about racism, having very low expectations is racism at it worst. I taught in public school for 35 years.
We axed the honor 8th grade class(high school algebra) instead everyone in 8th grade is going to do high school algebra but we’re only doing about 85% of the material. Last year we got though the entire curriculum. Only 2 students super failed the regents (below 50) 10 got above 50 which under Covid gives them a pass. And everyone else got 65. In class of about 80 students we did quite well but since were a small school our percent isn’t good.
This isn’t a shock. These are at risk youths. Pretty positive that their homes aren’t exactly geared towards academics. He should probably have geared the school to a more vocational type of setting so the kids can have marketable skills upon graduating.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I do think the kids in this school are a little young for a vocation focused education. I think that sort of thing should probably start in 10th or 11th grade.
If you don't start education young, there is never any chance. The biggest indicator of success for young students is how young they started reading. If you get to high school and still read like a 3rd grader, you're doomed.
His biggest mistake was partnering with the public school system. I’m sure they happily take his money while basically running a daycare for these kids instead of preparing them for the world.
We're talking about basic literacy though, even poor kids should be passing basic education. Millions of poor kids go to schools and learn to read and write, If this school is getting almost zero success something is seriously wrong.
I was a teacher when common core hit public school in Georgia. We had to go at such a breakneck pace to cram everything in that checking for understanding and rebuilding where kids had missed a concept was untenable. These problems were cascading, and the added complexity and bad pedagogy in common core made these issues even worse. I'm not surprised that kids that can barely read at grade level (what does that even mean anymore?) can't do overly complex word problems using inefficient algorithms.
It has been proven time and time again: Confederate statues, Columbus statues, Columbus day, English common law, Mckinley statues, Washington murals, Andrew Jackson, Thanksgiving, ISAS, criminal justice systems, SAT scores, entrance exams, gifted programs, common core, and soon to be Mount Rushmore, - If you let them get voted in, they will tear eveything that is even remotely resembling European history down an dreplace it with their history evey single time. This is not all of them of course, but the fact that this is happening time and time again and will continue to happen, shows you that many of them have an inherent hatred for anything that is white. They destroy their countries, then they destroy yours - and you will cave every single time because you're deathly fearful of a simple meaningless label.
But regardless of the reason for failing to meet the standard, why are we promoting kids beyond their level of learning? If they get to the end of 6th grade with a 3rd grade reading and 2nd grade math ability, why are we sending them on to 7th grade? This has to stop. We need to hold them back until some aspect of their basic education reaches a level where moving on can be useful rather than disruptive.
@@rs232killer I don't disagree, but you might be talking about having a few more dozen kids per grade level just backing up the system, and there isn't room to spare. I'm not sure what the solution is.
85% of the I Promise school is part of that one type of 13% Just saying. Plus three of those wise, jogging, youthful scholars beat one of their classmates to death just a few months ago IN the school during class hours.
I mean... a school founded by a guy, reading the same book for 5 years and never gets past page 1... What did you expect? Also his tweets always show that he's no the brightest candle on the cake. No surprise at all. It's all just marketing.
This is a prime example on why the US is failing and falling behind. Education is the number #1 factor in a productive and positive society for me. We need to fix and change the education system here and take it more seriously. Our kids should be able to do simple math. This is insanity.
IQ is far more important than what teachers are doing; any person with an average IQ can easily learn basic English/math, regardless of the quality of their school, and beyond that it's mostly just glorified daycare. These kids aren't failing because of the schools, they're failing because they're stupid, and unteachable.
If you look at the Internet . He appears as having an I.Q. of 148 . No idea how a genius could not notice that putting millions of dollars on schools where main student I.Q. is around 80 . Could not increase their State Test Averages enough to get passing grades .
@MariaRodriguez-hb4ix You don't think a guy like LeBron can slip 50k to the iq tester and have a good test result shown up? The few times I've heard LeBron speak else never sounded like someone with an above average intelligence.
I was a janitor/maintenance person at a school like this, I still have pictures of the classrooms and the homework and things I'd find. They had a nursery there, the sign on the wall said "nusery." Another had signs on the AC unit saying "do not lower 'tempature' below 71 degrees." Another had cutouts of the continents on the wall but they were mislabeled. At least they got Africa right though. I would also find blunt wrappers and tobacco in the teacher's garbage cans. Those kids were animals, they'd take dumps in the urinals. I'd also find basketballs in the toilets. I guess they gotta take those balls with em everywhere. That job sucked.
That the problem here. They aren't his people. A black guy from Jersey owes nothing to a black guy from Texas. They aren't related in any way. I don't claim every Italian as my people. We're all living in this country and American. My people are the people who live in my home. Then the people in my community. Etc etc.
Wow… it’s like “looking like” the students isn’t all that important in the end. I’m glad they are doing this because it will help to demonstrate that all of these idiotic ideas about teachers looking like the students, being from the community, teaching by sharing feelings and ambiguous cultural bonds based on skin color *do not work* as a replacement for pedagogy and subject matter expertise. It’s a shame kids will suffer in the short term, but we need these test cases to help understand what works and what doesn’t.
When I was going to school in Mississippi back in the 1980s, we always had textbooks, facilities, safety, free lunches, and good teachers. When you walked through the parking lot, all the cars were beaters including the principal's car. When I was delivering to a LAUSD school back in the 2000s, I saw kids working from faded cut off xerox sheets, sharing desks designed for one, dilapidated buildings, horrific looking lunches, heard about teachers doing unsavory things with kdis, but the parking lot was filled with Acuras, Lexus, Cadillacs, and SUVs. Hmm, wonder where the money is going?
My kids have those faded xerox copies and never have any books. I don’t understand how they don’t have books. Math is math… if the book is 10 years old who cares.
@@ohioplayer-bl9em idk, it stinks if you ask me. My school used older books and it never hurt us. I'm thinking someone put in a rule that schools must have up to date textbooks in order to give sweetheart deals to their buddies at textbook publishing companies who then donate to their political campaigns. If the school cant afford enough of them because the money is being stolen, they just buy a few then xerox them on decades old copy machines.
I have been giving my cat violin lessons every day for over 10 years, along with tutoring in calculus and French lessons yet she hasn’t learned a thing.
I went to an academic alternative high school, specifically designed for kids at risk of failure. I was first in my class with a 3.4 GPA out of a graduating class of about 40. there's much different standards, but no kids meeting the minimum standards is absolutely not acceptable.
I got expelled from high school my sophomore year and ended up in an alternative school. It was basically just a bunch of computers and a few teachers and you went at your own pace. It was only four hours a day but I was still able to get two years worth of credits that year and then graduate six months early the next year. Having ADD made me a terrible student in normal classroom environment; having the option to stop and do something else for a while when I got bored or lost focus was a game changer. Point being, I was a fuck-up, I was an “at-risk” student, but I was still smart and could do well given the right opportunity. There’s no way 0% of those kids are capable of passing.
I’m an educator and found that successful students thrive if 3 things are in place. Number 1, there must be solid administrators who hold faculty accountable with regular student assessments and remediation for those who don’t show improvement. Number 2, there must be dedicated teachers who are willing to go above and beyond their normal duties to make sure their students know the subject material. And number 3 there needs to be parents who work in partnership with the school making sure their children spend time doing homework, reading for at least 20 minutes and limiting time on personal devices.
Discipline. Kids don't want to sit for 6 hours a day and schools refuse to remove kids who aren't interested in learning. Some kids need a different environment or can't be helped at all.
I started school in one developing country and finished school in Southern Africa. You can get a great education with minimum facilities. You don’t need a big budget. Schools in the US require a C average or better to get to do extracurricular activities.
My roomate here in Italy was from Cameroon, during highschool they only had one teacher who only knew math, do that's all they did. He helped me thoughout uni with my math degree 😂
What could it be about Baltimore that they can't achieve basic education results despite an excess of money thrown at the issue? Unrelated query: Which demographic is *least* likely to read bedtime stories to their children?
The older I get the more conflicted I am about the fact that these kids from broken homes really don't have a chance. If not for my parents traditional, strict upbringing of me, idk what would have happened to me. To the point where I wonder if I'd even be the same person. We know pouring money into education doesn't work, the only thing that does is having parents who care and push you to be excellent. Idk if there are external factors that can fix that. I don't want to say these kids are doomed, but I really haven't seen a solution that works besides it coming from inside the home. Having parents who are married, care, and instill their values. If I didn't have that I wouldn't be what I became. It was out of my hands in a way. Idk if I can judge the kids too harshly. Or the school even. Without good family you're pretty much set up to fail.
Nobody is forcing those single moms to have those kids. They hand out birth control like they're tic tacs at those abortion clinics. The problem here is they can't blame white people anymore. This is all on the bleeps. It's a bleep run school, with bleep administration and all bleep students and it's a catastrophe. This is on them
Our gov't made incentives for single motherhood and divorce. Remove those incentives and maybe we could have more kids with both parents in the home. It would be a start.
You absolutely crushed Sam Seder. The best part is how he cringes when you agreed with him on any topic when he tries to paint you as a reactionary ideologue.
In elementary school, there were times that I was so poor I had to steal to eat. I still worked my ass off in school so I wouldn't be stuck being dirt poor later in life.
I remember once when I was working at target the register systems went down and all we could accept was cash for a few hours, everyone under 20 kept having to ask the older clerks to do the math for them to give change or ask the customers how much change they got back, we took all the young people off the registers and had the older sales floor people take their places until the system was back up, and that was like almost 10 years ago, these kids will be working in the future what happens when the calculator runs out of batteries and not even the manager can do simple math, sad future we are setting up for ourselves, maybe its good the robots are taking over
The bit with Anna screaming “give me the money” used to be lowkey kinda annoying, but it’s definitely grown on me to the point where I honestly chuckle 😂😂
It’s still annoying. He keeps begging for money that you could basically plaster his face onto her body at this point. All this liberal blasting gets old after a while if you offer no alternatives or sage advice
If you REALLY hate a group of people, but your peers prevent you from oppressing them, what would you do? You pretend to care about that group of people, manipulate your peers to spoil that group's children, actively encouraging that group's children to be thugs and thieves in the name of kindness and justice. Until everybody have had enough of them, them you reveal your true self among your peers, now with much less resistance, leads society back to 'the good ole days'.
There’s a lot of things Lebron does that I don’t agree with but he honestly doesn’t perpetuate the black stereotype to the extent you’re trying to make out.
@@surgeonso4345I mean, he inserts himself wherever he can, shouts loudly about how great he is, has a near zero education level, and can't seem to manage money.
Of course Lebron blames the students. Only a man-child would blame the children and not himself or the educators in the education system. He is literally doing the same thing of blaming the fans, like the big companies. Who are upset people aren’t mindlessly consuming their trash.
Obviously, there are bad teachers and administrators out there, but some of us work our tails off and all the work we do in the classroom gets undone as soon as these kids go home for the day. Success starts IN THE HOME. The mentality that it's all teacher's fault and responsibility means these kids are never going to learn to take personal accountability for their own success. Think about it: all the worst schools are in bad areas. You don't see this kind of rot and failure in areas with stable families and lower crime. Teachers and schools play an important role, but success is ultimately in the students' and families' hands. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
There is a lottery to select students (I think in the bottom 20%) to the school. Ironically, the kids who were not selected are performing better, on average, than the kids at the Promise School.
Took my kids to Kumon math and they quickly increased three grades levels higher in their math proficiency. Rote learning is needed for basic math skills. Unfortunately rote training has been vilified by many Woke educators.
Looking at the chart, the third and fourth graders do seem to be making substantial progress, from year to year. For third graders, the chart shows: 3.3%, 11.5%, 17% For fourth graders: 3.2%, 9.9%, 23%. That seems to be a positive trend.
Those are each a new groups of kids. Follow the chart like steps on a staircase to see how each group of kids did year over year. There's little to no improvement. Last year's 8th grade class is currently 9% proficient at math, but when that class was in the 4th, they're were 39.4% proficient.
8th grade math. Too easy. I didn't start failing math classes until high school and that was due to my own action and inactions. These kids stand no chance in the real world if they don't get their sh!t together quick.
Facts,we use to believe it was on us. Personal accountability was a real thing like "Let me get my 💩 together,I'm 🤬 up." Now,it's just straight excuses💯
I'm a school psychologist in an urban school district in Ohio. I'm just going to say this is pretty par for the course for most urban schools. I know LeBron James school was supposed to be different, but hearing that it's not really isn't a surprise to me.
Parents not invested, kids not interested, admins with huge pay checks and always wanting more, lack of impulse control in boys without fathers, teachers wanting little red shirts rather than students, I'm not sure there was ever any hope here.
@@radagast7200 Don't forget no good teachers applying, so they hire woke alphabet people who are only focused on pushing and forcing the gay agenda rather than teaching anything useful.
Poor Lebron. First his son has a perfectly normal heart attack while on the court (which can't be caused by the obvious), and now his school is revealed as an expensive waste of time.
It’s even more hilarious that the kids that attended in the corrupt school system did better by comparison than the kids who attended the I promise school with all the prepaid and unlimited resources.
All i saw when i first heard of the school, is a school in HIS name with a small donation and a whole lot of investors making money over the failing students based on someone else's name...AKA LeBron
I really hate the way, "some kids should be left behind" sounds, but I'm not sure it's not at least partly true. The sad truth is not everyone is going to graduate from high school with all A's and go to Harvard. Some people are going to fail no matter how hard you try to help them. The thing about working in schools for people like me, however, is that there is usually no real way to tell which is which when kids are very young, so you work as hard for each of them as you possibly can.
@@JamCooper i would never say teachers shouldn't try give them the time or attention they need, but it's an unfortunate reality of life that not everyone will succeed
It's hard for a "good student" to excel if the school system is garbage. Good teachers can't save it, either, unless they completely throw what they've told to teach out the window.
Seemed to be a sports related school anyhow, judging by the mural. C'mon people, we all knew that money and facilities aren't going to correct this problem. How does one raise the IQ of an entire demographic?
That last line reminds of a video made by I, Hypocrite about funding in "urban schools", responding to a video by Breadtuber Vaush. That video should also debunk any argument by Boomer conservatives on how it's possible to raise _average_ "youths" to the same level as average whites when IQs play a role.
I've done public school instructional audits for years. Your take is 100% spot on and you come off as a seasoned education analyst. One of your best vids.
That OST Proficiency chart is misleading if you do not understand it. If you look at the 7th grade students from 2022-23 you clearly see they all failed with a 0% success rate. In year 2021-22 they were 6th grade where you see 0% again on the chart. And when they were 5th grade for 2020-21 they were also at 0%. So, what they are saying is all the students in that one year group have consistently failed for 3 years running. The 9% you noticed is the year group one grade higher than the students mentioned, they are not the students being talked about in that meeting. Their previous year was the 1% in the 7th grade row on the chart so they improved for 2022-23 by a measly 8%! What's worse is that group started in 2018-19 at grade 4 with a 39.4% success rate!
LeBron James is the perfect example of the jock that was fast tracked through school and told he is right even when he is wrong because he can dribble a basketball and it shows every time he opens his mouth...and math is racist. 😂
He doesn't care if the school actually helps. It's just good press to support one. Most people will never bother to look into the school and see it's a failure.
Usually, the most important variables to success are parents, kids, and teachers, not lacking resources, so of course, money and gifts were not the cure. If they scored in the bottom percentile, you can't blame the pandemic when the students from other schools went through the same impacts of the pandemic. I'm sure the kids of qualifying families get free school meals. My city even had meal pickup locations when school was closed or via distance learning during the pandemic.
You mean to tell me that a snazzy new building like a shrine and paintings of Lebron deity’s all over the walls doesn’t actually help educate kids??? 😵💫
WTF did they do in math classes? Playing "Simon Says" and "Patty Cake" or watching the Boondocks? Sweet Jesus this is remarkable for all the wrong reasons. If this isn't an epic fail I don't know what is. It's sad how bad phony celebrity programs fail young kids.
I used to clean for APS (Akron Public Schools) I've been in every single school. The Ipromise school had the smallest library with the most up to date technology that I had ever seen. They also have a room bigger than most of their classrooms that is dedicated solely to playing video games. The school had clearly set it's priorities.
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THIS is why overturning affirmative action was an absolute must. Those kids were enrolled in that school and received a diploma based on their skin colour, not merit and would in the future be employed in the same way.
I would say college would be brutal for them... but they would still be handled with diminished expectations there as well.
@@radagast7200 Why would college be brutal for them? They will just pick all the social justice course, and submit their performance based social study (which involve fighting the system on the streets). Then you may say their student loans would be brutal, but that too may just go away thanks to biden.
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You’d have to get to those classes first. Most colleges have gen ed classes that must be completed regardless of major. Based on how these students are doing, there’s no guarantee that they’ll pass even with accommodations.
@@John-fk2kythey will get passed because they are black
What do you mean? It’s because there isn’t enough affirmation action. I say we need affirmative action applied to the NBA.
“You gave us a bunch of at-risk kids with awful academic history”
Yeah, that’s what you asked for and the reason your school exists! 😂
The other problem is that the school is trying to counter criticism by saying "Despite not mastering the grade-level standards, 42 percent of students demonstrated growth in iReady math across their 7th grade school year." They are defending themselves by saying less than half learned anything at all.
it's a iq issue unfortunately, not something you're going to fix legislatively or through education. an 80 iq person, which is the average iq of african americans, will not benefit significantly from any form of education.
All these people want to pretend that dumb kids don't exist. If only we taught them more, they would do better. Unfortunately many will not overcome a low IQ. Combine that with laziness and excuse making and all you are doing is giving these kids an unearned sense of accomplishment so they can go out into the world and fall flat on their faces. These aren't future engineers or physicists...these are future low skill workers who probably would have been better served learning a trade so they could accomplish more in life.
LeBron: Oh come on, we both know these children have no future! Egh... Heh heh heh, prove me wrong, kids, prove me wrong.
I’m gon make a historically blatt GED center fo da peepo ✊🏿🏀 with public funds and my name on it doe
I realize these kids aren't meeting state education standards by a country mile, but I'd like to point out that every child in Akron is _at or above_ LeBron James' own academic standards. Really inspiring.
Standards?
Don't you mean LBJ _Ability?_
Yes , LB is such an inspiring , worldly , erudite , example of scholastic achievement that he deserves to be emulated ........
I have seen a similar situation near me. A charter school for underprivileged children (low income, typically single parent and/or homeless) had failed to achieve the target grade average that was set by the state education department. The students were about 20% higher than the average of the schools nearby but failed to achieve the 75%(?) grade average demanded by the state education department. The school was closed but there was plans to reopen it with adjustments to hopefully reach the goal. It is a shame if the students are improving that the school be stopped, but it should also make the leaders of the school re-examine their methods and improve and adjust their means.
I like when he use to always have a book with him,but asked what he liked about it. He would say " I just started reading it,so I can't say yet"
Lol hhahhaha
Failing to achieve all three academic objectives two years in a row is the ultimate triple double.
😂😂🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥
I'm not sure these kids can count that high, boss.
What could it be about Baltimore that they can't achieve basic education results despite an excess of money thrown at the issue?
Unrelated query: Which demographic is *least* likely to read bedtime stories to their children?
The only triple-doubles most black kids will ever achieve is in basketball, academic failure, or prison sentences.
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He's 38 years old and he's still faking book reports. A true hero
He’s 38 😂
@@crazyralph6386he's a clown
Well, he did read the back cover...
Ennit, he didn't even fake it well 😅
LeBron has been 32 for about 6-7 years now.
When LeBron called on the mob to go after a good cop, he lost EVERY bit of respect I ever had!
China....
Why did you respect him at all? Because he can play basketball?
The Rittenhouse tweets and his anti slavery takes (despite dealing with china to make his cheap ass shoes with slavery) are what got me
I'm still mad about him jumping on the dox train and then it was just white on white
@@docsavage8640 .... I am not and have never been a fan of basketball, but yes... I absolutely respected his play and was indifferent to him personally. While, he certainly has amazing skills, his off the court BS turned indifference into disgust. I mentioned the officer, to which he called upon the mob to "harm" him, his insanely moronic take on China, his criticism of... forget the coaches name (Steve Kerr?) who gave support to Taiwan, his race-baiting hoax of N-word on his wall. He is on even par with Lance Armstrong, so both of them disgust me.
Every student fails math there because math is "whyte suprem-a-casee".
markpaul1383
Absolutely. They might be failing at math, but I would be willing to bet that they acing the classes in "systemic 'RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcism!'"
Especially since the basic concept math is built on, the existence of the number zero, is from second century AD India and that was 'culturally appropriated' centuries later by invading tribes from the middle east. Nothing says white supremacy like Indians and the Arabic mobs...
@@randylahey8207 Yep. To quote the great Thomas Sowell: Arabic numerals are not merely different than Roman numerals. They are better than Roman numerals.
@@markpaul1383 absolutely. Love that man, helped my perspective on the world tremendously.
Nah, students fail math because there isn't constant jingling keys to keep their attention for more than 2 seconds. They also don't see how it is going to help their desired future careers of Tik Tok influencer and Soundcloud Rapper. Most students try to cheat on math homework, get the answers wrong because they don't know enough to cheat properly, and then bomb the test. Then their parents, who have never tried to help their students with anything related to academics, blame the system.
It’s heinous that the school had his name but used taxpayer’s money. He’s not an academic role model nor is he a historical figure of relevance.
LeBron is a product of a rac-ial pro-gram for the twen-teith cen-tury.
He is both if those things in his own mind. Have you never noticed how massive his inflated ego is? He's the greatest person that's ever lived in his own mind.
It's a shame the white man has prevented him from living his dreams. If only he could have been born in a country that wasn't racist and holding blacks back he could have been successful. So sad how awful America is. The nation so racist they won't even let him speak his mind and criticize society because he's black. Isn't that the narrative?
Lower IQ people are more interested in 'being' than 'doing'. They want to 'be' a certain thing, but they don't want to actually have to do the the thing.
Look at the farmers in Africa... they looked at the farmers and said 'I want that... I want to be a farmer'. So they took it and gave them the farms... the problem was they had no interest in farming. They wanted to 'be farmers', because farmers had money and power. Hence... famine...
These people want to 'be' academically successful... but they didn't want to 'do' academics.
@@Angelcynn_ he won the genetic lottery for the society and eta that he lived in. In most of history he would have been made a beast of burden. Too much brawn and too little brain for polite society. The wild thing is that he thinks he’s self made and brilliant.
I am a former teacher who spent quite a bit of time in charter schools, and I'm here to tell you that epic failure is the norm rather than the exception. Even "decent" public schools only get around 40% proficiency in math or science, and is typically lower in Social Studies. The issue at heart, as I see it from my experience, is that they will justify keeping the most disruptive students at the expense of all the others, just to keep them in the school. It only takes a couple very disruptive kids to destroy the classroom environment and school culture. I'm sorry to say that the black community are suffering a cultural problem more than anything else. Who they idolize. Who they disdain. What they choose to accept as being "educated". Its a deeply rooted, cultural, problem.
Yep. They'd why I support charter schools. Not because they will all succeed, but to break the stranglehold of a failed ideology. Give charters the ability to discipline and expel unruly kids and you can change the culture to where even the slower and more disinterested kids will at least try.
As it stands, much of the failure is from a lack of effort.
All facts,I went to one of the best schools in Tennessee and it use to be a joke that "my kind" was just here for sports so they would take the drop in cumulative GPA😂 but I didn't cry about it. I put on my big boy pants and took some really hard AP courses(even tho my coaches argued against it)
Well said. US math proficiency is around 30%. American History is around 12%. Reading is also around 30%.
Moral decay ; A falling away from God Fatherless homes i am black myself & this is the top issues
It's all planned this way, think of Margaret Sanger and the ideology behind her. Look at LBJ and what his administration did to the black community, look at all the race baiter making millions off the backs of blacks, the shit is disturbing what they can do to an entire race of people, "we'll have ni***rs voting democrat for two hundred years"< that was Linden B Johnson, a democrat president.
Naming a school after LeBron James is like naming a fitness center after Lizzo.
Yeah really, anything named after Lebron James should be basketball related
Lolol 😂😂😂
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@minjinx05 Lizzo's threadmills 😢
I worked at a black high school in North Carolina. I was shocked at how bad it was. No one cared about anything. Miserable students and absolutely embarrassing principal. I heard her say ax instead of ask multiple times. The whole thing felt like a scam and was just slapped together to somehow convince people they were a real school. Every student was the most defeated and drained group of young people I have ever seen.
Democrats rule the NEA and Teachers Unions.
And are always telling(trying to tell, from what I see their message is finally failing many black folks) black folks what to do and think, and have been for the past 35/45 years.
But trying to raise standards in black schools is racist and so it goes on and on.
And that principal was probably pulling in a decent 6 figure salary. Plus, her being black meant she was unfirable.
Yup!
You said it all in the first couple of minutes: Pouring more money into a failing system just creates a more expensive failing system.
you can figure it all out in a few words: 🧔🏿♂ and math
Lebron do your owe research
How was a school edifying a superstar athlete who shunned formal education ever going to inspire anything beyond precisely what is being seen in “his” school?!
So true!
Him shunning formal education is nothing new. Lots of people on this channel shun formal education because “it’s worthless unless you’re going to be a lawyer, doctor or engineer” and push trade schools as if everyone should be a blue collar worker
And the annual LeBron James award for polishing turds, goes to...........
Because he is, like, so smart. He even carries a book sometimes. 😅
Exactly...it's like having Charles Manson as a school counselor.....
I've taught before, and I had a simple maxim: if I had a student fail, that was their fault. However, if most or all my students failed, that was MY fault.
Perhaps not in this case
While thats a good professional axiom to work by as it does help push a good work ethic, its actually kinda bullshit.
The students and their parents are first and foremost responsible. If a school is within a culture that soesnt value hard work or education then there would be little the teacher could do. The sad fact is teachers are too compassionate and are taking too much blame for themselves when they should be telling the culture what they are doing wrong.
according to democrats, it's always your fault if they're black
I taught at algebra at community college for one term and I failed half my class. There were a couple of students who failed on their own (de)merits. There were a couple who tried really really hard but didn't have the arithmetic skills or reading skills for the math and word problems. And the rest? I wish i had been able to better explain things. I tried, but I feel like I wasted their money. I also think the community college students were more afraid to ask questions than my fellow students were at university. They were still in an elementary and high school mode of trying not to get in trouble or draw the teachers attention instead of looking at it as something they were paying for and had a right to get the most out of.
@@jenniferpearce1052 teaching is much harder work than some people realize.
A school where the student athlete says "Hey we're up by 11" and the coach says "No you're down by 9."
I'm assuming this was a sports reference, so... Yay! Sports! Woohoo!!!
@@virtualatheist was the "athlete" and "coach" that gave it away?
Is there a 9/11 joke hidden in there?
@@virtualatheist Man, way to prove the intolerant, hater, atheist stereotype. You people literally have no friends.
Broken culture, broken families and broken parents = broken kids.
I wish the country would focus on this instead of the symptoms of it.
@@rerrer3346 The Democrats won't allow it.
@@ryleighloughty3307 both sides are at fault
Single mothers and their enablers are responsible for this outcome.
@@acwee360 Please, define 'both sides'.
The lies that people have to tell themselves rather than addressing the elephant in the room are just astonishing
You are so correct!
Public schools are designed to make everyone the same average student. Now Public Schools are closing the learning gap by bringing down the top students (not offering honor classes) to level of lower students because it is way easier! Talk about racism, having very low expectations is racism at it worst. I taught in public school for 35 years.
Equity at its finest. Why bother doing the work to elevate the lowest when you can simply cast down the highest?
We axed the honor 8th grade class(high school algebra) instead everyone in 8th grade is going to do high school algebra but we’re only doing about 85% of the material. Last year we got though the entire curriculum. Only 2 students super failed the regents (below 50) 10 got above 50 which under Covid gives them a pass. And everyone else got 65. In class of about 80 students we did quite well but since were a small school our percent isn’t good.
This isn’t a shock. These are at risk youths. Pretty positive that their homes aren’t exactly geared towards academics. He should probably have geared the school to a more vocational type of setting so the kids can have marketable skills upon graduating.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I do think the kids in this school are a little young for a vocation focused education. I think that sort of thing should probably start in 10th or 11th grade.
If you don't start education young, there is never any chance. The biggest indicator of success for young students is how young they started reading. If you get to high school and still read like a 3rd grader, you're doomed.
Exactly. Trade schools will save the young.
His biggest mistake was partnering with the public school system. I’m sure they happily take his money while basically running a daycare for these kids instead of preparing them for the world.
We're talking about basic literacy though, even poor kids should be passing basic education. Millions of poor kids go to schools and learn to read and write, If this school is getting almost zero success something is seriously wrong.
I was a teacher when common core hit public school in Georgia. We had to go at such a breakneck pace to cram everything in that checking for understanding and rebuilding where kids had missed a concept was untenable. These problems were cascading, and the added complexity and bad pedagogy in common core made these issues even worse. I'm not surprised that kids that can barely read at grade level (what does that even mean anymore?) can't do overly complex word problems using inefficient algorithms.
Common core was made to dismantle White supremacy. It's bad by design.
It has been proven time and time again: Confederate statues, Columbus statues, Columbus day, English common law, Mckinley statues, Washington murals, Andrew Jackson, Thanksgiving, ISAS, criminal justice systems, SAT scores, entrance exams, gifted programs, common core, and soon to be Mount Rushmore, - If you let them get voted in, they will tear eveything that is even remotely resembling European history down an dreplace it with their history evey single time. This is not all of them of course, but the fact that this is happening time and time again and will continue to happen, shows you that many of them have an inherent hatred for anything that is white. They destroy their countries, then they destroy yours - and you will cave every single time because you're deathly fearful of a simple meaningless label.
💯% Facts
But regardless of the reason for failing to meet the standard, why are we promoting kids beyond their level of learning? If they get to the end of 6th grade with a 3rd grade reading and 2nd grade math ability, why are we sending them on to 7th grade? This has to stop. We need to hold them back until some aspect of their basic education reaches a level where moving on can be useful rather than disruptive.
@@rs232killer I don't disagree, but you might be talking about having a few more dozen kids per grade level just backing up the system, and there isn't room to spare. I'm not sure what the solution is.
I'm surprised they didn't blame Trump for these failing students
Exactly, but wait a bit and someone eventually will 100%.
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@@ps92809 Because they blame him for everything else.
iF he was president........they would have.
Next indictment
Ladies and gentleman this is why education and activism SHOULD NOT MIX
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Public education for the most part.
85% of the I Promise school is part of that one type of 13%
Just saying. Plus three of those wise, jogging, youthful scholars beat one of their classmates to death just a few months ago IN the school during class hours.
Sounds like a fun school
I mean... a school founded by a guy, reading the same book for 5 years and never gets past page 1...
What did you expect? Also his tweets always show that he's no the brightest candle on the cake.
No surprise at all. It's all just marketing.
Yeah, but “he’z a very, very, very, very, very…..smart man” 😂
He ain't the sharpest tool in the shed either.......
he's a fraud
This is a prime example on why the US is failing and falling behind. Education is the number #1 factor in a productive and positive society for me. We need to fix and change the education system here and take it more seriously. Our kids should be able to do simple math. This is insanity.
Most of the country can. It’s just a small group, around 13-16% that have trouble learning and behaving.
IQ is far more important than what teachers are doing; any person with an average IQ can easily learn basic English/math, regardless of the quality of their school, and beyond that it's mostly just glorified daycare. These kids aren't failing because of the schools, they're failing because they're stupid, and unteachable.
@@tankg9263 have you ever been to West Virginia?
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First thing would be to get rid of the federal department of education.
Only 8% of them passed the English proficiency tests.
LeBron is famous because he can bounce a ball, not because he's smart.
And for some reason, these are the sorts of people society idolizes.
should've started academy for bouncing a ball.
that's true for all of them though
If you look at the Internet . He appears as having an I.Q. of 148 .
No idea how a genius could not notice that putting millions of dollars on schools where main student I.Q. is around 80 . Could not increase their State Test Averages enough to get passing grades .
@MariaRodriguez-hb4ix You don't think a guy like LeBron can slip 50k to the iq tester and have a good test result shown up?
The few times I've heard LeBron speak else never sounded like someone with an above average intelligence.
I was a janitor/maintenance person at a school like this, I still have pictures of the classrooms and the homework and things I'd find. They had a nursery there, the sign on the wall said "nusery." Another had signs on the AC unit saying "do not lower 'tempature' below 71 degrees." Another had cutouts of the continents on the wall but they were mislabeled. At least they got Africa right though. I would also find blunt wrappers and tobacco in the teacher's garbage cans. Those kids were animals, they'd take dumps in the urinals. I'd also find basketballs in the toilets. I guess they gotta take those balls with em everywhere. That job sucked.
Sounds like hell. Albeit an amusing one.
It's a shame what he's doing to his own people.
That the problem here. They aren't his people. A black guy from Jersey owes nothing to a black guy from Texas. They aren't related in any way. I don't claim every Italian as my people. We're all living in this country and American. My people are the people who live in my home. Then the people in my community. Etc etc.
@@mikevallone8619bra I feel the same way. All skin folk ain’t king folk can’t claim all these niggas out here
Total Michael Scott moment. I wonder if LeBron James has gotten past page one in that book he’s been reading the last few years?
@@callmekirkland8 probably not. But he likes holding them in his face 🤣
Math requires deep concentration. Do you think kids can do that now? with tablets, phones, ect. Its not just this school failing math, its everywhere.
Wow… it’s like “looking like” the students isn’t all that important in the end.
I’m glad they are doing this because it will help to demonstrate that all of these idiotic ideas about teachers looking like the students, being from the community, teaching by sharing feelings and ambiguous cultural bonds based on skin color *do not work* as a replacement for pedagogy and subject matter expertise.
It’s a shame kids will suffer in the short term, but we need these test cases to help understand what works and what doesn’t.
When I was going to school in Mississippi back in the 1980s, we always had textbooks, facilities, safety, free lunches, and good teachers. When you walked through the parking lot, all the cars were beaters including the principal's car. When I was delivering to a LAUSD school back in the 2000s, I saw kids working from faded cut off xerox sheets, sharing desks designed for one, dilapidated buildings, horrific looking lunches, heard about teachers doing unsavory things with kdis, but the parking lot was filled with Acuras, Lexus, Cadillacs, and SUVs. Hmm, wonder where the money is going?
My kids have those faded xerox copies and never have any books. I don’t understand how they don’t have books. Math is math… if the book is 10 years old who cares.
@@ohioplayer-bl9em idk, it stinks if you ask me. My school used older books and it never hurt us. I'm thinking someone put in a rule that schools must have up to date textbooks in order to give sweetheart deals to their buddies at textbook publishing companies who then donate to their political campaigns. If the school cant afford enough of them because the money is being stolen, they just buy a few then xerox them on decades old copy machines.
I have been giving my cat violin lessons every day for over 10 years, along with tutoring in calculus and French lessons yet she hasn’t learned a thing.
I think it's pretty clear that his school was much more of a monument to his ego than to academics.
I went to an academic alternative high school, specifically designed for kids at risk of failure. I was first in my class with a 3.4 GPA out of a graduating class of about 40. there's much different standards, but no kids meeting the minimum standards is absolutely not acceptable.
Unfortunately also average in too many districts. See Baltimore.
I got expelled from high school my sophomore year and ended up in an alternative school. It was basically just a bunch of computers and a few teachers and you went at your own pace. It was only four hours a day but I was still able to get two years worth of credits that year and then graduate six months early the next year. Having ADD made me a terrible student in normal classroom environment; having the option to stop and do something else for a while when I got bored or lost focus was a game changer. Point being, I was a fuck-up, I was an “at-risk” student, but I was still smart and could do well given the right opportunity. There’s no way 0% of those kids are capable of passing.
I’m an educator and found that successful students thrive if 3 things are in place. Number 1, there must be solid administrators who hold faculty accountable with regular student assessments and remediation for those who don’t show improvement. Number 2, there must be dedicated teachers who are willing to go above and beyond their normal duties to make sure their students know the subject material. And number 3 there needs to be parents who work in partnership with the school making sure their children spend time doing homework, reading for at least 20 minutes and limiting time on personal devices.
Discipline. Kids don't want to sit for 6 hours a day and schools refuse to remove kids who aren't interested in learning. Some kids need a different environment or can't be helped at all.
In other words there's no hope
even if you put all these things in place, I would bet the results would be pretty much the same. these kids are a lost cause
I started school in one developing country and finished school in Southern Africa. You can get a great education with minimum facilities. You don’t need a big budget. Schools in the US require a C average or better to get to do extracurricular activities.
in most developed countries, they required dedicated students, not wannabe thugs.
It's a cultural problem with the students we have. They have no motivation or ambition and as a result hope to just have a lot of money.
It's black American culture celebrating thuggery and criminality rather than hard work and education.
My roomate here in Italy was from Cameroon, during highschool they only had one teacher who only knew math, do that's all they did.
He helped me thoughout uni with my math degree 😂
@@simorote yup. Near me Baltimore schools have too much money and 90% (no exaggeration) are failing to learn.
Black kids are already failing but Lebrons like, "Lemme expand that number real quick." Congrats. 😑
Blk people want to build their own schools and fail?
What could it be about Baltimore that they can't achieve basic education results despite an excess of money thrown at the issue?
Unrelated query: Which demographic is *least* likely to read bedtime stories to their children?
a 38-year-old still hasn't read a book in a real way
5:45 the 9% is indicative of the teachers cheating for the students just to graduate them out of the school.
A school started by the "highly edge a ma kated" Lebron James is failing students? What a SHOCKER!
we wuz scholars n sheeet
we wuz europeans too
The older I get the more conflicted I am about the fact that these kids from broken homes really don't have a chance. If not for my parents traditional, strict upbringing of me, idk what would have happened to me. To the point where I wonder if I'd even be the same person. We know pouring money into education doesn't work, the only thing that does is having parents who care and push you to be excellent. Idk if there are external factors that can fix that. I don't want to say these kids are doomed, but I really haven't seen a solution that works besides it coming from inside the home. Having parents who are married, care, and instill their values. If I didn't have that I wouldn't be what I became. It was out of my hands in a way. Idk if I can judge the kids too harshly. Or the school even. Without good family you're pretty much set up to fail.
Nobody is forcing those single moms to have those kids. They hand out birth control like they're tic tacs at those abortion clinics. The problem here is they can't blame white people anymore. This is all on the bleeps. It's a bleep run school, with bleep administration and all bleep students and it's a catastrophe. This is on them
Facts,coming from a 2 parent home I had was the biggest flex on my cousins and friends,which honestly is kinda sad😑😑💯
Yup. I like to say (because it’s *TRUE)* I don’t have “white privilege” (because I *DON’T* ), I have *”two parent home privilege”* (because I *DO* )
You can't save them. And we've completely destroyed our civilization trying.
Our gov't made incentives for single motherhood and divorce. Remove those incentives and maybe we could have more kids with both parents in the home. It would be a start.
You absolutely crushed Sam Seder. The best part is how he cringes when you agreed with him on any topic when he tries to paint you as a reactionary ideologue.
In elementary school, there were times that I was so poor I had to steal to eat. I still worked my ass off in school so I wouldn't be stuck being dirt poor later in life.
I remember once when I was working at target the register systems went down and all we could accept was cash for a few hours, everyone under 20 kept having to ask the older clerks to do the math for them to give change or ask the customers how much change they got back, we took all the young people off the registers and had the older sales floor people take their places until the system was back up, and that was like almost 10 years ago, these kids will be working in the future what happens when the calculator runs out of batteries and not even the manager can do simple math, sad future we are setting up for ourselves, maybe its good the robots are taking over
Are we surprised the guy can't count steps while he's traveling
Well when your school board is focused on gender and color over reading, writing and math. This is how things work out.
That school bell curve is wild
Zero students passed math. Zero? ZERO?!
Low key, that's impressive. How did they pull that off?! That sounds like it takes work!
The facilities seem to be nice and yet students are failing. Is this the American education norm? Overspending and underachieving?
The bit with Anna screaming “give me the money” used to be lowkey kinda annoying, but it’s definitely grown on me to the point where I honestly chuckle 😂😂
It’s still annoying. He keeps begging for money that you could basically plaster his face onto her body at this point. All this liberal blasting gets old after a while if you offer no alternatives or sage advice
We've been throwing all this money at the problem and it doesn't seem to have helped. Quickly, send more money!
Lebron makes more than enough money to pay to feed the families of every kid who goes to his school and not even notice the difference.
He built a shrine to himself and students didn’t magically get smarter. 😮 How did this happen?
If you REALLY hate a group of people, but your peers prevent you from oppressing them, what would you do?
You pretend to care about that group of people, manipulate your peers to spoil that group's children, actively encouraging that group's children to be thugs and thieves in the name of kindness and justice.
Until everybody have had enough of them, them you reveal your true self among your peers, now with much less resistance, leads society back to 'the good ole days'.
Lebron is a reason why stereotypes still exist.
"X is the reason stereotypes still exist"
Copy and paste comment every time.
There’s a lot of things Lebron does that I don’t agree with but he honestly doesn’t perpetuate the black stereotype to the extent you’re trying to make out.
How does our little turtle friend manage to get so many likes on such a piss poor excuse of a comment?
@@tacitus6384It’s almost like people read a comment, find it funny, then reword it on another video in an attempt to get likes. Crazy how that works.
@@surgeonso4345I mean, he inserts himself wherever he can, shouts loudly about how great he is, has a near zero education level, and can't seem to manage money.
Of course Lebron blames the students. Only a man-child would blame the children and not himself or the educators in the education system.
He is literally doing the same thing of blaming the fans, like the big companies. Who are upset people aren’t mindlessly consuming their trash.
Obviously, there are bad teachers and administrators out there, but some of us work our tails off and all the work we do in the classroom gets undone as soon as these kids go home for the day. Success starts IN THE HOME. The mentality that it's all teacher's fault and responsibility means these kids are never going to learn to take personal accountability for their own success. Think about it: all the worst schools are in bad areas. You don't see this kind of rot and failure in areas with stable families and lower crime. Teachers and schools play an important role, but success is ultimately in the students' and families' hands. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
There is a lottery to select students (I think in the bottom 20%) to the school. Ironically, the kids who were not selected are performing better, on average, than the kids at the Promise School.
You know who else didn’t go to business school, Lebron James.
- Michael Scott
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
Took my kids to Kumon math and they quickly increased three grades levels higher in their math proficiency. Rote learning is needed for basic math skills. Unfortunately rote training has been vilified by many Woke educators.
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Oh my god it's LITERALLY the mural in Thugnificent's mansion from The Boondocks
Looking at the chart, the third and fourth graders do seem to be making substantial progress, from year to year. For third graders, the chart shows: 3.3%, 11.5%, 17%
For fourth graders: 3.2%, 9.9%, 23%.
That seems to be a positive trend.
Good point. Those 8th graders were in 3rd grade when the school opened. Already way far behind.
Those are each a new groups of kids. Follow the chart like steps on a staircase to see how each group of kids did year over year. There's little to no improvement. Last year's 8th grade class is currently 9% proficient at math, but when that class was in the 4th, they're were 39.4% proficient.
"It's not us, it's the kids!" Wow
8th grade math. Too easy. I didn't start failing math classes until high school and that was due to my own action and inactions. These kids stand no chance in the real world if they don't get their sh!t together quick.
Facts,we use to believe it was on us. Personal accountability was a real thing like "Let me get my 💩 together,I'm 🤬 up." Now,it's just straight excuses💯
I'm shocked! Well not that shocked.
I'm a school psychologist in an urban school district in Ohio. I'm just going to say this is pretty par for the course for most urban schools. I know LeBron James school was supposed to be different, but hearing that it's not really isn't a surprise to me.
Parents not invested, kids not interested, admins with huge pay checks and always wanting more, lack of impulse control in boys without fathers, teachers wanting little red shirts rather than students,
I'm not sure there was ever any hope here.
@@radagast7200well said!
@@radagast7200pretty much all of this.
@@radagast7200 Don't forget no good teachers applying, so they hire woke alphabet people who are only focused on pushing and forcing the gay agenda rather than teaching anything useful.
School psychologist is a job that should not exist. 😂
yooooo that math pass chart is crazy wtf
Poor Lebron. First his son has a perfectly normal heart attack while on the court (which can't be caused by the obvious), and now his school is revealed as an expensive waste of time.
I bet he blames climate change for both.
It’s even more hilarious that the kids that attended in the corrupt school system did better by comparison than the kids who attended the I promise school with all the prepaid and unlimited resources.
Definitely climate change and supreme pizzas.
All i saw when i first heard of the school, is a school in HIS name with a small donation and a whole lot of investors making money over the failing students based on someone else's name...AKA LeBron
This is unforgivable. Failed each of those students.
Some kids should be left behind, parents need to instill the value of a good education, but ultimately it is on the student to put in the work
I really hate the way, "some kids should be left behind" sounds, but I'm not sure it's not at least partly true.
The sad truth is not everyone is going to graduate from high school with all A's and go to Harvard. Some people are going to fail no matter how hard you try to help them. The thing about working in schools for people like me, however, is that there is usually no real way to tell which is which when kids are very young, so you work as hard for each of them as you possibly can.
@@JamCooper i would never say teachers shouldn't try give them the time or attention they need, but it's an unfortunate reality of life that not everyone will succeed
Many people don't care about learning. They'll cram and forget all through high school
It's hard for a "good student" to excel if the school system is garbage. Good teachers can't save it, either, unless they completely throw what they've told to teach out the window.
@@JamCooperStraight As aren't enough to even get into Harvard.
Honestly never saw the inside of this school until now and now that I've caught a glimpse of the classrooms, I can see why nobody is doing well.
Seemed to be a sports related school anyhow, judging by the mural. C'mon people, we all knew that money and facilities aren't going to correct this problem. How does one raise the IQ of an entire demographic?
That last line reminds of a video made by I, Hypocrite about funding in "urban schools", responding to a video by Breadtuber Vaush. That video should also debunk any argument by Boomer conservatives on how it's possible to raise _average_ "youths" to the same level as average whites when IQs play a role.
The problem is: Parents!
Where are the parents!!! This is what happens when you leave the govt to raise and educate your children!!!
Are the parents suppose to go to school with their kids?
Even politicians today say words like "ax" instead of asked.
The adults are teaching the wrong things.
The mural really is the *chefs kiss* on this shit show
I've done public school instructional audits for years. Your take is 100% spot on and you come off as a seasoned education analyst. One of your best vids.
Like Lebron would score any higher? The guy cannot even formulate a coherent sentence.
It's almost like vanity projects aren't about bettering others.
LeBron is very good at basketball. That's it. When you listen to him talk, you can tell he has never passed a literacy test in any year of his life.
If given the opportunity, I know that I can help things turn around for the better! I believe in the vision and im ready for the challenge!
They are more interested in meth then math...
As a mom and a veteran teacher, I always remember what a wise former Principal said to me, “It always goes to a home problem.”
That OST Proficiency chart is misleading if you do not understand it. If you look at the 7th grade students from 2022-23 you clearly see they all failed with a 0% success rate. In year 2021-22 they were 6th grade where you see 0% again on the chart. And when they were 5th grade for 2020-21 they were also at 0%. So, what they are saying is all the students in that one year group have consistently failed for 3 years running.
The 9% you noticed is the year group one grade higher than the students mentioned, they are not the students being talked about in that meeting. Their previous year was the 1% in the 7th grade row on the chart so they improved for 2022-23 by a measly 8%! What's worse is that group started in 2018-19 at grade 4 with a 39.4% success rate!
Step 1) murals filled with non-math inclined icons
Step 2) why do people who aren't taught to value math... fail math...?
Well Le Bron is the king of flopping so why is he upset when the kids flopping at math?
So their excuse is basically “garbage in, garbage out”.
LeBron James is the perfect example of the jock that was fast tracked through school and told he is right even when he is wrong because he can dribble a basketball and it shows every time he opens his mouth...and math is racist. 😂
Why is no one talking about the kid who was killed in that school’s parking lot?
He doesn't care if the school actually helps. It's just good press to support one. Most people will never bother to look into the school and see it's a failure.
If you can afford murals, you can afford to feed students breakfast.
Usually, the most important variables to success are parents, kids, and teachers, not lacking resources, so of course, money and gifts were not the cure. If they scored in the bottom percentile, you can't blame the pandemic when the students from other schools went through the same impacts of the pandemic. I'm sure the kids of qualifying families get free school meals. My city even had meal pickup locations when school was closed or via distance learning during the pandemic.
You mean to tell me that a snazzy new building like a shrine and paintings of Lebron deity’s all over the walls doesn’t actually help educate kids??? 😵💫
WTF did they do in math classes? Playing "Simon Says" and "Patty Cake" or watching the Boondocks? Sweet Jesus this is remarkable for all the wrong reasons. If this isn't an epic fail I don't know what is. It's sad how bad phony celebrity programs fail young kids.
Critical Math Theory
Guarantee they weren't watching Boondocks... too based.
@@radagast7200yeah teen titans go is more of their pace
@@seke9885 I imagine it was Roots on repeat.
@seke9885 hey that rhymed
The only solution is more murals
But he is a great liberal and black lives matter member, so it's ok it's like public school.
I used to clean for APS (Akron Public Schools) I've been in every single school. The Ipromise school had the smallest library with the most up to date technology that I had ever seen. They also have a room bigger than most of their classrooms that is dedicated solely to playing video games. The school had clearly set it's priorities.