'We're setting them up to fail' | How Maryland has changed high school graduation requirements
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2023
- The Maryland State Department of Education has changed high school graduation requirements, it says, to help more students earn diplomas. But some say, the changes could be setting students up for failure.
Desmond Stinnie is a Baltimore City father who was surprised to learn his honors student was woefully unprepared after leaving high school.
Stinnie’s younger daughter just graduated high school last week. But three years ago, in 2020, Stinnie celebrated the high school graduation of his older daughter, Xaviera.
“This is our prize cadet here, we’re so proud of her,” said Stinnie, admiring a picture of Xaviera. “She’s accomplishing so much more than her old man at such a young age.”
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I don’t think this is just Maryland. This is the fears and warnings of “No Child Left Behind” coming to fruition. Instead of making our children rise to the occasion, they ease the curriculum and push them out the door. And we wonder why China, India and many other countries are leaving us in the dust academically.
Straight Facts
They eat better, have more family time, more hands-on learning. Fewer depression rates. Can't compare them to the land of the free.
Yep! NO Lies told. This society is being dumbed down.
@@laughalotitsgoodforyourbod7627 How do you know about China's schools?
Just curious
@@LA_HA speaking to people around the world. Doing research will tell you if you don't know anyone from these places.
The problem is parents need to be more involved with what their kids are being taught as well as college requirements BEFORE it’s time to apply for college.
@jaybae7315 Exactly what I was thinking! It shouldn't take waiting til high school to realize your child hasn't received the education they should have.
@@stephanied4863 it’s definitely common sense, for sure.
@@jaybae7315 common sense is UNCOMMON
Parents are not supposed to be involved in their child's education, they are supposed to be RESPONSIBLE. Big difference.
Yep, it's exactly why more parents are turning to homeschooling.
As a former teacher I can tell you for a fact that school is nothing but a human farm at this point. I was written up numerous times for failing students even though they literally earned it. Never came to class, never turned in assignments but I CANNOT give them less than 50%. So in this world they give you nothing but you still owe them 50% 😑. 100% HS graduation rate but a 10% college graduation rate, insane.
We need to hear from more teachers/former teachers like you, and parents need to push for change.
I graduated in the 80's and failing was a real thing that all students feared. SAT test scores were higher in those days ( 950 was the minimum ).
@@Well_possibly these parents are part of the problem. I had students coming to class with no supplies but bragging about how their mom just bought them a $750 Louis Vuitton belt, A FUCKING BELT! Single moms trying to have sex with me in order to change their kids grades. Pulling up to the school dropping their kids off in a cloud of weed smoke. These parents are worse than their kids.
i would rather my child to earn a "F" than giving them a "C or D". The real world is not that graceful.
Can't have standards and it is prep that first job offer is usually the best one as you're not doing extra stuff for the same pay year 1.
As someone who works at a school, this is going to happen a lot more. Schools are more concerned with making parents happy than teaching. They do not hold kids accountable for anything,
That's not necessarily the case. You also have to look at the reasoning behind that. If parents aren't happy, they pull their child from the school. Low enrollment means less funding. Less funding means less staff/programs for ALL students. Unhappy parents also don't vote to pass the levy and that means you don't get an increase in funding either and we all know everything is super expensive nowadays, especially technology, which the kids need access to if they're to compete in the job market one day. There should be more balance but with the way these laws have been written, if your school is not performing, you don't receive the help you need to get them to perform.
@@elmariamgibson It's all tied to the politics.
Especially when you have parents coming up to the school to fight teachers and administrators. So why should they care if the parents don’t??
not just that but the PR of graduating 15 valedictorians and 25 students with associates degrees (most of which cannot spell associates). I left a school in part because of this.
You work at the school? How many of your colleagues are a physical display of what the mind and body can achieve, OR do you all look like a sack of UNinspiration that children have to look at everyday? YOU ARE PROGRAMMED.
I just wanna say to the father. Thank you for speaking up. I wish your daughter the best in her future. Salute
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Absolutely
That guy's got to be a conservative.
I think they should bring school choice.Instead of giving money to the school give the money to the child and let their parent pick the school.
@bonerjams2k3 he's on it now And on the news at that. So whats your point. You a clown 🤡.
So their idea is to lower everybody's standards to the lowest denominator instead of working to lift the standards of groups that are struggling. How exactly does this help struggling students?
It doesn't. That's the point. Our public schools are failing.
It helps the people in charge keep their jobs and give themselves raises.
You know these days it’s all about perception…
@@lo5182 More like we have some stupid lazy kids
This is not typical of every school in America
Just schools with certain demographics
This happened to me. Graduated pg county with straight A’s. Honor roll all 4 years. A in AP calculus. Partial scholarship to UMD. First in my family to go to college. I struggled through my 300/400 level college courses. Took 5 and 1/2 years to graduate with my BS in chemistry. I felt unprepared in comparison to other students, especially with regard to computers… this was 20 years ago. My high school had a very dated computer lab with floppy disks and green screens. The kids I competed with knew the difference between a mac and HP. 😅I was lost my first two years. My parents couldn’t help me but I survived.
Fellow Chem graduate. Loved chemistry ❤
@@tweety11226fellow chemist as well. My only challenge in college was that my math professors had thick foreign accents. Very difficult to understand the lessons. I had to repeat Cal III as a result.
OMG! Did you go to Loyola? Bc I swear your story IS mine. 😅My calculus III teacher was Polish but lived in South America for half her life and had the most confusing accent. The struggle was real! I can laugh now but I cried some nights bc I never dropped a course before. Then I ended up with her yet again! 🤦🏾♀️
@@denishawalters1813 😂 no, but I promise my professor was Polish as well!! 😂😂
@@AmyThrash I went to a HBCU, #1 💁🏿♀️💙💁🏿♀️, but all my Chem teachers were phenomenal 💕💅🏿! Went into medicine though
Best thing that happened to me was dual enrollment. I was an honors student, all As etc. My senior year I took a college basic english class and got a D+ on my first paper. When I confronted the professor, he rightly showed me that I couldnt write and needed practice. I realized my school was letting poor grammar slide by. So I learned this lesson before going to college and was able to graduate in 4 years on a full ride, no issues. Lowering standards will do nothing but destroy kids. Very irresponsible
Good for YOU
Dual enrollment is the way. I did it in the 90s and it really shows you what the real expectations are. It should be mandatory.
What were your parents doing?
Good for you, but da!
@@agricolaregs parents divorced, mom worked two jobs, dad different state. Both trusted the grades in school and the fact I was in honors and AP classes. Before the divorce my dad used to review all our school work.
Man, I'm glad I'm an 80's kid. My first semester as a college professor was eye-opening. I couldn't believe how many of my students couldn't write or participate in critical thinking discussions. I was truly shocked. In my day, if you couldn't read or write, you didn't pass.
YES. Just, wow. I left higher education a few years ago because my 3rd year students never learned how to write basic structured essays let alone present information or arguments in an organized manner. Heartbreaking but i couldn't do it anymore. It's easier for schools to no longer get funding for needed services than to set standards that are realistic but challenging.
@ynat2198 I totally get it. I was teaching master's students, and they clearly got passed on for their bachelor's degrees. I couldn't believe how terrible the writing skills were. Everyone knows that master's and above are all writing...
Same here. It is a worldwide phenomenon with today’s young people.
I was uni freshman B avg tutoring valedictorians with 4.0s on full ride scholarships.
Fellow 80's baby. Can confirm. My teachers were equally as involved as they were hard on us (and in the inner city, no less). I left high school with a wide range of skills and a good work ethic.
This is happening in all public schools throughout the country.
In democrat cities
Private and catholic schools never had to take the test !
@@dicktracy5234 Private/Catholic schools don't receive public funds.
@@lo5182 So the problem is not the test . It's the schools and as a black man I'll say the culture also .
Hey look on the bright side, they're being taught LGBTQ, CRT, and Tranny story time in schools. Who needs math, science, and the ability to read when you have those things?
what i want to know is why community service is more important than math and science
Free labor
Prison preparation
Seems like since COVID held a lot of the world up, the schools pushed the kids to the next class or graduation to usher in the new kids. If not, then the student population would’ve been doubled if not tripled smh
That's our entire education system. It hasn't been improved upon in nearly 100 years, and it's designed to train kids to be factory workers.
I’m so grateful for my Mom. Summer time was fun, but still no days off. We had to write a book report once a week, and we had reading and math assignments to complete from workbooks. It’s sad, but you can’t solely trust the school system.
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You have a great mom and you are correct. I did the same with mine. In the summer we read a classic together. We would discuss it and she had to write a book report.
That's awful. I would cry if my mom stole my summer vacation like that. Glad I graduated school was hell for me
@@littlebear3554 It really wasn’t stealing my summer reading a chapter in a book a day and writing 3 paragraphs lol.
@@DWMusic435 That's great! A chapter a day instead of not reading anything at all.
I had severe adhd/ dyscalculia and only passed my classes doing the extra credit. I definitely was a product of no child left behind and they passed me just to get rid of me. In my crappy household no one guided me in getting help because my family was all about surviving. In college I NEVER slept just to study 4X Harder than the other kids to simply pass. Parents, please pay attention to your child’s education early on. At work I still had to work so much harder than everyone before I got my ADHD diagnosis this year. I’m 33. My kids will not suffer this. My husband and I are very involved and do tutoring when necessary and watch my kids in case there are any chances they also have my learning disabilities
I have dyscalculia as well and was iep until we moved to another state.I also have adhd. My parents were involved in my school but it wasn't until I got to college I was tested for a math learning disability. I asked my mom recently why I didn't have an iep when we moved and she said she forgot about. She says my problem is I can't focus and I should know how to study because she taught me. Ironically she went back to school for a short time and struggled before not returning. Anyway we have the no school left behind thing as well and they did not move me up for failing all those math classes. I know of so many kids that dropped out or did well in high school but decided to not go to college.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and only recently at 34 have I realized, upon looking back, just how much it changed my trajectory. I definitely feel like I "fell through the cracks" because, at that time (early 2000s), there were ZERO accommodations being made for people like us. I'm glad to hear you've made it through the other side of this adversity; you're better equipped to prepare your own children because of it. I wish you and yours great fortune on the road ahead
@@mud5377 still trying to get that degree but it's hard I have both like the op.
@@Serenityblu23 Perseverance pays. Sure it'd be nice to get things easy, but then they don't really mean as much. You'll get there!
@@mud5377 thanks
Elementary teacher here; this last year was my first year teaching and I’m sad to say that schools just push students to next grades regardless of where they are at academically. I know so many 4th and 5th graders who don’t know how to read or write and it’s saddening. Principals just want their school to look good by pushing them forward. It’s not teachers, it’s the district or admin.
I agree with you. 😢.
It's a cycle. Failing schools get less funding and are risk at shutting down and that's due to the rates of failing students. There are a lot of rules that don't actually benefit the students. We also need to address the huge problem of behavior issues with children who have developmental disabilities in gen ed classes disrupting gen ed students. lots and lots of issues but instead of reimagining the whole education system they just keep adding "bandaids" that make things worse instead of better.
Good Lord , a first year teacher and you already figured it out. It's sad ain't it?
Why aren't you TEACHING THEM, then???! If you claim to be a teacher, TEACH!!!
@@andreamaclachlan980she tries, fails them and admin goes nuts.
I am a teacher is Florida and this was my biggest concern for the graduating seniors. Changing the standards or requirements, so more kids can graduate, is a hindrance to their future and ours, since they will be the ones to look after the next generation
Yep, 18 credit hours. I would add student apathy and parent neglect. The parents don't know if their kids passed or failed classes. I know it's online, but we should still be mailing report cards at the end of the year.
They'll accidentally nuke the country.
And this is one reason why I'd be terrified to need a retirement home, or even doctor's visit, when I reach the golden years...
Florida? Naw, as long as students learn about pro white revisionist history, embrace the unproven bible instead of learning science, and be against "woke", that's all you need to graduate.
I dropped out of high school in 9th grade (2009) and got my GED a week later so i can get a job and help my family, and yet I'm smarter then the kids that gradurate college with a 4 year degree in computer science. How do I know... Because I use to work with one and man was he stupid and lazy, He got the job because his mother in law had just became out Ops manager and hired him to be our test engineer. 10 months in he asked me how do I use Nav (software we use) to pull an order... but for the past year all he has done was refresh his emails, with his laptop on his stomach and the screen on his knees while facing away from the camaras (he noticed I was noticing he was doing nothing) the Client never wanted him to work on the million dollar server racks we built up because they knew how useless and lazy he was and didn't trust the guy with the degree. I left that job because his mother in law wrote me up and went to a final warning as my first warning. If i was his boss I would of fired him a long time ago but she made him my boss a month before i left... I was so pissed and so was the client we worked for and he made 50% more money then I did and I DID ALL THE WORK! she gave him all the credit to make him look good to the higher ups, but the client knew I was the one doing all the work. but because he is just the client and not my offical boss he couldnt do anything sadly.
The change is to get the kids out of the schools. Teacher shortages, volatile students, disengaged parents, politics are the perfect storm. I’m a veteran teacher. Yesterday I finished my 17th year in the profession. I’ve taught in a city, a suburb, a Caribbean island, and in the Middle East. US urban areas are by far the worst. I tell parents to supplement their children’s education DO NOT rely solely on the public school system!
I agree, and you described the perfect storm well.
Hold some of the parents accountable in the inner city too much parents being their kids friends
What if parents are barely getting by with the public school system?
@@movingforward-fc4lgtoo many parents not even being parents too, quite literally not engaged nor concerned about their child’s academic progress.
@@boslyporshy6553 the government purposely under develops urban areas and when they need more land, they push em put and take away their homes. It's a never ending issue, and funny enough, majority of the mayors are white.
A lot of those students are getting admitted into college. Once they get there they cannot handle it.
My opinion. People don’t really care. The university got their money. They don’t, in most cases, help kids. It is up to the kid to find the resources/ tutor/ girlfriend that will help them. If they fail out, there’s a new crop next year.
@@jmachatch6696 You're 100% on point.
That's why I told my daughter to only take 1 or 2 college classes at a time because these days it's all about having shorter semesters and more work or the professors are trash and don't want to help you do anything.....I had one teacher that only cared about drinking and money.... sad
@jennyholmes693 HOLD UP!! I am an adjunct professor at an HBCU. Most of those can't read or write. I have taught that plenty of them are from Baltimore. Most of them bragged about being from Baltimore. A hood mentality!!
Almost all universities have a myriad of free tutoring programs and there’s always study groups. Students have the means to succeed in university but then flunking out is irrelevant since they need to pay anyways. Community college transfers will take their place
The real issue here is that the schools aren't teaching what's going to be on the test. The curriculum is totally different. I'm glad the father spoke up
Test are a joke.
This exact thing happened when I was a senior studying for my PSAT..the SATwas totally different and it had math problems that we never Learned (not even the calc students passed with good scores)
That’s how it always is. Test usually aren’t what’s being taught.
Careful. In my state, that has backfired. They "teach to the test", meaning they drill students and stress them out while focusing only on the standardized tests. They don't teach any life skills or instill a love of learning, because there is no time.
@@Well_possiblyYeah I had to deal with this.
I am an international teacher now, but I used to teach in my home state. The lack of accountability is the issue which then creates an unrealistic expectation by the students after they graduate. There is a sense of entitlement and lack of responsibility that follows them into adulthood. Raise the bar. Make them work for it. The standards at the school I work at overseas is so high that those students will work their asses off to make it, and when they do they feel a sense of pride. Don’t be afraid to fail kids. Hell! They need it! Let’s stop creating a false sense of superiority and show them what’s really up. Otherwise, these are your future “leaders”. PARENTS: IT IS YOUR DUTY TO ENSURE THEY ARE RECEIVING QUALITY EDUCATION. BE INVOLVED. SIT DOWN AND CHECK THEIR WORK. EMAIL THE TEACHERS. GO UP TO THE SCHOOL. MAKE YOUR PRESENCE KNOWN.
Lol, as if the schools will listen and respond to us parents?!
(Hint: they don’t!)
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PREACH!!!!!! TRUTH!!!!! But NO ONE wants to hear it. Especially the parents. Most could care less and send their children to school for us to “babysit” them. The parent in the video I’m guessing, probably makes up 5% of American parents. I’ve seen it go down significantly over my 29 year career. Technology doesn’t help either. It’s become a babysitter for parents.😢
Another real education issue is that we are experiencing the results of babies having babies.These very young and ill prepared parents do not even know how to advocate for their children, but are more interested in going to the schoolhouse to attack and fight teachers and administrators! I am a retired teacher of 34 years who taught in Baltimore my first 9 years out of college. The school system did nothing in terms of equipping teachers with the tools needed to teach. I was not only amazed, but also pleasantly surprised, and even intimidated by the materials and equipment I had available to me when I transferred to Harford County, Maryland.
I attended public schools in Pennsylvania, and we received a stellar education. College prep, in high school, was just what it sounds like. We were required to take 4 years of a foreign language, (I took Latin); 4 years of public speaking; plane geometry, solid geometry, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, world cultures, history, English/writing. We had to learn 200 vocabulary words each year, and use them in a sentence. Also, essay questions were big in our history and world cultures classes. My schedule was so full, that I had no time for music classes or other electives. We also had to learn and recite long poems, such as “Paul Revere’s Ride.” I still know some of this poem and I am 75 years old, now. It is high time we get back to these past traditions. Our students have become weak and illiterate. They are permitted to use calculators while taking state tests, thus having very poor math skills. Also, cursive writing is hardly taught in elementary school anymore.
Another issue that I have experienced is principals stating that some students could not be held back, even though the teachers voted to retain them, because the school board refused to spend additional money on those students! We really need educational reforms quick, fast, and in a hurry! This really breaks my heart!
So true!! But unfortunately, THE PARENTS BLAME EVERYONE EXCEPT THEMSELVES 🤔
My father used to say, if you can learn all the songs on the radio, there are no excuses for not knowing your school work.
Math is ALWAYS the gatekeeper for most students regardless of color or region. Most teachers K-5 aren't comfortable teaching math but they are forced to because they have to teach all subjects. Middle School and High School teachers are CERTIFIED in their field so they CHOSE to teach math, Algebra, Geometry, Trig, etc. The students can't read for comprehension and or can't do basic math, which hinders them in ABSTRACT math(Algebra) and on math WORD problems. There is so much language in math besides the numbers and most don't take that into accountability when teaching or assessment of math skills for students. For exampe: most students can't explain that 2x means two times some number we don't know, or 2(x -5) means two times the difference of some number and five. Most students don't know you can't combine 2x + 2x² +2x³. Most students don't know 2x*2x*4x³=16x⁵. We have much work to do to change math and reading literacy in the USA🫶🏽🖤1
Wish me luck in my journey in relearning math as an older woman. I am rebuilding my foundation in math.
2(x - 5) is difference of 2 times some number and TEN. EVERY TERM in the parentheses is multiplied by 2.
@@lql1094 i would accept that as an answer too. My point was MOST students and adults don't understand that LANGUAGE🫶🏽🖤1
Agreed! Which is why instead of entertainment children should be reading books. If you can read with comprehension math word problems make sense. I homeschool and my kid that struggles in math, I enforce reading. No tablet. No computer. Just read. Get lost in a book.
@@Delflorpadem I agree to some extent; however, reading fluency is different than reading comprehension so reading comprehension has to be focused on the most AFTER and during just reading🫶🏽🖤1
When you have a system that rewards numbers instead of rigor, this is what you get. We can complain that our education system is broken, but it is broken in an insidious way that makes it seem like everything is ok. The high graduation rate looks amazing! However, behind the scenes who know how many students were pushed along by tired teachers or career climbing administrators?
When I started my undergraduate studies in the US in the 2000s I was shocked at how woefully unprepared some students were for university. It made me really grateful for the education I received in Zimbabwe.
You sound like someone who can step on scale. Improvement on this page.
I taught many students from Africa mostly east and west, but numerous countries. They were middle school age and the vast majority were like students used to be. Serious and hardworking. They knew they were preparing for a great future.
A huge kudos to this father for having the courage to speak out publicly! More parents and students need to follow suit. I was a teacher for ten years in the state of Illinois and constantly pushed back against grade inflation, lowered standards, and coddling students. I emphasized how all of this was setting them up for failure in the future. We cannot just push kids through the system. They need to EARN diplomas by actually mastering content and being held accountable. Teachers who try to keep the bar high and maintain some semblance of integrity in classroom are often pushed out, and accused of being "too strict." Teachers who actually care about preparing students are punished by admin and parents. They don't have the students' best interest at the forefront. They're just interested in keeping their funding and having high graduation rates--earned or not. There's a teacher exodus happening right now and it will continue to get worse.
I should also add that this is happening in ALL schools. I've taught in both Title I and affluent schools (one of the highest-rated schools in the state). Trust me, the lowered standards and grade inflation happens everywhere. At the affluent school, over 90% of the student body had over a 4.0 GPA, but only 70% were proficient in ELA, 76% were proficient in math, and over 25% of them needed college remediation. Yet their GPAs are over a 4.0. What a disservice to our young people. We are not helping them by giving a false sense of reality. The truth is that many of our young people are graduating illiterate, innumerate, and with an inability to think critically. This does not bode well for our society's future.
I graduated from a bmore city school and my 1st year of college was an eye opener. My kids went to county schools and the same thing happened with them. The worse thing the state did was lower expectations to balance the low performing inner city and predominantly Black schools. We’re still facing and fighting segregation in 2023.
Instead of lowering standards they should be helping the ones who are struggling.
Stop blaming segregation at this point for failing schools that are predominantly black. Did you not read everywhere that they’ve lowered the standard for graduation because the kids are not making the cut. That’s on them for not caring about their education and the parents for not pushing their own children. Did you not see that all the board cares about and the parents demand that the kids pass blaming others for it. The kids don’t care the adults want a bandaid so nobody sees the truth the kids don’t care!
and democrats voted NO to allowing black communities to go to other schools, so if you continue to vote democrat, you are asking for the same results
Auntie, there is a nationwide trend which we all have to acknowledge and have a conversation about. Black children are underperforming academically. We know that Black children can perform academically. How do we support them?
@@pinchebruha405 but they haven’t lowers them everywhere have they?
I went to private school from kindergarten to 10th grade. I went to public school for the lady 2 years as I didn’t want my grandmother to continue to struggle financially as even with a full scholarship she still had to pay $4000 a year. I learned very little during those last 2 years and was mostly padding my extra curricular activities. Freshman year was definitely an eye opener!
I had the same experience. Went from private to public in high school. It was too financially stressful for my parents and high school was more expensive. Learned almost nothing those 4 years and that made me worried. Had to catch up in college.
Same. Was in private Catholic school from Pre-K to 8th grade. Then went to a public high school. Learned very little in those 4 years besides how to socialize and little bits here and there from specifically good teachers who were the exception to the rule. I cannot imagine how bad it would have been had I gone to public school for my whole academic career. I already felt like I had noticeably fallen behind in some things when I entered college compared to my peers. I feel really bad for kids who only get the public school experience, it’s not their fault, they have no control.
Its so wonderful to see how their Dad is so full of pride and joy of his girls. They're very accomplished young women regardless of the failures of the school district that they graduated from.
So I gave my child a great start before preschool where he was learning using the Hooked on Phonics and learning basic addition/subtraction. I then had him enrolled in an afterschool math program. By his third grade he was easily doing multiplication and beginning fractions while the other kids in his class were learning basic addition. You absolutely have to take interest in your child(ren)'s education at a young age.
The tragic part is that this country judges itself by the outcomes of children of parents who have no clue how to prioritize education.
Not to diminish but division and multiplication in third grade is perfectly on track.
In not even a bit old fashioned.
My Mom did the same. She made us read a certain number of books during the summer and had math packets. Passed Calculus with an A in college.
This is what my family did for my brother and I. My mom always made sure we were getting good grades and we were always reading. It’s the reading and lack of comprehension that makes it hard for students to complete other subjects especially if they can’t understand what they are supposed to do.
Me too I was able to do fractions at age 7 thanks to a dedicated mama
Parents need to blame themselves. Always educate your children even if they go to school. Never leave that in the hands of anyone else
I don’t blame parents who don’t get it but feel sorry for them not getting it.
I don't feel parents need to be a supplemental teacher or a tutor. That's not fair to the multitude who don't have the education, training, and have it hard enough doing their own jobs to continue working when they get home. And you send your kid off to school for the purpose of them getting educated, otherwise they would simply just do it themselves.
That being said, what parents do need to make sure of is that their student is taking full advantage of their learning time. If they are going week in and week out and are not getting it, then they need to make sure they are empowering their child to not take that lying down and put in the work. Getting college or career ready isn't just about knowing the content. I teach math, frankly they will not be using much of this in their adult lives. But their lack of ability to problem solve and persevere is alarming. That's what they'll need later and are supposed to be learning in school now.
@@missright9176 parents see the PRIMARY educators. Teachers at school are supplemental. My great grandparents were less educated and raised high school and college graduates in the 40s and 50s. There’s no excuse!!
As a daycare provider I say this to parents all the time.
@@kenyafromcali Do you think anything about school, at any level, in the 40s and 50s is comparable to today? Are you aware in the slightest of how school was even structured during that time?
What about how society itself was structured during that time?
Life has become harder and more demanding with little to no resources to help people meet these demands yet so many of you expect things to just get better.
Minimum wage at the federal level hasn’t increased in 30 years while year after year the cost of living has gone up. In your grandparents day a hard days work consisted of working from sun up to sun down while today people are working so much they’re lucky if they get an opportunity to sleep. And when you throw kids in the mix the general consensus is “well people shouldn’t have kids they can’t afford” or “that’s what they signed up for when they have kid”. These aren’t problem inherent to us just because we are humans, they are problems created by the conscious decision making of humans.
I choose to homeschool my kid when she was in 5th grade and didn't know basic math like subtraction with regrouping.
The school couldn't provide me with answers so I was blessed enough(thanks, husband)to quit my job and teach her myself. Together we learned so much yes, even I was challenged and surprised by what I wasn’t taught in school. My daughter learned more in 20 hours than she had learned in all 6 years of public school. She is going to college in the fall, all her courses are college level and her first-year math is calculus.
Parents need to remember public schools are overwhelmingly crowded with one teacher(45:1) who has to teach all kinds of kids with all kinds of undiagnosed issues your kid will fall through the cracks if you let them.
I hope you didn’t teach her grammar.
@@ronswansonsdog2833 😬
@@ronswansonsdog2833 Snit
I work in higher ed and process high school transcripts for incoming freshman college students. The comparison of the requirements amongst different states that I see is astounding! Some states only require 4-5 classes per semester and basic algebra while other states require geometry or pre-calc, 8 semesters of English and math courses, 2 second languages etc. which leaves many students in a better position academically to enter into college. Many of the other students struggle to pass the college’s placement tests and have to take remedial college courses before they can even began to take courses that count towards their degree’s curriculum.
This is exactly it. It's easy to excel when the curriculum isn't challenging.
What’s weird to me is when I was a senior (2017) it seemed like they were making it harder for us..they were changing the curriculum and my class just so happened to be the test dummies..I’ll never forget when our psat score were higher than the SAT scores because they made us study for the older version of the test; and the questions on the new SAT were totall different; and then yelled at us like it was our fault ..we were not happy about that
You all forget that there are kids with special needs in these classes and English as a second language students blended into a class of 20-35 students. That teacher is required to accommodate ALL of those students not just the gifted ones. So you are right, it is not just low attendance and cellphones that teachers have to deal with.
Wow!! You know! I don't think many realize this fact! So many kids on different levels...there will be suffering! Though it was controversial... a long time ago we were grouped with like abilities.
Just to let you know there are special Ed classes. You can get A in special Ed but everyone knows it's a special Ed class. The problem is when you take AP chemistry and get a A in the class and only a 3 on a state test which is average. But that A will raise your GPA significantly making you look better then you actually are.
Yes! As a teacher people have no idea! 25 kids in 1 class and half of them can barely read, some can’t write, some have severe behavioral problems, some are gifted , some just don’t care, and we are required to make sure every student is accommodated in that hour or so they are in the class with that ONE ADULT. I spend more time CORRECTING behaviors than I do teaching nowadays 🥴😒And I’m not a newbie, been in education for the last 23 years, the state of the school system EVERYWHERE is just SAD! I have been saying for the last 10 years these kids are being left behind
Yeah. When I was in school in the 80s and 90s, there were honors classes, regular classes, and kids in special education. Everyone learned better and graduated w skills. I was in honors classes but one of my best friends had special education classes and you'd never know bc they did their job. She is very smart but just had a learning disability. I took AP classes and placed out of alot of math in college. She went to school and still has a great job at a hospital. The point is that all the inclusion and no child left behind did more damage than good.🤷🏽♀️
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Quite a few years back, but this is true. Once in a state college, I was leagues behind the Montgomery and Howard County kids even though I went to the best school in the city.
They should raise the standards!!
The exact thing happened to my brother. He was in honor society, AP classes, student government, played soccer. He got accepted into a really good college with a full scholarship. He could not keep up in college citing a “lack of preparation” from high school.
Parents/High school doesn't teach study skills. Where as college is all about studying and preparing for the next lesson. Your brother probably has the intelligence, but doesn't know how to study at the college level.
It's an adjustment I had to figure out on my own in college.
For example, when HS kids don't have homework that day, then they won't bother to open the notebook to review what was taught that day. In college, that doesn't fly. You have to be a good note taker and review the material on your own. And constantly check the syllabus to get ahead of the papers, presentations, etc. that are upcoming.
When I worked on my doctoral degree, I went to a Baltimore City high school! I saw more police officers than teachers!! The priorities of teaching and learning have changed!!
The school system has changed since I have been in school.If you couldn't read,write anything you were held back for that certain grade and you had resources classes you had too attended to help you achieve what you were not getting and learning the simple things that's when you had Teachers that cared and parents who cared showed up for PTA meetings got your report card.This no students left behind is designed in my opinion too keep the child uneducated to Trump up the Justice System to incarceration to make money of them because if things never changed you wouldn't have this situation happening?😢
Even 10 years ago people were held back.
yeah thats how it was when i was growing up. i remember not passing kindergarten but my parents put in a word and let me pass anyway i hated my kindergarten teacher she would bully and hit the shit out of me when i didn't do something right. so my parents saved me both the embarrassment of staying in the same grade for a year with an abusive peice of shit!
I dated a teacher from Maryland who worked with the troubled students and what he would tell me was shocking..
What are some of the things he said
I graduated high school 14 years ago. Between 5-10 years ago they changed the school start time so that classes started an hour later. They then changed the grading scale for the entire school district to make it easier to pass. Instead of an A being 100-96 it was now a 100-90. These kids are being coddled and America is losing the battle as the number one superpower of the world, partially due to a lack of STEM interests.
India and China is laughing at our kids
I went to schools in Tennessee and Florida where there grade scale was 93-100 was an A. I move to texas and it’s 90-100 is an A. I didn’t realize how many of my friends hated math. I realize that most of the time it’s because the parent punished them for not knowing instead of taking the time to help them know. It’s a new world for the children of tomorrow
Sounds like your school was on a 4.5 or 5.0 GPA scale. The normal 4.0 GPA scale gives you a point for grades D (1 point) to A (4 points) which is what the American grading system is.
But I do understand. My school district, from 1st to 12th, was on a 4.5 GPA scale (93 is the lowest A and below 70 is a F) and I didn't realize it until I was in college.
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The school I went to in high school still had a really difficult grading system (that was like 2 years ago I graduated). It was the hardest one around. If I remember correctly, 97-100 was an A in my school. I am now in college and find the grading system in college so much easier 😂. But then I got into nursing school, and a C is considered failing, so that's fun.
I truly believe schools provide the bare minimum and we, as parents should provide supplemental education regardless of the school. Possibly even joining homeschooling co-ops, seeking tutoring (websites like outschool provides some economical options if you can't find it locally) or buying your own curriculum to review with your student on weekends.
Yikes.... having been in private schools as a scholarship kid since 4th grade this is mind blowing students graduate unprepared for the rigors of college with college algebra level skills.
I will add that 10 years ago my niece learned this hard lesson when I gave critical feedback on her high school papers. Then in college she received that same critical feedback from instructors. Thankfully she spoke up and reached out to her advisor and got setup with the learning resource center for college level writing.
I’m not in every house, so I’m guessing, but I’m pretty sure it’s rare that a loved one is giving informed feedback to a student. THANK YOU for doing it.
The school sees their job as turning out graduates, consequently they get passed even tho their practically illiterate. 🤮
School is now part of a machine. Don’t educate let ‘em graduate is the motto now.
Dual enrollment in my last two years of high school saved me. Got me my college credits and gave me an idea of what college was like and if I wanted that path. I now have a Bachelor's degree.❤
I take two dual enrollment classes this year and 4 aps (I’m a senior)
This is in Canada as well. Kids are graduating from high school and can't spell or do math. So heartbreaking. What's happening to our world?
I warned my Canadian friends this was going to happen when Trudeau opened the floodgates. In the US they push these immigrant kids straight into the classroom and tell the teachers to do the best you can. It's terribly unfair to everyone involved. Still I don't think you have anything like what goes on in some of our high schools where gangs control the hallways. Our education system is in total meltdown mode.
I learned in 1995 that a "High School Graduate" gets the same diploma as a GED and to pass you only needed a 9th grade education.
It’s not the same diploma. And it’s an 8th grade equivalency, not 9th.
@DaisyAppleJuice Right 💯 I don't know where they got that from.
In some states, it is the same High School Diploma. The test is very rigorous though.
You can't take GED classes or the test in MD until age 19.
True, (except it's 8th grade equivalency) but most people (especially in 1995) tended to look over GED Recipients when and favored the High school diplolma person when it came to hiring.
New York state has also lowered the bar for graduation, lowered acceptable passing scores on high school end of course tests, etc. States and districts NEVER want to say that a lower percentage of kids are graduating from one year to the next, so they make it easier and less rigorous to graduate instead. It's happening in many localities
Facts
The Texas STAAR tests (the standardized tests the state administers every year), requires a student to receive a minimum score of 35% to pass. I can't make this shit up!
@thecriscokidd290 that's shocking, but also have you seen some of the questions they ask on these exams? The way they are written frequently doesn't make sense and the questions are confusing even to adults! The quality of these test items seems to get worse over time, it's no wonder less kids are passing, states are paying Pearson and other private companies to produce garbage skills-based exams that are designed to confuse. The tests should be straightforward and correspond closely to what the child can actually do with grade level material. Poor test design is a huge issue
@@DarthFurie I've taken them since 3rd grade. You have to be seriously behind academically, guessing, or sleeping to fail those tests. It's amazing that out of 50-60 questions on a given test, you need to answer about 17-21 correctly to pass.
Wow this story resonates, and I feel safe in the comments.
I was Senior Class President & still an aspiring medical student but after dropping out of college 4 times
I thought I was doomed to be academically challenged.
I’m working harder now and believe I will pass this time, but I really thought it was all because of my upbringing. It’s really just the system, and that fucking blows 10 fold.
We need a change!!!
This is so true for all children in the USA the no child left behind started this problem.
We didn’t have all these requirements but we were ready for college because teachers were able to take time identify students needs not rushed through a one fit for all program. We had two students aided in the class to assist teaches. Where’s the homework? As an parent homework was benchmarked that allowed you to see how your child was learning. We need to bring back the system that worked. Old arithmetic, reading comprehension, geography ect.
Not sure you care, but you made a number of grammar and spelling mistakes.
I'll admit even my son gets passed along. If you miss an assignment, skip an assignment, or complete the assignment but get some wrong. You can turn it in for the first time or go back, fix what you missed. Too easy
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Yes. I'm a single mom. And I had to explain that to my son. I asked them to keep him behind after the pandemic and it was an absolute no. And the bar is so low it's not even funny. I mean it wasn't necessarily that high when I was in school but I was determined not to get left behind by my class.
And I would do the bare minimum but at least the threat was there to not pass with your class.
And most of what they teach is not even close to being competitive in any way. On top of some towns and cities are promoting the LGBTQxyz agenda and African American studies which I think should be included in American history and the rest should be an elective.
U know I used to think I wanted grandkids as I'm getting older but seriously if my adult daughter doesn't plan to home school or be at home at least part time while her husband works don't even bother because you HAVE to be the biggest influence on your kid
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I mean, if you can fix what you missed, then why not? That's learning. Also you can complete an assignment and get some wrong, and still pass, there is no school that says you have to get every answer correct in order to pass, that's the whole Grading system.
can you cite a source on where you claim the lgbtq+ is being pushed on? alot of ppl spew misinformation w/o backing up their claim properly@@JustBree716
No. I saw this in 1998 when schools separated students on levels of who they want to teach vs. who they will just pass along. Things have not changed with failed education.
They actually need to do that. You can’t teach kids who don’t want to be taught.
It's called tracking. Get the good students in advanced classes.
I think we need to really get it in these students' head that college is NOT a joke. It is hard. A's are rare in college not the norm. It is freaking hard. And your parents cannot step in for you. Your professor isn't even allowed to speak to your parents. It is going to suck at first.
Much love from a college professor.
Yes! So many kids I went to high school with always talked about how easy college would be. Many of them can now barely maintain their grades in college. It is not a joke. Most people I go to college with are happy if they get C's and simply pass the class.
I'm so grateful that my mother and father poured into me and my sister as kids. Both are Jamaicans. I remember when after school, my daddy would take us to the library every day to do extra math and reading. He would purchase educational books at the the PTA Teachers bookstore that were 2 grades ahead of us. Over the weekends, my mother would make sure we study and do more practice work before we can go outside. Education was paramount in our home.
My father used to write the teachers stating that the work was too easy and it needs to be more challenging lol.
Math and Science my parents didn't play. We even went to summer school even if we didn't need summer school
For reading and writing, if we wrote sloppy, we got to write it again ans then write 50 times, I would not write sloppy for my work lol
Write book reports on books they suggested.
My parents were involved in PTA and never missed a parent teachers conference. I love my parents and owe everything to them 💗.
I'm in medicine and my sister in nursing 😊
I wish in the black community we emphasize more on education and not rap, gangs, and sports. Garbage ass fields smh
And we need to repeal the No Student Left Behind Clause. That ish is rubbish and hurting our black students. Parents need to be held responsible for neglecting their children's education
I lived in Asian countries and their education grind is just different. Admirable but yet there are some things that weren't good as well.
Amazing. I commend your parents ❤ thanks for sharing your experiences. I plan to implement this with my daughter. I am Latina but unfortunately, my community does not value education and Latinos are very behind in their studies.
I am blessed that I have a college degree and I intend to instill the importance of education to my children. I refuse to let them fall behind. We need to do better for our children and/or future generations.
Yeah I studied some algebra 2 log,e,ln etc as a sophomore taking geometry
This issue is beyond Maryland. Idk wtf schools teach these days. Teens don’t even know how to count change and put it on a POS system to see how much to give back. It’s not even math. The computer does all the math. They just either don’t know how to count or too lazy. Smh…
They teach crt and slave history
I mean with schooling like that how can you blame them for not wanting to or being lazy. If leaders don’t take initiative can’t expect the kids to do so as well
Exactly!
You have no idea how many times I'll go through a drive thru and when I pay (Let's say the price is $9.67) So I give them a $20 and .75 cents.
They freeze and look at me confused......and I swear you can literally hear the Windows reboot chime coming from between their ears.
@@DarthVader1977 😂😂😂 That's mean.
My children have gone to school in three different states so far and honor roll means absolutely nothing in any of them. Strait A’s isn’t a hard achievement anymore if you show up and actually pay some attention.
Pull your strait A public school kid and put them in private school and 9 out of 10 of them will drop to an average c to b student.
Straight As is a hard achievement. Let’s not downplay how hard these kids work for their grades just because some other kids have higher IQs but aren’t being taught worth a damn.
That's why my wife and I have our 2 sons at a STEM Magnet school. Well our oldest is going to high-school next year and will be attending the Engineering signature academy . He already has his high-school credit for Algebra and doesn't have to take it. The youngest was excepted into the Aces and VEX robotics programs for 7th and 8th graders at the STEM school. Which requires him to take advanced math classes like his brother. You're absolutely right. Regular public schools in most districts are crap nowadays. Best to get your child into a signature academy or private school or home school.
@@kinte1870 *accepted
@@kinte1870 congrats brother 🙏
@@1_star_reviews the grade is only as good as the judge, no getting straight A's is not difficult if the criteria is low.
I'm glad she was able to work through it and I'm glad the institution saw something in her worth sticking it out for and being patient.
I’m so happy my parents homeschooled me. They made sure I understood HOW to learn, so I could learn anything I needed to. That’s what schools should teach; HOW do you learn things, and what are the most important things to learn as a foundation for life?
This is a public school problem. People need to pull their kids and teach them at home because they're not learning even the basics there. My 6.5 year old son is scoring well over what's expected for 2nd -4th graders. Not because he's so smart but simply because their requirements are crap.
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About 40 million Americans are Black and about 20 million have been aborted.
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I think the thing though is a lot of kids do poorly because of home situations. 8/10 kids that act up or do bad in school (in a sense that they can learn they just don’t try) tend to not have parents at home because they’re working more than one job. They definitely won’t be able to home school them. And the kids that are doing well in school (in terms of above average and doing good in college as well) don’t come from that lifestyle. Not all but most
I agree. Homeschool ✴️✴️✴️
@@kiki13451 That may be part of it but I was punished for being "a smart kid." I wasn't allowed to do advanced classes. They used me not raising my hand as an excuse to "discipline" me but the real problem was I knew too many answers. The white kids didn't get in trouble like I did for not raising their hands. There's an implicit bias against black students period. I survived elementary school, yes, elementary school by doing all the work while the teachers explained what the lesson was and quietly reading whatever novel I brought with me. They were willing to let me do that and leave me alone. I read Farmer Boy and a couple other of the authors books in second grade. Because my actually participating at a higher level in class was "disruptive" and the problem with this was that when my mother heard that she beat my behind. I didn't have the wherewithal to evaluate and explain that my teachers being angry wasn't because of any legitimate offense. So I hid in my books. And the premise that black kids fail at school is in large part that same bias. Studies have shown that when black kids are homeschooled they do just as well as white kids so it's not the kids, it's the instruction. Now, there will be some that are just lazy but all of our kids are not failures. And excellence is not as rare as the status quo would have people think.
People do not need to pull their children out. Everyone does not have the capacity to teach, including those who are homeschooling.
Parents need to be invested in their children's education. They have to engage with the school and work together to create a better district. Parents have to attend meetings, vote for school board, know what your child is learning, etc. There are a lot of parents who have the kids on autopilot.
This is shameful and happening in every state. 🤦🏽♀️
I'm a 36 1/2 years old, in my day we had "No Child Left Behind".
I had alot of absent minded teachers who misunderstood me and didn't care.
I was very frustrated and depressed.
I dropped out.
I had this problem as well. I graduated from a bad inner city school in Pittsburgh as class valedictorian and got into Carnegie Mellon University. I was so unprepared, even with all the college prep programs that I did. I dodged academic probation and managed to graduate on time... Barely. Quite frankly, I took too big of a step than what someone of my status should've taken.
First the children need to sit down, be quiet, show respect, and be prepared to learn. Those four things need to happen. The requirements are lowered to transition them out of the schools, and they know the next group will do the same. There is a parent and child problem that screams no accountability. Lastly, the young lady and her dad were not honest. She did not put in the work.
I agree with your first statements, but I’m struggling with the last. Maybe I missed something, but it is possible for a person to prepare for something and everybody in this circle is cheering them on. Then when they compete against others, the person may find what was thought as training was no near enough. I know it happens in sports frequently and I think it can be in education, as well. I’m thinking of big fish in a little pond.
@@jmachatch6696I get what you’re saying. Regarding the OP he said he doesn’t think the father was being honest. I think he was because of your kids are doing well in school it would stand to reason they’re prepared.
Why you say the father wasn’t being honest? If your child is making good grades according to the report card and whatnot why would you assume she’s not putting in the work to get those grades?? I don’t get your logic in that regard.
I was the opposite type student. My grades were terrible because I never did homework. I hated having to work more after coming home from a stressful 7 hours at school. But I always did very well on standardized tests, usually in the 90th percentile.
Education is not a one size fits all. I wish computers were as advanced then as they are now and I could have homeschooled myself without having to go to a brick and mortar school. I would have done so much better than getting a 2.5 GPA in high school. 😢
Same with college. I basically failed out before virtual classes weren’t offered (1996). I went back to school years later to take classes and I got As and Bs in the online classes. Didn’t do so well in the on-campus classes. Still haven’t finished a degree.
This is literally me I graduted with a 1.5 gpa but a graduated only because I would average 95% on finals and and the final semester 50to 65 average for the rest of the year rn I am breezing through community college and working almost full time
@@rusticfightr that’s awesome!! Sounds like you know your stuff!
i said it once but i’ll say it again; why bother even having assessments if you’re not even required to pass them?
Particularly where Math is concerned, our high schools could not do a worse job if they were deliberately trying to NOT teach Math. I highly recommend if you have a high school student you hook them up with one of the many excellent online resources. RUclips has many great teachers who teach everything from basic arithmetic to physics and robotics.
Basically they are saying that a ⚫ child can't learn on the same level so they need to lower the standards
The parents are responsible to make sure kids get a great education. The parents have to find out what are the kids problems are. Boredom, mental heath, work hand n hand with the teacher. Some kids are super smart n knows everything. Parents needs to pop up n find up what’s going on with their child. Go to PTA meetings.
Hi Janice, I encourage parents to come without warning to my inner city public class. Some took me up on it. Then I don’t put on a dog and pony show and the student is shocked. More parents need to ask for the district standards that are being taught. Then parents will know what is it my child is supposed to know. If a parent doesn’t know where to then go, Google the grade level, the objective and then type the word worksheet. It will come with an answer page. Doing this would give an idea to how the kid doing. This next part, I’m not joking. If a parent did all this, took some worksheets in that was not assigned but done at home and shown to the teacher to explain why the kid can’t do the work, the teacher may need to step out and change pants before finishing the conversation.
This is VERY interesting! Thank you for reporting on news that matters!!
This is everywhere. There are a lot of factors involved, common core and the terrible way math is taught now, lowering of standards and lack of rigor.
What has to happen is high school classes should all be videoed and sent to a website for evaluation by the general public. All we hear is how students fail. One reason is they don’t show up. We need to see the other reason. I’m 68 years old and have no regrets of how I was taught. All this social B.S. of changing the way and what gets taught is what’s killing this country. Go back to the days of my era, and use todays tech tools to help teach the same curriculum and any new curriculums that have developed since then and see what results you get. All you city and school leaders have become so brainwashed by all this new millennium social shit that it has terribly affected your ability to function.
Libs and diversity ruined us
That’s a real good idea 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Mark Bosnick
👏🏿👏🏿Shout it in case some in the back didn’t hear!! You’re 10,000% spot on. Kids need to show up, behave and these so called teachers need to actual TEACH and stop INDOCTRINATING kids in all this degenerate bullsh*t. Your comment, sir, is the BEST in the thread. Thanks for posting. Take care.👏🏿👏🏿
@@gailmiller6333 Thank you Gail.
I live in Chicago and most CPS students are woefully prepared for life after High School. So many students graduate, get into college, and dropout after a year..many don’t go at all
You mean unprepared? CPS has a high graduation rate, but the students are barely literate.
I've witnessed this in Florida when working as a Substitute Teacher. I noticed that many teachers didn't properly teach kids or didn't have resources to do so. Even if they did, they were letting kids pass when they knew nothing. I was handling middle schoolers between 6-8th grade that didn't memorize their Multiplication and Division tables from 6-12. Some of those kids literally went to high school and still didn't memorize it. I learned all of that in 4th and 5th grade. Many of them couldn't write a paper with a basic 5 paragraphs(opening, 3 middle paragraphs and closing). They hated reading, so they couldn't understand Science which had technical words. They also didn't understand History because they don't care about it on top of not reading. They also couldn't do math properly because of the same reason. They had Spelling/grammar errors, didn't read questions fully, read only 1-2 pages of a history book(I used to do 5+ in school), not paying attention, has to be bribed by snacks to do work, not asking questions/help, etc. I literally had to teach damn near every class because the kids didn't like there teachers or the lessons. I had to use my young age at the time(i was 22-23) to connect with them and help them learn. Teachers saw how much progress i had with the kids to improve their grades, so they would request me constantly to take there class. They were basically taking breaks or staying home because they couldn't or didn't want to teach the kids. I had to leave because teachers weren't taking days off for actual reasons like a doctors appointment or something...it was for me to teach there kids. Also, the parents were not helping the kids with homework or studying and let them have bad grades. The requirements, lack of resources, lazy teachers, and many more issues contributes to this nonsense.
In Texas, memorization for multiplication in 3rd grade is no longer mandatory because it hurts the kids feelings when they can’t get through the drills.
@@user-go8vi5lb6u yep, thats exactly what they do. Sit in front of a damn Chromebook and do their classwork on there for majority of classes including English. The only time I ever used a laptop in school was to type a paper because the teacher asked us to do so. Otherwise it was wtiting ALL the time. The teachers don't use flash cards, friendly class competitions, or anything like that. The only ones that did that were the elementary kids in the buildings next door. Its like everyone is good from Kindergarten to 5th grade and then they drop the ball massively after that. It also doesn't help that the 6th-8th graders are going through puberty, so they think they know it all and feel on top of the world. They're super driven by emotions and not to say we weren't during our times but we were much smarter and knew that when it was time to work versus time to chill/have fun. The best i could do was teach them the fast ways to solve problems or how to do work for certain subjects because their attention span for anything but their friends or phones was extremely short. If i wasn't in the class helping them, they didn't care. There were a few teachers that were good but some definitely sucked as teachers.
This is a huge problem everywhere, I work at a Community College and I hear so many stories of new students just completely unprepared for the level/amount of work and to be responsible for themselves. And of course, they always have an excuse or something else to blame, many cry about their mental health/anxiety...
Because they’re not teaching us anything we need in highschool it’s literally a joke
you can not teach "kids" that do not want to learn
no matter how many BILLIONS you throw at it
Some do, the Democrats don't want them to by design.
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Or ones with low IQ and violent
What do you call the rest of the world then? Does everything always revolve around the US?
@@Anna_ep It seems to when it comes to invading for free stuff or expecting our military to guard every country
His point was no amount of tax money can raise IQ or give morality and ambition
A wonderful daughter, a wonderful father. God bless you both. 🥰🤩😍
The greatest teacher I knew just stopped teaching. He couldn’t do it anymore. He went way above the call of duty. He was my high school chemistry teacher. He told me the administration only wants to see students pass. He’s had to lower his standards by several grades for students to pass and he personally said the best student he had this year was about 2 grades behind from where they should be. To further this the parents only want to see their child get high grades and to heck if they’ve learned anything. When he would do his grading in the mornings and evenings he’d stay at the school while holding tutoring hours every day of the week. If a kid got below an 80 on an exam he’d send an email to the parents asking for a meeting with them to try and get the kid back on track. Those that would would just get on him instead of trying to hold their kids accountable for their poor grades. He literally gives practice questions to work on that are similar to the test questions and still had nothing good happen. He said the kids really changed during the pandemic and now there’s only so much a teacher can do. He provided everything he could and didn’t get any thanks, but he did his best. Mr ES is amazing.
I’m grateful my mom had me reading to her every night during elementary school. Definitely helped me pass all my regents
Affirmative Action Phase II. "...a student's course grade is a stronger predictor of college and career success than performance on standardized assessments" is a *_blatant lie._*
As a Poly grad I'm shocked that she was not prepared academically for the Naval Academy. Poly has a tradition of sending students to all of the Armed Forces Academies. How did she get in if she was prepared. I was able to skate through college because of my Poly education.
You left out something in your post. Shocked that she wasn't prepared? Academies is pluralized with an "-ies" This is not reflecting well on Poly.
Now I am not surprised. Was she prepared or did you mean "wasn't"?
Your poorly written comment confirms the matter; thanks for the chuckle.
Clearly your high school failed you as well.
@PattyJo67 "wasn't" hope that ends your confusion.
Lowering the bar hurts everyone. Instead, help students earn better grades.
I’ve been working an assignment scoring the responses from standardized testing, and let me tell you - we are definitely doing them a disservice.
I’m looking at 8th grade essay responses that are barely comprehensible, off topic, incomplete, no grammar or punctuation. The excuse can’t be that they do everything on PC so can’t write because these were computer administered tests. It’s really crazy tbh considering they’re likely on their way to someone’s high school next fall and shortly into the workforce
cp...really Crazy, dumb as rocks.
The dumbing down of the public education system continues.
I feel this personally, I had the same problem when I went to University and had to completely rebuild myself to get through to graduation. As a Marylander, I completely agree with this father. He gets it.
See this happened to me as well, but not because I felt I was unprepared academically, I was unprepared mentally to be on my own for the first time in a new city, without a car or my family. I was so depressed and my dorm roommate made it worst before she asked to get rid of me and i was all alone my first year. I think my drive to understand instead of pass saved me from this at least.
Academic probation at these institutions is not uncommon for freshmen as they have a very large amount of extra training and lost privileges (especially freshmen year). I’m certain she’s really smart, it’s just the shock of these academies and added duties that can cause people to go on probation. The special program they discussed is made for everyone on academic probation because the academies want you to actually succeed. In my opinion, this is the way to “not let people behind” as they find a way to actually elevate their performance rather than lowering the standards. I wish her the best!
This is why you can't compromise the standards. Even outside of college, the lack of academic achievement is evident in the workplace also.
This happened to me but in middle school. Lucky two things helped me so much. ACE which is a curriculum meant to meet you where you are at and then make you go really fast and dual enrollment. I started 9 grade with English and math at a seventh grade level at 13 years old. However, because how thorough the curriculum was I was able to graduate with my bachelors degree at 18 years old. Based on how I was going I was going to fail high school.
I've heard of this awhile ago, my customer went to charter school & got to college knew nothing. I give my kids extra work because everywhere seems to teach different information upon chatting with friends who are teachers and/or parents
I graduated in 2008 and we had to do portfolios every year, pass every state exam, belong to extra curriculum studies clubs, sports or band/choir and do community service. Junior year was everyone’s nightmare it was SAT, ACT, AP testing and State testing.
I don’t joke around when I say most honor students either had tutoring or Saturday school to prep for testing season.
It was competitive and the test scores determined if teachers got bonus or raises so of course they pushed us harder.
Even talking to my cousin who graduated this year it seemed like they babysat them she was valedictorian but her homework and how easy everything was, seemed like a joke to me. I’d have quizzes every single day from US History, English and literature classes almost everyday there just wasn’t a break. But when I ask her about the books she only named 3 in total for a year….I did up to two a month.
Kids who I work with literally can’t count or read proficiently anymore. Cursive? That isn’t taught. I’m terrified.
When they changed the way teacher's could teach and took away swatting, student's started acting out in school. Teacher's don't have proper teaching tools, principal's don't work with the teacher, all they are worried about is the school grade, teacher's are blamed for everything wrong. It can be exhausting.
Also, you can have student's who do well in class, but do horrible on the SAT.
Parents, start education your children the moment they are born.
I would prefer their senses acclimate to the world first, and they can hold their own head up first.
My Connecticut university had an entire curriculum for kids who graduated but did not meet the entrance requirements for college level core subjects. It was clear some districts were not adequately preparing their students. This was back in 2006. It’s not like it was in 2020. I can only imagine what it’s like now.
I grew up in Frederick, MD, approximately an hour away from Baltimore, MD. After completing high school, I pursued architecture studies at a local community college. Currently, I am enrolled at Morgan State University, and I cannot help but notice that the academic rigor here in Baltimore feels relatively easier compared to my previous educational experiences. My time at the community college demanded much more from us students and upheld higher standards.
It seems that the university's curriculum has been adjusted to accommodate students coming from local high schools, which, unfortunately, haven't been providing adequate preparation. As I near the finish line of my degree, I don't feel fully prepared, leading me to engage in a lot of self-learning to bridge the gap. This is an issue that deserves attention and discussion, and I'm grateful that someone, like the father mentioned, is speaking out about it.
I know this discussion primarily focuses on the issues in high school education, but it's important to acknowledge that these challenges can also impact students once they enter university. The inadequacies in their previous education might not only affect their preparedness for university coursework but also their overall academic and personal development.
The significance of addressing educational disparities at an early stage to ensure that all students have an equal chance to thrive in higher education and beyond. By investing in better educational standards and providing adequate support, we can equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed not only in high school but also throughout their university journey and future careers.
Given my experiences, I'd like to offer some advice to those about to graduate high school: consider exploring colleges outside your local area or even your state. Experiencing something new and different can be enriching and might provide a higher standard of education than sticking to a familiar environment.
Note that she has a father in her life.
thats how we know this is staged
@@samgriess438 Only 70 % of B kids live in a single parent household so there are some 2 parent households out there. The real issue is it is considered " ist " to hold some groups to an equal academic standard.
@@bobroberts2371 this is staged bimboeberts
@@samgriess43895 percent of the men on To Catch A Predator were white men. Let's not forget catholic priest and boy scout leaders. That's not staged.
We can see that did not help out that well. Are you kidding me they had to make a special class just for his daughter for 16 months. Do you honestly think they would have done this for a white student
Honestly, there’s just some things that public schools cannot teach you very well and prepare you very well with all dead honesty and we all learn differently, kinesthetically, visually and auditory
I remember the warnings of dropping standards instead of individual effort and ability. I am sure some counties have advantages over others but the point is that lowering standards was a very wrong move and plenty of people sounded the alarm . Now , here we are. This young lady is smart . She can pull through this challenge and rise ! I wish her well !
Thank you, for real news
We had 28 credits, and no assessment tests, but a final exam per course all 28 credits, two years of foreign language, 4 histories, both US history and the current state history mandatory, 4 literatures, a list of books to be read during these, PE and Health, 2 years at least, 4 years of math from a selection algebra 1, 2, 3, calculus, statistics, triganometry, and geometry. 4 years of science from a selection of biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, lithography, geology, archeology, amd about three or four others. We had hundreds of electorials.
You had to take PSAT and SAT, and a state competence test. Attending 95 percent of school days for all 4 years, and have at least a C- average to graduate. I can go to any university and with no stress take a course and pass today. University is easy. I did it 20 years ago. These universities are stupid now. They really had some real dumb students then too.
Put vocational classes, Industrial Arts, Home Economics-culinary back into MIDDLE Schools and re-emphasize fundamental classes in MIDDLE School! By HS it’s almost too late to start a solid path. Help them learn how to think and learn academically in MIDDLE school.
This makes me appreciate the high school I went to. It was a college preparatory school/charter school/public-private. It was difficult at the time but when I went to college it honestly was so similar and wasn’t hard at all. I went to public school for middle and elementary and could definitely tell a difference in teaching and learning, it wasn’t bad but could have definitely done more and I graduated back in 2014.
My mom made sure we were learning words and spelling around age 3. By age 5 we were reading basic books.
I loved being in school and learning.
I can't believe Poly dropped their standards to go along with the foolishness from North Avenue. They have really ruined our school system. I got a college level education compared to what they're doing now. Class of 89.