At Baltimore's five best high schools, 11% of students tested proficient on state math exam
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- Project Baltimore has made more stunning findings after obtaining the unredacted state test scores for every school in Baltimore City.
The test scores have not yet been released to the public, but Project Baltimore has been analyzing them. The results are hard to believe, even at the highest-performing schools in the city.
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This was an issue before the "Pandemic."
Stop blaming everything on COVID.
I'm sure the pandemic exacerbated it but yeah no doubt these issues go well beyond virtual learning.
It was better before.
At over $400K a year, I don't exactly understand what she brings to the table. If the senate president doesn't hold any one position accountable, can he justify why we need that position to even exist? Does he believe in any form of accountability?
No amount of tax money can raise IQ
@@silentmajority8365 So why are we dumping all this money into the education system? Seems like government bureaucrats are the only ones benefiting.
The IQ problem can be fixed. First off it is easy to lower IQ, like weed smoking. Aspiring to be a weed smoking rapper meme. Guaranteed to lower IQ. Prenatal health can make a difference right now. That should be strongly encouraged. And embryonic selection and outright genetic editing. Within a decade or less this can eliminate the IQ thing completely. 2 or 3 standard deviation IQ increase could be done.
@@silentmajority8365Soylent majority
@@pacificalliance3782 Soyboy libs
And that's 11% at their TOP FIVE SCHOOLS. That is horrifying.
You could hire a Baltimore City parent with a HS Diploma for $80,000 per year and they’d do a better job than the PhD you’re paying $445k for.
Right!!
Exactly
I agree. The teachers are just looking for a check and don't care about the kids.
You can't educate them.
you might have a point@@silentmajority8365
Why aren’t they ALL embarrassed? The students, the parents, the administrators- this is a disgrace.
Baltimore public schools spend more than $20k per pupil per year. That is more than 95,% of public schools in the US yet these are some of the worst schools in the nation. Where does all that money go?
This breaks my heart!!! I graduated Poly in 1993. We weren't just distinguished in Math and Science. I aced thermodynamics, calculus, and physics in high school! Scored a perfect Math SAT! How have things gone down hill so dramatically in just one generation? 😢
This is not due to the pandemic. Stop lowering the bar.
Socialism, indoctrination and lack of general compassion for the job.
Ma'am what industry do you work in or are you retired?
its because schools have become increasingly gynocentric , also a lot of people of color in the school system that should have stood against systemic racism didn't and allowed the students to fall through the cracks , people like roach glee, mr ward and Lisa lecompte should have stood up against systemic racism but chose not too
America has been dumbing down students. Republicans want people that regurgitate alternatives "facts" not competent self thinking students. It's purpose is to dumb down workers so big corporations can pay workers even less over time.
You will accept crumbs happily and blame immigrants, people of colour and even women RATHER than plutocrats (the greedy wealthy that want to destroy the middle class).
i bet its similar in many urban districts
With that data in mind. Shouldn't you be able to look back through the years and see where education started to fall apart?
How are we sending these on to higher education or trades without a fundamental foundation?
Poor math scores means fewer tradesmen, fewer scholars and fewer engineers in a state that wants to establish itself as a technological hub. We must be planning to outsource all of those labors.
Probably. Just not in Baltimore.
It's not just math scores. I had a freshman college student who never read an entire book until my class. He was so excited to finish the book and wanted to read more of the series. Kids in school are told what to read but it doesn't always connect to what they are interested in. I have no problem with parents input but I have a huge problem with books being banned because there might be cursing. People you apparently don't hear your kids on the playground or in the park. You would learn a lot of new words. 😆
It was the MINUTE the first Black student enrolled in a Baltimore public school.
If you want to see the future of America watch Idiocracy. Sad but true
Techers are not allowed to fail people no penalties for failure kids need to pass or fail based on there skills
their
@@michaelmcfeely6588 as you can see I grew up in baltimore schools mount royal and Edmondson west side high thank you
That superintendent should have been FIRED!!
Or a pay deduction
If children can’t read , can’t do math , etc etc they are ready for what career ? CRIME !
I went to a ghetto school and I can tell you it starts early on in life. Some kids have deadbeat parents and have no chance to escape their lot in life. My parents would give me supplementary work at home and check my report cards whereas my classmates would skip classes and get arrested for stealing cars and shoplifting. As late as 11th and 12th grade I had classmates that could barely read and came to school to start problems and joke around in class.
Well, I went to college, then graduate school, travelled the world and did pretty well in life. Many of classmates ended up in prison, dead, or simply disappeared. I now have kids of my own that I watch very carefully and ensure they are above standard for their level. Not everybody is that fortunate. Very grateful for my parents.
Wow it's an amazing story. Your parents were great.
🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
Congratulations!
Some people don't and won't get you. You went to a ghetto school AND turned out ok??OK??? How???
Having good parents up and on your butt to make sure you're doing something positive with yourself, that's how! Being from the ghetto could make it harder, but not impossible. 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
My dad was a grad from Poly in 1936. He passed away several decades ago, glad he is not around to comment on these stats!
It's almost like we've been right all along... 🤷🏻♂️
ALways something or someone to blame. These people have ZERO accountability!
Jesus, even here in alabama our testing scores aren't that bad
“LACK of SUPPORT”???? Oh, they REALLY need OTHER people to take ALL their tests FOR them!!!
If a regular citizens in that district, said that he would run for the school board and promised to ensure to raise the test scores so that 80% of their students passed the state exam, the majority of the voters in that district would turn out and vote to retain the failing school board members.
I graduated from BPI in 1964 when the passing grade was 70. and the school building was the original one on North Ave. This is what happens when a corrupt City Government and overpaid City School Board just don't care about anything but themselves. When you have Mayor after Mayor sent to Federal Prison, and an AG currently being tried in Federal Court, you know what has been going on here for decades.
so much corruption it's stranger then fiction
She makes more than the door dash ceo. Think about that! She's in the top 2% of all earners in America!
Simple solution. Make administration pay performance based. They will then do their job and enforce standards under them. If your elected officials local and state don't hear you as parents and teachers, they need to go too.
I don't think this is a political issue. I think common core math being mandatory is the issue. Its like a foreign language to the linguistically challenged. Also we need actual educators to make the decisions for education not parents that dropped out of high school. We need intelligent representation in government to do what's best for their constituents and not their bank balance. We need rational realistic people, not crazy performances from our leaders. Blaming teachers is not the issue...
They are underpaid, under- appreciated and overwhelmed with the lack of support. It's a sad state of affairs when predominantly female-based jobs such as nursing and teaching (men do these jobs too I realize that) and those men are usually paid 30% more. But the respect and appreciation of these jobs are truly a calling for those that seek these positions. So many teachers have quit and states are trying to figure out why? I have a great idea...ask them!
As a teacher who just left the public school system after almost 20 years THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Its politics if you want my money to fix it
No amount of tax money can raise IQ
I am not saying teachers don't deserve good wages. But years ago, when teachers earned less, students performed better. Also, in some private and charter schools where non-unionized teachers earn less, students perform better. A lot of kids skip class, come late, and do not turn in assignments. These are not financial issues, but they contribute to the poor test scores.
@@Factsonly125 Americans were not as self absorbed then
Americans were more on the same page
We live in a post 911 world where pets are more important than having children
Where people yell false flag because they don't know what to believe
The problem is bigger
Hard to teach kids when the role models are rappers and gender benders
Once a kid dreamed of being something when he grew up
Society today tells him he is already there equal to adults
Lastly we are talking about Baltimore that had 330 black on black murders last year and about the same this year with some mass shootings
Your post applies to normal kids
In Baltimore all schools are not failing. You said my post referred to normal kids. Well, apparently normal students do exist. Moreover, students that aren't indoctrinated by hip hop and rappers also exist.
If you are a student and you recieved a high school diploma but dont know a darn thing......can you turn around and sue the school board for fraud?
Your conceptual reality is what is wrong with our society. Can't read, write or perform basic math. Duh, look to the parents first. Fraud, your mindset to sue is the fraud.
No because that person would need to take some responsibility and accountability, too, at least in my opinion. By the time a young person is entering high school at 13/14, they are still minors in the legal sense and their minds are still developing but they're not unaware 1 or 2 year old children. They know exactly what they're doing and not doing for their own education and if they get passed through the majority would rather say nothing then demand to be held back so they can learn. That's the easy way out mentality that too many Americans have regardless of ethnicity, social class, gender, whatever. There is no push for self-discipline anymore and no one in positions of authority at home to ensure it happens. Too many parents want to be their kids friend or go the other extreme and beat them down literally and emotionally. This is one end result.
How about this, hell no!
Put his mother in jail for child neglect.
@@thomasgibson8025 jailing neglecters is extremely stupid; just make them pay child support to the group home they will be sent to, and garnish wages for refusal to pay, dock them and so on.
I blame parents, they need to take accountability. Get your kids to school, ready to learn and encourage education, period.
Baltimore Maryland teachers get paid $61,254 on average. That is more than any other city in America. Money does not solve our education issue.
You can't teach the Low IQ folk
For fun ask a McDonald's worker to tell you your change without the computer. They can't do it.
McDonald’s is a job for not people who aren’t very smart. So I’d expect that. It’s your leadership that’s disappointing.
I’m shocked and super confused on how they get through life. I was astonished seeing the 1st grade math level does connect the dots?? So some high schoolers couldn’t get past connect the dots, simple addition and subtraction(whole numbers)?!?!?!
@@Dying2survivegamingyet for someone who lacks basic math skills will now be paid more than your entry level paramedics.
I graduated with a double major and work in a big 4 accounting firm as a consultant and even I can’t do that without a computer. Does that mean I am stupid?
Change? I don't thin they know what currency is.
With 990 graduates in LA in 1969, there were only 19 students in Trig. and Intro to Calculus, all Calif. Sch. students, and ME. Math has always been a shake out for students for all time.
"The soft bigotry of low expectations". Seems the leaders don't believe this is that much of a big deal. How might they respond if it were their childrens' school? Or even worse, if it is. We're in California, so private or home school is the general solution.
Nothing to do with bigotry
You have some really Low IQ people that are naturally violent
In uber woke San Francisco all the tech elites are sending their kids to private schools. San Francisco's woke schools are very well funded by the way.
STOP BLAMING teachers and administrators. The students are HORRIBLE!! Their parent is HORRIBLE!!!
Then why in some poorer areas students do 5x better than the best schools in Baltimore
It’s the ghetto Democrats. That’s the difference
@@gamingwitharlen2267because they have parents who give a shit
So in every district that does better than Baltimore in the U.S has better parents?@@XWierdThingsHappenX
I graduated from City in 2003, when they were still an IB school and Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. A couple years later, the principal was prosecuted for imbezzlement. I'm not sure when things really started to go downhill, but corruption in the city has been a problem for far too long, and I moved away long ago. No Child Left Behind is part of the problem, and Common Core compounded it.
It's the PARENT'S responsibility to raise their kids. It's the PARENT'S responsibility to make sure their kids are doing well in school. It's the PARENT'S job to make sure their kids are able to apply what they learn properly.
Parents make or break a kid's future. Teachers help. But parents should be in charge of their kids.
A dollar paid in taxes is a dollar down the drain.
What's cool is how the state makes homeschooling difficult.
Would not make any difference
Those failing have no family life
@@silentmajority8365 With a non existent family life and dysfunctional anti-education, hood culture. New varied approaches may help some. It will not be 100% successful, but anything over zero success is an improvement.
@@user-yc9ib2he7l We are not all equal in mentality and morality
No amount of tax money can raise IQ or give morality.
EXAMPLE
Many blame the failings of Laton America on the USA yet they are 200 years older than the USA
What was their excuse for failure before us?
Lastly if you look up IQ by country you will see they have an average IQ of 80
Facts are not racist
Being stuck getting homeschooled by an incompetent parent is just as atrocious imo
@@Veilfire Yes agreed it can be abused, I knew a single mom on the run from the law who did that just so she would not get found, she put nothing into her "homeschooling".
I have an idea 💡 how about start
testing the mother's and father's?
And if they fail?
The standards just keep being lowered----so much so that children as young as three should just be given a high school diploma and let out on the streets. That's how bad the educational system has become over the past 30 years. In one of my graduate courses I had to report two students who were reading on the 5th grade level, if that. They could not write a complete sentence, had no idea how a paper should be organized, and could not analyze material they were responsible for reading. They graduated from high school via social promotion. They were DEI students at a state college----and obviously learned nothing but were passed along to get that degree. Now, they were in grad school.
Both were removed from my course, and they were dismissed from the graduate program. As one of those students told me, "I wanted to go to med school but I heard you have to keep long hours. I need time for my social life." I suppose that says it all. Nothing surprises me about education today.
We hit the bottom of the barrel years ago; right now we are mining the sludge from underneath the barrel-----and it's toxic.
Unpopular opinion: it’s not a money or resource, or teacher incompetence problem. There is a critical mass of students that are too difficult to educate. They have a choice of failing over 70%( unsure if the actual number but you get the idea) of kids in every grade, and create a logjam of students that won’t graduate. Or, they can pass people along and hopefully do better with the next cohort of students. It’s a tough situation.
and one will probably be mayor one day
No child left behind eh? SMH
You cannot expect the same outcome from certain groups! It is better to just pay them to leave the country!
Maybe start asking questions like...If Tequisha stole 5 items from 2 different Walmarts how much does Jamal get!🤣🤣🤣
Trick question! Jamal left her a long time ago. haha.
@@collinmc90thirty years in a throw up 🤢 ugly orange numbered suit, and in a cage!
I remember my freshman year of high school, I was the only one to pass the math final exam, with a 93.
Try putting it in terms the kids can understand 🤷🏾♂️ If Shaniqua has $200, and hair bundles cost $50 per bundle, If Shaniqua needs 6 bundles, how much extra money does Shaniqua have to steal to get all the bundles needed?! Thats if she was going to pay for it 🤔
50 dollars
This is exactly why affirmatives action needed to be removed.
Can you imagine if one of these students getting into a top engineer school to make planes, programming for satellites, or build bridges just a few examples.
Tens of thousands or more lives could be at stack, just to make people happy. Math is a fundamental hard science that can't be influenced by feelings.
Too many lives at stack.
"lives at stake"
@@DeyDid-ek8zuno, don't correct the future engineer. This one has so much to contribute to society
If Baltimore's schools were all run by one company, its stock would crater by failing to provide what anyone wants, the CEO would be removed, and/or the city would terminate its contract with the company that's clearly just bilking our money. But we can't do that here because this is the *public* system.
There is a very, very simple solution. place online a free testing service for grades 7-12 in which children can sit to take three tests which get scored against, state, national and international standards. Tests would be free and unproctored. IDs would be protected. They would be focused on math, applied math, English language, and critical thinking. Results would not be scored by percentile but versus mastery.
Kid #1: "I want to become a doctor." Scores 30% vs. State standards; 10% vs. National standards and 3% versus international standards.
Parents would then be armed to demand accountability not only from districts but teaching, their own kids, and themselves.
It would be a 100% truthful exercise. that would not cost much to implement.
Better to have the "Oh shit" moment after primary school than to get it upon a fake graduation with 13+ years of paid for education now behind them.
It is interesting to me that Baltimore city schools are so bad, I mean incredibly bad, and the citizens of Baltimore wonder why no Fortune 500 company wants to move there to open up shop; there are no educated workers. Without an EDUCATED workforce no business will be successful. A workforce of fast food educated people means the city will have no viable way to advance. If Johns Hopkins University and its affiliates were to suddenly move, a VAST majority of the educated people would leave Baltimore leaving it a wasteland of ignorance and poverty. A black hole of waste with no white light to help illuminate the path forward.
We need another billion dollars and we will get 1 student to pass that test.
How many of these students make it to college? Who would take them?
What type of math teachers are in Baltimore? These kids and teens need to learn something
This is crazy
Does this include private voucher schools as well? I'd like to know if there is any difference in the education provided to a student who is a charter school/voucher kid and one who is public educated. Also, why are we taking our tax money away from public schools and giving it to private entities/charter schools? Seems to me that defunding public schools to fund private schools is backwards thinking with tax money.
The parents need to be protesting in the streets at this point!
The parents are part of the problem. They don't dicipline their kids into learning or seeing the value of school. But personal accountability has no ebonic equivalent.
Don’t count bsa, your scores drop to 4%
But i voted blue why i bees getting screwed
Ask the question what percent were held back or did summer school
Sheeeit
Math be on all kinds a raysissm
It’s either there are no books to teach with or it’s become too cool to learn. With these test scores, the students may not ever overcome adversity.
In Baltimore the mayor is a Democrat. The city council president is a Democrat. 10 of the 14 city council members are black. The city council members are all Democrats.
The police commissioner is is appointed by city leadership. Baltimore's AG is a Democrat.
The issues in Baltimore are not due to racism. The issues are due to culture. They are also the fault of the Democratic Party.
The last Republican mayor of Baltimore left office in 1968..
You spoke the truth. A lot of people don't want to hear it but you spoke the truth. Thank you
Don't need to just stop there. The Maryland governor is a Democrat. The Maryland house speaker is a democrat, the Maryland senate leader is a democrat, democrats control both chambers by overwhelming majority. It's not an issue with state level republicans either.
Many decades from the dismantling of the family structure!!!
What does this have to do with the family structure?
@@wft15 That you can't see the correlation ad to the decay!!!
Great job, Public School System and Teacher's Unions!! When are people going to start demanding School Choice??
school choice would only make this worse. less funding for schools
blaming everything and everyone but the students
This is a damn shame on all levels. I wonder how proficient the CEO is in math or anything for that matter other than talking out of both sides of her mouth and kissing the right asses. The shakedown needs to start from the top on down, leaving no one unblamed from these overpaid administrators and politicians to the parents/guardians of these young people. Everyone has accountability and responsibility when it comes to education but for too long it's always a fight between teachers and parents, with the upper echelon people like that useless CEO getting away with cushy talk-al-good-game-do-nothing jobs and kids acting like unbridled hooligans. Time to put everyone's feet to the fire and get real about this issue and maybe, just maybe, Baltimore will stop being seen as a sinkhole of hell.
It would appear that the entire system is broken…
But, the Teachers will demand more money.
And they’ll get it? It’s Baltimore.
It isn't the fault of teachers if the kids don't show up for class or the parent does not respond to letters saying they are not doing their home work.
@@bobroberts2371Thank you.
How long are we going pretend money is going to solve this? It’s not v money that’s needed, IT’S DISCIPLINE!
Do they have any special education students do have rights for help for the math, English and vocabulary in the public schools are not passing the math classes and k to 12th to graduate highschools.
This has been happening for decades this is not a new problem when you stopped letting teachers discipline kids and started letting cellphones raise your children and you started no child left behind and promoted kids that can’t read write or do math just to get rid of them you created this problem
Education in the US is a crooked racket.
Give those same tests to their teachers and you will get the same results.
Sounds like this school district needs Joe Clark.
This news is sad, but certainly not surprising. The politicians will use nice words in order to avoid upsetting anyone. The root of the problem begins at home. Parents are not holding their children accountable.
Idiocracy is working so well isn't it？
Give me my tax money back!!!
I think I no what to blame
DEI
There’s no money in giving us education
Where's the findings that breaks these numbers down by race??? Of course not. Put the blame on who it belongs.
Ya on the white democrat teachers abusing their power and refusing to educate children based on their ethnic group.
They wouldn’t want to tell that much truth
I would not put a dog I didn’t like into a Baltimore public school.
I’m just shock how schools out there are behind . For sure it need to be investigated because if they failing and falling behind they not going to do well in college . I think along the ways from elementary to middle these students didn’t get the basics n of course hs getting harder as it prepared students to college . So is either the staffs, students n parents but look into more n find a schools system that works n follow their model to reteach these students again . Ur getting paid such bogus of money n yet the students are failing n why so ? Do u even do ur job or care
Uh, the entire system is broken. If you can't admit there's a problem, you'll never fix the problem.
They can get their diploma while they are prison.
I am glad khamille isnt there
hey were up to 11% it used to be zero ...
OUTRAGEOUS
STORY IDEA: What does the prison population look like? Is it filled with people who are uneducated from one of the failing school districts or community? @foxbaltimore who is benefiting from this school failure?
You jut can't admit they are just stu
pid
85% of all prisoners come from single mother homes.
Just imagine if the CEO/DR was white
Half of all US students are performing below average!
Math, (and Chemistry/Physics/Sciences) are not subjects that you can "catch up" with like Literature, History, and shop. The subject continually builds on itself. I even told my Masters '' Degree Chinese wife that: private school baby sat too many kids and they didn't think they HAD to learn.
DEI on full display
Baltimore has issues. Sheila Dixon is not the answer.
Which really scary is these tests were made by teachers so they were probably grading on a really terrible curve says a lot about the people we have teacher says a lot about the parents says a lot about the lack of discipline in these students
Punishing the teachers for children that don't care to learn ads to the problem.
Do they even know how to spell and write their names?? 😂😂😂
It's a business...just in case I would check the CEOs thesis..bet ya she plagiarized like someone else..😂😂😂😂
Omg this is so sad
Not to bad, not bad at all
I’ll do the job for 444,000$ and I’ll get 100
you will never get past DEI or the unions to do anything. You can't fire anyone.
Who is setting the standard of “proficient,” and what constitutes proficiency in that standard? Who decides what is put in the exams? This is in no way answered in the video.
I am not sure but the answer isn't to lower the score so more people are proficient. Math is math, it's not how you feel that day.
@@golfp566 I have no argument with what you say; referring to my OP, my issue is with what is not covered in the video.
We are comparing scores now with pre-pandemic scores when we are in a post-pandemic era and a significant portion of students are deficient of foundational mathematics skills. Without foundational mathematics skills, proficiency is unfeasible.
They have always been failures
Blame principals for caring more about looking good in front of the school board than actually educating students.
Lmfao
Do I understand the situation correctly? The current population of the USA cannot fulfill the norms settled for education.
***blaq’s***
This is terrible. This is why my wife and I make sure our kids are on their A games. On the other hand, I bet most of these adults aren't proficient either.