Another roaring success for government schools as a high school in Baltimore found out that more than 3/4 of their students read at or BELOW elementary level.
This is just a horrible indictment on government schools being run by one of the most progressive cities in the United States.
Nearly half the students in the high school, so 9-12th grade are reading at 2nd grade or below level.
These kids are graduating grade to grade, year after year, and they cannot even read at a basic level.
This is beyond embarrassing, it's downright disturbing.
What is happening at these schools, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week? How could you not even learn to read by accident being, essentially, kept in prison?
From the local Fox Story:
A Baltimore City teacher comes forward with devastating information, showing 77 percent of students tested at one high school, are reading at an elementary school level.
The teacher works at Patterson High School, one of the largest high schools in Baltimore with a 61 percent graduation rate and a nearly $12 million budget. We agreed not to identify this source who fears retribution for giving Project Baltimore the results of iReady assessments.
"Our children deserve better. They really do," the Patterson High School teacher told Project Baltimore. "As a whole, the system has failed them."
61% are graduating, but only 2% can actually read at the correct level?
No wonder kids have a tough time making it to the workforce in these big cities, they are learning absolutely nothing in school.
Project Baltimore asked how a student who reads at an elementary school level could reach high school.
"They're pushed through," replied the teacher. "They're not ready for the workforce. They're not ready for further education."
When asked if it's social promotion, the teacher replied, "Yes."
Baltimore City Schools has a "one fail" policy, which states, "students cannot be retained a second time prior to ninth grade." That means students go to the next grade no matter how little work is completed. North Avenue has pointed to studies showing students learn better with grade-level peers saying, "multiple retentions should be a last resort for students."
A "one fail" policy? Meaning that it's impossible to flunk out of school? So if you fail ninth grade, that's okay because you can still graduate without doing any work for the next four years. They CANNOT fail you again, no matter what.
Of course the students aren't learning. They're not incentivized to do so.
"These numbers aren't lying," the teacher told Project Baltimore. "We truly need the families to see these numbers and to understand what it is."
Project Baltimore, over the years, has interviewed parents, teachers and community activists who all say children are being pushed through the City school system without getting the education they need.
"It's killing the lives of thousands of black kids," Carl Stokes, a former Baltimore City councilmember and charter school operator, told Project Baltimore in April 2021.
This is absolutely criminal. It doesn't allow anyone to succeed.
We knew things must be bad, but it's hard to imagine they'd be this bad.
