Wow, this is troubling. Especially considering the fact that last year, Baltimore City Schools received $1.6 billion from taxpayers — the most they've received to date.
Dude, what's going on here?
How does a school district receive $1.6 billion and then have 13 schools turn out to have ZERO students who test proficient in math?
That's 40% of the 32 Baltimore City high schools.
To make it worse, those 13 high schools not only turned out zero math-proficient students — 75% of the students scored a one out of four, the lowest score possible.
75% of students!!
This is far beyond education. Something needs to be looked into here, because if this isn't the result of dirty money finding its way into the hands of the greedy and never making its way to the students, I'll eat the urinal cake at the Shell station down the street.
The district did reach out to Fox 5 Baltimore, however, but look at this:
But make no mistake: these recent increases [in funding] do not diminish or patch over years of chronic underfunding that has directly contributed to our current outcomes. That recovery takes an equal or more significant amount of time to remediate.
Right now, the facts are clear: City Schools' students have earned two consecutive years of improved scores on the math MCAP following national decreases during the COVID pandemic. Seven of eight grade levels experienced growth in math between SY2021-22 and SY2022-23, mirroring growth in Maryland overall.
We acknowledge that some of our high school students continue to experience challenges in math following the pandemic, especially if they were struggling beforehand.
Is it just me, or did they simply blame Covid and move on?
What about all that Covid money? $799 million worth to Baltimore City Schools.
A few things to note: Baltimore is nearly 65% black, and some of the schools are nearly all black - administrators, teachers, and students. Wasn't this segregation the path the BLM folks told us would bring more success for black kids?
Second, this isn't a one-off case. We've been covering Baltimore schools for a while now.
Ridiculous, the way education is being dumbed down in this country, especially in the bluest of the blue areas.
It's time to do something about education in this country. Maybe that's school choice, maybe more voter turnout when the school board is up for election, maybe we just need more private schools.
But something needs to happen before we turn into a straight Third-World country.
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