The takeaway here isn’t that “it’s for the kids.” We hear that every time a school budget comes up or another teacher union contract comes due. It is that IT is for the Union. Period. Full Stop.
Baltimore City is facing a devastating reality as the latest round of state test scores are released. Project Baltimore analyzed the results and found a shocking number of Baltimore City schools where not a single student is doing math at grade level. “We’re not living up to our potential,” said Jovani Patterson, a Baltimore resident who made headlines in January 2022, when he filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools. The suit claims the district is failing to educate students and, in the process, misusing taxpayer funds. “We, the taxpayer, are funding our own demise,” Patterson said at the time.
…The Maryland State Department of Education recently released the 2022 state test results known as MCAP, Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program. Baltimore City’s math scores were the lowest in the state. Just 7 percent of third through eighth graders tested proficient in math, which means 93 percent could not do math at grade level.
You would think that with the resources a major city can bring to bear to help their “precious children,”(yes, a DEMOCRAT-run city, mind you) the results could be better but across 150 schools – that 7% proficiency rate for math is GREAT compared to this.
Project Baltimore found, in 23 Baltimore City schools, there were zero students who tested proficient in math. Not a single student…Among the list of 23 schools, there are 10 high schools, eight elementary schools, three Middle/High schools and two Elementary/Middle schools.
Think of it – 12 years of schooling by the Government in union-owned schools and NOT A SINGLE STUDENT is at grade level. Yet, these unions keep demanding more and more money.
FOR WHAT?? NOTHING! Who is defending all those kids??? Where is the SHAME on the part of the teachers, on the unions, of the School Boards?
Oh but not ALL is lost – 20 more had at 1 or 2 students that were proficient. But JUST 1 or 2:
…And it’s important to note, another 20 Baltimore City Schools had just one or two students test proficient in math.
- Baltimore City Schools with just 1 or 2 students proficient in Math
- Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West
- Carver Vocational-Technical High
- ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School
- Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle
- Digital Harbor High School
- Dr. Bernard Harris, Sr., Elementary
- Edmondson-Westside High
- Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary
- Frederick Elementary
- Gwynns Falls Elementary
- Lillie May Carroll Jackson School
- Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High
- National Academy Foundation
- Patterson High
- Reginald F. Lewis High
- Robert W. Coleman Elementary
- Sinclair Lane Elementary
- Stadium School
- Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle
- Westport Academy
The response (sans the mostly ever-present “Gimme more, gimme more, gimme more!”) – was the usual moronic “we’ll do better” platitude:
Governor Moore’s office did not respond. But City Schools did send Project Baltimore a statement with steps it’s taking to improve math scores, including professional development for teachers, summer learning and an extended learning period at the end of the day.
The statement said in part, “We’re confident these instructional strategies will help us regain the momentum and progress we experienced before the pandemic.”
Sorry, the Baltimore schools were incompetent before the Wu Flu – they HAD no “momentum.” That’s what the clueless, having nothing else to say, give out to the plebes, HOPING that someone might take them seriously.
Professional Development? That’s “the reason”? So ALL those teachers, in all those schools, who went through 12 years of public/Government schools, then 4 more at a college or university, CAN’T teach math? And a few sessions of “Professional Development” lessons (on yet, I bet, the “newest, latest math Fad) is going to unwind decades of utter failure?
But I’m willing to bet that each and every kid knows all the “preferred pronouns” mandated by the Social Emotional Learning ever thought of.
HT | Fox 5 News
