Posted on 09/21/2023 7:55:35 AM PDT by george76
BALTIMORE — The latest round of state test results is raising alarm in Baltimore City Schools. Project Baltimore found that 40% of Baltimore City high schools, where the state exam was given, did not have any students score proficient in math. Not one student.
“This is educational homicide,” said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of People Empowered by the Struggle, a Baltimore-based nonprofit.
In 2021, the group held rallies calling on Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises to resign over low test scores, falling graduation rates, and a lack of transparency. Now, after seeing what Project Baltimore discovered, Rodriguez is renewing those calls.
“There is no excuse,” he said. “We have a system that's just running rogue, and it starts at the top.”
...
unredacted state test results for every school in Baltimore City through a source within the school system, and the results are hard to believe.
Students took the tests in the spring of 2023, just a few months ago. Project Baltimore found 13 Baltimore City high schools where not one student who took the state math test scored proficient in math. Not one student.
...
Students took the tests in the spring of 2023, just a few months ago. Project Baltimore found 13 Baltimore City high schools where not one student who took the state math test scored proficient in math. Not one student.
Of the 32 high schools remaining, if 13 had zero students test proficient, that means 40% of Baltimore City high schools could not produce a single student doing math a grade level.
...
But that’s not the only alarming finding we made. In those 13 high schools, 1,736 students took the test, and 1,295 students, or 74.5%, scored a one out of four. One is the lowest level, meaning those students were not even close to proficient.
Last school year, Baltimore City Schools received $1.6 billion from taxpayers, the most ever. The district also received $799 million in Covid relief funding from the federal government. And still, not a single student tested at 13 City high schools scored proficient on the state math test.
“So, it's not a funding issue. We're getting plenty of funding,” said Rodriguez.“I don't think money is the issue. I think accountability is the issue.”
Six years ago, in 2017, Project Baltimore produced a similar report, where we analyzed state test scores and found 13 City schools had zero students proficient in math. Many of the schools from 2017 are also on the 2023 list,
...
“We're still dealing with these same issues year after year,” said Rodriguez. “It's just scary to me and alarming to me because we know that what's happening now, you know, it's just opening up the floodgates to the school-to-prison pipeline.”
City Schools will not do an interview to discuss these results
...
“I'm beyond angry,” said Rodriguez. “This is why we've been calling for the resignation of the school CEO.”
It’s important to note that Project Baltimore is only able to report these test scores to the public because a source gave them to us.
When the state officially releases them later this month, the results will likely be heavily redacted, making it more difficult for parents to see how many schools are performing.
Earlier this year, the Maryland State Department of Education began further redacting state test scores after Project Baltimore reported on last year’s poor outcomes.
With State Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury no longer seeking another term, Project Baltimore reached out to the State School Board, asking if it will reverse course and make more information available to the public. We were told the board has no comment.
Baltimore schoolkids are well educated in math.
They know how many nickel lids go into a kilo.
I bet all the seniors got a HS diploma though.
Just make your mark for benefits!
Maff be raciss
We've zeroed in on the one thing the government of Bodymore Murderland is actually proficient at.
I think that the teachers, especially the math teachers, should all have to take the math test. Let’s see how many of them pass. This should give us some insight into the actual problem.
An important fact ignored by this article is that this 2023 math test is a copy of a 2nd grade math test from the 1950s which, at the time, had a 90% passing outcome...
“An important fact ignored by this article is that this 2023 math test is a copy of a 2nd grade math test from the 1950s..”
Is that true?
L
If they do send their kids to a Baltimore city public school, it’s to one of the magnet schools, not to any of these 13
Public schools handcuff their teachers. There’s no accountability to students or parents. Teachers are burned out and quitting. It’s not a funding issue. It’s corruption in administration and at the Fed. Dissolve Dept of Education, return power to the states, let states empower their teachers, and then things will get better. But that’s a pipe dream at this point.
It used to be illegal to teach slaves to read and write. Just sayin’.
I would also like to see the students’ attendance records before blaming teachers, administrators, “racist” text books - all of the usual suspects whenever these poor scores come out and everything and everyone is blamed EXCEPT the student/and or the parent.
My former district, the LAUSD is battling student absenteeism - 47%, according to the latest reports, are considered chronically absent - meaning missing 18 days of school for the school year, almost an entire month. That’s almost 1/2 the students - meaning they’re falling further and further behind as the math class moves forward. Why is THAT fact never mentioned? Easier to blame a lack of funds or teachers, as usual.
You also have classrooms full of disruptive students who do nothing except make sure no learning goes on - teachers’ hands are tied. Can’t suspend kids any longer - and they well know it. Many of these “students” never bother to do homework, pay attention in class, do classwork, etc. Calls home do nothing.
I know b/c I spent nine years in such a school before I transferred out to a far better workplace.
themainewire.com
BY STEVE ROBINSON
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Maine Dad Says High School Clinic Sent 17-Year-Old Daughter Home with Secret Baggy of Zoloft, Sicced Child Protective Services on Him For Complaining
“You can’t just give my daughter pills in a ziplock baggie and send them home,” said Eric Sack.
A Fairfield father says that a federally funded health clinic operating within Lawrence High School provided his minor daughter with a baggy of prescription anti-depressants without his knowledge or consent.
When the girl’s father, Eric Sack, discovered the baggy of pills over the weekend, his daughter told him that it was provided to her by the Bulldog Health Center, a School Based Health Center (SBHC) at Lawrence High School.
Sack saw the the pills as an infringement on his parental rights, but he was also concerned that the school’s clinic sent unlabeled drugs with no child-resistant container into his home, where his two other younger children also live.
[RELATED: Public School Worker Who Began Secret Gender Transition on 13-Year-Old Maine Girl Has Conditional License…]
He called Lawrence High School Principal Dan Bowers to complain about the undisclosed drug treatments the school clinic gave his daughter, but Bowers insisted the SBHC was a separate entity from the school and not under his control.
Bowers did not respond to a phone call and an email seeking comment for this story.
Lost without math: Math illiteracy will impact one’s ability to lead a successful life in the modern world! American Thinker ^ | 08/15/2023 | Uldis Sprogis
Posted on 8/15/2023, 6:02:56 AM by SeekAndFind
What many humans don’t realize is how math illiteracy will impact one’s ability to lead a successful life in the modern world.
Math is essential for managing personal finances.
Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck not just because of low wages, but because of their inability to budget money for daily, monthly, and emergency expenses.
Budgeting is basic applied math to the real world of prices or money.
Of course there are budgeting apps which can help to some extent because the apps do some of the math for you. However, ultimately, you must become very aware of how much you are paying for each item or your total purchases will easily exceed your budget allotment. So few of us can be considered to be thrifty shoppers.
Another very important factor, which is not that obvious, is the discipline needed to spend money within or below the budget. This is basically an ability to say ‘no’ to most purchases for high price items and say no need to purchase right away. Without disciplined purchases, most of us just resort to impulse shopping which many of us are addicted to. So, budgeting is very useful, but unfortunately, only some have the discipline to take advantage of the benefits of budgeting and apply budgeting to their daily lives.
Math plays a crucial role in decision-making in society and without basic math skills you severely handicap yourself and your lifestyle.
Humans should use math to create budgets, calculate expenses, track savings, understand interest rates, manage loans, and plan for retirement.
Consumer math-based decisions are important in comparing prices, discounts, price per pound, product durability, and evaluating the best value for the money.
In health care, math is used in medical research, drug dosage calculations, analyzing medical data, understanding disease patterns, developing treatment plans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/lost_without_math.html
I wonder what the pass-percentage would be if it was the state’s 2023 meth exam? ...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.