Everyone probably remembers that Baltimore Publix schools are some of the worst in the nation. Those unaware of just how bad they were might have learned this fact from a story about a student who graduated at the middle of his high school class despite failing every subject except physical education. Baltimore public schools aren't exactly underfunded....they take in about 1.6 billion in funding annually. The top education official makes over 400k a year. Yet despite this....Baltimore public schools are performing so poorly that they literally hid students' performances from the public....
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“Instead of coming clean and saying that they failed the students of Baltimore City and students across the state, they're trying to hide it, and now they're piling lies on why they're hiding it,” Kennedy told Project Baltimore.
Here’s what happened. In January, the state uploaded a spreadsheet to its website, containing detailed state test results from last school year. Project Baltimore downloaded the spreadsheet and began analyzing the data.
Fox45 News was first to report the results on social media in late January. Soon after, MSDE removed the data from its website.
Apparently, these public servants aren't only bad at teaching... they forgot how the internet works. Once you put it online and people start sharing it....it's far too late to go back and change it. Yet that's exactly what they tried to do. Where performance indicators once were...asterisks replaced them.
So how bad are Baltimore public schools? 23 schools didn't have even 1 student proficient in math. The best school in Baltimore only had about 25% of students proficient in math. The second best had about 13% proficient in math.
I recall a brief discussion of priorities during the height of the BLM scam....where people would point out that concerns about unlawful killings of black people by police should be a secondary concern to unlawful killings of black people by other black people...since one was literally thousands every year and the other was typically less than a dozen. Similarly, concerns about sexualizing children in the classroom and exploring gender identity in kindergarten shouldn't even be a possibility until our schools were graduating children who could read, write, and do math.
Yet, the Democrats seem to think grades are racist...and it's best if we do away with them altogether.
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And if you think this is just a few goofy professors or the ultra leftist state of California....consider the National Educators Association's view of standardized tests....
www.nea.org
Since their inception almost a century ago, the tests have been instruments of racism and a biased system. Decades of research demonstrate that Black, Latin(o/a/x), and Native students, as well as students from some Asian groups, experience bias from standardized tests administered from early childhood through college.
That's a shocking and counterintuitive statement. Without standardized tests...how would we know which students learned the material, and which teachers are effective? It seems to me an excuse to hide the fact that the left no longer cares about anyone's public education. However, Anti-racist grifter Ibrahim X Kendi disagrees...
"We still think there’s something wrong with the kids rather than recognizing their something wrong with the tests," Ibram X. Kendi of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at Boston University and author of How to be an Antiracist said in October 2020. "Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black and Brown minds and legally exclude their bodies from prestigious schools."
Kendi would know....if he spent any of the 43$ million his Anti-racist grifting center acquired for research on doing any actual research...
www.themainewire.com
As it stands, I'm not inclined to believe the racist theories of this new generation of race hustlers just because some are foolish enough to hand them large piles of money. This appears to be an attempt by the Democratic Party to hide the fact that they not only don't care about public education anymore....they think it's a vehicle funneling taxpayer money to political allies and interest groups.
Thoughts?
'Nothing but a cover up': State removes student test scores, hides data from public
It’s being called a scandal and a cover up. There are calls for an investigation into the Maryland State Department of Education after the agency changed the wa
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“Instead of coming clean and saying that they failed the students of Baltimore City and students across the state, they're trying to hide it, and now they're piling lies on why they're hiding it,” Kennedy told Project Baltimore.
Here’s what happened. In January, the state uploaded a spreadsheet to its website, containing detailed state test results from last school year. Project Baltimore downloaded the spreadsheet and began analyzing the data.
Fox45 News was first to report the results on social media in late January. Soon after, MSDE removed the data from its website.
Apparently, these public servants aren't only bad at teaching... they forgot how the internet works. Once you put it online and people start sharing it....it's far too late to go back and change it. Yet that's exactly what they tried to do. Where performance indicators once were...asterisks replaced them.
So how bad are Baltimore public schools? 23 schools didn't have even 1 student proficient in math. The best school in Baltimore only had about 25% of students proficient in math. The second best had about 13% proficient in math.
I recall a brief discussion of priorities during the height of the BLM scam....where people would point out that concerns about unlawful killings of black people by police should be a secondary concern to unlawful killings of black people by other black people...since one was literally thousands every year and the other was typically less than a dozen. Similarly, concerns about sexualizing children in the classroom and exploring gender identity in kindergarten shouldn't even be a possibility until our schools were graduating children who could read, write, and do math.
Yet, the Democrats seem to think grades are racist...and it's best if we do away with them altogether.
Professor says grading system is racist, proposes labor-based system: 'White language supremacy'
An Arizona State University professor is calling for the end to “White supremacy language,” and to do away with the common way of grading papers in favor of labor-based grading
And if you think this is just a few goofy professors or the ultra leftist state of California....consider the National Educators Association's view of standardized tests....
The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing | NEA
From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.
www.nea.org
Since their inception almost a century ago, the tests have been instruments of racism and a biased system. Decades of research demonstrate that Black, Latin(o/a/x), and Native students, as well as students from some Asian groups, experience bias from standardized tests administered from early childhood through college.
That's a shocking and counterintuitive statement. Without standardized tests...how would we know which students learned the material, and which teachers are effective? It seems to me an excuse to hide the fact that the left no longer cares about anyone's public education. However, Anti-racist grifter Ibrahim X Kendi disagrees...
"We still think there’s something wrong with the kids rather than recognizing their something wrong with the tests," Ibram X. Kendi of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at Boston University and author of How to be an Antiracist said in October 2020. "Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black and Brown minds and legally exclude their bodies from prestigious schools."
Kendi would know....if he spent any of the 43$ million his Anti-racist grifting center acquired for research on doing any actual research...
Boston University Launches Inquiry into Ibram X. Kendi's $43 Million Antiracism Center Amid Mass Layoffs, Accusations of Financial Mismanagement - The Maine Wire
Boston University announced Wednesday that it is launching an inquiry into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) following accusations from former staff members that allege mismanagement of grant funds, a high turnover rate, and general disorganization. The inquiry, which BU...
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As it stands, I'm not inclined to believe the racist theories of this new generation of race hustlers just because some are foolish enough to hand them large piles of money. This appears to be an attempt by the Democratic Party to hide the fact that they not only don't care about public education anymore....they think it's a vehicle funneling taxpayer money to political allies and interest groups.
Thoughts?
