At over $400K a year, I don't exactly understand what she brings to the table. If the senate president doesn't hold any one position accountable, can he justify why we need that position to even exist? Does he believe in any form of accountability?
The IQ problem can be fixed. First off it is easy to lower IQ, like weed smoking. Aspiring to be a weed smoking rapper meme. Guaranteed to lower IQ. Prenatal health can make a difference right now. That should be strongly encouraged. And embryonic selection and outright genetic editing. Within a decade or less this can eliminate the IQ thing completely. 2 or 3 standard deviation IQ increase could be done.
This breaks my heart!!! I graduated Poly in 1993. We weren't just distinguished in Math and Science. I aced thermodynamics, calculus, and physics in high school! Scored a perfect Math SAT! How have things gone down hill so dramatically in just one generation? 😢 This is not due to the pandemic. Stop lowering the bar.
its because schools have become increasingly gynocentric , also a lot of people of color in the school system that should have stood against systemic racism didn't and allowed the students to fall through the cracks , people like roach glee, mr ward and Lisa lecompte should have stood up against systemic racism but chose not too
America has been dumbing down students. Republicans want people that regurgitate alternatives "facts" not competent self thinking students. It's purpose is to dumb down workers so big corporations can pay workers even less over time. You will accept crumbs happily and blame immigrants, people of colour and even women RATHER than plutocrats (the greedy wealthy that want to destroy the middle class).
With that data in mind. Shouldn't you be able to look back through the years and see where education started to fall apart? How are we sending these on to higher education or trades without a fundamental foundation? Poor math scores means fewer tradesmen, fewer scholars and fewer engineers in a state that wants to establish itself as a technological hub. We must be planning to outsource all of those labors.
It's not just math scores. I had a freshman college student who never read an entire book until my class. He was so excited to finish the book and wanted to read more of the series. Kids in school are told what to read but it doesn't always connect to what they are interested in. I have no problem with parents input but I have a huge problem with books being banned because there might be cursing. People you apparently don't hear your kids on the playground or in the park. You would learn a lot of new words. 😆
Baltimore public schools spend more than $20k per pupil per year. That is more than 95,% of public schools in the US yet these are some of the worst schools in the nation. Where does all that money go?
If a regular citizens in that district, said that he would run for the school board and promised to ensure to raise the test scores so that 80% of their students passed the state exam, the majority of the voters in that district would turn out and vote to retain the failing school board members.
I went to a ghetto school and I can tell you it starts early on in life. Some kids have deadbeat parents and have no chance to escape their lot in life. My parents would give me supplementary work at home and check my report cards whereas my classmates would skip classes and get arrested for stealing cars and shoplifting. As late as 11th and 12th grade I had classmates that could barely read and came to school to start problems and joke around in class. Well, I went to college, then graduate school, travelled the world and did pretty well in life. Many of classmates ended up in prison, dead, or simply disappeared. I now have kids of my own that I watch very carefully and ensure they are above standard for their level. Not everybody is that fortunate. Very grateful for my parents.
🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉 Congratulations! Some people don't and won't get you. You went to a ghetto school AND turned out ok??OK??? How??? Having good parents up and on your butt to make sure you're doing something positive with yourself, that's how! Being from the ghetto could make it harder, but not impossible. 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
It's the PARENT'S responsibility to raise their kids. It's the PARENT'S responsibility to make sure their kids are doing well in school. It's the PARENT'S job to make sure their kids are able to apply what they learn properly. Parents make or break a kid's future. Teachers help. But parents should be in charge of their kids.
Simple solution. Make administration pay performance based. They will then do their job and enforce standards under them. If your elected officials local and state don't hear you as parents and teachers, they need to go too.
I graduated from BPI in 1964 when the passing grade was 70. and the school building was the original one on North Ave. This is what happens when a corrupt City Government and overpaid City School Board just don't care about anything but themselves. When you have Mayor after Mayor sent to Federal Prison, and an AG currently being tried in Federal Court, you know what has been going on here for decades.
I don't think this is a political issue. I think common core math being mandatory is the issue. Its like a foreign language to the linguistically challenged. Also we need actual educators to make the decisions for education not parents that dropped out of high school. We need intelligent representation in government to do what's best for their constituents and not their bank balance. We need rational realistic people, not crazy performances from our leaders. Blaming teachers is not the issue... They are underpaid, under- appreciated and overwhelmed with the lack of support. It's a sad state of affairs when predominantly female-based jobs such as nursing and teaching (men do these jobs too I realize that) and those men are usually paid 30% more. But the respect and appreciation of these jobs are truly a calling for those that seek these positions. So many teachers have quit and states are trying to figure out why? I have a great idea...ask them!
I am not saying teachers don't deserve good wages. But years ago, when teachers earned less, students performed better. Also, in some private and charter schools where non-unionized teachers earn less, students perform better. A lot of kids skip class, come late, and do not turn in assignments. These are not financial issues, but they contribute to the poor test scores.
@@Factsonly125 Americans were not as self absorbed then Americans were more on the same page We live in a post 911 world where pets are more important than having children Where people yell false flag because they don't know what to believe The problem is bigger Hard to teach kids when the role models are rappers and gender benders Once a kid dreamed of being something when he grew up Society today tells him he is already there equal to adults Lastly we are talking about Baltimore that had 330 black on black murders last year and about the same this year with some mass shootings Your post applies to normal kids
In Baltimore all schools are not failing. You said my post referred to normal kids. Well, apparently normal students do exist. Moreover, students that aren't indoctrinated by hip hop and rappers also exist.
In Baltimore the mayor is a Democrat. The city council president is a Democrat. 10 of the 14 city council members are black. The city council members are all Democrats. The police commissioner is is appointed by city leadership. Baltimore's AG is a Democrat. The issues in Baltimore are not due to racism. The issues are due to culture. They are also the fault of the Democratic Party. The last Republican mayor of Baltimore left office in 1968..
Don't need to just stop there. The Maryland governor is a Democrat. The Maryland house speaker is a democrat, the Maryland senate leader is a democrat, democrats control both chambers by overwhelming majority. It's not an issue with state level republicans either.
I’m shocked and super confused on how they get through life. I was astonished seeing the 1st grade math level does connect the dots?? So some high schoolers couldn’t get past connect the dots, simple addition and subtraction(whole numbers)?!?!?!
I graduated with a double major and work in a big 4 accounting firm as a consultant and even I can’t do that without a computer. Does that mean I am stupid?
Your conceptual reality is what is wrong with our society. Can't read, write or perform basic math. Duh, look to the parents first. Fraud, your mindset to sue is the fraud.
No because that person would need to take some responsibility and accountability, too, at least in my opinion. By the time a young person is entering high school at 13/14, they are still minors in the legal sense and their minds are still developing but they're not unaware 1 or 2 year old children. They know exactly what they're doing and not doing for their own education and if they get passed through the majority would rather say nothing then demand to be held back so they can learn. That's the easy way out mentality that too many Americans have regardless of ethnicity, social class, gender, whatever. There is no push for self-discipline anymore and no one in positions of authority at home to ensure it happens. Too many parents want to be their kids friend or go the other extreme and beat them down literally and emotionally. This is one end result.
@@thomasgibson8025 jailing neglecters is extremely stupid; just make them pay child support to the group home they will be sent to, and garnish wages for refusal to pay, dock them and so on.
Unpopular opinion: it’s not a money or resource, or teacher incompetence problem. There is a critical mass of students that are too difficult to educate. They have a choice of failing over 70%( unsure if the actual number but you get the idea) of kids in every grade, and create a logjam of students that won’t graduate. Or, they can pass people along and hopefully do better with the next cohort of students. It’s a tough situation.
@@silentmajority8365 With a non existent family life and dysfunctional anti-education, hood culture. New varied approaches may help some. It will not be 100% successful, but anything over zero success is an improvement.
@@user-yc9ib2he7l We are not all equal in mentality and morality No amount of tax money can raise IQ or give morality. EXAMPLE Many blame the failings of Laton America on the USA yet they are 200 years older than the USA What was their excuse for failure before us? Lastly if you look up IQ by country you will see they have an average IQ of 80 Facts are not racist
@@Veilfire Yes agreed it can be abused, I knew a single mom on the run from the law who did that just so she would not get found, she put nothing into her "homeschooling".
"The soft bigotry of low expectations". Seems the leaders don't believe this is that much of a big deal. How might they respond if it were their childrens' school? Or even worse, if it is. We're in California, so private or home school is the general solution.
In uber woke San Francisco all the tech elites are sending their kids to private schools. San Francisco's woke schools are very well funded by the way.
It is interesting to me that Baltimore city schools are so bad, I mean incredibly bad, and the citizens of Baltimore wonder why no Fortune 500 company wants to move there to open up shop; there are no educated workers. Without an EDUCATED workforce no business will be successful. A workforce of fast food educated people means the city will have no viable way to advance. If Johns Hopkins University and its affiliates were to suddenly move, a VAST majority of the educated people would leave Baltimore leaving it a wasteland of ignorance and poverty. A black hole of waste with no white light to help illuminate the path forward.
With 990 graduates in LA in 1969, there were only 19 students in Trig. and Intro to Calculus, all Calif. Sch. students, and ME. Math has always been a shake out for students for all time.
Parents of children in the Baltimore City school system need to be made to put a bumper sticker on the back of their car or their house door that says, “Proud Parent of an F Student! “ 😂😂😂
There is a very, very simple solution. place online a free testing service for grades 7-12 in which children can sit to take three tests which get scored against, state, national and international standards. Tests would be free and unproctored. IDs would be protected. They would be focused on math, applied math, English language, and critical thinking. Results would not be scored by percentile but versus mastery. Kid #1: "I want to become a doctor." Scores 30% vs. State standards; 10% vs. National standards and 3% versus international standards. Parents would then be armed to demand accountability not only from districts but teaching, their own kids, and themselves. It would be a 100% truthful exercise. that would not cost much to implement. Better to have the "Oh shit" moment after primary school than to get it upon a fake graduation with 13+ years of paid for education now behind them.
This is exactly why affirmatives action needed to be removed. Can you imagine if one of these students getting into a top engineer school to make planes, programming for satellites, or build bridges just a few examples. Tens of thousands or more lives could be at stack, just to make people happy. Math is a fundamental hard science that can't be influenced by feelings. Too many lives at stack.
Try putting it in terms the kids can understand 🤷🏾♂️ If Shaniqua has $200, and hair bundles cost $50 per bundle, If Shaniqua needs 6 bundles, how much extra money does Shaniqua have to steal to get all the bundles needed?! Thats if she was going to pay for it 🤔
What was really funny is the black girl that graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute as the Val Victorian and got excepted into the Naval Academy preparatory course in Annapolis on a full ride scholarship. When she arrived to the school with a 4.0 HS GPA from the Baltimore poly Institute, she could not even pass the basic Math and English test of the preparatory Academy, so she was booted out of the school and the father was shocked. I saw this story on Fox 45 and I felt sorry for the father because he did not have a clue that his daughter was a box of rocks.
I graduated from City in 2003, when they were still an IB school and Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. A couple years later, the principal was prosecuted for imbezzlement. I'm not sure when things really started to go downhill, but corruption in the city has been a problem for far too long, and I moved away long ago. No Child Left Behind is part of the problem, and Common Core compounded it.
Sir, I love the way you think! This is a great idea, maybe that’s why James Monroe worked out a deal with Liberia to take all of the freed American slaves. These slaves were also going to be given free passage to Liberia by US government expense, but for some strange reason none of them wanted to leave the United States, even after the travesty of slavery.
The standards just keep being lowered----so much so that children as young as three should just be given a high school diploma and let out on the streets. That's how bad the educational system has become over the past 30 years. In one of my graduate courses I had to report two students who were reading on the 5th grade level, if that. They could not write a complete sentence, had no idea how a paper should be organized, and could not analyze material they were responsible for reading. They graduated from high school via social promotion. They were DEI students at a state college----and obviously learned nothing but were passed along to get that degree. Now, they were in grad school. Both were removed from my course, and they were dismissed from the graduate program. As one of those students told me, "I wanted to go to med school but I heard you have to keep long hours. I need time for my social life." I suppose that says it all. Nothing surprises me about education today. We hit the bottom of the barrel years ago; right now we are mining the sludge from underneath the barrel-----and it's toxic.
It isn't the fault of teachers if the kids don't show up for class or the parent does not respond to letters saying they are not doing their home work.
If Baltimore's schools were all run by one company, its stock would crater by failing to provide what anyone wants, the CEO would be removed, and/or the city would terminate its contract with the company that's clearly just bilking our money. But we can't do that here because this is the *public* system.
It is absolutely amazing what democrats are doing to the children these days. I can't imagine what it will be like in 10 years. Tattoos and piercing in 3rd grade? Karma Sutra? Who knows with them...
The parents are part of the problem. They don't dicipline their kids into learning or seeing the value of school. But personal accountability has no ebonic equivalent.
Baltimore hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1967. Maryland has also only had four Republican governors since the 1950s. I know the people of Baltimore are really terrible at math, especially lately but you *must* be sensing a pattern at this point. You cannot be this dense... Can you?
This news is sad, but certainly not surprising. The politicians will use nice words in order to avoid upsetting anyone. The root of the problem begins at home. Parents are not holding their children accountable.
So is math racist or not? 🤣🤣🤣 Continuing to blame everyone and everything for your own failure will never move the bar. OWNERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY BEGINS AT HOME.
Math is not racist it's not being taught correctly. Math is not a slacker subject it's a foundation subject that requires outside studying, grit, determination, and the ability to learn from mistakes. At this point in time only teachers with math degrees should be teaching math. Students should have access to math tutors, several math books, math workshops and math competitions. I know these things cost money. You can get these by eliminating these useless and high paying job positions (like CEO). Shame on you Baltimore.
This has been happening for decades this is not a new problem when you stopped letting teachers discipline kids and started letting cellphones raise your children and you started no child left behind and promoted kids that can’t read write or do math just to get rid of them you created this problem
Math, (and Chemistry/Physics/Sciences) are not subjects that you can "catch up" with like Literature, History, and shop. The subject continually builds on itself. I even told my Masters '' Degree Chinese wife that: private school baby sat too many kids and they didn't think they HAD to learn.
Do they have any special education students do have rights for help for the math, English and vocabulary in the public schools are not passing the math classes and k to 12th to graduate highschools.
STORY IDEA: What does the prison population look like? Is it filled with people who are uneducated from one of the failing school districts or community? @foxbaltimore who is benefiting from this school failure?
This is a damn shame on all levels. I wonder how proficient the CEO is in math or anything for that matter other than talking out of both sides of her mouth and kissing the right asses. The shakedown needs to start from the top on down, leaving no one unblamed from these overpaid administrators and politicians to the parents/guardians of these young people. Everyone has accountability and responsibility when it comes to education but for too long it's always a fight between teachers and parents, with the upper echelon people like that useless CEO getting away with cushy talk-al-good-game-do-nothing jobs and kids acting like unbridled hooligans. Time to put everyone's feet to the fire and get real about this issue and maybe, just maybe, Baltimore will stop being seen as a sinkhole of hell.
WHY are we surprised with these results,,,, we don't value education in this country. We value SPORTS and ENTERTAINMENT. Hmmm lets see,, get good grades, go to college, get a degree ,and make 40,000 OR play sports, get paid to play in college and sign a multi-million dollar contract ,, LOL
The schools need culturally sensitive lesson plans, for example: If Quavon buys 12 units of meth for $ 2.50 and sells them for $ 5.00 each what would his gross profit be? If 16 year old Tyrell is facing a murder charge and takes a plea deal of 15 years, how old will he be if he serves the full sentence?
@@user-cx3jn7cq8e If Connor and 50 of his white supremacy friends ascend on the capital build and 10 get shot and 20 get arrested for conspiracy and attempted murder charges . How how old will Connor be when he gets out if he takes a plea deal of 15 years.
Which really scary is these tests were made by teachers so they were probably grading on a really terrible curve says a lot about the people we have teacher says a lot about the parents says a lot about the lack of discipline in these students
