Failure Factory - A Project Baltimore Documentary 

Unfortunately a friend of mine went to school in Baltimore, MD. He dropped out at 18, got in trouble with the law, and thrown in prison. He spent a few years in there, but got his GED. Ironically he received a better education while in prison.

This is some of the best journalism I've seen in a major TV market, by far. The reporter, Chris Pabst should receive the Journalist of the Year in the State of Maryland. I couldn't believe how corrupt, the City of Baltimore, Maryland really is. I feel for these parents, and, their children, who have suffered far too long. These government officials in the City of Baltimore, should be thrown in The Slammer. Kudos to Chris, and, the news team at WBFF-TV, Fox 45, Baltimore, Maryland, the Fox affiliated station, and, to its parent company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Thanks!

I was born and raised in Baltimore. Thankfully I got out! This brings tears to my eyes! The fact that this video doesn't have many views thus far tells me that not enough people care! Who's going to take care of the kids!!!!??? The government? The teachers? The parents? All hold responsibility for the current state of the children! I'm one person! If there was something I could do to make a substantial change I would! Thank you for exposing this corruption! I see you!

Nobody would have known it was as bad as it was if your station didn’t look into the stuff you found was mind blowing

I would love to be a fly on the wall in some of those classrooms. If you think you could actually achieve academic goals in that brutal environment, then I pray you give it a go. It is a war zone in almost every Baltimore City school. Everyone is either the predator or the prey. Sad.

Philadelphian here: Long story short, same here (and every other big city or areas with high poor and nonwhite populations.) As an obligation of employment/ appointment/ election, all school officials and board members should have to enroll their own kids into the schools they oversee. Then, everybody has skin in the game. That’s usually when the game changes a little.

Thank you Fox for staying on top of all this abuse of our crime, school systems lack of doing the right things and our states attorney protecting of criminals. Keep up the good work for the people

You can blame the school system for promoting students who have not earned their grades. However, I don't think you can blame teachers for underperforming studemts.

he didn't fail the school fail but he didn't show up half the time. How are you gonna expect the school to help him if he don't show up , like they are not just going to baby him all the way to the finish line with an A that he didn't earn.

and some students laughing as they skip days and days of school. you still gotta show up.

$15,148 per child, hell that’s the same or more than a private school, that’s unbelievable 👿

When Trump called out the issues in Baltimore he received alot of criticism, whats done in dark always come to light. Hence the cycle continues and kids are the ones affected while individuals at the top are compensated extremely well.

The schools can’t/won’t discipline the bad kids or remove them from class. If there are any kids that actually want to learn, they are being disrupted and picked on by the other kids.

I was on this call for over 70mins...NOT ONE QUESTION about Augusta Fells or failing schools in general

Did I hear that correctly. 62 of 120 with less than a point GPA.

"That's the process, that's the process..." Then the process is broken. Beyond repair. Cowards. Leaderless. Inept. Incompetent. Immoral. Unjust. This is just so disheartening. And they just keep getting re-elected and re-appointed and re-hired. And they wonder why we become angry and cynical and hopeless. And it keeps spiraling down.

This happens in every facet of government of Baltimore.

stop giving them money!! it only goe in the upper up pockets!!

what are the parents doing about this? - nothing!

Born and raise in Baltimore City . I live in south baltimore I left in 2009 and moved to upstate, NY and I will never go back

Every line "blacked out"......great symbolism for the root of the problem.

I want a percentage of my effing property tax money refunded! I won't hold my breath.

Sooo ...... Do these Parents not make their children read to them or help with homework????

PHENOMENAL! LOVED IT!! FOX 45 IS THE #1 NEWS STATION IN BALTIMORE!!!

That Black Excellence on full display. They run the best cities and schools every time.

Do teachers try to teach? do they teach but have to deal with discipline problems so much it is impossible? People want to just blame schools, but they should check with what happens in the classrooms

They might as well rename "Baltimore" Baltiless

Chris and Mckenzie thanks for your dedication to our city and keep up the good work of holding the leaders of the city accountable for not doing anything worth seeing in relation to making the city more safer and schools better for the children smh.We need to vote better and smarter

i wish i could have been apart of this i was a long term substitue teacher at two city schools Marshburn and Mt Royal the kids was getting what they needed what I see now I am outraged the city officials need to be held accountable the CEO of the school system needs to go now the comptroller said it best they need to head count every month I wish they could do it weekly when my kids got to high school is when I really started noticing the school system failing our kids as a result I have two sons one just in the streets and my oldest son 33 paralyzed from the neck down with 30 yrs in federal prison due to a failing city period yes it starts at home but when you do your part and they have to still go out in this city where is the help at when they are not at home just look around this is a hopeless place from murders to drugs to corrupt system and police to failing school system to failing politically leaders what can we do I know y'all stand up and fight them not violate but with intelligence and facts that we show that the city is failing us not only schools police etc the whole damm city period I have 9 grandchildren and 4 are home schooled they have failed me enough my grandchildren will have a better way and they are scholars so for me if it isn't charter private then its home school for us

I love this channel 💕

I grew up in Baltimore in the 90s, and to be honest, if all we do is blame the schools you're lying to yourself. Between Reganomics, apathetic school officials, and parents (most of them mothers) who care more about looking good graduating than being able to read, the kids are bound to fail. After we blame everyone else, what accountability does the individual take? People tell themselves that math and reading are not important. It's easy to get away with it in a city that has not valued education since the 80s. I knew so many peers and elders who could not read, write, or do math, and they didn't care. If your child can not read, write, or do arithmetic, it's the parent's fault.

How can you be in your 60s and not be able to read? Did it ever occur to that old guy to try to read on his own?

And to think the schools here NYC were the worst.

I'd say I'm sympathetic, but I'm not. Baltimore residents have consistently voted these people into power. They're getting exactly what they've voted for.

Add BCPS to this! They are just as bad! Maybe worse!

This is just so angry. This makes me just so angry. I mean this school system should even exist. This type of school system should not exist whatsoever. Kids are going to prison. Kids are getting in trouble with the police. I mean this should not be allowed to happen whatsoever. Kids should be allowed to have a bright future. Not this. I say enough is enough. Something should be done.

If rap music glorified education as much as it glorified crime you'd have a better outcome. like Chris rock said,,,a thug fresh out of jail gets far more love in the hood than someone with a masters degree,,,go figure

Shoutout to Fox for staying on the neck of the leadership in Baltimore city! This hurts ! I don’t understand why this keeps happening.. they make so much money and refuse to do their jobs!!

You need to make these people accountable for the reactions no matter what they need to be investigated you need to find out the truth and the facts with a court order judge someone to court order the records and subpoena them to the courtroom supreme Court judge it is important that you know the truth and everyone has that right to know wow and others are being discriminated against because of their grades this is not acceptable when somebody is so angry he's showing no responsibility for his actions but acting guilty and paranoid and fearing what they'll find

Lol. These people will continue to vote for the same people who caused and are ignoring the problems. Sucks for the kids, but if the parents want change then they should vote in different people.

one north carolina district changes grades to at least a 50 during first half of year for middle school, and first grading period for each semester for high school. if you did no work you should get a ZERO, and get held back

Less than 7,700 views... insane.

17:16 This echos the same kind of situation going on in the school system in my hometown! You can't give the student a 0, but you can give that student a score of 50 or 60 instead! 25:24 It's nothing but ink! The pettiness this school system shows.

Their teachers out there who are involved in on sexual assaults that work in the schools they're also involved in on any assaults in the school from other students watching the fights go down they seem to stick up for the ones who violate Innocent by standards who doesn't do anything to them by putting words into the mouth of disabled being beaten all the hell or used as an escape goat by the schools allowing the predator to violate the disabled as well as some of the others being violated their self it's only comes from something that has influenced them so greatly that everything spins out of control that they use you abuse you and neglect you in the schools there is no protection CSD used to be inside the schools on neglect and abuse by teachers who did not do their jobs parents seem to be allowing their kids to be kicked around and beating all the hell in the schools to endorse it upon others who come along that are new students anyone they have the right to violate because of a parent who has a hate revenge grudge against another parent and their children not acceptable behavior not acceptable behavior what they hear children are not supposed to be talked around while adults are talking but it seems like it's gotten more out of control that adults seem to be talking about their hate crimes against others causing children to be crude and out of control then they get involved with the wrong type of people who comes from prison who has been let out on probation misleading them by influence of what they've been through but at the same time are they really telling them the straight facts that they went to jail and why they seem to brag about their backgrounds of being in prison and why they went to prison influencing our children and playing on their innocent emotions that they don't need they need to be free of all traumatizing negatives from those who's been through the negative traumatizing their self but forcing this upon children and being out of control this use of power and not acting like civilized adults they still live in the past and they brag about their liability mistakes about what they did to their victims they haven't stopped they're still stalking their victims

This has been happening for 60 years!?

Love the school policies.

This is what equity looks like

15K for a failing education . Hmmm

Education starts at home , signed a black republican

Class room size I personally feel sorry for the Teachers 40 to 45 students rich children Class size is. Small group of children 10 of 15 students

0.13? How is that possible?

"Baltimore City Freedom" Free to self-rule and create a representative culture. Free at last to be judged by character. Free at last _ Just maybe the truth is there is no solution.

Need to bring in the FBI,this is why they exist or no

I am so glad that my child don’t go there ..

This is happening all over the country. The teachers don't care about the kids anymore

The schools used to be great before the 90s. The city gave up control of the schools to the state in 97 for more funding. They need to be talking to state officials. They should ask for an audit because either they're wasting or stealing funds.

I did not see ANY parents also accepting responsibility Did you EVER ask to see your son’s report card? Supervise him while he studied? Go to parents night etc? 276 days missed you know that your son does not have certain skills😡 You did not call the school to see how things are going? For the entire time he was in highschool you also were not involved 🤷🏽‍♀️ The mom who has a son with total physical and mental disabilities is mad her son will not become a mechanic? He was incredibly limited you never noticed he was at home and NOT in school? You may not notice the first day but eventually you would if you paid attention and were involved

Just listen to the way some of these people who run the city talk, they don’t sound as if they have much education themselves

a lot of single mothers. only one people does this then wants access to everyone else's women. for real?

Wow, the great reverend, doctor, surgeon, triple crowns queen, PhD, Santaclauseleeses, is in trouble? No way!!!!!!

Imagine giving one group a billion chances then blaming other groups for this groups massive failure as productive members of a society created for them.

Poorly designed system. There should be a deadline to enter student grades in the system , after the deadline , those records cannot be altered in any shape or form!

Mackenzie Frost is so beautiful

Donations for grades in Baltimore county 😶.

Keep voting same people in.

As a tax payer, I find myself asking, "Why, for the love of God, do we continue to pay for public schools?" They're failing our kids. Teacher unions have enormous power to thwart common sense education reform all while doing everything to prevent bad teachers from being fired. The system cannot be fixed. Education needs to be privatized.

they can claim its bad schools and poverty all you want, but in the poorest white town disregarding amish ones, it has 97% literacy, but black people in the richest areas have 89% so

Brandon Scott young and handsome 😍 ♥ Mayor of Baltimore Maryland

Purposely turning out zombies.

Hilarious

I will never enter an american city again outside of getting essentials or using the gym.

Extremely handsome 😍 ❤ Mayor of Baltimore Maryland

Democrats, who knew?

But they wuz kangz and sheit