Harvard-trained mathematician offers Baltimore students help, no reply from school leaders 

The city public schools don't want anyone coming in that would ruin their hustle. They get money for improvement without actually improving.

Props to this dude. It’s a shame the city turned it down.

First they ignore a generous offer that won't even cost them anything, and now, judging from the tone of their response, they are insulted... These kids are doomed to leave school without much knowledge of maths

Higher education, less poverty… less poverty less crime. The government needs to get involved because the management at the schools don’t care.

If Baltimore City is not interested, my homeschooled daughter could use help in math.

This is happening everywhere! My daughter loves math and her school counselor tried to direct her towards language studies.

They DON’T want the kids to increase their learning in Math, if they did, they would’ve taken him up on the offer. It’s job security for them.

Step 1: Get rid of problem students is so instructive🥇 I suggest Step 4: Get rid of Baltimore School Officials blocking this help. Then the program will succeed

It’s crazy how much they don’t care about their kids. Really pathetic and sad. Who turns down FREE help and money??

AS A TEACHER I GIVE IT AN A+

Don’t waste your time champ, Baltimore people don’t want help and the city doesn’t want you to help them, it’s a cesspool and failure is a “business” heard a judge say so himself.

They just want to complain..they don't wanna solve the issue

Knowledge is not something that is given, it's something that is taken. You can't really give it to anyone who doesn't want to take it. Save it for those who want it.

They know he'd simply be wasting his time and risking his life. Kids across America have the same "mediocre" teachers and lesson plans, but manage to do well. The blame lies with the parents more interested in teaching their children how to dance instead of counting and reading.

How can you turn down that offer if you really want them to improve!! There has to be a hidden agender here!! His first step can help in a subjects to remove all of the class clowns and disrupters that make it hard for other kids to focus on the lesson! That man should be givien the assignment to head all schools Math classes and to rewrite their training for the kids!!

The problem is, he's trying to get rid of the problem students.

They want these kids dumb, especially these young black men. They cant profit off of these young brothers not getting locked up and selling poison to the community.

Why be surprised...baltimore is way beyond saving

Increase "math scores" or teach them to "think and solve math problems" ???

I think one of the reasons they never bothered to respond to the professor’s email is the part where he suggested that, the students, those causing trouble or distraction in the classroom should be removed. That’s kind of practicing the Charles Darwin’s theory about ‘natural selection’ an not everyone agrees on that, adult faculties and parents wouldn’t appreciate to find out students and their child is being ejected away from group into this program.

Sounds like they don't want to change the status quo.

Professor Farley needs not to waste his time in Baltimore. I am sure other places that need help will jump at his offer. Hell I would try to use this program across the country.

They don’t want to help these black kids

Why not give him a try?

They gotta be able to read the math problems.

What a man.....

Jonathan has the perfect plan to teach mathematics & for Baltimore to turn it down proves the new WOKE WAY to run schools is not helping kids learn. How sad! Really hope they change their minds! Kids needs teachers like him!

I would like to use his services.

This guy is a mathematician and he said only 3% of Baltimore studuents are the distraction?? Someone check his paperwork!!!

He may have a great strategy, to help students and I believe he does, but he is going about it the wrong way. He is an educated professional. Does he not know how to go through the necessary steps? He has done it before. Every state is different. Why contact the 4 individual schools directly and offer his services? 6 points: #1 - In most states, individual (public schools) do NOT have the autonomy to make such decisions. Why didn’t he contact the school board, school district or the State Board of Education? These are the organizations who make decisions at that level. #2- In most states, school districts can NOT legally just “get rid of the disrupters”. And send them where? Even though they are disruptive students, they are entitled and have the right to be in the public schools and taught the same things as everyone else. If districts legally could just “get rid of them”, they would have done so, as districts and especially teachers have been asking (damn near begging) for this for YEARS. These students can NOT be discriminated against. #3 - As the district alluded to, why wouldn’t he (like everyone else does) come in through proper channels as a district consultant, set up a model program and then teach/instruct the math teachers on his method? #4 - After all, State Boards of Education and school districts all across the country get all the time, hundreds of people with a proposal to introduce a new method, strategy, technique, concept, idea, and even an old strategy now new again. They do allow in, this person who can prove to them and or convince them of the success of their program. They will then give this person a school(s) to pilot their program/strategy, whatever. If it is successful, they then mandate the districts who then mandate and require teachers to be trained in this new way, then mandate the teachers to use it. #5 - The District, (NOT the 4 individual schools he contacted by email) said it felt he was being self serving (basically wanting to showcase himself). I can see it and agree with them based on his interview, because if he really wanted to help these students, “Why not go through the proper channels like everyone does?” “Why not pilot the program/strategy and upon success, train the teachers (who in turn can reach far more students)?” “Why, when rejected, did he go to the media and trash talk these individual schools and it’s educators who had no power to make that decision?” And obviously, the individual schools were interested because they did take his (email offer) to the district, in that it WAS the DISTRICT that responded to his offer. #6 - And If he really wants to help these students and not just showcase himself, he can for starters, try again, by contacting the district in the way it is done, through legal and proper channels. He can also go into a community center and open his program, which people do all the time when the districts do not adopt their program. He could also set up a private workshop/ institute to train teachers in his method, that teachers can attend on their own. Teachers attend and pay for these kinds of workshops/institutes All the time. There is so much else he can do if he really believed in his program/ strategy and really wanted to help those students. I hope he does that.

Black man trying to help his own people. His own people turn him away. Sad.

Step 1 is a political no-go these days. Consequences for negative behavior have disappeared. As for the "self-serving" quip, let's say for sake of argument that WBFF is indeed acting in that manner. An act can be self-serving while also benefiting others, which this would absolutely do.

Beautiful story

That's horrible that they haven't replied. I'm glad he made this public. What will leaders say now? Will they show transparency concerning this issue?

Issue: too many missed days, too large of classes, single parent homes, lack of parental involvement, too many excuses, lack of consequences for poor behavior, lack of apprenticeship programs.

Graduate with 3rd grade reading n math skills..

PLEASE COME TO DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Thank you brotha

The problem is the parents. If you have the parents demand this service it will happen. The school is government funded so if parent threaten to pull there kids out or sue the school will have to reconsider.

Well, adult students who took up GED can accept it gracefully! We're ready!!!

Reading between the lines, their solution is to "fix the teachers" and work the teachers longer and harder.....lol....when the teachers are prob not the problem.....They will just burn out the teachers more...The guy's approach would work better then the school's already tried and failed by others approach.

Yall voted for this now live with it!!!! DONT CARE!

They don't want him

Prettier smile of the Mr. Math!

The secret is study hard, study hard, study hard.

3:28 These strategies are ALREADY being used and are failing. The problem is that it is not politically correct to remove students due to the concept of "restorative justice." However, desperate times call for desperate measures. Remove the 3% of disruptive students and place them inside of classrooms within the school to learn together, like a one room school-house. Place 3 certified teachers (academic, special education and behavior support) and 2 paraprofessionals (special education and behavior support) in each classroom to handle the academic and discipline problems. Class sizes in this setting should not exceed 20 students resulting in an educator to student ratio of 1 to 4. Disruptive students must remain in that alternative class for at least a semester prior to a review meeting to determine their reintegration into the regular class setting.

Why would you not send it to the superintendent?

Maybe hire him to run the system. Can’t do any worse

*Democrat Plantation* - dilapidated housing, fatherless homes, high crime, and public schools failing students.

No individual or entity such as this Harvard professor will be allowed to interrupt our school to prison pipeline our efforts to achieve our initiatives have been successful in the Baltimore city community and other areas of interest and we will continue in our endeavors.

Thanks for the gesture sir. Hopefully with Fox 45 story they will except.

Step one is very important.

…Daamn!😞

Realize that the number of jails being built is based on the measurement of poor academic performance of boys starting at 3rd grade For example if 40% can’t read by 3rd grade; that’s the percentage of space they need to increase jails/prisons

Why would they? The educational decline is intentional

Exactly....this man is spot on!!!....meritocracy

Why do they call it an "innovative approach"? Discipline, drills&repetition, and competition sounds like back to basics.

Can the people he's emailing READ???

They aren't interesting in educating children

I'll take his help

You need math for daily life to just get by Dr Farley is part of the solution to this world and young people who want to make something of their lives. Shame on the schools they should want better for their students

His email said he can even “show you how to get funding for the program”-so he isn’t volunteering??? If I received that email, I would have honestly assumed it was a scam/spam.

2:18 oh so don't help the ones that need it most

North Avenue is a corporation

Wow! As long as the math learning model is broke, they have a job, but attempt to fix the failing math scores and this is the resistance an egotistical BCPS offers. What's worse a lack of care for their students. BCPS is scared of competency and prefer to submit to the press a model of gross incompetence. Moreover, he dares doing this miracle through funds that they can't access, has academic credentials, not part of the click, obviously bright, he's a Morgan professor too boot, he's a threat to BCPS North Avenue. Enough said; they need to boot out Dr. Sonja Brookins Santelises, she is incompetent.

The teachers' and administrators' pay should increase or decrease on student performance.... no more raises until students' grades improve.

kids hate math and Baltimore is beyond hope

Confident it will work? Ask them if they will quit if it doesn’t work? That’s how confident they actually are😂!

They would even know how to use him

Home School it works!!

Imo teachers union will say No way we don't want outsiders coming in to take our jobs. If they do Shame on them. This professor doesn't want your job he wants to help kids achieve. Let him get a background check and help!!!

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How dare he try to save the kidzzzzzzz.

Two thirds of his plan I agree with. A school system can't sign on to, what ultimately equates to, the giving up and not caring of students who would be deemed a distraction. Even the term of being a distraction is problematic. All students deserve the right to an education. Telling a kid (or their parent) well this kids bothers me or my classroom to much so we are getting rid of them, isnt something parents or a school system can get on board with. We already have the gal program and talented and gifted that will help with competition. But, you have to be careful with that type of program if a kid can't handle a program like that you send the message to them and their family that they are not worth an education. in theory it is a good system but needs more nuance. I believe that there are teachers that dont care but this plan is a form of uncare that is just as dangerous. it has to be tempered in order to be successful.

Damn. I'll take fpr my niece.

3:58 ooop! Did the school district just tell the Harvard honors graduate where to go to learn more about their bullshit ass program? 😒

Did he contact the school boards? How do you throw out 3% of Students without a huge legal fight?

Support school choice.

While I believe the students and school could 100% benefit from his program, the fact that he says at 4:27 that he "loves math more than people" isn't really good to say when you're desiring to engage in doing business. No wonder why they said no and believe it's self-serving - he has no soft skills and is angry about getting rejected. Weird. With that being said, I do hope both sides can come to an agreement in the near future, or at least, the students show measurable improvement, as that's the main goal.

Wrong complexion 😢

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Him running to the news, after a MONTH, shows that his intentions were never to help. He wants attention. I wonder if he’s a narc 🤔

He needs to contact Dr. Umar Johnson a Philadelphia, school Psychologist!

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Now give taxpayer's money back. We shouldn't waste $20k per piece of trash being babysat by the state

I thought the PARENTS are the most important teachers ,,, shouldn't the PARENTS care mr. harvard genius ,,,,,,, you live in a fantasy world sir,,,, you would last maybe 5 min in a city school ,,,,

7%! Keep voting democrat!

The kids from Baltimore just needs to focus on sports and rapping. Theres no HOPE for them unless they move to a different State.

His offer is gracious, but misinformed. He said get rid of the 3% of students who are trouble makers, if public schools could do that yes there would be way less problems! But we can't do that! They won't allow us! In fact with modern school doctrine, the trouble makers get the most help and resources.

What about the trouble makers? Are they just garbage to be thrown out?This man is so smart? Maybe the schools want to help all the children...what a jerk. I would be more impressed of he taught the trouble makers math...some of them are probably mathematicians in the rough.

1. An email isn't effective enough, maybe should have gotten in front of these ciry council members or school board meetings where alot are open to the public to start 2. probably can't be confident to have someone teaching your kids when he wasn't smart enough not to be simped by a 90 day fiance 😂😂😂

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He is black ok that's what it is case closed

Look on the bright side.You can't get any lower than zero percent.