I’ve written about this before – not just regarding Baltimore but for a spate of other Democrat/left cities’ educational systems as well. But this just-reported disaster has to be singled out.
From Will Potter’s article for London’s Daily Mail:
A slate of Baltimore schools have sparked outrage after zero students passed their state math exams – with almost 75 percent testing at the lowest possible score.
The poor performances came in the latest round of Maryland‘s state testing, where 13 high schools in the city – a staggering 40 percent – failed to produce a single student with a ‘proficient’ score in math.
The concerning results, which were first raised by Project Baltimore, also saw 74.5 percent of students in the 13 failing schools score just a one of four on their test – the lowest a person can score.
Some of the city’s best-known schools, including Patterson High School, Frederick Douglass, and Reginald F. Lewis, made their way onto the list, while Baltimore City Schools also received $1.6 billion last year from taxpayers.
It was the largest funding the educational authority has ever received, leading to questions over where the money went.
The frightening situation has come six years after another report by Project Baltimore again found that 13 schools in the city had zero students test ‘proficiently’ in math.
According to the most recent census report, Baltimore spends $21, 606 per student. That is the fourth highest per-student expenditure in the country. And this is what students are “accomplishing”. This is what the money is buying. This is the condition of Baltimore high school students, who are then sent out to try and function in the real world.
And, yes, the reading scores are just as ugly.
When do the people of Baltimore, especially parents – most of whom, I assume, want their children to learn and succeed – acknowledge what a total disaster the educational system of their city is and that it must be radically changed, with different leadership at the top and different leadership in positions of political power?
The answer is that it can’t come too soon. Because if the same people remain in educational and political power, it stands to reason that the same results will be forthcoming.
You get what you vote for. If you want something different, vote different.
There, that wasn’t so hard to understand.
Just do the math…
