I recently wrote about how public schools and boards are making the case for school choice advocates with failing scores and rising controversies. The latest shocking statistic was released this week that 23 schools in Baltimore City had zero students who tested proficient in math. Those schools include 10 high schools, eight elementary schools, three Middle/High schools and two Elementary/Middle schools. The state found that 2,000 students who took the state test could not do math at grade level.
We previously discussed the Baltimore public educational system as an example of where billions of dollars have been spent on a system that continues to have appalling scores and standards. Recent data now offers another chilling statistic: 41 percent of students in the Baltimore system have a 1.0 (D) GPA or less.
We also discussed how a high school student almost graduated near the top half of his class after failing every class but three in four years. He had a 0.13 GPA. His mother objected and went public.
The top spending public school districts are also some of the worst performing school districts. New York topped the per capita spending at $24,040 per kid. Washington, D.C. is close at $22,759. Baltimore is often ranked in the top three per capita spending districts. The total budget for Baltimore public schools is roughly $1.2 billion. That is for a city with a total population of roughly 600,000 (The greater Baltimore metropolitan area is 2.8 million). In 2015, the school population was 84,000 kids.
Faced with school boards and teacher unions resisting parental objections to school policies over curriculum and social issues, states are on the brink of a transformative change. For years, boards and teacher unions have treated parents as unwelcome interlopers in their children’s education.
That view was captured this month in the comment of Iowa school board member Rachel Wall, who said: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community.”
State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) tweeted: “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
As public schools continue to produce abysmal scores, particularly for minority students, board and union officials have called for lowering or suspending proficiency standards or declared meritocracy to be a form of “white supremacy.” Gifted and talented programs are being eliminated in the name of “equity.”
Once parents have a choice, these teachers lose a virtual monopoly over many families, and these districts could lose billions in states like Florida.
Reports like the one out of Baltimore only fuel this trend to allow desperate parents to find alternatives for their children. It is a failure on a colossal scale. Yet, there is little accountability for the elected officials in these cities as generations are left with little future without basic skills.
Teachers and boards are killing the institution of public education by treating children and parents more like captives than consumers. That cannot continue much longer before parents look for alternatives.
I’m a 35 year retired school teacher from Central CA! I started a central CA No Left Turn in Education after taking a class claiming math is racist and we are a society of white supremacy from Achieve the Core March 10, 2021! Leftist WOKE policies are literally killing our kids and I cannot sit back and watch this happen! When will we the people say enough? I ran for the Fresno unified School board and lost a radical school district. Only those endorsed by the union were elected and their money to campaign was much larger than grassroots like me! I pray every single day for change!
No government contract that includes union signatories is legal or constitutional. Unions are criminal organizations whose only tools are bodily injury and property damage. Unions assault and batter replacement workers and damage tires, windshields, automobile body panels, replacement workers’ homes, offices and buildings of opponents. Unions have no bargaining positions, bargaining chips or means of influencing any negotiations or outcomes. Unions are nothing but criminals committing crime and criminals threatening crime.
The Baltimore kids would do far better in Catholic schools. There are plenty of Catholic schools within the city of Baltimore, Baltimore County and surrounding areas, and all offer generous scholarships. Not surprisingly plenty of the students are minorities. But the Left will have none of it because then these kids would be “indoctrinated” in Catholic ways. How is that Woke CRT Marist indoctrination working?
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My parents never finished grammar school in Cuba and in America we were poor but loved. They knew not to send their children to Miami area government “public” schools. Thus I attended Catholic schools from 5th grade forward, all as a charity case. I seemed to have done alright: college, medical school, graduate / MBA school
Ow Catholics are under investigation from the Justice dept. I think they’re domestic terrorist. Of course our resident Irish.Catholic resident in the White House didn’t get the memo.
When a collectivist sentiment is expressed like that from Iowa school board member Rachel Wall that “the purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want”, but “to teach them what society needs them to know”, and that “the client is not the parent, but the community”, I’m clearly reminded of the very core tenet of Marxism and its off springs, socialism and communism, as well as the roots it allowed for fascism to emerge. They all shared and still share the belief that children are to be given to understand that the state is their parent, not their biological parents, and that the family structure is to give way to whomever and whatever has the arrogance to know and the power to direct what is good for society.
When authoritarians like State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) say: “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget”, the reply quite naturally should be that if that is to be the case then the taxes parents pay to fund public schools should be returned to their budgets for the alternative allocation.
No question about it — the portion of taxes that go to public schooling should be eliminated, unless the kid goes to public school —
Let’s be cynical for a moment. if you are part of the elite who send your children to private schools, does it not benefit your children to make public schools as bad as possible? This is part of the problem.
Sounds about right. It’d also conveniently make public school educated kids obedient worker bees to be the cogs in a corporatist machine.
Baltimore: Black or African American 62%
David……By “African American” can you please be more specific? Do you mean Egyptian, Moroccan, Algerian,South African, or Nigerian, etc. American? Thank you.
Cindy Bragg, I assume what is meant is Americans of Africa descent, i.e., blacks. There must be very few people from northern Africa or even South Africa in Baltimore.
Elon Musk is from African, but he’s an American now.
Glenn Greenwald is a Brazilian but he’s into guys.
What do you get when you cross a Nigerian with a Cuban? Darren’s attention. LOL;)
Oky1………LOL
I are educated.
So R I.
Let me simplify it for you: it’s always about the people. Why do you think the 3rd world is called the 3rld world?
La Joya Independent School District
It is a 120 Miles long by 13 Miles wide strip that runs along the Rio Grande River Boarder with Mexico.
Where My Mother was the Curriculum Director until she retired. In the 80s the Children were mostly of Migrant Families whom traversed the Boarder between Seasons, The issues then were Students being in Class for a partial year. Their return to Classes was sporadic and unpredictable.
Thus you had some students that were of High School age with only a 5th Grade level of education.
The ‘Logistics’ of the Students Educational Experience are tough to tackle.
After that, you are Teaching a curriculum of “English as a Second Language”. Educating & Evaluation becomes a hurdle.
We have come along way since the 80s, but with the today’s immense influx of Children, many of whom are from various dialects of Language (espanol, spanish, portuguese, and others) the ability to provide adequate Education is difficult.
The Standards for Evaluation (Assessment Testing) are evolving annually with each School Year.
The relationship between the Teacher and Student is in transition’ year to year.
1. As the Student is introduced to a new Teacher year to year as they progress.
2. the Standards are ‘Changed’ year to year as they progress.
And then you throw in the Student’s Home Life, many of whom don’t have one, and are lucky to have one Parent.
It’s a Difficult Situation
La Joya Independent School District
https://www.lajoyaisd.com/
‘We previously discussed the Baltimore public educational system as an example of where billions of dollars have been spent on a system that continues to have appalling scores and standards.’
What makes anyone think throwing the money in the other direction will change anything? A great many of the alternative are equally terrible schools, staffed by the same sorts of people – it’s generational.
What happens at home matters, and still no one wants to discuss it. It is astonishing just how many of us think it’s the schools ‘job’ to round out children or the equally corrosive, ‘They’ll learn that at school.’. Sane policy reform will help a whole lot too, but this problem is endemic, and it’s a cultural one spanning decades. The only reason woke schools are upset is the loss of income, and the only reason the less desirable charters and privates (and there are many) are ecstatic is the infusion of income.
There are still good districts, but really, an awful lot of them are cut from the same cloth. The same can be said about our denial around parenting. The school board meetings are a good start, but the tip of the iceberg. Homeschooling every child is not an option, and shouldn’t have to be.
When they graduate and can’t get a job, the clowns that “taught” these students math will scream racism.
“the clowns that “taught” these students math will scream racism.”
And then they will demand a law to make companies hire the uneducated, and pay them to do . . . . . .
That’s what the gub’ment is for, silly. They hire these people.
Oh rest assured, they will get jobs. It’s called the gub’ment –which is a giant welfare system for the unemployable (by the private sector). And they can’t be fired! Amazing!
In addition to Mespo’s comments above with which I completely agree, it strikes me that there are two additional causes of the failure of the Baltimore school system to educate its students. First, in 1965 Daniel Patrick Monyihan, at that time a low-level government employee, wrote a prescient report about Johnson’s Great Society program in which he observed, “[t]he fundamental problem, in which this is most clearly the case, is that of family structure. The evidence—not final, but powerfully persuasive—is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling.” This situation is even more serious today as demonstrated by the fact that in 1965 24% of black births were to unwed mothers, whereas today the number is 72%. Second, we are fifty or so years deep into affirmative action including in our schools. It is likely that most of the teachers of the students in Baltimore are a product of this system where graduation depended more on the color of one’s skin than on achievement. It is quite possible that many of the Baltimore teachers never actually learned to teach. Add to this the enormous power Democrats have allowed teachers’ unions to have and there is little reason to believe that the situation will or even can be fixed.
Who could have predicted that having liberals in charge of your schools for a generation or two would A. cost you a fortune and B. produce tragic results? Who besides anyone that’s ever seen what happens to a school district run by liberals in an area where only the top 1% aren’t priced-out of the hood.
Maybe the liberals in MoCo could share their secrets with their B’more brethren??? Seems a lot longer than 45 minutes from B’more to Tacoma Park when you look at public school education in MD.
Pssst: ‘member when ole Marty O’Malley fixed the B’more schools by restributive funding in MD? Seems longer than 20-years ago, but it wasn’t.
Who could have predicted that having liberals in charge of your schools for a generation or two would A. cost you a fortune and B. produce tragic results?
While education colleges bear some of the blame, Social, Family structure is so dysfunctional, education is not the answer. Because students are so broken, before getting to school.
Liberal policies – kowtowing to the teachers union, redistributive taxation (as a way to pretend they are doing something), and pandering to the lowest common denominators is the agar that fosters the growth of broken kids over generations.
B’more City (and rapidly so, B’more County) schools are simply public works, democrat slush funds. Their purpose has nothing to do with educating kids.
By simply putting every BCPS kid in the same school with so many that have no business being there, you lose them all. Tragic.
Want to know why B’more has a bunch great private schools? Because, no one with any means would ever subject their kid to BCPS (and soon County) – it is child abuse, imo.
This is contradicted by the success of some charter schools. Read Sowell’s comparison of charter and public schools in NYC. Same kinds of kids, same buildings, different results.
The charter schools are paid per child .75 of the per dollar cost in the NYC school system.
ASSEMBLY ACADEMY FOR FUTURE (public)
8th grade
26 well below proficient
45 below proficient
24 proficient
5 above proficient
Success Academy charter school
8th grade
0 well below proficient
5 below proficient
41 proficient
54 above proficient
SOURCE: New York State Education Department
No on can look at the numbers of all the schools (hundreds compared) and want to maintain the status quo. The public schools alone I think amount to over 1 million students. I didn’t pick based on numbers, though I am sure they will vary greatly. I picked for a higher grade where the schools were housed together. The graph of all the schools cannot be copied or I would have included one random page.
Just looking at the change in performance, can one imagine the economic benefit ( leaving out the social benefit and costs) one would have if the education of all children were enhanced?
Some of the schools in bad areas satisfactorily competed with top private schools paid by the parents. I call this “cultural genocide” because we are condemning whole groups of children to a lousy future.
S. Meyer, Have you found the locus of the prohibition of secession in the Constitution yet or have you come to understand that the omission of any prohibition constitutes provision and approval? You’re certainly aware that West Virginia, Algeria, Pakistan, East Timor, Catalan, Scotland, Bangladesh, Uruguay, Greece, Brexit, Serbia, etc., all naturally and legally seceded, are you not?
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9th Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
“S. Meyer, Have you found the locus of the prohibition of secession in the Constitution “
It is embedded in the Constitution, easily noted where logical thinking is applied and knowledge of the nation the founders created.
Secession , unless voluntary is an oxymoron. The appropriate word is Revolution. You can go ahead and continue to accede to a secession of your heart and lungs from the rest of your body.
IRRELEVANT AND IMMATERIAL PERSONAL OPINION.
PLEASE CITE THE CONSTITUTION. IN A NATION OF LAWS, S. MEYER AND THE SUPREME COURT ENJOY NO POWER TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION, LEGISLATE, MODIFY LEGISLATION OR MODIFY LEGISLATION THROUGH “INTERPRETATION.”
The Constitution does not prohibit and, therefore, provides and approves secession by the People and secession by the States. Secession was fully constitutional in 1860. Lincoln’s acts to deny constitutional rights and to commence an unconstitutional war of aggression, not common defense, against a sovereign foreign nation were unconstitutional crimes of high office.
The law required Lincoln to be impeached and convicted. No war should have been commenced or prosecuted. Slavery must have been concluded by legal means in a nation of laws.
All acts subsequent to Lincoln’s initial invalid, illegitimate, illicit, illegal and unconstitutional acts are similarly invalid, illegitimate, illicit, illegal and unconstitutional.
In 1861, the Supreme Court must have struck down all unconstitutional acts of Lincoln by the doctrine of Judicial Review. As the Supreme Court recently acted retroactively by 50 years to strike down the irrefutably unconstitutional Roe v. Wade, which was illegally and unconstitutionally supported by the corrupt and unconstitutional Supreme Court of 1973, the Supreme Court must now retroactively strike down all unconstitutional acts of Lincoln and their unconstitutional corollaries and consequences, both deliberate and unintended.
“IRRELEVANT AND IMMATERIAL PERSONAL OPINION.”
George, that is what you provide for us plus partial quotations to prove the opposite of what Lincoln said. That is not scholarship, so don’t holler at me.
Do you think 100% of the people in the south agreed with secession or would agree if they knew what was happening? Though slavery was far from the only cause of discontent, most southerners didn’t have large plantations dependent on slaves.
Do you not believe the founders should have a voice? Look at what Madison wrote about since he changed his mind.
If you have to name it, call it what it is, revolution, not secession. It was secession until the nation undivided disagreed, and the south took up arms. If you don’t like the term revolution, call it an insurrection. I suggest that if you own a piece of property, tomorrow, you attempt to secede from the town or city, state, and country. See where that gets you.
Thank you very much for your awkward, oblique concession.
Your complete and habitual failure to cite the relevant body of law and your inane attempt at obfuscation proves that you fully understand and agree that secession is not only universal and ubiquitous but fully constitutional. Lincoln had no valid, legitimate or legal cause for action, as secession was and is constitutional. Everything Lincoln et al. did after his unconstitutional denial of secession is illegitimate and unconstitutional to this day. No act related and subsequent to an illegal act is legal. Constitutional secession may only be made unconstitutional through the proper and uncorrupted ratification of an amendment to the Constitution, not by your vivid imagination and enormous ego – you attempt to judge, not objectively and dispassionately, but with all the subjective zeal you can muster. Certainly, wars that have killed millions of Americans, while slavery, per se, killed none, hold as much importance as slavery, if not more, but no American armies took up mass violence and wars against those wars. Your circuitous poppycock proves only your compulsion to verbosity and deception. Secession was constitutional and Lincoln must have been stopped by law though, admittedly, it is often very difficult to oppose or stop armed, power-hungry, power-stealing criminals such as “Crazy Abe”.
Again, thank you for your concession.
“”Thank you very much for your awkward, oblique concession.”
The only thing awkward was my having to repeat a previous statement telling you that you misunderstood Lincoln.
So far, you are batting zero despite yelling and trying to get into a fight. I note that you can’t deal with any of my arguments and repeat the same things. It would be illogical to think your answers represent what the founding fathers were thinking. I will provide you with a hint. They threw out the Articles of Confederation because it wasn’t working.
It sounds like your brain is succeeding from your body, and you are permitting it. If you didn’t permit it that would be insurrection.”
And again, you go backwards grasping at straws, you fail to cite the Constitution for even a hint that secession is prohibited, precluded or otherwise unconstitutional.
You have cited nothing; you have said nothing with any discernible relationship to law, fundamental law or secession.
We understand that you are embarrassed and desperately need the last word, but please respond jurisprudentially and to the point with something, anything relevant.
Thanks again for your concession.
George, there is nothing for me to be embarrassed about. I even got Abe Lincoln’s quote correct when you got it wrong. You are continuing to bat a zero and should come up for air.
I’m waiting for you to bring up something new and useful, or is what you are saying just a stutter?
The question is not your communist ideology, the question relates to a nonexistent secession clause in the Constitution, or to nothing.
So far, you have related it to nothing.
You are simply repeating your vacuous erroneous statements.
Are you going to reply with absolutely nothing again?
Please cite the Constitution wherein secession is prohibited.
You won’t because you can’t.
There is no prohibition against secession in the Constitution.
Lincoln’s denial of secession was a high crime and all subsequent acts by Lincoln et al. were similarly invalid, illegitimate, illegal and unconstitutional.
Lincoln was a power-hungry despot and latent communist who committed egregious and monumental crimes of high office, and who received a commensurate and just reward by fate.
You are not going forward with even a semblance of rational, eloquent or meaningful argument that maintains any bearing on secession.
Please do continue to present your impotent deflections and embarrassing concessions.
“The question is not your communist ideology,”
You lost the argument when you resorted to this type of feeble rhetoric. You were better off when you misinterpreted Lincoln’s statement.
Your brain seceded from your lungs and is oxygen-starved, which is why you can’t respond to the written word and make many mistakes.
S. Meyer, read and be edified by men who wrote American fundamental law:
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“Where powers [to force the states into violent submission] are assumed [by Lincoln] which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.”
– Thomas Jefferson, Federalist Papers
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“May States Secede”
“The adage that the victors of war write the history is all too true. From the pages of school history books to the dramatic and award-winning recounting of the Civil War in Ken Burns documentary, the Confederate states are always depicted as the spoilers and traitors who were justly punished and humiliated for their evil acts.
“However, nothing is further from the truth as the southern states had every legal right to secede and determine their own destiny. As heretical as it might seem, Abraham Lincoln was dead wrong (emphasis on “dead”) in declaring war against his fellow states and citizens. It was his decision to employ military force which resolved what should have been a constitutional question to be pondered at the time.
“There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution which prohibits a state from seceding from the union. This is made clear by a proposal which was made at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to grant the new federal government the specific power to suppress a seceding state. James Madison, widely acknowledged as the key founding father of the Constitution and scholar, rejected this proposal stating, ‘A Union of states containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be considered by the party attacked as dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.’
“The assurance of state sovereignty is embodied in the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which reserves to the states all rights which have not been specifically delegated to the federal government. As the federal government was never delegated the right to force the states into violent submission, secession is properly a legal right which can be exercised at any time.Thomas Jefferson, of course, made clear his distrust of an all-powerful federal government and palpable fear that the will of the people could easily be hijacked. As he stated in the Federalist Papers, ‘Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.'”
– Charles Moster, Litigation Attorney, Ronald Reagan/George H.W. Bush Administrations
“S. Meyer, read and be edified by men who wrote American fundamental law.”
I am and discussed James Madison’s ideas. You tucked tail and ran away to return with blustery rants.
You quoted Jefferson with your additions which would be embarrassing if you understood the quote. I keep trying to hammer into your head that Jefferson brought up revolution as an alternative to tyranny.
S. Meyer, read Thomas Jefferson and weep.
Secession is certifiably constitutional and you are certifiably insane.
George, show me where Jefferson said secession was “certifiably constitutional. “
S. Meyer, I found Sowell absolutely convincing on this. He also looked at what happened to the kids who wanted to go to a charter school but lost the lottery so were stuck in the public school. Their outcomes tracked the miserable public school results, showing that it is the schools not the kids that made the difference.
The mainly Democratic leaders responsible for these cities are ruining the lives of the “black and brown” children they claim to care about. They are doing so to serve the interests of the teachers unions and education administrators, who want nothing but to protect their pay and their jobs, and avoid rigorous scrutiny. It is a disgrace.
The teacher’s union needs to be severely curtailed or disbanded. The kids being taught in the charter schools are being taught by teachers not dependent on the union, and the kids education improved radically.
If you haven’t seen the videos on the atrocities the teacher’s union committed on behalf of guilty teachers, then you need to see it now. However, I am quite sure you are totally aware of what I am talking about.
“I recently wrote about how public schools and boards . . .” (JT)
Incidentally, it is not just public schools that are graduating dysfunctional illiterates.
I taught at a T1 university for some 20 years, where many of the students hail from the world’s most highly regarded *private* schools. I learned very quickly a depressing fact: I could not take for granted basic knowledge of history, science, literature, grammar (including punctuation), reading comprehension, vocabulary, rudimentary writing.
Curious about what they were being taught in those *private* schools, I researched some of their curricula. Here just one example of what passes for the teaching of “science:” A year-long course on the plight of turtles. And for the teaching of American “history:” A course on the plight of the whales in the 19th century.
They knew nothing about the fundamentals of biology or of physics. They knew nothing about the fundamentals of the American Revolution or of the Industrial Revolution. (World history? In your dreams.)
But they did know everything about how to protest while wearing the right lapel pins.
Elections have consequences, some people are too stupid to understand the consequences.
“It’s the [Constitution], stupid!”
– James Carville
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No matter the greed of voters, the Constitution held and holds dominion, and it denies Congress any power to tax for, or regulate into existence, the communist American welfare state.
American freedom persisted for merely 71 years.
Every abrogation, subversion, denial and nullification of the Constitution since Lincoln was and remains invalid, illegitimate, illicit, illegal and unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court recently acted retroactively by 50 years to strike down unconstitutional abortion and the corruption of the Supreme Court of 1973..
The Supreme Court must now act retroactively by 150 years to strike down every unconstitutional act and related unconstitutional consequence since Lincoln.
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“[We gave you] a [severely restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1788
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Never was America designed or established to be a one man, one vote democrazy.
The Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 required citizens to be “…free white person(s)…,” constituting a fundamental restriction on the vote.
Turnout was 11.6% in 1788, vote criteria were generally by State, male, European, 21 with 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
“if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.” Thomas Jefferson
Notice the Constitution, provides NO enumerated power for federal involvement in education.
I just scrolled through 25 comments and not one comment. Has anything to do with what the problem with these schools are and what the nucleus of it is. You may not like what I’m about to say, and I don’t care because it’s the truth and truth hurts, and it also pisses people off. The reason the students failed is because we live in a nation that refuses to be honest with itself when it comes to its “black problem”. anytime you say anything about blacks that is “corrective criticism” it’s considered racism. once again, I don’t care once again. I spent my adult life telling the truth, and I’m not about to start now at 58 years of age black students and white students regardless, if you like it or not, do not mix well. Furthermore, blacks do not learn the way your average, average, average white male / female learns. Since the days of LBJ America has thrown over $4 trillion at the black problem, and it’s simply gotten worse not better. On American Indian reservations, they quietly did learn that’s a really educate Indians. It takes an Indian that is educated. Spare me the reasons why this is whatever your reasons are it’s not solving the problem. When you have a problem you fix the problem and you don’t worry about his feelings get hurt. At least that’s the way things are supposed to be but I now live in a nation that the majority of people are wussies did they get their feelings hurt oh so easy. If you want to really educate black kids on average, it takes black educated teachers that haven’t bought into the, Brain dead soul killing, woke ideology. And be honest with yourself, there’s nothing “woke”, about it. what it is??? is dead. yes, you will have a black male a black female here and there that do you learn on the same level as your garden-variety, white male and white female. But spare me your exceptions to the rule, that’s not solving the problem when you focus upon, One of these situations that oh well, I know so and so a black man om333
And they don’t know basic biology
Education does not happen on its own. Knowledge is not magically poured into the heads of students while in school.
It requires the active engagement of all students in the learning process, highly qualified teachers, and parents who require their children to 1) attend school daily, 2) pay attention in class, 3) complete all assignments whether in-class or homework assignments, and 4) Study, study, and more study.
This is what it takes to educate students and help them attain grade level in all subjects.
Jennc1990,
Great comment.
Unfortunately seems parents are not involved in their children’s education, or as we have seen, when parents try to get involved they are called “domestic terrorists.”
Does not help when teachers and school boards are more interested in a political agenda than education.
Heck, you don’t even need “highly qualified” teachers. Many excellent private schools hire “less than highly qualified” teachers all the time and they get good results – that’s been going on for generations.
But “active engagement of all the students” is, from those I know who have taught (one of which taught in a B’more public school for a few years) and from what I have read and observed, it the crucial element. I was told as soon as you have a few as three kids in a classroom that have no business being there, you can lose that class. Of course, a BCPS classroom would be lucky to have three that want to be there.
I posted a comment in response to Mespo and it has not yet appeared. Did I get censored or did I push the wrong button?
Sometimes it will take a few minutes for JetPack (the WP comments program) to post your comment. If the server is getting hit with a high volume of traffic the longer the delay.
Then, sometimes the WP server will have a hic-up and your comment gets lost. Has happened to me a few times.
yup. Connectivity of servers are fickle.
Hope you have handled the cold weather well in your area of the country, NY State I believe
cheers
Estovir,
We had two double digit negative temps nights. Livestock water troughs froze, nothing some boiling water cannot handle. Otherwise, a typical Upstate winter!
Thank you for asking!
Upstate and Estovir, surely this is not the case but in the comment I posted twice earlier today I quoted from a paper written by Daniel Patrick Monyihan in which he used the word for African Americans that was in use in 1965. A few minutes ago, I posted the exact same thing but took out that word and put [African Americans] in its place. It posted immediately. Do you imagine the Jet Pack program has been programmed to reject any post that has that word?
I posted that exact same document months ago and it was rejected for the reason you articulated. IIRC Darren and I had a public discussion about how words that were part of the URL also activated the filter. I believe the Moynihan document or URL have the word ηεgrο. You have to change the keyboard to Greek alphabet to convey “verboten” words. It is crazy but it is not my website
How is it that there is one word and one alone that society has bended a knee, all in obsequiousness, but any word defaming God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and more are “acceptable”?
Is there a lawyer in the house? 😉
NB: download a Greek alphabet keyboard to circumvent word filters. I use one for my scientific manuscript writing but comes in handy for this forum
Estovir, I’m glad (but disappointed) to know it was not my imagination. I don’t have a Greek alphabet keyboard but perhaps this will work: knee-grow. Let’s see, the United Knee-Grow College Fund. Seems a little stilted.
Outstanding!!!!! Leave it to a lawyer from the South to invent that word. I love it!
But, lo! Look what I just found…..
Don’t be a slave to joint pain, free yourself…
Darren, don’t have a cow
😉
Estovir– I laughed out loud. I did not see when Elevated Train Comedy copyrighted that “commercial” but that clearly was back when people had a sense of humor. I feel like I owe them a royalty. Thanks for finding that treasure!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/roseanne-barr-sits-tucker-carlson-left-no-sense-humor-video/
Estovir………….Sometimes waiting for a comment to post is slower than watching a knee grow.
Sorry—-didn’t know hubby had already posted it 🙂
Ir I’m sent to PC Prison, please tell the world my story! LOL
Honest, I wish to confirm that the use of the word Negro by Daniel Patrick Monyihan is being censored. If you get this email, then we have to reconsider.
Honest I sent the following email except I changed one word. “Honest, I wish to confirm that the use of the word ***** by Daniel Patrick Monyihan is being censored. If you get this email, then we have to reconsider.” If you didn’t get the prior email with the word that ends with an o and starts with an n and has an e,g, and r, then censorship of the word by WP is occurring. It is foolish censorship but tolerable in today’s world. Tomorrows world should censure WP for doing such a thing.
Every precious moment of class time is filled with social lies.
There’s no more appropriate way to put it.
VOUCHERS, VOUCHERS, VOUCHERS!
COMPLETE PRIVATIZATION, PRIVATIZATION, PRIVATIZATION!
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this [Department of Education]!”
– Ronald Reagan
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Someone please cite the Constitution for any power of Congress to tax for or to regulate education.
There is none.
The Department of Education is invalid, illegitimate, illicit, illegal and unconstitutional.
It is all artificial and made up; Education must be engendered locally to serve local parents directly, with their scrutiny and approval, as retail or municipal operations.
Unions are criminal organizations, the only tools of which are criminal violence and property damage.
Unions must be made illegal including establishment, job actions, strikes, related violence and property damage.
Americans are free to establish schools.
Americans are free to accept or reject employment.
The Constitution exists in equity; equity is the complete absence of bias and favoritism.
No Article or Section of the Constitution provides for creation or any form of support or perpetuation of unions.