This is so shocking

[Anonymous]

Yes Gilman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore politicians like Sandy Rosenberg are ripping off the school children with their enormous salaries. Just look into how much he’s getting paid...

How much are Baltimore school administrators are getting?

There’s the problem.

The Baltimore school administrator makes close to $400,000.

Thank you. And here you have it. I recently saw Sandy Rosenberg on the news. He’s a despicable embarrassment. If people keep voting for people like him, they deserve what they have. Unless of course they have those “smart” Dominion voting machines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a business professional in finance who is African American. He grew up in Baltimore City. Somehow his parents got him into Gilson. It was challenging for him in Gilson. He had classes in opera. He is very proud that he is a Gilson graduate.

He is one of the lucky ones. He had parents who fought for a better education for a smart African American boy and somehow found the money for his education. (The parents are blue collar workers.)

My friend earns six figures.

Uh…you mean Gilman?

MTA and Metro bus drivers make over six figures and many blue collar jobs make more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cannot put a 16 year old in 2nd grade.

With these statistics, you will have an entire class of 2nd graders at the high school - and that's what you should do. Expecting 2nd graders to attend Geometry and Biology class is just as absurd as having a 16 year old in 2nd grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew some Baltimore schools were bad, but omg.. I hadn't realized just had bad it was. How can these kids have matriculated all the way to HS? Are the teachers and admin just giving them a pass up? What did they think would happen come graduation time? Would they have just let these kids go into the world with such basic education?

But how do we fix this?

Project Baltimore found more than 75 percent of students at Patterson High School, according to one assessment, are at elementary levels in math and reading.

In reading, 628 Patterson High School students took the test. Just 12 of the students tested were reading at grade level. In Math, 17 out of 575 students tested, were at Algebra and Geometry level math, which are courses required to graduate.

But many have questioned how students, who haven’t learned elementary-level math and reading, made it to high school. Some students are performing at a kindergarten level. A former Baltimore City School Board member says this has been a problem for decades.

“What do we do? Do we kick you out of high school? Do we not let you graduate? Do we doom you to a life of economic failure because you don't have that very basic economic or educational credential? There's no win here,” said Anirban Basu, who served on the Baltimore City School Board from 2005 to 2011.

All very good questions. What do we do?

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/maryland-governor-calls-test-scores-exposed-by-project-baltimore-disgraceful

I don't think these are good questions. They are easily answered. Giving someone a diploma when they have elementary level skills is not a meaningful credential. It is this attitude that passed those kids with no skills along in the first place. And if you reach your middle teens with Kindergarten level skills, you should not be in a normal high school. You should be in one that provides job training and intensive remedial reading and math only.

Holding back a couple of kids is easy. Holding back most of the class is another. The schools do not have the teachers or the rooms to keep holding back kids. Not to mention you have the problem of older, more disruptive kids sharing space with younger kids.

The other problem is that holding back kids is in some ways a waste of time. What if they fail four years in a row? You've just delayed their life by four years. Most of these kids just need to graduate and move on with their life.

Just no good answer here.

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