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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

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Wow.

And incredibly those are the schools with $100M+ flashy new buildings. What a waste, and what incredible levels of corruption and incompetence.

Poor kids.[/quote]

Most of the kids are extremely at risk. Are you saying they don’t deserve a new building? This is nothing new. There are extremely at risk kids all over the country that can’t pass a standardized test, particular kids of color. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a nice building to be in. [/quote]

I agree that this should be #1 article in the WP! What is this city doing to educate its most at risk kids? Building shiny buildings is not enough. [/quote]

I taught at one of these schools. It starts at home. The kids aren't coming to school to learn the material in the first place. If they do come, they've been socially advanced to the point that they can't keep up with grade level work. How can you succeed in an Algebra class when you can't multiply or divide? But if you take the time to teach basic math, then you're dinged for not providing "rigorous" work. We were required to have a certain percentage sit for the test, which is completely beyond our control. That didn't stop them from sending teachers, security, and counseling staff out at the beginning of the day to the kids' neighborhoods to beg them to get in the car and ride back to school. Security would walk up to the carryouts and corner stores and practically bribe the kids with sandwiches to come to school. The ones who came were so uninterested that they'd finish the test in 10 minutes.

You have to make them want to go to college in the first place in order to be invested in the results of a college readiness test. The only way that's going to happen is if you give them a life that can see beyond the next two weeks. A lot of them have so much going on that being alive at eighteen to go to college is 50/50. [/quote]

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