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The Common Core-inspired clarifications section leads to these convoluted problems. Trying not to test kids on quotients or products directly but rather on interpretations can make things complicated on the test. This approach puts large language demands on  English Learners. Traditionally ELL have often gravitated toward math and science because of their (at least previously) reduced language demands. [/quote]

it's just too cumbersome and unnecessarily complicated. State education officials are trying to be so fancy but they just complicate things tremendously.

We'd be much better off with straightforward and easily understood standards and objectives.

Students will multiply two single digits to get a product.
Students will multiply three single digits.
Students will know that the order of the digits being multiplied doesn't matter (2x3x4=2x4x3)

It's THIRD GRADE. The single best thing you can do is be sure they can add, subtract, multiply and divide proficiently.[/quote]

Please, kids in other schools do fine with those questions. If they really understand the material, the question is easy. People need to stop making excuses for failing schools [/quote]

They are failing for social issues. Who goes to school in Baltimore City? The vast majority of students live in poverty and experience everything that comes with it. Unstable homes, food, parenting, etc. You can’t build upon this shaky ground effectively. [/quote]

But democrats could seriously address the 23 schools at issue here, beginning by firing all the failing teachers and administrators- who are failing generation after generation of these primarily African-American children.

Democrats won’t act, however, because they are addicted to the money-flow from teachers unions.  So in 10 years, these 23 schools will still be failing Baltimore’s children, and perpetuating all the problems which stem from poor to non-existent education.

Democrats retain 100% political control in Baltimore.  It is their city; their problem.[/quote]

There is already a lawsuit underway to figure out where all the money is going in Baltimore schools. They’re basically the most expensive students to educate in the entire country and yet they’re achieving the worst results. Discovery will be interesting.[/quote]

I used to repo cars in Baltimore.

On North Avenue was the city schools admin building, and the lot was FULL of luxury SUVs; Lexus, Mercedes, etc.

The union promises every teacher a $100,000 / year job as an “administrator” if they put in just 10 years in the classroom.

That is where the $$ is going:  do-nothing administrators.[/quote]

I work in Baltimore City and this is the truth. I looked online a few years ago to find a contact number for someone at North Ave. I found a pdf 20+ pages long of North Ave employees. Ridiculous. Now those luxury cars are parked at home for the most part. They’ve been working at home since then while we are dying in schools with no subs and not enough teachers and paras. [/quote]

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