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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On[b]e solution might be to have schools separated out by how students score on these tests.  Put all the failing students together and then start with the very basics.  Teach them to read.[/b]  Provide intensive services at that school and give the teachers specialty pay for teaching in those schools.  Smaller classes too.  Keeping kids who can’t read on the standard curriculum and just presenting they can is not helpful to them.    Decades ago someone came up with teach for America as a sort of peace corp for inner city schools.  It was hugely popular and fairly prestigious for a while.  It was criticized (often with good reason) but we need some kind of similar solution now — a way to convince people that this is important community service and yes it will be hard but your country will be grateful.  Now it’s like “yeah, we’ll give you an impossible and often dangerous job and we will absolutely call you lazy and criticize you when you fail.  And the pay is not great and the hours are totally not flexible with a super early start time.  Please apply!”[/quote]

Your solution is known as “tracking” or “ability grouping.”  It is a common sense approach, and crucially needed in school systems such as Baltimore city schools.

Democrats have vehemently opposed any type of tracking or ability grouping.  For decades, democrats have worked to dismantle any separation by ability.  Notably (though not the only example) democrat Bill DeBlasio specifically terminated the entire gifted and talented program in NYC schools, in order to stop the possibility of “tracking.”

If you are opposed to what is happening in Baltimore, stop voting for democrats.[/quote]

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