77% Of Students At One Baltimore High
School Read At Elementary, Kindergarten Level
Daily Wire,
by
Ashe Schow
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/6/2022 1:07:29 AM
More than three quarters of students at one Baltimore high school are reading at an elementary level, with many reading at a kindergarten level. Fox Baltimore reported that a teacher at Patterson High School, one of the largest high schools in the city, came forward with information showing 77% of students at the schools were found to have an elementary school reading level. Patterson has a 61% graduation rate and a $12 million budget.(Snip)The revelation comes at the same time that Maryland Public Policy Institute released a report showing that Maryland taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for “ghost students”–those who don’t attend school.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 2/6/2022 1:21:38 AM (No. 1063032)
Black Literacy Matters
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/6/2022 1:51:51 AM (No. 1063037)
A ringing endorsement of government schools and teachers unions. Fair enough, the un-taxed are getting what they pay nothing for.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 2/6/2022 1:56:13 AM (No. 1063039)
The old saw about why you don't try to teach a hog to sing. "It won't work and it annoys the hog."
And using the insane leftist teaching ideas, "it doesn't work, and annoys the kids".
Now, with old fashioned NORMAL teaching, like PHONICS, it works perfectly with competent teachers, but phonics and competent teachers are both rare to non-existent in most inner city schools.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 2/6/2022 1:56:33 AM (No. 1063040)
Ya' know, we might as well just close down the country and call it quits right now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ladycatnip 2/6/2022 2:08:16 AM (No. 1063045)
I taught in a middle school in South Central and was told by the administration that I was teaching above their abilities bc they all read at a 3rd grade level. This is a CRIME against these kids; it begins in elementary school, but no one will ever be held accountable.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/6/2022 2:10:30 AM (No. 1063046)
This reflects the results of public school education. The teachers get rich while students come out dumb.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 2/6/2022 3:12:23 AM (No. 1063067)
Knowing how to read simply promotes white supremacy. White people used reading and writing to keep track of their black slaves.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 2/6/2022 4:11:44 AM (No. 1063079)
Low expectations lead to low results.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/6/2022 4:24:55 AM (No. 1063086)
Reading? Big deal. I'll bet 100% of those future Democrat voters know how to put a condom on a cucumber.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/6/2022 5:34:23 AM (No. 1063112)
One doesn't have to read to cash a welfare check! This is part of the Democrat eternal employment plan!
More parasites, more government! Time to call the Terminal and eradicate Democrats and all their ideas!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/6/2022 5:37:50 AM (No. 1063113)
But they can burn loot and murder BLM at the graduate level. Why is that?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chumley 2/6/2022 5:39:13 AM (No. 1063115)
Its easy to blame the teachers, but I have to wonder how things are at home. Do the parents emphasize reading and other skills? Do the kids even know who their parents are? Are the parents constantly on drugs or throwing booty calls? Or in prison?
I get discouraged at my job if a piece of equipment quits working. Ultimately I fix it or replace it. I can only imagine the frustration if I couldn't fix it OR replace it, but still had to work with it. I wouldn't be a teacher for the world. At least not here in the US.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/6/2022 6:20:28 AM (No. 1063130)
Explains Maryland politics.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Krause 2/6/2022 6:22:48 AM (No. 1063132)
And it’s all the white man’s fault?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/6/2022 6:45:57 AM (No. 1063146)
That’s actually pretty good isn’t it? Considering.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/6/2022 6:47:51 AM (No. 1063148)
FTA: "Just 12 students tested at Patterson High School, were reading at grade level, which comes out to just 1.9%.” There might as well not be a school there. But don't think these problems haven't existed for a long time, because they have.
In 1969 as a 14-year-old Eagle Scout I traveled with three busloads of Nashville area Boy Scouts to the National Jamboree in Idaho. During a stint on I-70 in Kansas I sat next to an 18-year-old high school graduate from Maplewood High (over the river from downtown) who literally could not read a word, and had me read to him several pages from some sexpot novel he'd obtained at a truck stop. He couldn't understand one word. Before I got up and left him, I asked him, "What did you do in school?" He couldn't explain. Probably didn't know where the school was. Perfect Democrat voter. BTW, he was white, so illiteracy is a more widespread problem than many realize.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
privateer 2/6/2022 6:50:34 AM (No. 1063151)
FTA: 'The scores are not made public. If the media requests them, the district will redact most of the results.' How convenient! That eliminates the tiresome necessity of keeping two sets of books.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Osprey21 2/6/2022 7:11:37 AM (No. 1063165)
The minority enrollment is 92%, and 100% of students are economically disadvantaged.The school just needs more money, obviously.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 2/6/2022 8:12:02 AM (No. 1063209)
The Bell Curve...
What if the biggest obstacles to black success isn't racism, but a biological low IQ?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 2/6/2022 8:21:25 AM (No. 1063217)
Keeping Bawlmore stupid and submissive- just like Randi Whinegarten planned it!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/6/2022 8:22:15 AM (No. 1063218)
If the functional vocabulary is low in a child's home, that child is likely to be a poor reader.
In a home composed of the black underclass, the functional vocabulary is approximately 250 words, and many of the words are compressed sentences as slang.
Uttering the word 'grease' is a statement that dinner is ready, for example.
In addition, verbs are not often used. 'She happy' is a complete sentence in the ghetto.
I don't know how one breaks through that, to bring students up top grade level for reading, except to remove the child from the home environment..
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 2/6/2022 8:25:50 AM (No. 1063224)
It's not just Baltimore, it's across the US. The only "school reform" that works is pulling kids out of government schools and watching federal, per student dollars disappear.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 2/6/2022 8:28:57 AM (No. 1063228)
At the end of the day, a school is only as good as the students that enroll in it. Ultimately, student and school success have little (nothing) to do with the schools themselves and everything to do with the families from where the students originate. Money has never been, nor will it ever be, the solution to public education.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Lazyman 2/6/2022 8:32:41 AM (No. 1063235)
No problem that a remedial course won't fix before they pass through medical school.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/6/2022 8:54:17 AM (No. 1063273)
I'd like to know what the reading level of the teachers is? College teacher graduates with an 8th grade, if you're lucky, reading level, is not conductive to students learning to read.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mifla 2/6/2022 8:54:33 AM (No. 1063274)
Defund the schools and see if the statistics change. I am thinking that they will not.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/6/2022 9:19:03 AM (No. 1063291)
All by design to dumb down the people to keep them under CONTROL-- this is not just about racial background, this is about doing this to all people
Look up John Dewey-- he said as much long, long ago
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/6/2022 9:44:00 AM (No. 1063324)
Doesn’t matter. Even with an elementary level reading ability, they can still text each other to set up a smash and grab.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/6/2022 10:05:38 AM (No. 1063350)
And the other 23%...?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
TLCary 2/6/2022 10:10:45 AM (No. 1063356)
Everyone knows you don't need to read. That's what your court appointed lawyers are supposed to do for you.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
The Remnants 2/6/2022 10:12:33 AM (No. 1063359)
I blame the Teachers' Unions. From what I've seen on some of these classroom videos during the covid period, I question how some people are even allowed to teach.
Anyone can learn to read if they are taught properly. Children in primary grades have minds like sponges and they're anxious to learn to read. As suggested by above poster, children should be taught phonics. If teachers' colleges choose not to teach phonics, perhaps they might reconsider that decision considering the literacy rate of some of our children. It could be that too many people are getting degrees in This Study or That Study or The Other Study and find when they graduate college, they cannot find a job and so revert to that old standby - teaching. Once in the union, they can call themselves teachers for life. Someone should do something to correct the situation. It's not that complex, and it's a serious problem that effects all of us one way or another.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/6/2022 10:39:52 AM (No. 1063392)
Ah, the joys of public 'education'. They won't know how to read or write (or do simple math), but they will be indoctrinated in CRT and Communism, and the world is going to die from climate change and have a rotten dumbed down entitled attitude that everyone owes them.
The last thing totalitarians want are free thinkers who are able to make decisions for themselves.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 2/6/2022 10:43:40 AM (No. 1063401)
Go to Baltimore and try to have an intelligent conversation with someone that was raised there. Good luck.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Kumoan 2/6/2022 1:51:29 PM (No. 1063652)
Well, that's all the pee-ons will need after the return to Feudal times. If they don't understand their orders, there will be beatings.
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It is essential to keep the masses uneducated. That way they won't claim their constitutional rights. They won't have the good sense to avoid the cattle cars. They won't show up in their own trucks at your capitol.
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Why not. Free public education is very expensive, and when it doesn't work at all because the kids of kolor refuse to learn, well, the communists who run the schools blame the white man.