77% of Students at Baltimore High School Are Reading at Elementary and Kindergarten Level

Ok. What next?

Mind you I support Pre-K Schooling. This despite the fact that by 3rd grade I was reading at college level material and yet never went to even kindergarten. I read that good because my parents encouraged my reading.

 

It has nothing to do with the schools, sadly. They're doing the very best they can.

This is ALL parents, and their absolute refusal to take education seriously.

 

At the level of elementary school children.

 

If you're talking about remote learning....NO THANK YOU!!! Every student in my area had their grades drop because of it.

 

A better way of measuring it would be to compare to another English speaking nation's literacy standards at graduation. You won't know if you have a serious problem until then.

 

Yup and middle school. Which while high isn't the same thing as what you said. Which would mean your post was wrong.

 

Absolutely not. I've had to teach remotely and it's terrible for everyone.

Recent studies show that Children's IQs have fallen by 20 points due to covid. That's 2 standard deviations.

I support either private schools or a hybrid program where parents get 15k a year, team up with like minded parents, hire individual teachers and teacher assistants, and each parent hosts this school at their home 2 to 3 days a month (depending on getting 10-15 students teamed up).

The kids get better instruction with more teacher student time, parents/grandparents come in anytime to help as well, more playtime, better food, and less riff raff students.

Any remaining funds go to each child's college fund.

 

Half of Californians are functionally illiterate, meaning they can't read at a middle school level.

Check out California's average IQ while you are at it.

 

I had all 3 (Pre K, K, and one supportive parent)

You have to start somewhere... We are currently nowhere... Let's do that and see where it leads... Something like this probably needs to be incremental, not a single all-purpose effort... Somebody can always find a tiny problem somewhere with an all-purpose effort and stop it.

Another recommendation I have is to continue exposing kids (at the appropriate age) to reading materiel that might challenge them and force questions...

That reminds me of a funny scene from "A League of their Own".... Madonna's character is teaching a non reader how to read by reading a dirty book with her... Her response when a teammate questions the material?? "Who cares, she's reading"

Don't want to pile onto the Book Burning Set, but didja see this one??

https://www.insider.com/texas-parent-targets-book-about-michelle-obama-string-book-bans-2022-2

 

You mean a state with lots of immigrants who would have disrupted learning and trust IQ tests? Nah. Those things only confirm classist biases.

 

This is the Globalist Elite Fault. They have created inequality thru taxes, globalization and control of the money, the FED, and Politicians

 

The citizens deserve the crap education they are getting for their children as they keep voting for Democrats.

Public Education is a disaster for our children and nation. Public Teachers' Unions are an abomination.

 

I already addressed the private school thing so I'll address the hybrid. It still won't work. At $15k for 15 students that is only $225k. Even if you were able to hire a teacher that could teach multiple subjects (not many out there that can do that) you still wouldn't be able to afford the amount of teachers needed to teach the required, most basic, subjects. No one teacher is able to teach all the subjects required. Even if you left out having to teach basic math, reading and writing (making the assumption the parents can teach those) you still would have to hire teachers that can teach science (at least two types), phys/health ed, history, more advanced math.

Of course if they can only get 10 students that would be even less to pay towards teachers.

And what if they can't get even 10? Partly BECAUSE of those "riff raff" students that you mention. Just leave em out in the cold?

Sorry, I just can't agree with this either.

 

The headline should read: 77% of students more educated than Biden.

 

Baltimore students are SO! Stupid, makes me laugh that 77% of them in High School are dumber than a box of rocks. Chinese kids in kindergarten are smarter than these Baltimore High Schoolers. It has nothing to to with teaching, these kids are just plain idiots that are incapable of learning and are destined for a life of drugs, poverty, baby mama's and single parent homes, but they'll be first to blame Whitey for their short comings. Baltimore education for $500, PAT! I'd like to solve the Puzzle. Too bad for them there's no School of Rap.

 

Wrong again. The schools with the most funding are in democratic strongholds. NYC has the most funding per student yet at $38,270 per student yet still manages to pay its teachers nothing and have lousy results.

The problems with education are not money.

 

The pay would be consistent with a typical private school teacher, who make less yet outperform public school teachers. Typically a 35% lower salary.

For elementary school kids one teacher is expected to teach all subjects as they do in public schools.

Teaching kids isn't rocket science, homeschooling parents easily outperform public schools. Same with private schools.

As for the riff raff they get more attention from public school teachers so they benefit as well.

 

That's exactly right.

In California the biggest state expense is education, and yet when the school are given more money the schools spend it on administrative positions and scores do NOT rise.

 

Growing up in Los Angeles, we were often given busy work while ESL students got caught up.

 

As I continue to state, Democrat votes have consequences; never good

 

School is important. And we dont want to get rid of public schooling because that would absolutely **** over anyone not wealthy.

Even this horrid schooling is better than nothing.

That being said, its quite astounding how people want to give teachers more money when this is the results.

 

Someone needs to be paid to attend Democrat fundraisers. You need administrators for that.

 

I think the country has an obligation to provide education, just like roads.

The difference is, the government doesn't actually build the roads, private companies do just like in this format.

 

I'm seeing a figure of $12m

 

In case you're wondering how students can reach High School and still be functionally illiterate, apparently Baltimore has a "one fail" policy where students can't be held back for a second time prior to 9th grade, so they're just pushed through the system regardless of how much they've actually learned. Students don't work and don't learn, because they know they don't have to. This is not compassion. This is hurting the kids, because they only fall further and further behind, and lose any hope of making a better life for themselves.