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(Fox Baltimore)   If 23 Baltimore schools have zero students proficient in math, per state test results, what percentage of those students are proficient in math, per state results? Show your work   (foxbaltimore.com) divider line
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Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 12:46:19 PM  
FTFA: "Zero percent. What are you preparing these kids for?" said Patterson. "Are we expecting these kids to kill off themselves? I mean, we see the number of teen shootings happening just this year."

This is obviously a really bad educational situation that needs intervention, but these kind of hyperbolic statements to media are NOT helpful and are nothing but offensive. Unless you've got some evidence "mathematical proficiency" is linked to gun violence then fark off. Or maybe comparing the ratio of guns to teens, if you want to do some math.
 
bighairyguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:00:48 PM  
I saw a recent interview where they were trying take credit for "a lot of kids almost at grade level".  Of course no actual math was presented to back that up.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:04:57 PM  
"If Billy paid  250 for a 8ball (Gms) and needs to make 20 Nickle bags to show a profit for 150, how much would he have charge for a .4 gram bag"
 
null [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:12:46 PM  

optikeye: "If Billy paid  250 for a 8ball (Gms) and needs to make 20 Nickle bags to show a profit for 150, how much would he have charge for a .4 gram bag"


It's nickel. -5 points.
 
null [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:16:08 PM  

bighairyguy: I saw a recent interview where they were trying take credit for "a lot of kids almost at grade level".  Of course no actual math was presented to back that up.


I will say this: the pandemic completely screwed up education for so so many kids. And a lot of parents learned first-hand that their little darlings are not perfect and that they don't have any discipline to sit down and learn.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:17:34 PM  

null: optikeye: "If Billy paid  250 for a 8ball (Gms) and needs to make 20 Nickle bags to show a profit for 150, how much would he have charge for a .4 gram bag"

It's nickel. -5 points.


I'm Dyslexic. Does it make you feel superior to people with Handicaps that you feel the need to correct them, or is that just the Autism speaking? I'm glad I could brighten your low self esteem.

/sarc
 
amigafin [BareFark]
2023-02-07 1:22:13 PM  
16 potatoes. That's my final answer.
 
alltim
2023-02-07 1:22:21 PM  
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gbv23
2023-02-07 1:23:00 PM  
Go Ravens!
 
KarmicDisaster [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:25:31 PM  
Infinity!
100/0=infinity
 
wage0048
2023-02-07 1:26:04 PM  
Without RTFA (because this story has nothing to do with reading comprehension scores), I have to wonder: Are there literally zero students in those 23 schools who were able to pass the test, were there no students in their sampling of scores that passed, or is the average number of students within the margin of error of zero?
 
Gin Buddy
2023-02-07 1:26:13 PM  
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I was told there would be no math...
 
HotWingConspiracy
2023-02-07 1:26:29 PM  
"These kids can't do math. You're not preparing them to buy groceries. You're not preparing them to do accounting, to count their own money. You're not preparing them to read contracts and negotiate salaries," said Patterson.

To be fair, grade school math classes don't teach that stuff even if you are performing at grade level.
 
palelizard
2023-02-07 1:27:14 PM  

optikeye: null: optikeye: "If Billy paid  250 for a 8ball (Gms) and needs to make 20 Nickle bags to show a profit for 150, how much would he have charge for a .4 gram bag"

It's nickel. -5 points.

I'm Dyslexic. Does it make you feel superior to people with Handicaps that you feel the need to correct them, or is that just the Autism speaking? I'm glad I could brighten your low self esteem.

/sarc


You don't need to capitalize dyslexic, handicaps, or autism.
 
Ray_Finkle
2023-02-07 1:27:45 PM  
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ifky
2023-02-07 1:27:46 PM  

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Wrong! Its eleventy billion.
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KidGoat
2023-02-07 1:27:49 PM  
/oblig

It was my Understanding that there Would be no Math........
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olorin604
2023-02-07 1:27:49 PM  
"Among the list of 23 schools, there are 10 high schools, eight elementary schools, three Middle/High schools and two Elementary/Middle schools.

Exactly 2,000 students, in total, took the state math test at these schools. Not one could do math at grade level."

That doesn't seem like they are testing everyone, even the rural schools around here have more than 100 students. Only testing one grade?
 
Kangaroo_Ralph [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:28:21 PM  
Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?
 
FarkingChas
2023-02-07 1:28:35 PM  
The TV show "The Wire" was a true documentary?
Probably the only fictional part was the team of dedicated detectives.
:(
 
HighZoolander
2023-02-07 1:29:21 PM  

null: optikeye: "If Billy paid  250 for a 8ball (Gms) and needs to make 20 Nickle bags to show a profit for 150, how much would he have charge for a .4 gram bag"

It's nickel. -5 points.


it was math, not grammer
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-07 1:30:25 PM  

Somacandra: FTFA: "Zero percent. What are you preparing these kids for?" said Patterson. "Are we expecting these kids to kill off themselves? I mean, we see the number of teen shootings happening just this year."

This is obviously a really bad educational situation that needs intervention, but these kind of hyperbolic statements to media are NOT helpful and are nothing but offensive. Unless you've got some evidence "mathematical proficiency" is linked to gun violence then fark off. Or maybe comparing the ratio of guns to teens, if you want to do some math.


The situation is bad. But this is coming from the Sinclair Fox affiliate in Baltimore so its not surprising they're trying to protray it that way.

Sinclair has quite a track record when it comes to influencing politics in Baltimore.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/10/24/as-sinclair-ceo-funds-term-limits-push-in-baltimore-his-station-is-a-willing-megaphone/
 
blackminded
2023-02-07 1:31:00 PM  
Well the clear issue here is that [racial slurs] inner city animals children come from broken homes single-parent households and are [bigotry] incapable of learning. This is why white parents who already have the means to pay to put their kids in private schools care need a tax break school choice and the option to take their tax dollars where their kids have a chance. Investment in our future, not indoctrination of the past.

/blackminded '24
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-07 1:31:26 PM  

Kangaroo_Ralph: Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?


Because the schools are as bad as they are in Mississippi and Alabama?
 
Kalyco Jack
2023-02-07 1:31:29 PM  
Meanwhile the school system I went to is like ten miles away and is one of the highest rated in the country. We really need to federalize the school systems.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-07 1:34:03 PM  

Kalyco Jack: Meanwhile the school system I went to is like ten miles away and is one of the highest rated in the country. We really need to federalize the school systems.


I bet the difference between those two school districts is "black and white" huh?
 
HotWingConspiracy
2023-02-07 1:35:26 PM  

Kangaroo_Ralph: Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?


They're good at being the economic and cultural engines of the nation. Even these kids will do better in life than the kids sucking down chilidogs behind the Tastee Freeze in shiatwater USA
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-07 1:35:30 PM  

optikeye: "If Billy paid  250 for a 8ball (Gms) and needs to make 20 Nickle bags to show a profit for 150, how much would he have charge for a .4 gram bag"


Omar comin'.
 
LarryDan43
2023-02-07 1:35:31 PM  
They importing teachers from Mississippi?
 
palelizard
2023-02-07 1:35:58 PM  

Kangaroo_Ralph: Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?


Same reason your mother is.
 
Unright
2023-02-07 1:36:44 PM  
This is an anti-education hit piece article. "Project Baltimore" (where the results come from) is a division of Fox news and the only person they quote and re-quote and re-quote is a guy who sues the schools for "misusing public funds".
 
cefm
2023-02-07 1:37:04 PM  
It's not that far off really. The overall state is at 22% proficient which is insanely low. Even the top county was only low 30's.
You can make fun of Baltimore but the state as a whole is failing miserably, or their standards aren't right.
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-02-07 1:37:08 PM  
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sleze
2023-02-07 1:38:15 PM  
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Prescient or still shiatty 20 years later?
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-07 1:39:11 PM  
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I was on a grand jury once, and we indicted a dealer named "Hot" for shooting another dealer.  That was his street name. Just "Hot".
 
rewind2846
2023-02-07 1:39:11 PM  

null: I will say this: the pandemic completely screwed up education for so so many kids. And a lot of parents learned first-hand that their little darlings are not perfect and that they don't have any discipline to sit down and learn.


Worst part is they will berate and blame teachers for the failure of their offspring even after dealing with them during the pandemic and not grasping how difficult that is times 30 or 35 children all in the same room.
Discipline and instruction starts at HOME, not in the classroom.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-07 1:39:50 PM  

Unright: This is an anti-education hit piece article. "Project Baltimore" (where the results come from) is a division of Fox news and the only person they quote and re-quote and re-quote is a guy who sues the schools for "misusing public funds".


Oh what a surprise, the "Baltimore resident" they interviewed ran for City Council as a Republican.

https://ballotpedia.org/Jovani_Patterson#

I'm shocked that Sinclair would try to downplay that!

/not really
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-07 1:40:35 PM  
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special20 [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:40:49 PM  
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2023-02-07 1:41:13 PM  

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kmgenesis23
2023-02-07 1:43:00 PM  

Kangaroo_Ralph: Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?


Probably because there are critical masses of Republicans in those areas who stymie things like property tax increases and education spending.
 
cowsaregoodeating
2023-02-07 1:43:17 PM  
Baltimore is broken. Just irreversibly broken. Maryland needs to get a couple of hundred bulldozers lined up at the top of Baltimore city and just raze the city all the way down to Curtis bay. Maybe leave Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland Medical center. Turn the rest of it back into forest area for 100 years and hope the rot just disappears.
 
Michael J Faux
2023-02-07 1:44:06 PM  
The answer is morethaniexpected%
 
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2023-02-07 1:44:11 PM  
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mod3072
2023-02-07 1:44:29 PM  

bighairyguy: I saw a recent interview where they were trying take credit for "a lot of kids almost at grade level".  Of course no actual math was presented to back that up.


Maybe there WAS math to back it up, but nobody could understand it because they couldn't find anyone who was proficient in math, so they left it out.
 
Hey Nurse! [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:44:31 PM  
Keep 'em poor, undereducated, and over-policed. They're easy to keep control of that way.
 
cowsaregoodeating
2023-02-07 1:45:07 PM  

Kangaroo_Ralph: Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?


You aren't learned enough to know why Baltimore is a failure. I can tell from your ignorant post.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-07 1:45:46 PM  

Hinged: Kangaroo_Ralph: Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?


My God... they're full of Democrats.


So why are states like Alabama and Mississippi shiatholes even though they vote Republican all the time?

/West Virginia too
 
zbtop
2023-02-07 1:46:06 PM  

Kangaroo_Ralph: Why are blue cities just horrible at everything?


Why are we making out like Baltimore is representative of all "blue cities"?

More to the point...find me a city (an actual city, not a suburb or town) that's anything but...Blue.
 
yakmans_dad
2023-02-07 1:47:22 PM  
We have leaders who despise Science so if poor students don't do well in STEM, the only fault lies with underpaid teachers. So, the solution is to let the family of actual mercenaries take over our school system.
 
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