City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

I'd like the opinion of this board's members about what happened here. This woman is in a tough spot with her personal life and is leaving her kid in the hands of the school. The school says they tried things like calling when a student is absent and arranging for parent-teacher conferences, but Mom said they never happened. Where's Dad?

Schools can only do so much, they can't make a kid attend classes or study. At the same time, they promoted this kid through the ranks giving Mom the impression all was OK. Worse still, half of the students scored lower than this kid which makes me think there's either something really wrong with the school, or there's something wrong with the way kids in this district are raised, and to tell you the truth, I have no idea which one correct. They both could be wrong for all I know.

Thoughts?

 

What says the Teachers Union?

 

Where's dad? Does he even know who dad is? Is dad still alive? Is dad in Jail? Part of this falls on the school and the teachers but a big chunk of it can be dumped at the feet of the progressive welfare state that is utterly destructive of the nuclear family and distrustful of men in particular.

 

Our school system used to more or less pass you anyway the second time once you failed the first time regardless just to push you out of the system as nobody wanted 15 year olds still in 4th grade. The assumption would be that they would end up getting expelled or dropping out anyway to go to work in the local factory. Factory is gone and now they don't just boot you. They will send you to one of the alternative learning schools until you end up getting expelled or dropping out.

 

Don't all students get a report card at the end of each term that the parent is required to read and sign off on before returning into the school for the next term?The school I attended did not let anyone that failed classes to get promoted to the next grade until they made up the class they failed during SUMMER SCHOOL.

 

The City of Baltimore who's tax dollars support local schools are getting totally ripped off by supposed educators that allow this to happen.

 

They've never seen a problem more tax dollars couldn't fix.

 

Based on the article, the mother seems to be single with 3 kids and 3 jobs and there's no indication Dad is around, so the kids started off handicapped.

The teachers, at least the more experienced ones, probably see this all the time and quickly recognize the kids who have no interest in learning and give up on them. The school then does the minimal amount of things just to say they did something and promote the kid even though he's not worthy of being promoted.

The more I think about this, the more I believe this kid's problems started in the home.

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/educati...schools-are-a-tragedy-of-criminal-proportions

“Baltimore spends roughly $1.4 billion annually on education, or roughly $16,000 per student. Baltimore’s spending on education is the fourth highest of any municipality in the country. Despite this massive commitment of resources, Baltimore schools have some of the lowest educational proficiency levels in the country.”

“ At Frederick Douglas High School, which had an 87 percent graduation rate just one student out of a student body of 185 students tested in the proficient range in math. In several other public high schools around the city, not a single student passed the state proficiency test.”

In a very real sense, the dysfunction in Baltimore’s schools mirror a similar dysfunction in the city’s political establishment. In a city of fewer than 600,00 residents, with a rapidly declining school enrollment, literally thousands of individuals in the school system receive salaries in excess of $100,000 per year. Most of the recipients of this government largesse are not teachers but consultants, contractors, and administrators.“

 

Everything you have stated is absolutely true. I know teachers and students who can 1000% back this up. Behavior like this is beginning to creep into our county schools as well. Moving many of these students to the county with the assumption they will somehow be inspired to do better is backfiring.

 

Something is very, very wrong here! And I mean mental retardation on a large scale. Like chemicals being tested on the local population. Something the CIA might do.

Or maybe it's just common core.

When he turns 18 he can go to college and take remedial courses until he catches up. College is a great place that equalizes outcomes for people who got left behind in grade school.

 

Makes me want to cry for these kids. Someone in Baltimore needs to find a solution and if they can't, someone in Maryland needs to step in. This should go all the way up to the governor if needed. We cannot just keep letting American kids fall through the cracks for decades.

I took a look at the school's website. For any public high school in America their school website is a mess. For a "Visual Arts School", it's a total disaster.

Sounds like they have an almost total focus on "arts and crafts". I don't see much on their website about reading, writing or arithmetic. Lots of "creativity".

Good luck to that kid, and half of his class who did worse than he did, breaking into the art world without the ability to read or write. Very sad.

https://www.afsiva.com/academics

...and what the heck? Different start dates for 9th and 12th grade (no word about 10th or 11th)....and "Returning to school is optional".

 

So you want to treat single mothers like crap and make it even harder for them to raise the kids.

 

What happens when you pull dad's out of homes. Mom's a high school drop out working there different jobs and is generally too damn tired to do much other than throw a bag of burgers on the table. She can't help the kids with the home work, assuming there is any because some knuckle head decided home work was racist, being a best quasi literate herself.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/mantras-before-math-class/412618/

Maybe something like this would help? The kids need love, but that's expensive, so a little self love might help. Every child has the inner urge to grow and expand in happiness, when given the opportunity to do so.

 

BTW: The main problem with returning to so-called traditional American values is that it's substantially built on white supremacy, slavery and segregation. You don't want to go back there.

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/baltimore-freddie-gray-elijah-cummings/

Who broke Baltimore? We did.

 

The goal might simply be try and get them through and keep them at school as long as possible. Focusing on academic learning doesn't go too well with damaged kids (unless the teacher is incredibly talented). Talent, being the ability to speak to kids at their level, know them personally, understand their pain; in other words psychological support.

 

We need better schools starting with elementary and then we are less likely to have "damaged kids" by high school.

Kids in that high school are unlikely to get much psychological support from the new "Guidance Counselor". She talks about what she will do for "your students". Who is she talking to? Teachers? She isn't talking to parents and her blurb isn't talking to "the students" either.

We need funding for private schools so that all parents have a choice to pull their children out of the public school they are assigned to because of their address.



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