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

[Sankofa Alwayz]

I know the public school system here in PG County definitely ain’t the best in the state but trust me when I say that the Baltimore City Public Schools System is a whole different type of monster

I don’t even know what to say about the mother smdh.

 

[TheAnointedOne]

hes the mayor im sure he can fix it

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

hes the mayor im sure he can fix it

he still trying to clean up the budget deficit.

 

[Starman]

hes the mayor im sure he can fix it

You ain't shyt, mayne!

 

[UberEatsDriver]

It is, but i imagine its usually the outside of school of shyt that impacts performance.

One thing that i know for sure is that there is a disconnect between schools and parents in these neighborhoods. When I was young my mom would rather lose money at work then to miss a school conference. Actually my mom cried one time because I got a S in one class.


This also goes back to the convo about marriage because honestly my mom was able to take off from work to see my teachers because she knew my dad would still be at work to bring in money to the house.

I imagine most of these mothers are single mothers who have no choice to but to choose work over checking their kids at school.

 

[BunchePark]

STORY TIME

Bruh my dawg once lied to his old girl for two whole years about taking classes and passing at the community college so we was like 19-20

this nikka ended up with his momma driving him to the campus and sitting down with the counselor like a jit to find out he had been lying the whole time he had no credits

We had dropped out that hoe so long ago I couldn't believe he kept up the lie for 2 years

BUT MY nikka

got in the car and drove all the way there with old girl and then sat in front of a bytch knowing you lying the whole time

like nikka wtf was you thinking my nikka


long story long he ended up robbing the local dopeboy got his shyt banged up shortly after I cut him off for stealing from the weed mad at the car wash

last time I seen the nikka maybe 5-6 years ago after over a decade of no contact

we took a ride, we go to his hoe house dis bytch had about 7000 dead nikka names and SSN and address and shyt and ill never forget hoe had tube socks full of cards like a stack of baseball cards must of had 150 cards in each sock, im like damn hoe wtf you dealing with


wiped all my prints down and got tf from round

aint seen dog since man hope he straight told him not to fukk with that hoe she clearly a runner and a crash dummy

 

[ISO]

Baltimore City School Board members are almost all entirely black Board Commissioners | Baltimore City Public Schools

What's crazy too is that Baltimore City Public School ranks 3rd in student spending in the entire country. They're well funded - https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimo...city-third-in-u-s-for-per-pupil-spending.html

Failures like this can only happen when the student just don't give a fukk.

That’s because the issue isn’t black educators or funding or curriculum it’s the dysfunction of the communities and households the culture of generational urban poverty there needs to be serious vested investment into Baltimore’s hoods.

I’m talking UBI, mandatory mental health counseling, parenting courses, financial literacy courses, GED and trade school programs for parents and adolescents, job programs, business loans, anti-gang and anti-drug non profit programs.

 

[OliviaTwist]

It’s quite obvious the school didn’t give a damn about him and any of the other 50% of students he’s actually doing better than. And if it’s the most average with a decimal grade point average I’m sure the top 50% can’t be doing that much better. To me it sounds like they were passing him along in order to keep their promotion rates up and just hoping the boy would eventually just drop out since he was barely coming anyway. If anything the only reason they telling him to repeat high school back over is because a state auditor or somebody came through.

Mom needs to take some accountability. I can understand how hard it is being a single parent to multiple children but you never once went to check on things about your son? If you knew he was failing classes you never questioned why they were still promoting him? You honestly thought he was about to graduate with a 0.13 GPA and that didn’t sound crazy to you?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I know the public school system here in PG County definitely ain’t the best in the state but trust me when I say that the Baltimore City Public Schools System is a whole different type of monster

I don’t even know what to say about the mother smdh.

Why not?

 

[ISO]

It’s quite obvious the school didn’t give a damn about him and any of the other 50% of students he’s actually doing better than. And if it’s the most average with a decimal grade point average I’m sure the top 50% can’t be doing that much better. To me it sounds like they were passing him along in order to keep their promotion rates up and just hoping the boy would eventually just drop out since he was barely coming anyway. If anything the only reason they telling him to repeat high school back over is because a state auditor or somebody came through.

Mom needs to take some accountability. I can understand how hard it is being a single parent to multiple children but you never once went to check on things about your son? If you knew he was failing classes you never questioned why they were still promoting him? You honestly thought he was about to graduate with a 0.13 GPA and that didn’t sound crazy to you?

This is high school ain’t no promotion rate he’s a senior with freshman credits meaning he still a freshman.

 

[You Win Perfect]

Just go get your GED when you turn 18. Why spend 4 more years or any amount of time when you’re of age and can just study and pass one test

exactly. high school is trash and a waste. i wish we could just do that when we are in freshman year or even before we start that

 

[OliviaTwist]

This is high school ain’t no promotion rate he’s a senior with freshman credits meaning he still a freshman.

So then what’s the point in calling him a “senior” and using terms like “promotion”then? Either way someone is definitely covering up this systemic failure because why else would they allow him to go on like it’s nothing? He failed Algebra I so y’all put him in Algrebra II? Something isn’t right

 

[North of Death]

So then what’s the point in calling him a “senior” and using terms like “promotion”then? Either way someone is definitely covering up this systemic failure because why else would they allow him to go on like it’s nothing? He failed Algebra I so y’all put him in Algrebra II? Something isn’t right

Its called "social promotion"...Social promotion, the act of promoting children to the next grade even when their test scores don't support such a move, is a regular practice in many schools today

Is Social Promotion Crippling Our Children's Future? The Debate | PublicSchoolReview.com

 

[Professor Emeritus]

It's up to us, complete strangers who don't even live there.
Not his mom, who lives with him, his legal guardian.
Not the school board, who comes up with the academic curriculum and the policies.
Not the politicians, who are elected to make decisions in the best interests of the city.

But complete strangers who don't live there.

Who said those people do not bear responsibility?

But the fact that you're a complete stranger who doesn't have any investment in what is going on is part of the problem. Get yourself involved. Either you're a part of the solution or you're a part of the problem. bytching about it in an internet thread doesn't solve shyt.

Of course, maybe you don't want to be part of the solution. Maybe you don't give a shyt about failing Black schools. If so, why even post in the thread? Just to dunk on people with fukked-up lives in fukked-up neighborhoods?

 

[Grifter]

Are they back at school or still doing at home learning?