Only 17% Of Black Students In Maryland School District Scored Proficient In Math
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you can throw all the money you can at a problem, doesn't mean it solves it. Gotta change the mentality first which is harder.
It's Saturday, I wonder how many Black parents are spending the day studying with their kids.
Very little
As long as you're passing for the year, and the principal ain't calling home, the average black parent is content and happy.
Hardest Since MC Ren
Kizz My Black Azz
Prince George's county up in there?
Thought u nikkas was doing it big over there
Raise your kids
Thought u nikkas was doing it big over there
Raise your kids
There is more that should be considered beyond "studying". Saturdays should be for extracurricular enrichment. Playing Minecraft and the Sims helps educate children just like Math Blaster 2.0 did for us. Piano lessons, archery lessons, worship for some religious folks, family time, all of that is needed on the weekend. Life has to be enjoyed, and that extends beyond the books.Very little
As long as you're passing for the year, and the principal ain't calling home, the average black parent is content and happy.
Math is the one subject where you have to have homework for extra practice.
You have to engulf your child in math, quizzing them randomly, writing out problems for them to solve, sitting with them why they're doing their homework.
You have to refresh yourself on it so you won't be intimidated by it and go over it with your kids constantly so they don't get a complex about it.
The program we use with our children to help them with math is IXL.
You gotta pay for it, but it's worth it.
All of my kids excel at math because we've had them on that shyt heavy since they started school.
The only one that slipped up was my youngest son, he got a C in math two semesters last year because we slacked off thinking he was good.
It was his first year in middle school, but he's good now.
Other than that, he's always got straight A's in math and all my other kids have always gotten nothing but A's.
This is the program, please get it if you have young children.
IXL | Online maths and English practice.
It really works..
You have to engulf your child in math, quizzing them randomly, writing out problems for them to solve, sitting with them why they're doing their homework.
You have to refresh yourself on it so you won't be intimidated by it and go over it with your kids constantly so they don't get a complex about it.
The program we use with our children to help them with math is IXL.
You gotta pay for it, but it's worth it.
All of my kids excel at math because we've had them on that shyt heavy since they started school.
The only one that slipped up was my youngest son, he got a C in math two semesters last year because we slacked off thinking he was good.
It was his first year in middle school, but he's good now.
Other than that, he's always got straight A's in math and all my other kids have always gotten nothing but A's.
This is the program, please get it if you have young children.
IXL | Online maths and English practice.
It really works..
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gldnone913
Integrity and Consistency
I went through the same shyt with Math. Sucked ass at it (no pun intended). Only reason why I passed that shyt my first two years of HS was because of the calculator. Thank god I didn't have to take that shyt my Junior and Senior year. Got that wakeup call in college though
TLDR
- In Algebra 1, only 13.3 percent of Maryland’s black students were proficient compared with 52.3 percent of white students and 66.7 percent of Asian students.
- Only 17 percent of black students in the District scored proficient in math, compared with 68.8 percent of Asian students and 80.1 percent of white students, according to recently released scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers standardized test, more commonly known as PARCC.
- Yet today in Maryland — including Montgomery County and Prince George’s County, where NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is located — only 17.5 percent of black students in grades 3 through 8 are proficient in math, compared with 50.7 percent of white students and 67.5 percent of Asian students.
- Prince George’s schools interim chief executive Monica Goldson issued a statement saying that the test scores were just “one of many sets of indicators” of student achievement.
Man....hate to say it, but I'm not shocked by the PG County numbers. The Montgomery County numbers are shocking though. Worth mentioning, PG is under new leadership and they had a scandal of passing kids despite failing scores.
Crazy how folks tout PG County for being majority black, but the county is notorious for bad schools and crime. The interim superintendent is black, so hopefully things change for the better
gldnone913
Integrity and Consistency
My son's school does all of their math homework through IXL.
Devil Plisken…CMS
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Stop hatin nikka
It's multifaceted. I'll start with nutrition. Fat is food for the brain. She doesn't carb up in the morning ( or hardly ever) so there's no crash. A lot of kids with behavioral issues in school act out because blood sugar levels are inconsistent. She's been eating high fat / high protein / low carb her entire life. I've only dealt with meltdowns when we let her eat a lot of carbs. No need to punish her for them either because it's our fault for feeding it to her.
The second thing my wife and I decided not to do was punish her for things we caused ourselves or for little mistakes. Its easier to drive this point home with examples. When she was 18 months i was fed up with buying diapers so I used an alternative method of potty training. I let her walk around the house bottomless. I read that by that age, for some kids as early as 7 months, they are aware that piss and shyt is nasty. What they aren't aware of is theres a magical place outside of the diaper to put piss and shyt. Even if you try to tell them to use the potty they may not want to because its easier not to.. or any other reason. What they do know is piss and shyt doesn't belong on the floor. When you take the bottoms off they'll do all they can to hold it. And when desperate enough they'll sit on the pot. It worked day one. If for some reason it didn't work and she pissed on the carpet do she deserve a spanking? No, if anyone deserves a spanking it'd be me, right? I'm the dumbass that took the diaper off a un potty trained kid
Still on the diaper thing. I didn't want to do night time diapers either. I read the most reliable method of potty training was to set your alarm every hour after your child sleeps and check the bed for wetness until you can narrow down when they usually piss the bed. Once you figure it out (it took me 3 days, should've took 2 but I fukked up) you set the alarm an hour before they piss and wake them and walk them to the potty. Within a week they should do it themselves. So she went a few days and had success but one day she wet the bed. Should I spank her for that, no. So many people punish their kids while setting standards kids can't live up to. People make mistakes at work all the time and get a pass. Kids should have the same liberty. It makes them unafraid to fail.
Another thing we did was set her up for failure and praise her effort while she fails. That way failure doesn't bother her. We always set the bar higher than her ability without stressing her out. No pressure, she's a kid. We don't lose sight of her age. We never tell her she's unable. You know. "That's too hard." I generally don't use that language. I'll reword it to "Don't be upset if you're not ready". The reason is we wanted her to have grit. Not the ability to try but the ability to try hard.
I mentioned in another thread there's an industry you can make over 6 figures with 4 weeks of training and cat's were clowning or coming up with excuses but I don't speak about things I don't live. I work in this industry and leave my family for months at a time to give her the ability to go further in life than I have. I found the type of school (Montessori) she could thrive in. The public schools around here are broken. I knew if we sacrificed for a few years things would pay off. This year she was able to test into a STEM school in our area and we researched the fukk outta it. It's free
but you have to be accepted. Now that she's in they're willing to keep her in the 1st grade while giving her 4 grade work.Some people might think those concepts are disconnected but they aren't. Prep the mind. Set the stage for failure. Make her feel capable. Then set the stage for success. It's all connected.
I can go on but this post is already too long. I got carried away
Yeah, the school I worked at last year had started to implement it as well.
It wasn't school wide yet, but some of the good teachers had it for their classes.
It's really a great program.
I'm glad we was on it early, we've had the kids on it for the last 5 years or so.
Get it for your kids so they can get that much needed extra practice at home.
Well educated black folks typically have demanding work and social lives and they figure their kids are good because they have money and live in neighborhoods with good schools.
You have to sacrifice some of that shyt for your kids, especially if you have them in schools where they have to compete with white and asian kids from upper middle class families.
They will slip through the cracks fast as fukk if you aren't invested fully in their education.
The teachers will not take the time to provide them with extra attention and instruction.
They'll test them, label them, and keep it moving.
Lol good info I just forwarded it to the people I know who have young children in PG schools.
The website looks great and user friendly for kids
Most teachers just can't teach. That's a huge part of it.