In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly <i>Zero</i> Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

I'm sure this is just more "white supremacy" on display, given that the government of Baltimore is black-led and has been for decades.

Twitter gave the Baltimore public school system a failing grade after the city reported that zero students in 23 different schools across the city are proficient in math.
Ninety-three percent of third through eighth graders also tested below grade level in math.

If those stats are confusing: In 23 schools, which are not all of Baltimore's schools, there are zero students at grade level in math. In all of Baltimore's schools, only 7% are at grade level.

The Baltimore public school system boasted a $1.6 billion budget in 2022, according to Fox Baltimore. When divided by the number of budgeted students, the average cost came out to $21,606 per student.

People are saying this is the last straw for forced education in government schools in Baltimore: Parents and children must be permitted to escape these failure factories.

Professors and political commentators expressed shock at the news and called for more freedom to allow parents to find better schools for their children.
George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley argued on Twitter that teachers are treating students less like human beings and more like captive listeners. "Teachers and boards are killing the institution of public education by treating children and parents more like captives than consumers. That cannot continue much longer before parents look for alternatives."

The shutdown of the schools worsened student performance -- but they were already failing abysmally.

The percentage of students proficient in Algebra I dropped to a dismal 14 percent, below pre-pandemic levels of 27 percent in 2019, according to the Maryland State Department of Education.
This isn't the first year that Baltimore schools have failed students.
In 2021, 41 percent of Baltimore public high school students earned below a 1.0 GPA, according to Fox Baltimore.

Maybe this is a wake-up call. Baltimore residents are complaining of the "fraud and corruption" in the school system, and the government.

Days after Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., declared education a top priority for his tenure, Baltimore reported that zero students in 23 different public schools are proficient in math. Also, 93% of third through eighth graders tested below grade level in the same subject.
Baltimore residents responded by blasting school officials and lawmakers for "fraud and corruption" which they claim is to blame for the low numbers.
"I lay the blame in two places," U.S. Army veteran and Baltimore resident Evie Harris said on "Fox & Friends First" Friday. "I would start with the board of schools commissioners or the Board of School Administrators. And I'm going to also add in some parents... We've been having these results for decades. I am not shocked because we've been having these results. I am angry, and I would lay the blame majorly at [CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools] Sonja Santelises and the Baltimore City School administrators who are absolutely dismissive and arrogant at the results we are seeing here in Baltimore."
First vice chair of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee Kyna "K.J." McKenzie also weighed in on the report.
" I'm shocked. I am frustrated and angry about it. As a parent, I'm a parent. I live in Baltimore City and we've been dealing with this for decades," she said. "And these results are very frustrating."
"Frustrating because we're not able to get to the root cause of what's happening, because everyone the leadership here blames it on racism. We've had Democratic leadership for decades. The people here in power look like me and everything's blamed on racism."

None of this is new. A year ago, a local news station found that most of Baltimore's high schoolers read and performed math at a grade school level.

So when they say that 93% of students aren't performing at grade level, they don't mean that 11th graders are performing at a 10th grade level.

In some cases, they point out, students are performing ten grades below their actual grade. They had results leaked to them of a test given to assess student's levels in math and reading. In a class of 11 high school juniors, only 9 even completed the reading test. Of those nine, just two were rated as performing at a high school level. (Not necessarily 11th grade, note!). One performed at a 7th grade level. Six performed at an elementary school level.

On the math test, only seven completed the test. Again, two performed at high school level, the other five performed at elementary school level. One performed math at a first grade level.

The mayor skipped out on event he was scheduled to appear at, in order to avoid questions on the topic.

Baltimore has a clever strategy for dealing with their failing, and often simply absent, students: They just graduate them anyway. Problem solved!

Tucker Carlson talked about the constant failure of Baltimore's schools a year ago, pointing out that the Ruling Class has decided that Climate Change and Transgenderism for Tots were the important issues, and their own disgusting failure year after year was definitely not important enough to discuss.

This local report points out that Baltimore School's CEO is making $375,000+ per year -- as Baltimore school performance continues to plummet.

Wait, did I say she makes $375,000? That was last year's number. She's up to $444,000+ now.

Must be because of all her successes.

This report points out Baltimore's many "ghost students" -- students allegedly enrolled in Baltimore schools, and therefore being paid for by Maryland's taxpayers, who are in fact not in schools at all.

And they did this intentionally, to increase their schools' budgets.

Don't worry, they elevated a woman named Kamala Carnes to deal with that.

Except Kamala Carnes herself has been implicated in multiple scandals previously.

This delegate refuses to answer questions about the failure of Baltimore schools -- unless and until Fox starts reporting positively about these failure factories.

He says he blames the local Fox affiliate for the failure of Democrat government schools.

Confronted by @MikenzieFrost in Annapolis yesterday, Del. Sandy Rosenberg blamed FOX 45 for the poor performance in Baltimore City Schools. pic.twitter.com/KYYGY5ottH
— FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) February 9, 2023

Politifact rates this statement as "Mostly True."

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1 readin is fun da mental

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 14, 2023 04:50 PM (Vwz3I)

2
"Space to Destroy."

It's not just for business districts anymore. Molotov cocktails for the mind.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 04:51 PM (x0n13)

3 And the Left isn't blaming the b.s. lockdowns -- citywide and schools -- but blaming "Covid".

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 14, 2023 04:51 PM (Vwz3I)

4 Hmm.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 04:51 PM (yQpMk)

5 The race to bottom Equality

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 04:51 PM (xhxe8)

6 How are they gonna keep the count straight?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 04:52 PM (ppBhU)

7 Progress! Last year they had a negative number of students that could not do math.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 14, 2023 04:52 PM (uNylN)

8 This is because underaged girls can't get abortions without parental permission in Mississippi!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

9 In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

It's the lowest in Faber history!

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 14, 2023 04:52 PM (guGkK)

10 Maybe this is a wake-up call. Baltimore residents are complaining of the "fraud and corruption" in the school system, and the government.

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"Fuck you. Just try to vote us out, peasants."
-Baltimore government

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

11 I know this one! The solution is more money for the schools, right?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (u73oe)

12 If racists are involved is the Eff.Bee.EYE going to investigate?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (llON8)

13 Being able to do algebra will get you on a watch list in three generations.

Bank on it.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (Lzpvj)

14 Baltimore: The city that produced John Waters and a mayor who painted the sidewalks pink

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (4m54e)

15 In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

In fairness, this will be less hurtful to B-more students because they don't know what 23 is.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (ppBhU)

16

Well, at least they're too illiterate to read Ibram X. Krement's "Jive Kampf."

I guess that's something.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (x0n13)

17 13 Being able to do algebra will get you on a watch list in three generations.

Bank on it.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (Lzpvj)

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More or less dangerous than going to Latin Mass?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

18 also hats off to Baltimore...

living up to baltimorons.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (Lzpvj)

19 The percentage of students proficient in Algebra I dropped to a dismal 14 percent, below pre-pandemic levels of 27 percent in 2019, according to the Maryland State Department of Education.

Wow. They must be hiring the wrong purple-hairs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (guGkK)

20 >>> 13 Being able to do algebra will get you on a watch list in three generations.

Bank on it.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (Lzpvj)

That long?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (llON8)

21 Maf

2+2=white supremacy

*Here's your diploma. Go build a bridge

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (Q4IgG)

22 This just means the schools need more money.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Ed.D at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (PiwSw)

23 Just pour some STEM on that, yo~! More STEM, yo!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (XF9Gj)

24 The seven percent of students who can do math at their grade level largely are White or Asian, so, yes, racism. The 93 percent who cannot are largely black, so, yes, racism. It's like witches, floating and drowning.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (KSNKu)

25 13 Being able to do algebra will get you on a watch list in three generations.

Bank on it.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:53 PM (Lzpvj)

Algebra was the name of Stymie's mule . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (x0n13)

26 It is not "fraud and corruption" if academic excellence is not the goal....

and spoiler it is NOT the goal, the goal was "fundamentally transforming the country" and you got it.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (Lzpvj)

27 24 The seven percent of students who can do math at their grade level largely are White or Asian, so, yes, racism. The 93 percent who cannot are largely black, so, yes, racism. It's like witches, floating and drowning.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (KSNKu)

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The white supremacy in a system run by blacks from top to bottom is just flabbergasting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

28 But successfully teaching them to read and do maths would also be white supremacy and annihilating blackness.

Posted by: Frederick Douglass spins in his grave at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (7b+Kq)

29 OK, first I'd like to ask how we know it's 23 schools. I mean that, cuz none of us can count to 23.
But thirdly, we have a plan to fix this, which will require a lot of money and absolutely zero oversight or accountability. At least we think it's zero. I was told there'd be no math in this job.

Posted by: Baltimore Superintendent at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (FJYfm)

30 You probably can't even be a successful crack dealer or prostitute if you can't handle basic arithmetic.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (bW8dp)

31 Can we at least get their iPads back?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (guGkK)

32 yeah , Old news. we have all seen The Wire!

Posted by: Shaftoe at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (BZYCq)

33 In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

Now, that's an accomplishment!

Posted by: Archer at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (gmo/4)

34 16

Well, at least they're too illiterate to read Ibram X. Krement's "Jive Kampf."

I guess that's something.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (x0n13)

I have zero knowledge this is true, but would give you great odds they play an audiobook of Ibram's deepest works.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (KSNKu)

35 It's not just the teachers or the schools, it's the entire culture.

If Baltimore's communities valued education, you wouldn't see these results.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (KbCG3)

36 zero point zero.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (yQpMk)

37 We have "one", then "twain", then "legions".
Everything else is frippery.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (jTmQV)

38 First grade level is being able to say, hey those are numbers and I can count, but not knowing anything else about them. Sad. Really.

Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (dTFZY)

39 But successfully teaching them to read and do maths would also be white supremacy and annihilating blackness.
Posted by: Frederick Douglass

Sorry. But "I be" is not correct grammar.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (GxM4+)

40 20 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (llON

I am talking one step from the gulag list not "needs to pay me reparations" lists....

We will not get SERIOUS about being unserious until we stop being world cop.

That will be another generation or two.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (Lzpvj)

41 The powers that be are NOT answering any questions about this either. Wonder when the blacks are going to wake up and realize that this is being done to them ON PURPOSE.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (flINI)

42 This just means the schools need more money.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Ed.D at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (PiwSw)

Teacher effectiveness is always calibrated to dollars. "You pay me more, I teach better."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (guGkK)

43 Well, at least they're too illiterate to read Ibram X. Krement's "Jive Kampf."

It will be read aloud to them. By drag queens.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (ppBhU)

44 > It's the lowest in Faber history!
Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 14, 2023 04:52 PM (guGkK)

Think of all the future Senators they're turning out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (bW8dp)

45 How can you deal drugs and run a string of hos without math skills?

Posted by: Archer at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (gmo/4)

46 All this corruption in the Baltimore school system is just shocking!

Now, do we have any news on how the last dozen Baltimore mayors are all in jail?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)

47 Math is racist and it is white supremacist construct! 2+2 only = 4 if you're whitey!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (0hOvj)

48 33 In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

Now, that's an accomplishment!

Posted by: Archer at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (gmo/4)

When it comes to half-assing things, Baltimore uses its full ass.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (KbCG3)

49 41 The powers that be are NOT answering any questions about this either. Wonder when the blacks are going to wake up and realize that this is being done to them ON PURPOSE.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (flINI)

If that ever happens, Maxine Waters will be swinging from a lamp post. And quite a few others.

If.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (x0n13)

50 I thought STEM had morphed into STEAM, so they could get the wymn's participation numbers up...

And now I would like to read a poem I wrote about Avogadro's Number....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Ed.D at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (PiwSw)

51 They are just holding on until antiracist Mathematics becomes more widespread and then people will no longer judge them by white supremacist standards (well, except for racists, but who cares about their opinion).

Posted by: PG at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (84jHt)

52 The sad thing is that reading and mathematics are something that ANYONE of average intelligence can master, given proper instruction. I know a lot of folks rail against math, claiming it's "hard." No, it's *different* than your normal experience, so you just need to put yourself into a math-mindset to understand it, rather than a language-mindset.

Anyone without learning disabilities (and plenty of folks who have them) can learn this material.

I've read numerous accounts of adult learners who finally mastered the ability to read and they broke down in tears because of all the years they missed without that skill. They immediately became much more employable and much more productive workers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (BpYfr)

53 I just checked, and in 8th grade, you're normally expected to understand:

Number systems
Algebra: linear equations, exponents, graphing, algebraic reasoning
Geometry: Angle relationships, congruence, similarity, Pythagorean theorem
Basic probability

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (eyxn4)

54 37 We have "one", then "twain", then "legions".
Everything else is frippery.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (jTmQV)

So... if'n I take the Twain... does it take me out of town?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (oHd/0)

55 *peeks in*

Nope.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (E/NJa)

56 > You probably can't even be a successful crack dealer or prostitute if you can't handle basic arithmetic.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (bW8dp)

That's okay! We're bringing in Mexicans to take care of those jobs!

Posted by: Our Self-Appointed Elite at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (bW8dp)

57 wow

Posted by: Ciampino -- crabs, herpes, pox, scabs, etc at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (qfLjt)

58 And in a nation where an actual DOCTOR OF EDUCATION is the First Lady!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (guGkK)

59 But the real question is Are the Teachers sending in their union dues and getting their full paychecks?

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (xhxe8)

60 I'm old enough to recall when Baltimore was not such a bad little town. There was a great art museum there, can't recall the name, I think it started with a "C". And in the beginning it was fun to visit Inner Harbor.

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (4m54e)

61 50 I thought STEM had morphed into STEAM, so they could get the wymn's participation numbers up...

And now I would like to read a poem I wrote about Avogadro's Number....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Ed.D at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (PiwSw)

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I've told this before, but I saw a PBS commercial pushing girl involvement in STEM. So we watched the little girls do a STEM project:

The made dioramas of famous female scientists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

62 43 Well, at least they're too illiterate to read Ibram X. Krement's "Jive Kampf."

It will be read aloud to them. By drag queens.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (ppBhU)

We have a winner, folks.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (KSNKu)

63 How do I reeeeeech dees keeeds?

Posted by: Eric Cartman at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (fKIdX)

64 One cannot run numbers for the mob if one does not know what a number is.

Posted by: Archer at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (gmo/4)

65 0.0 is the roundest of round numbers.

Posted by: micky at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (3byMq)

66 >>I'm sure this is just more "white supremacy" on display, given that the government of Baltimore is black-led and has been for decades.

I blame Larry Hogan, because, why not, and I f**king hate that guy to boot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (up/3i)

67 I thought Black Lives Matter. Hmm, I might have been misled.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (fs1hN)

68 49 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (x0n13)

They will have aged out when people get their comeuppance. America is returning to the human mean in my opinion. The good news is someone will be running a lot of farmland in a resource rich country.

The bad news? It won't be us, and this soil drives the people who settle it insane it seems.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (Lzpvj)

69 If they specifically wanted to keep black people poor, dependent, and economically immobile, what would they do differently?

Posted by: Black "leaders" have fulfilled the Klan's vision for the darkies at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (7b+Kq)

70 And now I would like to read a poem I wrote about Avogadro's Number....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Ed.D at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (PiwSw)

Pfft. You can get an avrogado's number off any billboard in L.A.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (guGkK)

71 How many of these students' parents are publicly complaining? How many of these parents look at their homework and tests each night? How many of these parents have a smartphone or desktop or laptop and can dial up Khan Academy and can help their kids close the gap - K-12 math, even AP, even all subjects - FOR FREE?
Poorer people have excelled despite the odds. Poorer people, who are rich in spirit, show their children how to win against all odds. There are NO excuses in this day and age of 24/7 learning online. So much free quality content, free English classes, free coding academies and free STEM (and STEAM) programs, given so generously.

Posted by: Coki at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (0yj9q)

72 >In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

Baltimore residents have the government- and thus the school system- that they voted for.

No crying now.

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (geLO8)

73 Maybe some of our Maryland Morons remember this. Some years ago Maryland used to give a standardized test of some sort to 8th graders at the end of the year to assess their knowledge. This test was just for informational purposes, had no bearing on their grades, and the kids knew it. So no one ever took it seriously and the test scores showed that.

Took them a while, but they finally decided to give it to them earlier and make graduation from middle school contingent on passing the test. Test scores rose overnight.

I wonder if they still even bother.

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (pTb/Z)

74 But thirdly, we have a plan to fix this, which will require a lot of money and absolutely zero oversight or accountability. At least we think it's zero. I was told there'd be no math in this job.
Posted by: Baltimore Superintendent at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (FJYfm)
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Hmmm. Since you seem to struggle with math, let's move the decimal point in your salary to the left a few places...That will more accurately reflect your contributions to education. And will you even notice the change?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (BpYfr)

75 Sheeeeeeeeit

Posted by: Maryland State Senator Clay Davis at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (xPl2J)

76 I would like to see the results of Baltimore's government officials, school boards, and teachers themselves take these same proficiency tests for math and English and let's see the results. I wouldn't be shocked.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (oiNtH)

77 I thought STEM had morphed into STEAM, so they could get the wymn's participation numbers up...

I'm an artist and I deplore the attempt to add that "A" in there. We don't need to associate with any of those left brain types, there goes the neighborhood

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (4m54e)

78 Would these "kids" (I bet some are in their late teens or early 20's) be better off not going to school? Could it possibly be worse? I know it would damn well be cheaper, with potentially a better result.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

79 I wuz tol' dare be no maffs...

Posted by: Tayquisha at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (VE9wS)

80 69 If they specifically wanted to keep black people poor, dependent, and economically immobile, what would they do differently?
Posted by: Black "leaders" have fulfilled the Klan's vision for the darkies at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (7b+Kq)

Shut down two of the four major sports leagues?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (KbCG3)

81 Hey if a gun can kill people, then a news organization can make a school system fail.

Careful there Baltimore, you see what you just did?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (F8RnT)

82 The made dioramas of famous female scientists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

Ow, my balls.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (9UlRk)

83 Math is racist.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (kyD+t)

84 You probably can't even be a successful crack dealer or prostitute if you can't handle basic arithmetic.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

They can do basic math. It's just no one asks the question, "how many times can Taquan step on a kilo and still sell quality product?"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (GxM4+)

85 If that ever happens, Maxine Waters will be swinging from a lamp post. And quite a few others.

If.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 04:57 PM (x0n13)

That will happen right after Fauci, Birkes, and Wallensky are put against the wall, as in "never."

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (KSNKu)

86
Remember that guy who had to resign from the Detroit school board after he jerked off in a meeting? Not Toobin-style, either - it wasn't on Zoom. It was during an in-person meeting. Just started goin' at it like a monkey at the zoo.

That was obviously the big scandal, but it shouldn't have been. During the dust-up, it came out that he couldn't read. Nice goin', America.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (oINRc)

87 The made dioramas of famous female scientists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

Dioramas are kinda nerdy.

Posted by: spindrift at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (h5TKJ)

88 The powers that be are NOT answering any questions about this either. Wonder when the blacks are going to wake up and realize that this is being done to them ON PURPOSE.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 14, 2023 04:56 PM (flINI)

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Kimberly Klacik ran on this a few years ago. She got beat by about 50 points.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (u73oe)

89 56 > You probably can't even be a successful crack dealer or prostitute if you can't handle basic arithmetic.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (bW8dp)
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That's what pimps are for.

Posted by: Braenyard's phone at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (5oxb5)

90 no one expects anyone in Baltimore to do any better. If you were a parent who cared, you wouldn't live in Baltimore. Honestly, this country would be better off if they entire city was burned to the ground and never rebuilt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (trdmm)

91
Twitter gave the Baltimore public school system a failing grade

Twitter is grading schools?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

92 Oh no, they got what they voted for over generations. I'm sure they'll elect some GOPe losers next time around.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (TIcXN)

93 "Fuck you. Just try to vote us out, peasants."
-Baltimore government
____

Here's a math problem, what is the ratio of ballots counted to actual votes cast in Baltimore?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (fs1hN)

94 The made dioramas of famous female scientists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

That's hilarious.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (guGkK)

95 Seems like a voucher program ought to get a lot of support in a place like Baltimore.

Paying parents to homeschool their kids can't possibly get worse outcomes than we're already getting now, so even if the parents literally do nothing, they'll be getting a check, so they ought to be in favor of the handout.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (fKIdX)

96
One performed math at a first grade level.

And was hired by the DNC to oversee Election Night activities across the country. Specifically, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Nevada.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (enJYY)

97 Turkey is back.

Wes Moore will turn it around. VIA ain't wrong.

The next TFG.

Posted by: Golfman at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (iJOIM)

98 86
Remember that guy who had to resign from the Detroit school board after he jerked off in a meeting? Not Toobin-style, either - it wasn't on Zoom. It was during an in-person meeting. Just started goin' at it like a monkey at the zoo.

That was obviously the big scandal, but it shouldn't have been. During the dust-up, it came out that he couldn't read. Nice goin', America.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:00 PM (oINRc)

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White, Christian, homeschooled, and MAGA, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (LvTSG)

99 But they had Elijah Cummings representing them for all those years?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (Y5qcH)

100 71 How many of these students' parents are publicly complaining? How many of these parents look at their homework and tests each night? How many of these parents have a smartphone or desktop or laptop and can dial up Khan Academy and can help their kids close the gap - K-12 math, even AP, even all subjects - FOR FREE?
Poorer people have excelled despite the odds. Poorer people, who are rich in spirit, show their children how to win against all odds. There are NO excuses in this day and age of 24/7 learning online. So much free quality content, free English classes, free coding academies and free STEM (and STEAM) programs, given so generously.
Posted by: Coki at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (0yj9q)

See my comment at 35. A community demanding to learn will not be denied.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (KbCG3)

101 Bwa ha ha

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (bzzlh)

102 The made dioramas of famous female scientists.

Did they have big hair? I'd have given them extra points for big hair. And Aquanet

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (4m54e)

103 93 "Fuck you. Just try to vote us out, peasants."
-Baltimore government
____

Here's a math problem, what is the ratio of ballots counted to actual votes cast in Baltimore?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (fs1hN)

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"Why vote? It doesn't make a difference."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (LvTSG)

104 96
One performed math at a first grade level.

And was hired by the DNC to oversee Election Night activities across the country. Specifically, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Nevada.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (enJYY)

Funny how these illiterate droogs are able to count when needed. That is, enough fraud votes to swamp the legal one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (x0n13)

105 Baltimore is a one party city in a one party state. It's clear where the blame lies.

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (geLO8)

106 Math is racist.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions

Math is the original equal opportunist. Math doesn't give a fuck who you are.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (GxM4+)

107 No child should graduate from elementary school without the ability to build a reasonably attractive diorama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (guGkK)

108
Kimberly Klacik ran on this a few years ago. She got beat by about 50 points.

See! They CAN do math!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

109 Klacik lost by 50 points
She probably won

Posted by: Braenyard's phone at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (5oxb5)

110 oops

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (guGkK)

111
Funny thing, the 4th season of The Wire set in the schools is probably the most heartbreakingly sad and infuriating.

This just confirms my initial thoughts that "educators" are largely fucking evil retards, and the parents/electorate who allow them to thrive on the public payroll are getting exactly what they deserve.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (n+4am)

112 Kimberly Klacik ran on this a few years ago. She got beat by about 50 points.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (u73oe)

40's and Kools > Shakespeare. It's science.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (KSNKu)

113 It's raysist to bring this up during Black People Month!

Posted by: Just Sayin' at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (VE9wS)

114 The made dioramas of famous female scientists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

That was AP Science.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (yQpMk)

115 67 I thought Black Lives Matter. Hmm, I might have been misled.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2023 04:59 PM (fs1hN)

They selectively matter, and only when useful for specific political purposes. Otherwise, they don't give a flying fuck about black people, just the grift.

Posted by: A single at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (7b+Kq)

116 he made dioramas of famous female scientists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

That's hilarious.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (guGkK)
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Instead of DOING science, they were SHOWING science. Sure, makes sense to me. /sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (BpYfr)

117 111
Funny thing, the 4th season of The Wire set in the schools is probably the most heartbreakingly sad and infuriating.

This just confirms my initial thoughts that "educators" are largely fucking evil retards, and the parents/electorate who allow them to thrive on the public payroll are getting exactly what they deserve.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (n+4am)

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"It's all Republicans fault."
-David Simon, The Wire showrunner

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (LvTSG)

118 Dioramas?

I bet the Marie Curie one was lit. With radium.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (F8RnT)

119 Kids used to be able to read and do arithmetic back when the adults in the classrooms were teachers. Now, they are educators and kids are not taught reading and arithmetic.

Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (dTFZY)

120 But they can all tell you that George Washington owned slaves, which of the million genders they are today, and what their social studies teacher's fetish is.

Posted by: ... at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (7Vex6)

121 32 yeah , Old news. we have all seen The Wire!
Posted by: Shaftoe at February 14, 2023 04:55 PM (BZYCq)

When I watched "The Wire", I started to recognize that I knew Rawl's voice from somewhere else and then it hit me that he voiced Edward Sallow (Casear's) character in Fallout: New Vegas.

After that, I kept expecting Rawls to start lecturing the police staff about Hegelian dialectics or calling the riff-raff "profligates".

Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (Rl7KJ)

122 Look! Marie Curie is glowing!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (guGkK)

123 Kimberly Klacik ran on this a few years ago. She got beat by about 50 points.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 05:01 PM (u73oe)

But some GOP politicos made a shitload of money off that campaign.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (xPl2J)

124 and yes I know western MD and the Eastern Shore trend more conservative, but they can't out-vote that I-95 corridor of solid deep blue

the MD legislature is a politburo for the left- not unlike Colorado

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (geLO8)

125 This local report points out that Baltimore School's CEO is making $375,000+ per year -- as Baltimore school performance continues to plummet.

Hey, this utter flaming dumpster fire is from my home town! Yay, us!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (Wnv9h)

126 That jump to the bottom

SHOULD BE AT THE TOP OF THE ARTICLE

Posted by: Braenyard's phone at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (5oxb5)

127 I'm guessing that when Maryland was a slave state, the average slave had a general knowledge of and some math skills.

Posted by: Archer at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (gmo/4)

128 122 Look! Marie Curie is glowing!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (guGkK)

And parts of her fell off. That's so realistic.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (Y5qcH)

129 100 71 How many of these students' parents are publicly complaining?"

what kind of "complaining" are crackheads, ho's, pimps, and pushers gonna do? That's who these kids parents are. They're being raised with the expectation that all they will ever do in life is cash a welfare check and know how to shoot up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (trdmm)

130 128 122 Look! Marie Curie is glowing!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (guGkK)

And parts of her fell off. That's so realistic.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (Y5qcH)

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lol

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (LvTSG)

131 Goddamn fucking premature fucking post.

Posted by: Arrrrrgh at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (7b+Kq)

132
Oh, and everyone knew the school board guy was illiterate - they didn't get rid of him til he beat his meat in front of the Superintendent.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (oINRc)

133 This report points out Baltimore's many "ghost students" -- students allegedly enrolled in Baltimore schools, and therefore being paid for by Maryland's taxpayers, who are in fact not in schools at all.

I expected this. Schools across America have had millions of children stop going to school, and public schools are funded per student. What's a school to do when they lose students? Invent ones.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (0hOvj)

134 Baltimore is a one party city in a one party state. It's clear where the blame lies.
Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM (geLO

I beg your pardon!

Posted by: "Republican" Presidential Hopeful Larry Hogan at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (FJYfm)

135 Downhill ever since the CFL Colts left town.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (Vwz3I)

136 Math is the original equal opportunist. Math doesn't give a fuck who you are.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM

Yes, numbers have no feelings. They just are. That's what makes them so great to work with.

Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (dTFZY)

137 >>>In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level

>That's because the students with math skills are on the street slinging dimebags and pimping bitches.

Posted by: Mr. Bone at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (Jg7EG)

138 Why bother with math when you can move to California and collect $5 million? The subtraction thing might prove valuable, though.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (KSNKu)

139 40's and Kools > Shakespeare. It's science.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM

Don't be puttin' those out on my flo'!

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine (Capricorn) at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (Wnv9h)

140 136 Math is the original equal opportunist. Math doesn't give a fuck who you are.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM

========

Math buys me a beer sometimes. He's pretty cool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

141 This just confirms my initial thoughts that "educators" are largely fucking evil retards,

Last year I worked with a woman who'd just retired from 30 years as elementary school teacher. She had basic knowledge of computers, could barely perform the simplest functions, and had difficulty even doing ordinary tasks in the Microsoft Office suite. Her pension is about 60k/yr

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (4m54e)

142 Oh, and everyone knew the school board guy was illiterate - they didn't get rid of him til he beat his meat in front of the Superintendent.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (oINRc)

Who ever went to a school board meeting and thought, "Man, I am so turned on"?

Posted by: Wally at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (FJYfm)

143 Math has no home here.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (yQpMk)

144 Maf

2+2=white supremacy

*Here's your diploma. Go build a bridge
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2023 04:54 PM (Q4IgG)

We laugh but this is basically what public education has become.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (BdMk6)

145 140 136 Math is the original equal opportunist. Math doesn't give a fuck who you are.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2023 05:02 PM

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Math buys me a beer sometimes. He's pretty cool.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah but Math is solely into IPAs and Nickleback. Hard pass.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (KbCG3)

146 This local report points out that Baltimore School's CEO is making $375,000+ per year -- as Baltimore school performance continues to plummet.

Hey, this utter flaming dumpster fire is from my home town! Yay, us!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (Wnv9h)
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$4.44 is overpaying for the "benefits" this CEO is currently providing to students.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (BpYfr)

147 Sad for those kids.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (ykeLU)

148 119 Kids used to be able to read and do arithmetic back when the adults in the classrooms were teachers. Now, they are educators and kids are not taught reading and arithmetic.
Posted by: huerfano at February 14
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We had books and would sit in a circle and read.
Group 1, 2, & 3.
MERITOCRACY

Posted by: Braenyard's phone at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (5oxb5)

149 Probably just forgot to carry the 1

Posted by: 496 at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (cJkKS)

150 145 Math buys me a beer sometimes. He's pretty cool.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah but Math is solely into IPAs and Nickleback. Hard pass.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (KbCG3)

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The secret is that you whisper to the bartender to get you a stout instead and steer the conversation to irrational numbers.

Math is hilarious when he gets to talking about irrational numbers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

151 I'm guessing that when Maryland was a slave state, the average slave had a general knowledge of and some math skills.

Posted by: Archer at February 14, 2023 05:04 PM (gmo/4)

Frederick Douglass was a Baltimore slave.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (eoQWY)

152 We're going to stay on the sidelines for this. We have no solutions that aren't based on white supremacy. We have no right to speak. Also, we're having a matching contribution drive next week. Donate so we can fight for your children!

Posted by: GOPe at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (Angsy)

153
Math has no home here.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM

you should print that on a sin in you yard

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (ENBF0)

154 This just confirms my initial thoughts that "educators" are largely fucking evil retards,

Education majors are the dumbest of the dumb. Scorned even by the retards in j-school.

Posted by: They've been retards for decades, fucking evil is a little more recent at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (7b+Kq)

155 This is more than the schools. It is parents, too. Children are collateral damage to single parent households who themselves are strung out, etc etc. I know I home school, so I obviously am heavily involved. But I didn’t homeschool my oldest. I sat with them and did homework nightly. I checked their work. I knew what they were doing. But how can kids do this when they don’t even have pencils in their houses? We have to talk about culture and it’s ugly truth at some point. Or this will just keep happening.

Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

156 til he beat his meat in front of the Superintendent.

he thought the superintendent was hot?

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (4m54e)

157 Nothing new - in Chicago in the 1970s, there were a number of public high schools where 5% or less of the students read at grade level.

Teachers got a really nice benefits package, though.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (2tUFv)

158 I'm pretty sure those Baltimore students know the words to the latest rap song.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (N52dd)

159 Yes, numbers have no feelings. They just are. That's what makes them so great to work with.
Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (dTFZY)

Some of us have feelings.

Posted by: One at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

160 But successfully teaching them to read and do maths would also be white supremacy and annihilating blackness.
Posted by: Frederick Douglass
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Sorry. But "I be" is not correct grammar.
Posted by: rickb223

*points to rickb223's cellphone, wallet, and watch with a glock held sideways*

Gibs me dat.

-baltimore's feral yute

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (3CCua)

161 Oh, and everyone knew the school board guy was illiterate - they didn't get rid of him til he beat his meat in front of the Superintendent.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (oINRc)

Who ever went to a school board meeting and thought, "Man, I am so turned on"?
Posted by: Wally at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (FJYfm)
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Where do you even begin to address such behavior in a public setting? My own reaction would be, "What the hell do you think you are doing? Why are you even here?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (BpYfr)

162 Quick hits.

There was a similar story from B'more last year or year before, but this was English/reading proficiency and high school grads (something like that). You'll never believe what the numbers show!

Ditto to everyone above pointing out the only 2 relevant facts: parents failing is always the biggest factor in educational failure, and one way or another, this degradation is exactly what generations of voters have voted for.

And missed the last thread, but leaving aside the inexcusable conflation of illegal and legal migration, the survey numbers are pretty dire, actually. But the disconnect between public views on borders/illegal migration and voting behavior is as big a gap as exists in the electorate.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (OTzUX)

163 They can loot above grade level.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (PyOKD)

164 152 We're going to stay on the sidelines for this. We have no solutions that aren't based on white supremacy. We have no right to speak. Also, we're having a matching contribution drive next week. Donate so we can fight for your children!
Posted by: GOPe at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM (Angsy)

You left out the apology.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (KSNKu)

165 The rejection of "white math" has been a smashing success!

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (ssESX)

166 This just confirms my initial thoughts that "educators" are largely fucking evil retards, and the parents/electorate who allow them to thrive on the public payroll are getting exactly what they deserve.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (n+4am)

it's an unbreakable death spiral. What kind of moral semi-intelligent person would choose to work in the Baltimore school system? Just the fact that they're their means there is something deeply wrong with them. Some are there for the theft opportunities, some are there for the pedo angle, my guess is that most are there because they're too stupid and incompetent to hold down any paying job anywhere else.

The smartest ones are probably the thieves, which is why that's the group that usually takes over all of the administration functions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (trdmm)

167 Teachers got a really nice benefits package, though.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (2tUFv)

You have to treat your heroes well!

Posted by: spindrift at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (h5TKJ)

168 This just confirms my initial thoughts that "educators" are largely fucking evil retards, and the parents/electorate who allow them to thrive on the public payroll are getting exactly what they deserve.

I don't have a particular point of disagreement. But short of martial law, how would you restore order to these urban schools if you did mean well? Once you have to install metal detectors in the schools, it's time to just face it: you're running child prisons.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (ppBhU)

169 This really is disgraceful.
The Left is so eager to push the 1619 project, trans sexuality and indoctrinate kids to become little militants that they have left no time to teach the basics.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (NpAcC)

170 As the Husband of a High School French Teacher, who does not teach in Baltimore. Graduating students with out doing the work in not unusual. Covid really spiked it up. However the schools and teachers have begun to revolt and stricter policies are being placed to force more accountability.

I think there will have to be lots of tough love for anyone who was online during COVID, and by tough love I mean if you are not at Grade Level you are held back until you are at grade level.

Also I think it is a mistake to force students to Graduate. If they do not want to learn at school the school of hard knocks is always excepting new students.

Posted by: Picric at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (13tTk)

171 159 Yes, numbers have no feelings. They just are. That's what makes them so great to work with.
Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (dTFZY)

Some of us have feelings.
Posted by: One at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

Being the loneliest number is rough, especially on Valentines Day.

Posted by: Have a beer, on me at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (7b+Kq)

172 But how can kids do this when they don’t even have pencils in their houses? We have to talk about culture and it’s ugly truth at some point. Or this will just keep happening.
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Schools used to hand out pencils like candy. Pens are equally plentiful. TONS of organizations hand out pens for free as a marketing tool.

Any house that doesn't have pencils/pens is actively trying NOT to have writing implements.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (BpYfr)

173 >Posted by: "Republican" Presidential Hopeful Larry Hogan at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM (FJYfm)

Yes, MD has a history of stellar Rep governors

Marvin Mandel
Spiro Agnew

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (geLO8)

174 Poe moved to Baltimore and look what happened to him.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (VE9wS)

175 By now I should be in about 54th grade.

Posted by: Weasel at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (WoIMU)

176 And missed the last thread, but leaving aside the inexcusable conflation of illegal and legal migration, the survey numbers are pretty dire, actually. But the disconnect between public views on borders/illegal migration and voting behavior is as big a gap as exists in the electorate.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:09 PM (OTzUX)

Voters correctly assume Our Democracy never will deliver on their policy concerns so they just hold out for more gibs. Quite intelligent, actually.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (KSNKu)

177 Not to worry, folks. Your GOP is on the job!

Former legislator LeRoy Meyers, R-Hagerstown, continues his crusade to ban truck nuts from Maryland streets and highways.

He'll get right on the education problem when he finishes that.

Posted by: Our Self-Appointed Elite at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (bW8dp)

178 when reject the American values that propelled generations to success and adopt the culture of failure, well, you get social, cultural, economic, and political failure.

Posted by: grumpguy at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (hdegB)

179
you should print that on a sin in you yard

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM

I'm not advertising my sins in my front yard.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (enJYY)

180 Can they dunk a basketball at grade level?

Posted by: Roy at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (rqgpJ)

181 Let me let you in on some inside baseball.

Mayor Scott absolutely HATES Fox 45 reporter Mikenzie Frost.

Damn near calls her a racist white b*tch, not worth his time from the official podium.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (qQisc)

182 So what you're saying is that 23 schools have achieved equity in math proficiency....

Posted by: Misinformationalism at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (Y/wRI)

183 Wear the damn mask!!

Posted by: Larry Hogi at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (VE9wS)

184 I'm not advertising my sins in my front yard.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (enJYY)

I have no idea why that grass died and you can't prove anything.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (Y5qcH)

185 Kids used to be able to read and do arithmetic back when the adults in the classrooms were teachers. Now, they are educators and kids are not taught reading and arithmetic.
Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 05:03 PM (dTFZY)

Not so much in the inner cities once they closed down the black run schools that used to be pretty well run and produced some great men and women.

But this is hardly new. Catholic Schools in Chicago in the 90s were overwhelmingly full of non-Catholics trying to escape the public schools. It was quite expensive to the archdiocese but the moral problem with rejecting them was clear. I don't know how that was resolved in the end, having moved away from the area.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (eoQWY)

186 The "soft bigotry of low expectations" ain't just a dildo in Egypt.

Posted by: Baltimore Teacher's Union at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (sWM8x)

187 it's time to just face it: you're running child prisons.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (ppBhU)

Hmm...I see a real growth business opportunity here.

Posted by: Ebenezer Scrooge at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (7b+Kq)

188 Being the loneliest number is rough, especially on Valentines Day.
Posted by: Have a beer, on me at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (7b+Kq)

Two can be as bad as one It's the loneliest number since the number one.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (yQpMk)

189 168 I don't have a particular point of disagreement. But short of martial law, how would you restore order to these urban schools if you did mean well? Once you have to install metal detectors in the schools, it's time to just face it: you're running child prisons.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (ppBhU)

==========

Fire everyone. Shut down the public system completely. Open up the physical locations to private entities that will run schools with incentives for student performance (using metrics designed to account for the poor starting point, to be built up over time), attendance, and completion with rotating, blind inspections on a regular basis by the city?

Also, get the state involved to send their own, independent inspectors to check up on the city inspector work?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (LvTSG)

190 Yes, numbers have no feelings.
Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM

That's not true. They can be lonely. In fact, One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do, and Two can be as bad as One - it's the loneliest number since the number One.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)

191 By now I should be in about 54th grade.
Posted by: Weasel

Worst years of my life have been repeating kindergarten. The paste tastes soooooo good.

- FJB

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (3CCua)

192 That'll be $16.23.
Hands maff whiz a twenty and two singles $22
... does a Fetterman (sparks, smoke, gnashing, lots of gnashing)

Posted by: micky at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (3byMq)

193 > Poe moved to Baltimore and look what happened to him.

Some think Poe was actually killed as a result of election fraud.

Apparently it was common to find a bunch of drunks on election day and schlep them around to every precinct to cast fraudulent ballots, with a promise of another drink for every vote.

Poe may have been caught up in this.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (bW8dp)

194 If teachers actually had the power to permanently expel gang members, kids who are caught selling drugs, and kids who bring weapons to school, these schools would see an immediate improvement.

If teachers actually had power to give and enforce detention for kids who start fights, these schools would see an immediate improvement.

If school administrators had the balls to put kids performing at a grade level X into classrooms teaching at grade level X, these schools would see an immediate improvement. Right now, the kids three or four grades below their age are in remedial classes. Kids one or two grades below their age are in regular class. Kids performing at their age level or above are in advanced class. That's bullshit. If a 7th grade age kid is performing at a third grade level, park their ass in third grade. If you don't want to mix in kids of different ages, make classes for the thirteen year old third graders.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (eyxn4)

195 Yes, MD has a history of stellar Rep governors

Marvin Mandel
Spiro Agnew
Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:11 PM (geLO

***

Erlich and his poisonous Lt Gov Steele

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (flINI)

196 You left out the apology.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (KSNKu)

That comes out later in the week once the new matching pledge drive begins.

Posted by: GOPe at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (Angsy)

197 So grades K-6 are just babysitting, grades 7-9 are trying to keep members of the class from killing someone, and 10-12 are a mix of the other years for those that actually show up.

Depressing.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (oiNtH)

198 This all started when they began hiring white ex-police like Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski to teach math in the public schools there.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (ruiqp)

199
it's an unbreakable death spiral. What kind of moral semi-intelligent person would choose to work in the Baltimore school system? Just the fact that they're their means there is something deeply wrong with them. Some are there for the theft opportunities, some are there for the pedo angle, my guess is that most are there because they're too stupid and incompetent to hold down any paying job anywhere else.

The smartest ones are probably the thieves, which is why that's the group that usually takes over all of the administration functions.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (trdmm)

You have just described the YD Corollary to Gresham's Law, and it explains why every single major institution in this country is irreparably corrupted.

It will happen to any and every powerful institution in the end. It is inevitable. They all have a shelf life.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:15 PM (oINRc)

200 I got a irrational number for you commie
Up against the wall
rat tat tatat tat tat
Yea

Posted by: Braenyard's phone at February 14, 2023 05:15 PM (5oxb5)

201 I'll bet they all know about what a wonderful, advanced country Wakanda is.

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2023 05:15 PM (cUYo/)

202 They are never responsible for their failures.

Posted by: aelfheld at February 14, 2023 05:15 PM (Zy9Yy)

203 $4.44 is overpaying for the "benefits" this CEO is currently providing to students.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM

Yup.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:15 PM (Wnv9h)

204 I don't have a particular point of disagreement. But short of martial law, how would you restore order to these urban schools if you did mean well? Once you have to install metal detectors in the schools, it's time to just face it: you're running child prisons.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 05:10 PM (ppBhU)

these cities need to be cordoned off with walls and razor wire, something like in Escape from New York. Then just let them do whatever they want to do in there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2023 05:15 PM (trdmm)

205 Truck nutz are people, too!

Posted by: J.C. Whitney catalog at February 14, 2023 05:16 PM (VE9wS)

206 School supplies?
Pencils?

Karens love to brag about how many cases of pencils they send in to school every year to help the poor and underpriviliged.

You could damn near build houses of the lumber that the Karen's give to the city schools in the form of #2 pencils.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 14, 2023 05:16 PM (qQisc)

207 Also, get the state involved to send their own, independent inspectors to check up on the city inspector work?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (LvTSG)

Also make the children of politicians attend public schools. That by itself would be a great motivator.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Ed.D at February 14, 2023 05:16 PM (PiwSw)

208 Legislation working its way through in Colorado following Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse calls for teaching all high school students CPR.

Number of compressions per minute requires basic math skills, just sayin'.

And have kids these days ever even heard of "Stayin' Alive", much less know the lyrics?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:16 PM (ykeLU)

209 I think that there are parents there that do care and want their children to learn and succeed. They are just overwhelmed by the number of parents who don't, teachers who don't, and school boards and elected officials who don't. Picking up and moving aren't always a viable option.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (oiNtH)

210 $21,606 per student.

Those are rookie numbers. 15 years ago some NJ Abbott districts were spending $35k per student to not-educate them. (It must be much more now.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (eYjq8)

211 I like when they ask the retard mayor about the squeegie men. He doesn't answer any questions about them either

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (flINI)

212 you should print that on a sin in you yard
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM

'Cos everyone will know how smart you are!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (a3Q+t)

213 I expected this. Schools across America have had millions of children stop going to school, and public schools are funded per student. What's a school to do when they lose students? Invent ones.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:05 PM (0hOvj)

This often happened in the past with armies. You go out of garrison X and find one man for every 10 being paid. Quite a bummer if you were there trying to defend the city from a zillion baddies.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (eoQWY)

214 Number of compressions per minute requires basic math skills, just sayin'.

And have kids these days ever even heard of "Stayin' Alive", much less know the lyrics?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:16 PM

I prefer to use "Another One Bites the Dust". But I'm a little strange.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (Wnv9h)

215 Baltimore theme song
https://tinyurl.com/7rbktpws

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (DB16e)

216 182 So what you're saying is that 23 schools have achieved equity in math proficiency....
Posted by: Misinformationalism
____

Ahead of schedule! Direct Deposit my bonus pay!

Posted by: DEI Inc. at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (fs1hN)

217
And have kids these days ever even heard of "Stayin' Alive", much less know the lyrics?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:16 PM

Another One Bites the Dust is the same beats per minute

just sayin'

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (ENBF0)

218 Some of these "schools" get funded at a rate of $20 or $30,000 *per kid".

Give me a class of 25 kids and $750,000, and the authority to use my own discretion on discipline and expulsions, and I guarantee at least 20 of them will learn to read.

Hell, probably just offering $10,000/year to any kid who performs at grade level would do the trick.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (bW8dp)

219 School supplies?
Pencils?

Karens love to brag about how many cases of pencils they send in to school every year to help the poor and underpriviliged.

You could damn near build houses of the lumber that the Karen's give to the city schools in the form of #2 pencils.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 14, 2023 05:16 PM (qQisc)

Nobody fails math for want of a fucking pencil.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (PyOKD)

220 Also, get the state involved to send their own, independent inspectors to check up on the city inspector work?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 05:13 PM (LvTSG)
----

Maryland is a deep-blue leftoid hellhole with the exception of the far Western part of the state. Democrats have supermajority status in the legislature.

Anyone the state sends in to "inspect" isn't going to be worth shit.

Posted by: ballistic at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (0a+Ht)

221 172 I used to work in Baltimore, Curtis Bay to be exact. I try to give back to the communities I work in, I feel this to my core as a Christian. I worked with the elementary school to identify 10 of the neediest families. We delivered Christmas presents and 2 weeks of food. These people had nothing. Furniture was whatever scrounged from an eviction of someone else. It was dirty, houses were dirty. Kids were dirty. Except one house always stood out - an intact Mexican family. Poor as dirt, but that house was clean. Those kids were clean. And the father cried when we gave the gifts to their kids. They were the one family I knew was not going to sell all the stuff we just brought in 5 minutes to buy more meth. Because they were a family. Legal? I don’t know. Probably don’t want to know because that would bother my conscious in another way.

Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

222 198 This all started when they began hiring white ex-police like Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski to teach math in the public schools there.
Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 14, 2023 05:14 PM (ruiqp)

He was a better teacher than he was a cop

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (bzzlh)

223 Idiocracy is progressing as expected.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (bSGeu)

224
I buy hundreds of pens a year, and frequently can't find a single one. I'm pretty sure my kids are secretly eating the damn things.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (oINRc)

225 Poe moved to Baltimore and look what happened to him.

*******

Walled up in the back of a cellar?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (ykeLU)

226 Asbury Park Spends $42K per Student and Still Can’t Get the Job Done: Highlights from the Recent State Audit.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3rn3fn

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (eYjq8)

227 I think that there are parents there that do care and want their children to learn and succeed. They are just overwhelmed by the number of parents who don't, teachers who don't, and school boards and elected officials who don't. Picking up and moving aren't always a viable option.
Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (oiNtH)

This is certainly so - stories of parents working like maniacs to provide an education at a private, or elite school are common.

The joke these days is doing so is increasingly going to fail because the schools teach nothing of value.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (eoQWY)

228 This tragic story is exactly why the Dems want to talk about racism, climate change and gender identity.

The REAL problems and disgrace of what is happening in Dem run cities is so profound and disheartening, the Dems have to bang the racism, climate change transgender drums loudly so the public takes their eyes off the real injustices and inequities.

Fire every Administrator and teacher. Burn it to the ground. Allow nonprofit educators in and let them actually teach reading, writing and math.

If kids are not going to school, imprison the parent.

Oh, and stop electing Democrats. They are evil.

Posted by: Czech Chick at February 14, 2023 05:20 PM (iKvcM)

229 Walled up in the back of a cellar?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (ykeLU)

For the love of god, Doc!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:20 PM (yQpMk)

230 Kids are taught Marxism, race division and Godless Socialism

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 05:20 PM (xhxe8)

231 209 Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:17 PM (oiNtH)

What if I told you that democrat politics is a combination of theft, munchausen by proxy, and communist conspiracy>?

What if I told you that the winning move for the public as much as is possible is to either not play or vote the f*ckers out?

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:20 PM (Lzpvj)

232 230 Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 05:20 PM (xhxe

The bright ones are taught surveillance basics, and Gulag theory.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:21 PM (Lzpvj)

233 By now I should be in about 54th grade.
Posted by: Weasel

If Weasel is in 54th Grade, how many filing cabinets does it take to store his Permanent Record?

Show your work.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:21 PM (a3Q+t)

234 > NJ Abbott districts were spending $35k per student to not-educate them.

That's nearly $3,000/month.

Give each kid an iPad, internet, a list of suggested web sites, and offer them $1,000/month if they can pass a monthly progress test. I guarantee you they will learn.

If nothing else, their mothers will "beat they ass" just so they get that extra grand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 05:21 PM (bW8dp)

235 What would we do without these teachers. Boggles the fucking mind.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM (ZqJGw)

236 224
I buy hundreds of pens a year, and frequently can't find a single one. I'm pretty sure my kids are secretly eating the damn things.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (oINRc)

When you don't need them, you're hip deep in pens wondering why the fuck you have so many goddamn pens. Then when you actually need one to write something down *poof* not a one to be seen.

Posted by: The pen is evil, the gun is good at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM (7b+Kq)

237 Yes, well, this all may be true, BUT, their scores on CRT were a solid Lavender with Puce Highlights!

Posted by: JB1000 at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM (bXn0x)

238 It's sad that so many Baltimore students aren't able to read the Healthy Holly books.

Maybe they can listen to the audiobook versions, preferably narrated by Baltimore's ex-mayor from her prison cell.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM (gf7Ez)

239 Wait, did I say she makes $375,000? That was last year's number. She's up to $444,000+ now.

Must be because of all her successes.

--------

Performance bonus for supplying the drug dealers with a constant and full pipeline of eager, illiterate young hoppers.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM (ruiqp)

240 Maybe they aren't asking the right math questions.

Try,"How many ho's can you buy with a kilo of fentanyl?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM (tkR6S)

241 What would we do without these teachers. Boggles the fucking mind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM (ZqJGw)

The real heroes.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:23 PM (yQpMk)

242 Some of these "schools" get funded at a rate of $20 or $30,000 *per kid".

Give me a class of 25 kids and $750,000, and the authority to use my own discretion on discipline and expulsions, and I guarantee at least 20 of them will learn to read.

Hell, probably just offering $10,000/year to any kid who performs at grade level would do the trick.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (bW8dp)

The perennial stories of one teacher turning around a school show this - To Sir with Love, that one with E J Olmos, etc.

Time to go back to the Roman model and stop the educrat monopoly. As you say hiring one tutor for a neighborhood would be far more cost effective, even without any internet support.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:23 PM (eoQWY)

243 If we don't have government we will have an anarchy of lawlessness. Garbage won't be picked up, impure water, the streets will be untended, there will be rampant crime, the children will be uneducated, health care will be neglected and the poor and elderly will be priced out of medicines and housing.

Is this what you want to risk, JUST TO SAVE ON SOME TAXES? Why are you Libertarians so heartless?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2023 05:23 PM (xhaym)

244 Walled up in the back of a cellar?
Posted by: Muldoon

For the love of god, Doc!
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

********

Shhh. Listen...

...lub dub...lub dub...lub dub...

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:23 PM (ykeLU)

245 It makes it easier for us when we offer them contracts. A few zeros and their eyes glaze over.

Posted by: Ravens recruiting team at February 14, 2023 05:24 PM (VE9wS)

246 > Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

This. It's not how poor you are. Kids on the prairie had far less than your average American poor person. They knew how to read and write because their parents cared. They probably only had one book, the family Bible, and they read it together every night.

Unless you're severely disabled or on hard drugs, there's no excuse for this garbage.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:24 PM (eyxn4)

247 A result of decades of 'Yaw be comin' all up in here wid dem books actin' like wypipa.'

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 05:24 PM (MF3yS)

248 School choice raysis.

Posted by: Baltimore Teacher's Union at February 14, 2023 05:24 PM (sWM8x)

249 "In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level"

Keep voting like it's a team sport, Democrats. I was going to say hopefully your kids will be smarter than you. Nope.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:25 PM (SAX5G)

250 Walled up in the back of a cellar?
Posted by: Muldoon

For the love of god, Doc!
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

********

Shhh. Listen...

...lub dub...lub dub...lub dub...
Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:23 PM (ykeLU)
------------
He's the man...the man who was used up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2023 05:25 PM (XlE1Z)

251 you should print that on a sin in you yard

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2023 05:08 PM

I'm not advertising my sins in my front yard.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:12 PM (enJYY)

Not so fast. Putting up a "Will sin for $$$" sign might be a bankable proposition.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 05:25 PM (BdMk6)

252 *peeks in*

Nope.
Posted by: SMH

Hiya SMH !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:25 PM (T4tVD)

253 A result of decades of 'Yaw be comin' all up in here wid dem books actin' like wypipa.'

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 05:24 PM (MF3yS)

1000X this.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (VwHCD)

254 "The Left is so eager to push the 1619 project, trans sexuality and indoctrinate kids to become little militants that they have left no time to teach the basics."

I doubt this is any part of the problem. There were failed parents, broken homes, degraded culture, horrible teachers, horrible administrators, pathetic school districts producing exactly the same outputs long before the 1619 project or anything "trans" even existed.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (OTzUX)

255 Some Red states are starting to give education vouchers to families in Blue cities within their borders. This will ramp up exponentially and, of course, will suffer the same graft in the end but outright destroying the broken public education system will be a necessary first step.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (KSNKu)

256 Poe spent his final years in The Bronx, we used to hang out in the park that was built around his house.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (up/3i)

257 "Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level"

My guess is it's a point of pride.

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (iayUP)

258 Fuck those kids. The time in my life when I give a shit about someone else’s bad life decisions that result in a child has passed. Bomb the city like Dresden.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (zh8T4)

259 249 Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:25 PM (SAX5G)

One nice thing about the collapse will be either a lot of people will get rude awakenings (unlikely) or a lot of people who are educated will get the Pol Pot treatment (more likely.)

I never really wanted to die for wearing glasses.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (Lzpvj)

260 Don’t know if it has showed up on other Ace -PBUH - threads but “sold a story” podcast + talks about the failure of teaching reading without phonics that is modus opprundi in most public schools.

Soldastory.org

Posted by: Adriane the Unskiing Critic . . . at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (jonTH)

261 If kids are not going to school, imprison the parent.

So imprison the parent for not submitting the kid to grooming, predation, dick chopping, and brainwashing. Got it.

Posted by: Repeal truancy laws. They're only about money anyway. at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (7b+Kq)

262 Not so fast. Putting up a "Will sin for $$$" sign might be a bankable proposition.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 05:25 PM (BdMk6)

"Will debase self/sin for credits."

Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (Rl7KJ)

263 > They knew how to read and write because their parents cared.

I remember a story (don't know if it's true) about childhood Abe Lincoln practicing his writing by using a burnt stick to write on the back of the fireplace ash shovel, which could then be wiped clean for reuse.

Now, that's poor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (bW8dp)

264 Special ed sucks up a lot of money.

Part of the death spiral for society is Doctors diagnosing everyone with ADHD, etc. for profit (the medical-pharmacological industrial complex) and then the schools demanding extra personnel and money to deal with special ed (the education industrial complex.)

The cities don't care, since it feeds into the criminal justice industrial complex, or at the very least the social welfare industrial complex.

These families are nothing more than crops farmed for profit by gov. and sanctioned industries. So they can't be productive - they just import more from South America.

It is disgusting. This is how the society dies.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (eYjq8)

265 "*peeks in*

Nope.
Posted by: SMH "

Well at least you didn't toss a frag

Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (SAX5G)

266 "In 23 Baltimore City Schools, Exactly Zero Students Are Able to Do Math at Grade Level"

Keep voting like it's a team sport, Democrats. I was going to say hopefully your kids will be smarter than you. Nope.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:25 PM (SAX5G)

Governor Newsome in CA was attempted to be recalled not for his many failures and corruption, but because liberals in SoCal were outraged when they began to discover that the woke stuff they didn't mind in the public schools had started becoming rife in the private schools they were paying 50K a year for.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (eoQWY)

267 Try,"How many ho's can you buy with a kilo of fentanyl?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM

Easy peasy, barely an inconvenience.

(1 kilo Fentanyl * # doses/kilo * $/dose) / $20.00

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (a3Q+t)

268 I doubt this is any part of the problem. There were failed parents, broken homes, degraded culture, horrible teachers, horrible administrators, pathetic school districts producing exactly the same outputs long before the 1619 project or anything "trans" even existed.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (OTzUX)

Exactly. The kids will be no more proficient in propaganda topics than in the basics. The teachers, though, will get all wet and moist with those materials and that is all that matters.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:28 PM (KSNKu)

269 > When you don't need them, you're hip deep in pens wondering why the fuck you have so many goddamn pens. Then when you actually need one to write something down *poof* not a one to be seen.

Y'all need to buy pants with pockets and clip a pen to your pocket every morning. When you take your pants off, put the pen in a box on your dresser.

I keep a Rotring and a little Rhodia notebook on me whenever I'm dressed for the day.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:28 PM (eyxn4)

270 What if I told you that the winning move for the public as much as is possible is to either not play or vote the f*ckers out?
Posted by: sven

I agree.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:28 PM (oiNtH)

271 I remember a story (don't know if it's true) about childhood Abe Lincoln practicing his writing by using a burnt stick to write on the back of the fireplace ash shovel, which could then be wiped clean for reuse.

Luxury!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:28 PM (yQpMk)

272 I remember a story (don't know if it's true) about childhood Abe Lincoln practicing his writing by using a burnt stick to write on the back of the fireplace ash shovel, which could then be wiped clean for reuse.

Now, that's poor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (bW8dp)

Wax tablets were a thing in the past because they could be erased and reused.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (eoQWY)

273 263 > They knew how to read and write because their parents cared.

I remember a story (don't know if it's true) about childhood Abe Lincoln practicing his writing by using a burnt stick to write on the back of the fireplace ash shovel, which could then be wiped clean for reuse.

Now, that's poor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (bW8dp)

The ghosts of Kiev say "hi."

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (KSNKu)

274 >"Why vote? It doesn't make a difference."

They are correct. Moving to a different place will give you a much better return for your effort than trying to affect politics. The Curley effect will run America until we hit bottom.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (44ww/)

275 How we used to dream of having a burnt stick to write with.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (yQpMk)

276 219 no, they don’t. They fail because the culture is one where being high is more important than your kids. The lack of pencils is because the people tasked with raising kids are uneducated themselves and boy oh boy did the Dems do a great job creating a new slave class.

Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

277 Well at least you didn't toss a frag
Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (SAX5G)

They get pretty lightweight from the AIDS-relating wasting and...oh, FRAG. Never mind.

Posted by: Fragulous at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (7b+Kq)

278 261 Posted by: Repeal truancy laws. They're only about money anyway. at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (7b+Kq)

Correct, sit idly by while your ideological enemies abandon every pretense of the charge they are tasked....when the system starts to buckle and they are spending 30+% of their time indoctrinating their victims to hate you punish the ones smart enough to find something else to do.

Why we lose.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (Lzpvj)

279 This report points out Baltimore's many "ghost students" -- students allegedly enrolled in Baltimore schools, and therefore being paid for by Maryland's taxpayers, who are in fact not in schools at all.

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Maybe this is where hamilton68 got the idea for "Ghost Russians."

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (ruiqp)

280 I actually think the parents that send their kids to private schools in the deep blue states dont want vouchers, they like the segregation that occurs and would gladly pay full price to trap these "other" kids in the public school system.

Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (cOFom)

281 These dumbasses cannot do arithmetic, so she might as well grab that sweet, sweet 400k+ gubmint cash...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (ufFY8)

282 The made dioramas of famous female scientists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

If they didn't make Marie Curie glow in the dark, they should have been graded "F".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (tkR6S)

283 It would be funny if the people responsible for this paid for it rather than their children.

Next step in the plan is to indoctrinate these children with 2 minutes hate at whatever abstract squirrel the government and their captive state media blame for it

Posted by: FIB agent Brandon at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (+VDkR)

284 Big city school systems exist to provide public union jobs.

A not-insignificant number of inner city students are ineducable.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (rJ48h)

285 When you don't need them, you're hip deep in pens wondering why the fuck you have so many goddamn pens. Then when you actually need one to write something down *poof* not a one to be seen.

Y'all need to buy pants with pockets and clip a pen to your pocket every morning. When you take your pants off, put the pen in a box on your dresser.

I keep a Rotring and a little Rhodia notebook on me whenever I'm dressed for the day.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:28 PM (eyxn4)

I buy somewhat nicer ones even at work and can recognize them when I see them on other peoples areas. If its the kids I'd have a place where my pens are and go there if you need one and put it back.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (eoQWY)

286 Well at least you didn't toss a frag
Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM

* Willie Pete joins the conversation *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (a3Q+t)

287 275 How we used to dream of having a burnt stick to write with.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:29 PM (yQpMk)

Fire. We wished.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (KSNKu)

288 "One nice thing about the collapse will be either a lot of people will get rude awakenings (unlikely) or a lot of people who are educated will get the Pol Pot treatment (more likely.) "

They are destroying themselves and their families for their politics. It's hard to have empathy for people who make a conscious decision to take a few dollars or "own" the other party in exchange for their future. Some of them have grown to like government dependence. This is what that looks like. Enjoy the fruits of your labor. It's why other people's kids generally advance in a generation and others stay mired in poverty.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (SAX5G)

289 Hmmmm ... Wonder what the math scores are for the 93 private schools serving Baltimore ... FYI, 60% of these are religiously affiliated.

Posted by: Kathy at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (JklXp)

290 Are there no prisons?
Are there no workhouses?

Posted by: Ebenezer at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (VE9wS)

291 267 Try,"How many ho's can you buy with a kilo of fentanyl?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 05:22 PM

Easy peasy, barely an inconvenience.

(1 kilo Fentanyl * # doses/kilo * $/dose) / $20.00
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (a3Q+t)

Same as in town?

Posted by: Solve for deez at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (7b+Kq)

292 264 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM (eYjq

You get more of what you sibsidize.

American schools are not focused on producing good self-contained citizens because that is not what gets the magic budget multipliers.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (Lzpvj)

293 Walled up in the back of a cellar?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (ykeLU)

For the love of god, Doc!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2023 05:20 PM

Relax. Here, have a drink.

Posted by: Montressor at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (Wnv9h)

294 I never really wanted to die for wearing glasses.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (Lzpvj)

I worked with two Cambodians, one about 25 and the other in her 40s. Both were short sighted and neither would ever wear glasses

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (xhaym)

295 The solution is to stop teaching math.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (h4dxF)

296 BIC Cristal in black medium point is the best all-around pen

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (geLO8)

297 Hey, they got just what they wanted - equal outcomes!

Posted by: RI Red at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (+5YjI)

298 I remember a story (don't know if it's true) about childhood Abe Lincoln practicing his writing by using a burnt stick to write on the back of the fireplace ash shovel, which could then be wiped clean for reuse.

Now, that's poor.

My maternal Grandfather was born in a literal dirt floor shack in Canada. He earned his PhD and was a full bird Colonel in the Air Force.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (eyxn4)

299 You don't need to learn anything. Just ask ChatGPT. It will give you a truthy answer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (h4dxF)

300 288 Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:31 PM (SAX5G)

The problem is I used to operate on thinking that society was at mist 35% free shit army.

Reality is "just desserts" means a societal collapse as well there are just too many.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:33 PM (Lzpvj)

301 I lasted longer at West Point than Poe did. He was dismissed after barely a year. I resigned after two.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:33 PM (ykeLU)

302 >The solution is to stop teaching math.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

that way, the kids won't fail. Brilliant.

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:33 PM (geLO8)

303 Sticks! If only we had such luxury! We had to smash the end of our fingers to a pulp with a rock and write with the bloody tip!

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 05:33 PM (iayUP)

304 280 I actually think the parents that send their kids to private schools in the deep blue states dont want vouchers, they like the segregation that occurs and would gladly pay full price to trap these "other" kids in the public school system.
Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (cOFom)

No doubt.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:33 PM (KSNKu)

305 This is why there was such outcry over No Child Left Behind.

The main thrust of it was testing and reporting. Bush (what's her name who was Secretary?) wanted reporting. Teachers did not.

At the time (not in country so don't know now.) many states had a system where they would report each school as having something they were number one at. It was all smoke and mirrors to hide the bad ones. Made parents happy since they all thought their schools were above average, but they weren't. Bush wanted uniform testing across each state, and uniform reporting.

Teachers did not want that, teachers won.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 05:33 PM (eYjq8)

306 294 Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2023 05:32 PM (xhaym)

Age is catching up with me I started this year, it is really interesting that those of us who knew from direct sources about what the communists jerk off to were never listened to.

Best wishes to your khmer contacts.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (Lzpvj)

307 I lasted longer at West Point than Poe did. He was dismissed after barely a year. I resigned after two.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:33 PM (ykeLU)
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Well, when you show up for morning parade wearing only your sword belt...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (XlE1Z)

308 I still recall a little filler AP story from the 1980s.

Some geniuses had funded a grant to some academic to study the phenomenon of recent immigrant family Vietnamese-American academic success, which was obvious and spectacular. The real genius was the grantee, whose conclusions required little actual work, though they probably went through the motions.

Explanation: parents/home environment with high expectations, discipline, and support. Such support did not include helping with homework, since most parents in the study DIDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH.

Anyone even slightly familiar with wildly successful immigrant communities over the decades coulda save the public the grant money and explained it up front. For last guvamint gig had a medical exam before luxurious travel, doc was a young Vietnamese-American woman (yes, fairly hawt). First joking comment to her: "so you must be the black sheep in the family, just a doctor!". "Oh yes (laughing) - my brother went to Yale Law, he's the star." (this involved the focus on sons vs. daughters a bit, too, which was typical in such families)

Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (OTzUX)

309 Some Red states are starting to give education vouchers to families in Blue cities within their borders. This will ramp up exponentially and, of course, will suffer the same graft in the end but outright destroying the broken public education system will be a necessary first step.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM (KSNKu)

Just extend the ability of anyone to form a school where vouchers can be used to be outside the monopoly assuming they meet objective test score goals. This will tend to dilute the monopoly of educrats, as lean operations will outdo them.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (eoQWY)

310 At age 17 there will be remedial classes on how to properly vote and not all those kids are black.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (xc8mL)

311 In other news have they finally tabulated the Superbowl score yet, or are they still collecting ballots?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (0hOvj)

312 The Wire covered this 20 years ago. Baltimore Schools hires people to go around and have kids show up once a month so they can get the federal funds.

By grade level, this means algebra in 9th grade. In many schools today, algebra in 8th grade is considered the weakest kids.

Posted by: MikeN at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (XygMV)

313 Looks like the students killed yesterday by the black gun man were white... Will we get a hate crime ? RIP... Horrible for those families... He should have been in jail on a gun charge but got probation...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (bs+z0)

314 I never really wanted to die for wearing glasses.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM

Mine help me shoot better. Just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (Wnv9h)

315 What percentage of TEACHERS in these schools are proficient at a grade school level in math? Serious question. I’ll bet the answer is well below 50 percent.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (wPEdt)

316 What they need is to be beaten and screamed at for not understanding the math concepts they haven't yet been taught. That'll do it.

Posted by: Dickensian Boarding School Pedagogy at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (7b+Kq)

317 280 I actually think the parents that send their kids to private schools in the deep blue states dont want vouchers, they like the segregation that occurs and would gladly pay full price to trap these "other" kids in the public school system.
Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (cOFom)

Whatever

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (BdMk6)

318 "Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:30 PM (eoQWY)"

And yet they still got him back. Because that's the system they setup- and now they are leaving because the whole thing is about to collapse into a third world country. And off go the people who did that to destroy other states, because, you know, this time they'll get liberalism and Democrat Party hegemony right or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (SAX5G)

319 But Poe wrote longer poems than I do.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (ykeLU)

320 Chilrun' r da fuDUTare.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (sAmhv)

321 > BIC Cristal in black medium point is the best all-around pen

Zebra F-701 is the best bang for your buck on the market.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (eyxn4)

322 "Nobody fails math for want of a fucking pencil.

Posted by: Comrade flounder"

You right,. It must be the lack of free dinners to go with free breakfast and lunch. Hungry kids can't learn.

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2023 05:36 PM (cUYo/)

323 321 > BIC Cristal in black medium point is the best all-around pen

Gotta be fine point for me

Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2023 05:36 PM (bs+z0)

324

Anyone even slightly familiar with wildly successful immigrant communities over the decades coulda save the public the grant money and explained it up front. For last guvamint gig had a medical exam before luxurious travel, doc was a young Vietnamese-American woman (yes, fairly hawt). First joking comment to her: "so you must be the black sheep in the family, just a doctor!". "Oh yes (laughing) - my brother went to Yale Law, he's the star." (this involved the focus on sons vs. daughters a bit, too, which was typical in such families)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (OTzUX)

Thomas Sowell has several books that touch on the differential success of groups in whole or in part. Good reading.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:36 PM (eoQWY)

325 Prime Beef>Prime Numbers

Posted by: Angus McNasty at February 14, 2023 05:36 PM (wrJpE)

326 219 no, they don’t. They fail because the culture is one where being high is more important than your kids. The lack of pencils is because the people tasked with raising kids are uneducated themselves and boy oh boy did the Dems do a great job creating a new slave class.
Posted by: Piper

When mom is sporting acrylic nails with fancy artwork, tats, eyelash extensions - all of which are not cheap - and then paying for groceries with an EBT card, you know that the culture these kids are raised in is seriously f*cked up.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:36 PM (oiNtH)

327 I actually think the parents that send their kids to private schools in the deep blue states dont want vouchers

I agree. And let's be honest, if you have your kids going to a private school, do you want D'Shaundra and Chuy coming to your kid's school all tatted up and 2 years older from behind held back, as disruptive and troublemaking as they were in the public school? I can kind of understand the concern.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (0hOvj)

328 I never really wanted to die for wearing glasses.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:26 PM
-Takes off glasses puts contacts in.
looks around....

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (MF3yS)

329 You right,. It must be the lack of free dinners to go with free breakfast and lunch. Hungry kids can't learn.

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2023 05:36 PM (cUYo/)

That and the culture.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (PyOKD)

330 > I lasted longer at West Point than Poe did. He was dismissed after barely a year. I resigned after two.

I met a young man once who had graduated from West Point, but didn't get his commission because his bones were made of glass or something. He kept experiencing severe fractures.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (eyxn4)

331 She had basic knowledge of computers, could barely perform the simplest functions, and had difficulty even doing ordinary tasks in the Microsoft Office suite. Her pension is about 60k/yr
Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 05:07 PM (4m54e)

If she was able to teach her charges the Three R's, I have no problem with that. Not at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (tkR6S)

332 311 In other news have they finally tabulated the Superbowl score yet, or are they still collecting ballots?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It's Arizona. It will take months. Not sure why KC is celebrating. Philly can still 'win'!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (sAmhv)

333 Asbury Park Spends $42K per Student and Still Can’t Get the Job Done: Highlights from the Recent State Audit.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3rn3fn

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 05:19 PM (eYjq

Did you ever see that Robert Di Nero movie "City by the sea"? That fucking shithole? They filmed it in asbury park.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (VwHCD)

334 There's an exodus out of my kids' public school right now, very affluent area. I checked out the local Christian private school for mine, long waiting list.

Our state has one of the best voucher programs in the country, the new Dem Governor is trying to dismantle it.

Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 05:38 PM (cOFom)

335 Failed all math through high school. Top of the class in trade school copy fitting formulas (obsolete type ordering specifications). Real world application previous teachers could not provide.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 14, 2023 05:38 PM (kyD+t)

336 Well, when you show up for morning parade wearing only your sword belt...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM

Preeeeesent arms!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:38 PM (a3Q+t)

337 > You right,. It must be the lack of free dinners to go with free breakfast and lunch. Hungry kids can't learn.

They even provide free meals on the weekend at most schools now.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:38 PM (eyxn4)

338 "The problem is I used to operate on thinking that society was at mist 35% free shit army. "

It's not even wholly that anymore. There are people in various demographics, like suburban women who are so ideologically stubborn, they vote to destroy these communities and are collapsing whole cities.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:39 PM (SAX5G)

339 337 > You right,. It must be the lack of free dinners to go with free breakfast and lunch. Hungry kids can't learn.

You mean the ones the kids dump in the trash ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2023 05:39 PM (bs+z0)

340 When mom is sporting acrylic nails with fancy artwork, tats, eyelash extensions - all of which are not cheap - and then paying for groceries with an EBT card

With 5 kids by 5 different fathers, a BBL, a Prada Cleo purse, and Gucci Ace sneakers on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:39 PM (0hOvj)

341 Nobody fails math for want of a fucking pencil.

Can't kill as many men in a bar either.

Posted by: John Wick at February 14, 2023 05:39 PM (7b+Kq)

342 re 177: "Former legislator LeRoy Meyers, R-Hagerstown, continues his crusade to ban truck nuts from Maryland streets and highways."

sounds like he wants butteglug's job

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 05:40 PM (kFrCu)

343 I agree. And let's be honest, if you have your kids going to a private school, do you want D'Shaundra and Chuy coming to your kid's school all tatted up and 2 years older from behind held back, as disruptive and troublemaking as they were in the public school? I can kind of understand the concern.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (0hOvj)
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If they were smart (and they are not), they'd do a phased rollout, starting at the youngest grades and allowing parents to have vouchers for THEM to go the preferred schools. Sure it sucks for the older kids who don't have that option, but if behavior is a concern, then this is the ONLY way to ensure that the students who go to the vouchered schools get the proper discipline they need to function at their new school. If they start early, then they can easily be molded into proper citizens. Kind of the reverse of what the Leftists have done, actually.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:40 PM (BpYfr)

344 I met a young man once who had graduated from West Point, but didn't get his commission because his bones were made of glass or something. He kept experiencing severe fractures.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM

When I was there they were running a crapton of stress fracture studies.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:40 PM (Wnv9h)

345 264 Special ed sucks up a lot of money.

Part of the death spiral for society is Doctors diagnosing everyone with ADHD, etc. for profit (the medical-pharmacological industrial complex) and then the schools demanding extra personnel and money to deal with special ed (the education industrial complex.)
The cities don't care, since it feeds into the criminal justice industrial complex, or at the very least the social welfare industrial complex.
These families are nothing more than crops farmed for profit by gov. and sanctioned industries. So they can't be productive - they just import more from South America.It is disgusting. This is how the society dies.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 05:27 PM

The ultimate 'renewable resource' and look at the vote yield.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 05:40 PM (MF3yS)

346 296 BIC Cristal in black medium point is the best all-around pen
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I like Papermate InkJoy gel 0.7. Buy them in a 12-pack for about $1.50 per. I used to have some pretty nice pens, but I gave them all to the thrift store.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (sWM8x)

347 Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM

Saw this in SoCal after Vietnam with many Vietnamese and Cambodian families coming to live in Orange County. They came with barely anything and most not speaking English. In a manner of a few years, their kids were graduating at the top of every high school, every year. They sacrificed, saved, started their own businesses, and would live 10 to a 1 bedroom apartment, and work 7 days a week in order to build a life for their kids. It was quite amazing.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (oiNtH)

348 @323

>>Gotta be fine point for me

If you want the Cadillac of pens, a Pilot Hi-Tec Coletto 5 position multi-pen is your best bet.

I have one with 0.5mm mechanical pencil, eraser, and 0.5mm black, blue and red pen inserts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (up/3i)

349 338 Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:39 PM (SAX5G)

The bulwark against stupid in this nation used to be the aspirational poor, they are not anymore because they have been put on the safety hammock by the aforementioned AWFL.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (Lzpvj)

350 Baltimore may be near the bottom, but there are a lot of other school systems that are pretty bad.

As a country, we can't hold on to our technology, manufacturing, or anything similar, because the public schools are turning out either uneducated feral human beings, or confused adolescents who are filled with self - loathing...or kids that are becoming adults and want to drop out of the "system" because they already know it's rigged against THEM, in particular.

This country, the United States of America, is either going to blow apart at the seams, collapse from the Idiocracy ruling large swaths of the population, or be conquered by the Chinese/WEF/ or some mean muthafuckas out there that want our shit.
Or some combination of all three.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (vcOmj)

351 This is why there was such outcry over No Child Left Behind.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest

Soldastory.org mentions that as well. NCLB wanted phonics re-introduced to schools. Teachers rebelled.

Posted by: Adriane the Unskiing Critic . . . at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (jonTH)

352 I met a young man once who had graduated from West Point, but didn't get his commission because his bones were made of glass or something. He kept experiencing severe fractures.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (eyxn4)

Maybe he was just an unbearable asshole that got beat up all the time.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (BdMk6)

353 Best wishes to your khmer contacts.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:34 PM (Lzpvj)

Nah, they are fine, they have jobs with guaranteed pensions. I think they support family back home too.

My wife has a friend who was born in a refugee camp in Guam after her mom was helilifted off a building in Saigon, and I worked with a truly wonderful lady who escaped on a boat with her husband from Vietnam who had been the rector at a private school, who wound up working hard and wound up owning some very select real estate in Portland.
I think they supported the immigration of family to the US in the years following when they could scratch up the bribes and the fees.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (xhaym)

354 "Gentlemen" has access to my favorite pens, the Pentel ones in the office supply section at Loft stores. Have never noticed them here.

And the Dresden bombing gets a bad rap. Like many totemic WWII events desperately distorted and seized on by contemporary ignorant moral narcissists.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (OTzUX)

355 t, but didn't get his commission because his bones were made of glass or something.

*******

There's a code for that:

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Q78.0
Osteogenesis imperfecta

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (ykeLU)

356 Test the teachers.

Easy money bet: less than half of them are proficient by any kind of standard, reasonable or not.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (aNA3Q)

357 I met a young man once who had graduated from West Point, but didn't get his commission because his bones were made of glass or something. He kept experiencing severe fractures.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:37 PM (eyxn4)
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Did he turn into a supervillain, like Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Unbreakable?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (BpYfr)

358 "They even provide free meals on the weekend at most schools now.

Posted by: bonhomme"

They were delivered on school buses to anybody that wanted them during the covid shut-down in my area. I wish I was joking.

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (cUYo/)

359 no, they don’t. They fail because the culture is one where being high is more important than your kids. The lack of pencils is because the people tasked with raising kids are uneducated themselves and boy oh boy did the Dems do a great job creating a new slave class.
Posted by: Piper

Nah, they suck at that too.

Slaves needed to provide good work and the elite ones were very skilled tradesmen. The best often were set up in their own shops in the city and sent part of the money back to the owner.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (eoQWY)

360 Yes, numbers have no feelings.
Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2023 05:06 PM

Numbers are out there! They can't be bargained with. They don't feel pity or remorse or fear. That's what they do! That's all they do! You can't stop them!

Posted by: Reese, Sgt. TechComm at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (gmo/4)

361 A dialog that could happen:

Baltimore public school kid: "I don't need to know that white supremacist math! My smart phone's calculator figures out every math thing I need to do!"

Me: "Smart phones are designed by whites and Asians, and built by Asians."

Kid: "Oh. Well, white boy, that's another reason I need my 10 million dollar racism reparation payout!"

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (AMIL/)

362 I used to have this beautiful fountain pen with a replaceable cartridge for the ink, lost it at some point. It was so amazing to write with, such flowing lines and the ink was top quality.

I do some illustration work with quills because they have a much more expressive line than a ball point but its like juggling grenades, eventually you're gonna screw up and smear or spill on the paper.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:43 PM (0hOvj)

363 Just think- in the future, we're going to have huge swaths of the population who don't know shit. Not just basic math- people who can barely read, have no knowledge of how a society works, or how to make a place for themselves in it - they literally WILL NOT KNOW JACK SHIT.

Idiots.

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:43 PM (geLO8)

364 Soldastory.org mentions that as well. NCLB wanted phonics re-introduced to schools. Teachers rebelled.
Posted by: Adriane the Unskiing Critic . . . at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (jonTH)
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Phonics is a virtually guaranteed 100% way to learn to read. Can't have that going on, now can we? Students might start to read "unapproved" materials.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:43 PM (BpYfr)

365 326 and the groceries are 24 cans of soda, chips and some hotdogs.

Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

366 "Just think- in the future, we're going to have huge swaths of the population who don't know shit. Not just basic math- people who can barely read, have no knowledge of how a society works, or how to make a place for themselves in it - they literally WILL NOT KNOW JACK SHIT.

Posted by: DB"

The future?

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2023 05:44 PM (cUYo/)

367 If you want the Cadillac of pens, a Pilot Hi-Tec Coletto 5 position multi-pen is your best bet.

I have one with 0.5mm mechanical pencil, eraser, and 0.5mm black, blue and red pen inserts.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 05:41 PM (up/3i)

I always found these multis to be too fat for my hand's taste.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:44 PM (eoQWY)

368 Baltimore schools... and most public schools are not producing students.

They're producing soldiers.

Their intake dwarfs the military.

And they're winning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2023 05:45 PM (Q4IgG)

369 269 > When you don't need them, you're hip deep in pens wondering why the fuck you have so many goddamn pens. Then when you actually need one to write something down *poof* not a one to be seen.
Y'all need to buy pants with pockets and clip a pen to your pocket every morning. When you take your pants off, put the pen in a box on your dresser.
I keep a Rotring and a little Rhodia notebook on me whenever I'm dressed for the day.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:28 PM
I learned in the Navy to carry a pen and a 'wheelbook'. Still do it today, even at work despite the department issues cellphone/logbooks.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 05:45 PM (MF3yS)

370 They were delivered on school buses to anybody that wanted them during the covid shut-down in my area. I wish I was joking.
Posted by: Ripley

You're not. Then the bus driver would stop traffic and lay on the horn to provide an alarm clock for the layabouts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 14, 2023 05:45 PM (n1JsZ)

371 Everyone thought Scott could make a difference as mayor. Nope. Now the Dems care all in on new governor Moore, a new Obama. He'll have to do something about the schools or bye-bye presidential hopeful. In theory anyway

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2023 05:45 PM (StQQf)

372 Fountain pens are great, unless you're left handed.

You raciest h8ters.

Posted by: Archer at February 14, 2023 05:46 PM (gmo/4)

373 I do some illustration work with quills because they have a much more expressive line than a ball point but its like juggling grenades, eventually you're gonna screw up and smear or spill on the paper.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:43 PM (0hOvj)

Some medieval monk had one of those and made a marginal note that it was the cat that made him smear the page.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:46 PM (eoQWY)

374 Oh... that music means we're all out of time. Join us next time on "Pen Talk."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2023 05:46 PM (VE9wS)

375 359 by the way, this isn’t confined to urban blacks. Peep at Appalachia. Same dynamics.

Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

376 Is little Rhodia Notebook any relation to little Jackie Paper?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2023 05:46 PM (XlE1Z)

377 Phonics is a virtually guaranteed 100% way to learn to read. Can't have that going on, now can we? Students might start to read "unapproved" materials.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

More likely the teachers who are objecting don't know phonics

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 14, 2023 05:46 PM (Dgmar)

378 Numbers are out there! They can't be bargained with. They don't feel pity or remorse or fear. That's what they do! That's all they do! You can't stop them!
Posted by: Reese, Sgt. TechComm at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (gmo/4)

Numbers are like assholes. Everybody has 1.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (BdMk6)

379 370 They were delivered on school buses to anybody that wanted them during the covid shut-down in my area. I wish I was joking.
Posted by: Ripley

My Grandsons got a cash payment once school was finally back in session for the missed lunches/breakfasts.. Over 500 dollars each.. Good old CA

Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (bs+z0)

380 Baltimore

Randy Newman wrote this song decades ago. It's gotten worse. Imagine that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TvDge63Iy8

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (vcOmj)

381 I learned in the Navy to carry a pen and a 'wheelbook'. Still do it today, even at work despite the department issues cellphone/logbooks.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 05:45 PM

Yep. Something to write with, and something to write on. Key part of your gear.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (Wnv9h)

382 Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2023 05:44 PM (cUYo/)

You beat me to it. IDIOCRACY was sugar-coated.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (KSNKu)

383 What percentage of TEACHERS in these schools are proficient at a grade school level in math? Serious question. I’ll bet the answer is well below 50 percent.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2023 05:35 PM (wPEdt)

I have met a fair number of public school teachers, and not one has impressed me with his or her intellect.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (XIJ/X)

384 I tried fountain pens once. Made a mess.

I have a few of my dad's old Cross pens but I don't think they make refills any more

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (geLO8)

385 You'll have to yank the truck nuts out of my cold, dead, hands.

Posted by: Bull Conner at February 14, 2023 05:48 PM (wrJpE)

386 It's hard to know who to have more disgust for:
those who perpetrate this or those who accept it and make it their culture.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 05:48 PM (roH4R)

387 Baltimore schools... and most public schools are not producing students.

They're producing soldiers.

Their intake dwarfs the military.

And they're winning.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2023 05:45 PM (Q4IgG)

One of the many problems with military recruiting is schools don't produce students that can handle the equipment used in combat.

But if you are thinking storm troopers, you are wrong on that. Antifa and that ilk are children of privilege, mostly white with an admixture of criminals and perverts.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:48 PM (eoQWY)

388 > Maybe he was just an unbearable asshole that got beat up all the time.

Maybe. Going to West Point sure screwed him. He had to pay back tuition, room, board, etc because he didn't do his time as an officer.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 05:48 PM (eyxn4)

389 Back during WWII, they developed textbooks to teach sailors basic math and English. When my husband had problems with classes back in high school, his dad gave him his copies. We know how to teach people how to read and write. The education bureaucracy doesn't want that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2023 05:49 PM (4IUUf)

390 nood

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:49 PM (bzzlh)

391 I'm tutoring a young Arabic woman in English. She speaks precisely and professionally and hopes to someday write books on science. She is SELF-TAUGHT, devouring online content - video, audio, text. She is amazing and an example for anyone who wishes to acquire knowledge.

Posted by: Coki at February 14, 2023 05:49 PM (0yj9q)

392 Piper, lots of white kids in those failing bawlmer schools too

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 05:49 PM (xc8mL)

393 Baltimore

Randy Newman wrote this song decades ago. It's gotten worse. Imagine that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TvDge63Iy8
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM

Good morning, Baaaaaaltimore!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 05:49 PM (Wnv9h)

394 and I miss those old Scripto mechanical pencils

Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (geLO8)

395 @372

>>Fountain pens are great, unless you're left handed.

I'm left handed and my favorite pen is a Noodlers Ahab Flex Nib fountain pen.

When you're left handed you learn to hook.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (up/3i)

396 I have met a fair number of public school teachers, and not one has impressed me with his or her intellect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

They didn't read the content ?

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (T4tVD)

397 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (a3Q+t)

398 So a thread about failing schools in Baltimore leads to a discussion of...pens?

Nowhere but here.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (u73oe)

399 Just think- in the future, we're going to have huge swaths of the population who don't know shit. Not just basic math- people who can barely read, have no knowledge of how a society works, or how to make a place for themselves in it - they literally WILL NOT KNOW JACK SHIT.

Idiots.
Posted by: DB at February 14, 2023 05:43 PM (geLO

Yeah compare them to the peasant of the middle ages. Knew how to farm, catch fish, forage some, fix things, raise chickens.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (eoQWY)

400 Well, when you show up for morning parade wearing only your sword belt...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Preeeeesent arms!
Posted by: Duncanthrax

=========

I met a young man once who had graduated from West Point, but didn't get his commission because his bones were made of glass or something. He kept experiencing severe fractures.

********

Preeeeesent arms!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (ykeLU)

401 Noodlers also makes fast drying inks for lefties.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (4IUUf)

402 362 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:43 PM (0hOvj)

https://tinyurl.com/cartridge-fountain-pens

If there is one thing Uncle Jim knows it is pens and that is why I use the Pilot G-2....

I hope your hunt goes well.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (Lzpvj)

403 326 and the groceries are 24 cans of soda, chips and some hotdogs.
Posted by: Piper

Why of course! You forgot the boxed macaroni & cheese! Apparently fruits and vegetables are racist!

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (oiNtH)

404 356 Test the teachers.

Easy money bet: less than half of them are proficient by any kind of standard, reasonable or not.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (aNA3Q)

This started to be a thing twenty years ago.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:52 PM (KSNKu)

405 *When you're left handed you learn to hook.*

We're talking about writing, right?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 14, 2023 05:52 PM (VE9wS)

406 Say... isn't that weirddave dude from Baltimore??? He does like bewbs, not sure how that's related...

Posted by: lin-duh at February 14, 2023 05:53 PM (UUBmN)

407 378 Numbers are out there! They can't be bargained with. They don't feel pity or remorse or fear. That's what they do! That's all they do! You can't stop them!
Posted by: Reese, Sgt. TechComm at February 14, 2023 05:42 PM (gmo/4)

Numbers are like assholes. Everybody has 1.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 05:47 PM (BdMk6)

The most evil thing I experienced in grade school math was the concept of numerals. Confusing as hell in 4th grade. Numbers, numerals, who cares other than math professors?

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2023 05:53 PM (AMIL/)

408 Lecturing and helping grade papers at a large state university left zero room for self-deception about the state of education.

But just as blood-boiling was something even more years back. An old childhood friend/neighbor I'd reconnected with is married to a very nice women, whose oldest daughter is a public school teacher. Just in the course of one informal sort of long lunch thing where the daughter was present, she managed to display what an idiotic, ignorant freak she is. Mentioned something about how she was offended having to teach about the US being the good guys in ..... WWII. Cannot believe she's an outlier.

Really no longer deal with that guy, since he (but more his wife and step-kids) are even more politically clueless than many around here, and can't shut up about it.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 05:53 PM (OTzUX)

409
Former legislator LeRoy Meyers, R-Hagerstown, continues his crusade to ban truck nuts from Maryland streets and highways.

The wheels will come off!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2023 05:55 PM (63Dwl)

410 Sharpie S-Gel 0.7. My local Gubstore gives them away.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 05:55 PM (MF3yS)

411 Yeah compare them to the peasant of the middle ages. Knew how to farm, catch fish, forage some, fix things, raise chickens.

I have said this for a while now but if we have a genuine collapse, an actual real catastrophe that destroys civilization the bulk of the population is going to die out of sheer ignorance. The lack of understanding of how anything at all works and how to function in life without big government and big business holding your hand.

No, food does not come from the grocery store. No power does not come from the socket in the wall. No, water does not come from the tap. No, heat does not come from the vents. Someone has to make that all happen so that you can pay for the end result. If nobody is making that happen THEN YOU HAVE TO.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:56 PM (0hOvj)

412 I hope your hunt goes well.

Honestly I write so little by hand these days I probably would cramp up in ten lines if I tried to. I used to write hundreds of pages by hand and had this amazing architect's handwriting. These days it looks like I have palsy and am a retarded chimpanzee.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (0hOvj)

413 We're creating the next generation who can barely count to 10, and they're going to solve a $32 trillion debt?

Posted by: Uncaring Government Bureaucrat(Human Tick) at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (LPkjK)

414 More likely the teachers who are objecting don't know phonics
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 14, 2023 05:46 PM (Dgmar)

Then hand them a shovel, and put them to work on the Great North American Dignity Canal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (tkR6S)

415 Sex, drugs, hip hop, bling, basketball.

Posted by: torabora at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (k8CdK)

416 ED schools: lowest SAT scores, highest GPAs.
Mediocrities teaching mediocrities. A Doctorate in Education is basically a Participation Trophy (proof: "Dr Jill" - read her "dissertation". It sounds like 6th grade book report). Teachers are afraid of anything approaching a meritocracy, because they'd be on the bottom. We've been conned into treating teachers as if they were intellectuals. They're not; they've gone through 13th,14th 15th and 16th grades, with "social promotion". Their PR machine, a major component of Teacher's unions, promotes their idealization. Yeah, they're much smarter than ( most of :-) ) the 8 year old in 3rd grade, but in high school, most are only one or two lesson plans ahead of the students.
Individually, they're not bad people, the ones in my extended family are actually good, but on average, thats what they are: average, or even slightly worse. We have to remove their control over the education of our young.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 14, 2023 07:47 PM (k8kXr)

417 "87 The made dioramas of famous female scientists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 14, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

Dioramas are kinda nerdy."

Dioramas are the kind of "extra credit" shit that got most teachers through school with something better than a 2.0.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 14, 2023 08:07 PM (k8kXr)

418 Negroes can't read because white people can. This is obvious if you're an illiterate negro.

Posted by: ccoffer at February 14, 2023 08:21 PM (NTqR2)

419 362
"...
I do some illustration work with quills because they have a much more expressive line than a ball point but its like juggling grenades, eventually you're gonna screw up and smear or spill on the paper."

I hated Engineering Drawing Ii because we had to do some drawings on vellum using pen nibs and ink. Pause a bit too long with the compass... blot! Rock the nib too close to the straightedge, ink capillaries under and ... blot! Couldn't erase, so a new sheet of vellum, which I had to pay for. There were beerless weeks because my 2 beers worth of discretionary income went to drafting supplies.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 14, 2023 08:27 PM (k8kXr)

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