(06-09-2017, 11:02 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Six schools in Baltimore (5 high schools, one middle school) had ZERO students proficient in math or English.


http://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-bal...tate-tests

Parents need to take some ownership here.  If they know the school isn't educating their child, they need to make their voices heard.  The problem is, many of the parents of the kids attending these failing schools probably attended these same schools themselves.  Either they don't know any better, or they simply don't care.

I have a relative who teaches in the DCPS.  She's a grade school teacher working with 1st and 2nd graders.  Some of the stories I've heard from her are downright depressing, but explain a lot about where we are as a society.  Many parents in the more impoverished areas of town (she teaches in one) don't take any ownership over their children's education, and expect the teachers to carry the load without any assistance from them.  They don't feed them, and they don't buy them any of their school supplies.   My relative regularly buys supplies for up to half her class because the parents just don't bother.

They send the kids to school with nothing.  DCPS has adopted a program to feed the kids when they get to school, so my relative has to take the time that used to be her planning period to play cafeteria lady for a classroom of kids.

She has been in conferences with parents where she's talking about how bright their child is and how the kid just needs some encouragement at home, and she's actually had parents tell her "That's your job, not mine."

School systems like Baltimore or even here in Jacksonville are more concerned with propping up the bloated bureaucracy and placating the teacher's unions than they are about educating children.

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