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COVID has changed the world, and one way in which its roots of revolution have taken hold is in the area of schooling.
How’s that transformation gone?
In the city of Baltimore,
not too well.
Fox45 recently made such clear, as part of its “Project Baltimore” an examination of the area’s public schools.
As it turns out, academic excellence isn’t ubiquitous in the Charm City.
According to information allegedly compiled by Baltimore Public Schools and obtained by Fox, grades aren’t great.
A chart indicates that only 21% of the system’s student body earned a B average or better.
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Welcome to a school system where the student body is 7.6 percent white and 76.6 percent black (do the math… 92.4 percent non-white).
Welcome to Baltimore, a city where white privilege has been depleted, with systemic racism, implicit bias and structural inequality erased.
What’s left? A world where the standards long ago set by your average white individual are a bridge too far for those who inherited the city via white flight.
Baltimore City Schools has reached an alarming low in student performance. Project Baltimore has learned, during the first three quarters of this year, nearly half of high school students in City Schools earned a grade point average below a D.
Baltimore City Schools: 41% Of High School Students Earn Below 1.0 Gpa
Chris Papst, WBFF, July 12, 2021
Baltimore City Schools has reached an alarming low in student performance. Project Baltimore has learned, during the first three quarters of this year, nearly half of high school students in City Schools earned a grade point average below a D.
When Jovani Patterson ran for Baltimore City Council President last year, he ran on a platform that included accountability in education.
“They take. They take. They take. Yet, despite the amount of money they get. We don’t see much change. Our schools outspend 97% of other major school districts,” Patterson said during a 2020 campaign ad.
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Nearly half, 41%, of all Baltimorehigh school students enrolled with the public school district earned below a 1.0 GPA during the first three quarters of the 2020-2021 school year, according to media reports - a statistic that administrators have attributed to a year that saw unprecedented disruptions to learning nationwide.
A chart obtained by FOX affiliate WBFF-TV said nearly half of all 20,500 Baltimore City Public Schools students attending high school earned less than a D average. Consistent with the experience of many school districts across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic created significant disruptions to student learning, the district said in a statement to Fox News. As early as the summer of 2020, City Schools identified large numbers of students with decreases in their grade point averages and classroom performance when compared to past performances.
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