41% of students in Baltimore earn below 1.0 GPA. That blows me away.

Sh*t this is a racist ass thread. Delete this.

haha yes baltimore city backs continue to fail!

GettingFasterDude wrote:

Democrat run city

Just say city. Only 3 out of the 33 largest cities in the US have Republican mayors. A Republican run city is practically an oxymoron.

Whatever happened to ebonics?

damn son wrote:

GettingFasterDude wrote:

Democrat run city

Just say city. Only 3 out of the 33 largest cities in the US have Republican mayors. A Republican run city is practically an oxymoron.

After failing, some people learn from failure and choose to change course. Others taste failure, and choose to continue on the same path.

Dwightarm wrote:

[quote]please listen to the words of Dr. MLK wrote:

When thousands of kids fail in school, the media will try to hide the racial breakdown of the teachers and students and the political party of the law makers. When a black student wins the national spelling bee, the winner gets to appear on every network morning show.

This isn't true with Baltimore. Racial demographics are quite clear. It's also quite clearly a very impoverished community.

Statistically, groups that spend generations in poverty largely behave the same way regardless of race: high crime, low education, hugely dysfunctional, lots of substance abuse problems.

They are in poverty, have high crime and do badly in school because of their culture which is self destructive...Poor whites do much better in all these areas.

I certainly don't agree with the politics of cities like Baltimore. One doesn't need to get into any substance to discern that corruption is off the charts and is just another impediment to competent governance.

The problem with the racial angle is that culture matters. One reason Theodore Dalrymple (pseudonym) raises such ire in progressives is that he speaks to life at the bottom, where people make one lousy choice after another and seem perplexed their outcomes are so poor. Dalyrymple doesn't speak about blacks, as he recounts his experiences with lower class whites in the UK. I am not sure Dalrymple has any solutions, but addressing the culture does provide a certain value. It really helps punch through the stereotype of the poor as lazy. If you make enough lousy decisions, life's prospects are very limited. And again, he doesn't approach matters from a racial angle, but a behavioral one.

In any event, the 70's and 80's generation really didn't see what was coming when all of those industrial jobs melted away. Blacks migrated to take those jobs - Bethlehem Steel employed 30,000 in Baltimore but its impact on employment throughout the City was much greater - and there is nothing to replace it - especially in a knowledge based economy where education and skills are really important. Once behind, it is not easy to catch up. And the violent crime breeds its own segregation, There are areas of Baltimore that are so isolated that it is difficult to make progress. Again, there is value to speaking to the facts, both good and bad.

damn son wrote:

Sh*t this is a racist ass thread. Delete this.

This thread isn't about race, it's about somehow 41% of people in a school are failing. I'm amazed you don't hear people talk more about this.

Politicians love to talk about free college, affirmative action, etc. But that's all pointless when 41% of your population can't even show up to class and pull a 1.0. They don't like to talk about that.

CarbonFiberJoe wrote:

damn son wrote:

Sh*t this is a racist ass thread. Delete this.

This thread isn't about race, it's about somehow 41% of people in a school are failing. I'm amazed you don't hear people talk more about this.

Politicians love to talk about free college, affirmative action, etc. But that's all pointless when 41% of your population can't even show up to class and pull a 1.0. They don't like to talk about that.

of course it's f-ing racist

there are multiple posters in this thread that are openly saying that they're doing poorly because they're black, not because of anything else

the brojos are scum for letting this garbage get posted over and over and over again

AlohaState wrote:

Baltimore schools receive $18,000 per child, enough for each one to go to a private school with small class sizes. Crazy right?

I don't think you're accounting for federal lunch money there. And $18k might pay for Catholic school near me, but you're looking at more like $30-$40k for a decent private school. My guess would be that if you summed up local, state, and federal dollars that we're spending upwards of $50k per student in Baltimore

Ebonics is the answer. Reintroduce ebonics!

Ok, let's assume that most people here are racist if that makes you sleep better at night. What does that have to do with the horrible performance of the schools in Baltimore. They are fully funded and run by African-American leadership. Who are you gonna blame now? Let me guess, the Jim Crow bogeyman 🤯

There are small business loan programs for blacks. There are special scholarships for blacks. Ivy League schools give blacks a boost in admissions. Even the NFL has a hiring policy to help blacks. All of those things should be abolished according to your logic.

I live in a city of nearly 1 million people. Private school costs $10k.

Congratulations, you live in a backwater compared to NYC/LA. I live in a metro area of 25M people and we have competitive schools. I don't know or really want to know where you're from, but I assume that it is close to a Klan rally point.

Here's one example:

https://www.pingry.org/admission/tuition-value

karma is real wrote:

CarbonFiberJoe wrote:

This thread isn't about race, it's about somehow 41% of people in a school are failing. I'm amazed you don't hear people talk more about this.

Politicians love to talk about free college, affirmative action, etc. But that's all pointless when 41% of your population can't even show up to class and pull a 1.0. They don't like to talk about that.

of course it's f-ing racist

there are multiple posters in this thread that are openly saying that they're doing poorly because they're black, not because of anything else

the brojos are scum for letting this garbage get posted over and over and over again

That's not the thread, that's a comment on the thread. The thread itself isn't about race and I think it's an important discussion.

I assume you are a member of the Klan. Such a stupid comment. My wife grew up in NYC and I lived there for 10 years. We moved to a state further north.

The first place that the Klan paraded in daytime was New England.