Guys, it’s not the public schools failing the students, it’s the system failing the public schools! Circular logic 101🤦♂️
▪️Meanwhile back in reality, at 40% of Baltimore schools there were ZERO students who scored proficient in math. That means 13/32 high schools could not produce a SINGLE student who was proficient at math, and 3/4s of the students scored 1 out of 4, the lowest possible score on the test.
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/at-13-baltimore-city-high-schools-zero-students-tested-proficient-on-2023-state-math-exam#
▪️Things weren’t much better at Baltimore’s “top” 5 high schools, where just 11.4% of students scored proficient at math.
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/at-baltimores-five-best-high-schools-11-of-students-tested-proficient-on-state-math-exam
▪️This comes after Baltimore schools received $1.6B in local taxpayer funding last year (the most ever) AND $799M in Covid relief funding. Even the local advocacy groups admit funding isn’t the issue. “The system” (i.e. the public school system) had more money than ever yet still failed.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
