Welcome to Baghdad, oops, I mean Baltimore

Discussion in 'Politics' started by wildchild, Sep 1, 2019.

  1. NY_HOOD

    NY_HOOD

    the title of this post is funny but very sad and true. baltimore like other liberal cities is a rat infested den of violence and destruction ran by excuse mongering liberals.
     
    #51     Jun 4, 2020
  2. elderado

    elderado

    DAMN!!! Awesome ad. Thank you, Kim Klacik.

     
    #52     Sep 21, 2020

  3. Lot of people in that video in that neighborhood but not a single man and lots of women with nice legs.

    Yeh. Already off to a great start!!!! "Community resources."
     
    #53     Sep 21, 2020
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  4. elderado

    elderado

    Probably a lot of the neighborhood men were indisposed because of Joe Biden's 1994 crime bill.
     
    #54     Sep 21, 2020
  5. A lot of truth to that.

    And I actually thought about that too from another angle.

    You see all these dumpy neighborhoods that are wall to wall trash and debris and you ask yourself "how the hell can you be sentencing hundreds of young men a week and not be offering/requiring chances to do community service on work crews cleaning up the city.

    That used to be a win-win arrangement. Provide community service, give back to the community and avoid prison time. But then we went into Joe's scheme where you locked everyone up, and then we have the the new scheme which is to just keep arresting people and not require them to either go to jail or to do an alternative program. That is not good either. And now the dems want to move on to a scheme where everything is decriminalized. Yeh, that and looting will upgrade your neighborhood - OR NOT.
     
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    #55     Sep 21, 2020
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  6. elderado

    elderado

    Yeah, Kamala/Skankala was actually quite good at that. Bitch.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamal...ied-to-keep-inmates-locked-up-for-cheap-labor
     
    #56     Sep 21, 2020
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  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading




    Let's see how the public schools are doing in Baltimore...


    City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA
    https://foxbaltimore.com/news/proje...ars-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gpa

    A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.

    Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.

    “He's stressed and I am too. I told him I'm probably going to start crying. I don't know what to do for him,” France told Project Baltimore. “Why would he do three more years in school? He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that's the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that.”

    France’s son attends Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in west Baltimore. His transcripts show he’s passed just three classes in four years, earning 2.5 credits, placing him in ninth grade. But France says she didn’t know that until February. She has three children and works three jobs. She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted. His transcripts show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Spanish II and Algebra II. He also failed English II but was passed on to English III.

    “I'm just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits,” said France.

    As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days. But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened. No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.

    “I feel like they never gave my son an opportunity, like if there was an issue with him, not advancing or not progressing, that they should have contacted me first, three years ago,” said France.

    In his four years at Augusta Fells, France’s son earned a GPA of 0.13. He only passed three classes, but his transcripts show his class rank is 62 out of 120. This means, nearly half his classmates, 58 of them, have a 0.13 grade point average or lower.

    “He's a good kid. He didn't deserve that. Where's the mentors? Where is the help for him? I hate that this is happening to my child,” said an emotional France.

    Project Baltimore talked with a City Schools administrator, who works inside North Avenue, but asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. That administrator says the school system absolutely failed France’s son.

    The administrator told FOX45 News, City Schools failed because it has protocols and interventions set up to help students who are falling behind or have low attendance. In France’s son’s case, they didn’t happen.

    “I get angry. There's nothing but frustration. We see on the news the crime that occurs, the murders, the shootings, we know that there are high levels of poverty in Baltimore. Things like this are adding to that. His transcript is not unusual to me. I've seen many transcripts, many report cards, like this particular student,” said the City Schools administrator.

    Dr. Sonja Santelises was the City Schools CEO four years ago when France’s son was a freshman. But she will not interview with FOX45 News. Instead, we received a two-page statement, which explains what should happen when a student is chronically absent or failing.

    The district says students received a letter about their academic status this past summer, and records can be accessed through the campus portal. When a student is absent, an automated call is placed to the number on file. The statement also said the school conducted recent home visits and the student’s parent visited the school. France says none of that happened.

    What the statement does not address, is why France’s son was promoted despite failing classes. It doesn’t discuss his class rank, or the 58 other students with a GPA of 0.13 or lower.
    But it does say North Avenue is “reviewing actions that impacted student outcomes” at the school prior to this year.

    “It took a lot for me to just build the courage to do this,” France told Project Baltimore.

    Project Baltimore asked the City Schools administrator what they would say to France. The administrator replied, “I didn't have a hand on this student, but I worked for City Schools. So, he is one of my kids. I would hug her, and I would apologize profusely.”

    “He feels embarrassed, he feels like a failure,” France said of her son. “I'm like, you can't feel like that. And you have to be strong and you got to keep fighting. Life is about fighting. Things happen, but you got to keep fighting. And he's willing, he's trying, but who would he turn to when the people that's supposed to help him is not? Who do he turn to?”

    France has pulled her son out of Augusta Fells. He’s now enrolled in an accelerated school program at Francis M. Wood in west Baltimore. If her son works hard, he could graduate by 2023.

    (More at above url)
     
    #58     Mar 2, 2021
  9. "The statement also said the school conducted recent home visits and the student’s parent visited the school. France says none of that happened."

    The kids mother says she did not visit the school and no one from the school visited her, even though the kid's school record recorded that those thing allegedly occurred.

    I am going to guess that if the parent or their attorney attempt to identify and contact the school person who allegedly visited the home that that information "is not available."
     
    #59     Mar 2, 2021
  10. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    guurl


     
    #60     Aug 24, 2021