19 Minnesota Schools Have Zero Students Proficient in Math
“Seven elementary schools between both MPS and SPPS saw no fifth graders demonstrating math proficiency.”
Minnesota-based The Center of the American Experiment (CAE) found that zero students in 19 Minnesota schools are proficient in math.
Mike already blogged about the 23 Baltimore schools with zero students who can do grade level math.
This is not a good growing trend across the country:
CAE’s findings concluded that while declines were evident statewide, two of Minnesota’s largest public school districts saw scores plummet the furthest last year.
Nineteen Minnesota schools had zero students perform at grade level in math, and the results were largely split between the Minneapolis Public School District (MPS) and Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS). The two districts accounted for 10 of the schools altogether, and elementary schools appeared to fare the worst.
Seven elementary schools between both MPS and SPPS saw no fifth graders demonstrating math proficiency.
BREAKING: In 19 public schools across the state, not a SINGLE STUDENT could do grade-level math during the 2021-22 school year. https://t.co/cIb55vbZeR
— Center of the American Experiment (@MNThinkTank) March 1, 2023
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Math is a relic of white supremacy. Do the students use the proper pronouns?
I’m thinking that when it comes to incentivizing your students to achieve and boosting their morale, grouping them into baboons, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans may not be a productive approach.
I read in one elementary school the groups were named the giraffes, the lions and the zebras. After the first day, all the kids knew the zebras couldn’t read.
100 years of “black and white and read all over” jokes, straight down the toilet.
So 19 schools in Minnesota plus 23 schools in Baltimore. That like makes some kinda number that’s pretty big. I will do a follow up post after I find them calculator batteries. Wow, these little calculator batteries are so tiny it must take a heap of them to make a dozen.
Calculators have nothing to do with it.
It’s the fact that their ‘math’ teachers are dangerhaired leftist ideologues whose only qualification for the job was willingness to pay their union dues.
Clever!
So clearly a DFL/Teacher union success?
Absolutely: more helpless, dependent democrat voters.
Meanwhile the schools where students achieve actively hide their achievements in the name of equity. This country is deeply ill
We tolerate it. How sick does that make US?
How many of their students have graduated that are not proficient in anything?
The officials at those schools who are responsible for tabulating such statistics don’t have enough knowledge of math to be able to tabulate such statistics, unfortunately.
That’s why there are DEI consultants to hire.
Cleaning house is never comes to mind but throwing more money at it is the only liberal answer.
Seems to me these woeful results should automatically trigger any state support of these failed districts to be directed instead into parental school-choice vouchers.
It looks like they are achieving “Equity,” which means all the students of every race are failing equally. Now, they’ll probably follow Oregon’s example and just stop giving the exams so they won’t embarrass the teachers and administrators.
Test them on their Cultural Marxism, they might show they learned something on that.
I am always amazed at that cost per student. My school is right at $9k per student. What in the world is being done with that money?
“Administration” and “administrators”.
I’ve done legal work against school districts, and the corruption is astounding. For example, I discovered the rosters of students who are indigent are GROSSLY inflated – on the scale of 70 percent: and the districts get state payments for each “indigent” student. THEN, the services for these phantom indigent students get sourced out to friends and relatives of the adiminstrators. THEN, the administrators kick money back to governing politicians and hire based on political affliation.
Some bad joke, huh? But we tolerate it.
If you’re talking $9K for a government school, that is 1/3 or less than what places like Los Angeles and Baltimore are spending.
We’ve gotta teach ’em the New Math; no wonder so many children can’t add 1+1.
But I’ll betcha just one of these gorilla-sized 6th graders can beat the crap outta any teacher; maybe even two or three.
Establish true choice by funding the student not the system. Alternatively start docking ED salaries by 15% a year while kicking the troublemaker students to alternate school and sending the criminal students to juvenile detention.
If that funding goes through some bureaucracy for their rakeoff, you can be sure as the sun rises tomorrow that there will be strings attached to the money, and to the schools “permitted” to accept it.
Agreed that the bureaucracy will fight like hell to keep control of the funds. Which is why the funding the Student is necessary.
You do not need any math skills for a career in rioting and shoplifting.
I grant that correlation and causation are not always the same; however it seems that being in a city/school district run by the Leftists [mostly under the label “Democrats”] tends to result in an inability for students to achieve competency in pretty much anything. If one were a suspicious soul, one might consider that inability to be an intentional goal of the system.
For at least part of the history of areas that are Leftist controlled, one could say that the population received what they asked and voted for and therefore deserve it. Now, with electoral integrity approaching oxymoron status, that might be questioned.
At the very least though, if one is an employer who receives job applications from graduates of those districts in Leftist areas being identified around the country as being unable to achieve minimum standards; that one should consider that a disqualifying factor either overtly or covertly.
Subotai Bahadur
Government employees can never be disqualified on the basis of education.
Alaska Magazine had a wonderful series of stories about this… not only Alaska but in the Lower 48.
Applicants coming to Alaska for the original pipeline construction: “Question… “Where do you exchange US dollars for currency used in Alaska?”
New Mexico College Applicant told to get passport for US college: “New Mexico..Old Mexico… you need a passport said the college.
Visiting physicians at meeting and greet in Fairbanks… “how many harpoon and arrow injuries are there in Fairbanks?” (i did treat a Kotzebue whaler with an old harpoon injury)
SSA has the winners, hands down. They’re the only agency who can actually be speaking with you face to face, and still not be convinced you’re not dead.
So, public schooling doing its job of creating a population of proper political and economic fodder. for their overlords designs.
— Clueless and confused, thus easily led by crisis and demagoguery. (You say “led”, I say “herded”, let’s call the whole thing off.) AND
— If you didn’t birth enough Beta-Minus for your economic design, you can modify what you got to make up the difference. Huxley missed that one.
Good for the educrats. Judas goats aren’t free but it’s better than not being the nomenklatura.
“Hey, c’mon, if we took the time to teach the students basic math skills, there wouldn’t be enough time left over to teach them the basic tenets of critical race theory. Get your priorities straight.” – Minneapolis/St Paul teachers, probably
If communities and schools are run following the most up-to-date liberal policies and still fail to do their jobs well perhaps those policies need to be examined?
Especially when the money spent per capita is often higher than at other, successful communities and schools. And the administrators and teachers running the clown shows are themselves representative the populations in question. “The Man” isn’t “keeping you down” when “The Man” in question is black, gay, and a women Chicago.
Can’t… any other policy is racist.
So If communities and schools are run following the most up-to-date liberal policies and still fail to do their jobs well perhaps those policies need to be examined?
Especially when the money spent per capita is often higher than at other, successful communities and schools. And the administrators and teachers running the clown shows are themselves representative the populations in question. “The Man” isn’t “keeping you down” when “The Man” in question is black, gay, and a women Chicago.
Yeah, you can say that again.
It seems to me our governments, which, like the fishes, stink from the head, want schools to push out dummies. The stupider we are the more they can control us. We will believe anything and everything they tell us because we can’t figure things out for ourselves.
Profiency in math is not needed to deposit a welfare check.
The solution is obvious: more money for union teachers.
So what’s the demographic breakdown of the failing students and faculty?
And the problem is so easy to solve; just lower the standards!
In 3 …. 2 1
(Sarc off)
You might be being sarcastic here, but that’s next. Of course. The proficiency measures are all wrong, racist and white supremacist and fascist. They must be lowered, proficiency should be regarding 2 + 2 = purple (or tuna fish) as correct. That’s top-notch mathing, right there! Stamped, “Proficient!” (until no one knows how to spell it anymore or what it ever meant or that words ever had actual meanings that didn’t change with the latest leftist lunacy).
When your priority is teaching students to hate whitey, math takes a back seat.
As bizarre as this sounds I wonder if some of those kids are purposely busting the test so they don’t stand out (for whatever reason).