Teachers Across the Country Warn That Students are Not Performing at Grade Level
“We all know that the world is behind, like you know, globally, like because of the pandemic and stuff, but I don’t know why they’re not stressing to ya’ll how bad it is”
This is what the COVID lockdowns brought us. At the behest of teacher unions, of course.
FOX News reports:
Teachers sound alarm on students failing to meet grade level standards: ‘Never seen anything like it’
Teachers across the United States are sounding the alarm over the current state of American education and claiming that students are being pushed to the next grade level without meeting academic standards.
In a now-viral TikTok, Marquis Bryant said he has been teaching for three years in Atlanta, Georgia, and questioned why nobody around him was worried about kids falling behind in school.
“We all know that the world is behind, like you know, globally, like because of the pandemic and stuff, but I don’t know why they’re not stressing to ya’ll how bad it is,” Bryant said. “I teach seventh grade—they are still performing on a fourth-grade level.”
Many of the students in Bryant’s class, he said, are “well behind where they should be.” They cannot do basic computations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
“They don’t know that ascend means go up, descend means go down. They don’t know that quotient means divide. They don’t know evaluate the expression because I solved just the problem,” he added.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, math scores saw their largest decreases ever, while reading scores dropped to levels not seen since 1992 for fourth and eighth graders across the country, according to the Nation’s Report Card.
The average mathematics score for fourth-grade students fell five points from 2019 to 2022. The score for eighth-graders dropped eight points. Reading for both grades fell three points since 2019.
Math scores were worst among eighth graders, with 38% earning scores deemed “below basic” — a cutoff that measures, for example, whether students can find the third angle of a triangle if they’re given the other two.
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My son, who graduated in 2021, will finish the requirements for his math major this Fall. To be fair, we didn’t subject him to the Portland Public Schools, so there’s that. He probably could have met their current graduation requirements in the 5th grade.
Oregon basically doesn’t have any graduation requirements, because the Oregon politicians and education administrators maintain that minority students are too stupid to pass them. I don’t understand how “progressive” people can hold such racist and demeaning opinions of minority students!
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oregon-suspends-graduation-requirements-citing-discrimination-against-minority-students/
So how about flunking them now? Yes, it sounds like they should have flunked years ago. But it’s not too late! Try it, see what happens.
Then they are entitled to more years of public schooling. Nope. Pass them along. The taxpayers cannot bear the costs as it is.
“Teachers sound alarm on students not performing at grade level.”
As a result:
1. Flying will be more dangerous because these are future air traffic controllers
2. More missing mail because these are future postal workers
3, Liberty threatened because they will be in the FBI investigating you
4. Life expectancy decreased because these are future healthcare workers
5. ________________________________________________________
“We all know that the world is behind, like you know, globally, like because of the pandemic and stuff, but I don’t know why they’re not stressing to ya’ll how bad it is,” Bryant said. “I teach seventh grade—they are still performing on a fourth-grade level.”
Maybe it’s because you speak on a fourth grade level.
Do you teach on a fourth-grade level, too?
My thoughts exactly. How did this man become a teacher?
By George, having a federal Department of Education has sure helped out, huh?
There was a very dumb “they will catch up” sentiment without any data, follow-up, due diligence, etc.
Now, there’s a “oh no it’s not turning around” but the solution being proposed is “kick the can and let someone else deal with it”.
We need to fix this while kids are in K=12. College is too expensive to have this many dropouts (or worse worthless graduates).
IMO the current public education system is not fixable. Money following the kids to provide competition that puts bad schools out of business is the only solution.
Meanwhile, if you can afford it, send your kids to private school. In my area parochial school costs about $7500 per year. Otherwise, move to one of the several states that are providing funding that follows the kids.
There is no fix. Lost time is lost. If it could be made up, we would be teaching the “catch-up” curriculum all the time, so they make more progress. Also the vax is said to attack the brain.
Maybe homeschooling or other escapes will work for some, and that’s great. These are the autodidacts who were going to do well anyway, and for whom the university system is best suited. For the ones that are just behind and can’t remember their learning from year to year, perhaps we should stop pretending that everyone has their destiny in the academic world.