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by TimPC 212 days ago
Earning a 4.0 GPA in high school math while only knowing middle school math seems absolutely wild. Is that truly a side effect of COVID or are certain schools just going to be heavily penalized in admissions because their standards are far too low?
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greenavocado 212 days ago
A bombshell report just released by the Maryland Inspector General for Education shows more than twelve thousand failing grades were changed to passing over a five-year period in Baltimore City Schools.

Updated Wed, June 8, 2022 at 5:29 AM

https://oige.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/0...

For fourth straight year, no students test proficient in math at Baltimore high school

Updated Tue, September 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/baltimore-ci...

Zero students test math proficient in 23 schools, as Maryland boosts funding by $2 billion

Updated Wed, September 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/zero-student...

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getnormality 212 days ago
Yes, in fact the UCSD report explicitly says they will have no choice but to penalize entire schools in their "math index" if standardized testing is not reintroduced.

There are school systems where teachers are not allowed to give anything less than a D equivalent grade, even if the student didn't engage with the assignment at all. I would panic if I found out my kid went to such a school!

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ModernMech 212 days ago
Worse, some school systems require teachers to accept student work at any time. I have teacher friends who tell me stories about students who don't do anything all semester. Then in the last week, somehow all the work gets done and submitted, and it's all passing. Obviously what's happening is the parents are doing all the student's work, and the teacher is forced to pretend it's genuine.

Then there are the systems which only teach "theoretical" work. I had a student who said he could program, passed a bunch of classes called "programming in C++" and such, only to learn he hadn't written a program ever -- he had just been taught the theory of writing a program. It's like taking calculus but never doing an integral.

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