The Test Scores Are In and The Results Are Grim – IOTW Report

The Test Scores Are In and The Results Are Grim

The National Assessment of Education Progress national scores for 8th graders have been released by the Department of Education for 2017. Only one state found half of its students proficient in math, Massachusetts, while no states managed even half of their students’ proficient in reading.

The test results from a number of urban areas of this nation were particularly alarming. Detroit’s students scored in the single-digits of students proficient in math and reading. Cleveland, Baltimore and Milwaukee reported 11 to 12 percent proficient in math and 10 to 15 percent were proficient in reading.  More 

At these low levels of educational attainment, why bother throwing any money at education at all?

18 Comments on The Test Scores Are In and The Results Are Grim

  1. Because all my teachers are more worried about what gender I am, what color my skin is, and how many guns my parents have at home than to actually teach me.

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  2. Public schools teach altered US History, new math, social justice, perverted life styles, diversity, white privilege and atheism, yet great majority of people still send their children to Public Schools with little, if any, concern.

    Most people will stay with Facebook and consume the same anti-US lunacy and stupidity their children are served in Public Schools.

    The enlightened know this is much more than just social media.

  3. The same kinda love and care that leads to a once famous model being consumed by parasites in her nursing home bed!
    HIRE BAD….YOU GET BAD. Cloward-Piven…..drain the capitalist system for all it’s worth before you destroy it. Screw everybody else.

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  4. Public schools teach altered US History, new math, social justice, perverted life styles, diversity, white privilege and atheism, yet great majority of people still send their children to Public Schools with little, if any, concern.
    Most people will stay with Facebook and consume the same anti-US lunacy and stupidity their children are served in Public Schools.
    The enlightened know this is much more than just social media.

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  5. This is by design. Sheeple are easier to command when they are as dumb as your average Obama voter (Time Mag’s “Low Info Voter anyone?)

    Last thing you want, when you are an aspiring dictator want-to-be (throw a rock at any democrat/BLM rally and you will hit one of these types) is an educated population reading things like the Constitutions, the writings of Jefferson, Madison and Lock. Or reading history and then that same population pondering what the real intent of 2A and 1A mean and the role of government.

    For the past two weeks my daughter has been subjected to how the teachers need more money. The reality is if all the teachers were fired today the school district we live in would be fully staffed by Monday and paying that lot of teacher less. (nice group of suburban kids- what teacher in their right mind would not jump from teaching in an inner city to go play with the rich kids who want to learn?) But I digress.

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  6. There’s an element of prideful ignorance at play here as well, a willful effort to stay uneducated and while spared the hardship of actually striving to attain knowledge that is useful to society, some make the conscious choice to be a useless burden on their community.

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  7. President Lazlo to the heads of the department of education:
    “You’re all worthless and weak!”
    “You’re also fired.” [watches as they all file out of the room, and address the cameras]
    “I am opening a new branch of the Military. The Department of Educational Readiness and Preparedness Or DERP which is the noise those bunch of mouth breathers that I just fired make during meetings.
    All branches of the Military are home to the finest instructors in the world. They take idiots and numbskulls and turn them into the greatest fighting force on this planet. I am replacing the entire command structure of the Department of Education with Military Administrators. As the current crop of Navel Gazing Flunkies that cannot teach, retire out and fail to perform and are dismissed or just quit because they are sissies; they will be replaced by Military Officers and Non Commissioned officers who will accomplish the procedures and get the job done”

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  8. Is this surprising to anyone? Since 1965, legal and especially illegal immigration has been predominantly from countries where the average IQ is somewhere in the sub-90 category. These immigrants tend to have a far higher birthrate than native Americans. Couple this with a completely ineffective education system (by design) and we are now in a downward spiral. Home schooling may save a few, but it is too little, too late. Have a nice day!

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  9. @Tony R May 2, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    > a completely ineffective education system (by design) and we are now in a downward spiral

    That can’t be True™! Look at all the titles they’ve been awarded.

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  10. I show my grandson this stuff (7th Grade) and make sure he understands these dumb bastards will be competing with him for jobs in a few years. He is getting the message.

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  11. @joe6pak May 2, 2018 at 8:30 pm

    > make sure he understands these dumb bastards will be competing with him for jobs in a few years

    Just be sure he understands that skill must defer to title. Whoever’s family bought them the bestest title is entitled to rule. That’s the rule. And he’s paid to obey.

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  12. The question is….

    “At these low levels of educational attainment, why bother throwing any money at education at all?”

    The answer is…
    Someone has to pay for the required leftist Anti-American indoctrination.
    SURELY you don’t think the SJW organizations will pay for it do you?

    No I don’t and DON’T call me surely.

    MSG Grumpy

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