What exactly are the schools in Baltimore City doing?

That is the question many should be asking after recent statewide test results showed that only 7% of its students are proficient in math, including 23 schools with zero students meeting standards. It's unacceptable and yet another indication that the Democrats in the city who run the schools are as competent at their jobs as their students are in rudimentary arithmetic.

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Fox 45's Baltimore Project reported information about the failing public school system in the city. The 2022 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program revealed that 93% of Baltimore City's public school students between the 3rd and 8th grade could not do math at the corresponding grade level. It also discovered that 43 schools (including the 23 schools referenced above) in the district had just two or fewer students in each school that were mathematically proficient.

Math at that level is essential to the development of a student as they progress through school. It includes such tasks as analyzing numeric patterns and skip counting in increments of 2,5,10, or 100; skip counting backward; representing numeric quantities using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division; finding missing numbers in a sequence; defining whole numbers on a line; and identifying and describing shapes such as squares and rectangles, among other topics.

Former Congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik has been an outspoken critic of Baltimore City's school failures. The most recent statewide test results only verified the warnings she has been making for years about the city's broken education system.

"For decades, Baltimore City has treated Baltimore City students like lab rats," Kimberly Klacik told me. "Due to the hyper-focus on pronouns and racism, math and reading have taken a backseat. The mayor has full control over the school CEO but refuses to lift a finger in order to continue receiving close to $20,000 per pupil."

If a school needs to spend more than $20,000 for a student not to know how to identify a square or rectangle, many people are doing many things incorrectly. This is even more tragic given that Dr. Sonja Santelises, the CEO of the school district, has a salary of over $333,000 a year to supervise 93% of middle school students unable to compute basic math. Moreover, Santelises received multiple raises over the past few years.

Baltimore City's school failure stems from an inept, useless, left-wing bureaucracy that keeps telling themselves how enlightened and educated they are as they pass the city's predominantly black students through an educational system that sets them up for failure as they enter the real world. There deserves to be some accountability, but the Democrats in control will continue to do nothing and be financially rewarded for a job horribly done. All the while, as their salaries rise, the students fall.

"It's sad to watch generations of black children being failed by those in charge, but until voters want better, the status quo will remain," Klacik said.

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