Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 41 Percent of Baltimore High School Students Earn Below 1.0 GPA: Analysis

The stories I can tell about young engineering grads...
Good, smart, hard working kids from respected schools, that simply don't know how to reason or apply basic skills to field problems. And it is across disciplines - structural, mechanical, electrical. The overwhelmingly predominant reason is they took entire credit classes that simply taught them to use programmable functions on a calculator, or to use packaged software to answer questions - without ever being taught the reason for the question in the first place. Sad, really...and unfair to these kids.

I can't tell you that, but I can tell you this.

A few years ago, I decided to do some research on Section 8 tenants and squatters I had evicted over the last several years.

100% of those I could find information on were democrats.

I have one black gentleman who has rented from me for several years now. We bump heads every now and then, but for the most part he is a good tenant. Takes care of the place and keeps it clean, so he's good in my book. Sometimes he's late on the rent, but ultimately he pays.

He is the ONLY conservative / Trump voter I know of in all my years of renting to black tenants. His views on the disintegration of society are interesting. He is from southern GA.

There is a black owned business down the road from me. The owner is a solid republican, told me he thought Obamme set back black white race relationships 40 years. He had Trump signs in his yard and business. His views on the black family mirrors my own, LBJ and the great society screwed them and will eventually screw us all with socialism.
Wish they all could see who is really screwing them and everyone else.

blondshooter, it's true. They can't see past the freebies to the fact that the demoRATS are the ones destroying theirs and their families' futures.

It's a great return on investment for the demoRATS, really. They steal from The People in the form of higher taxes and use that money to buy votes.

I was representing a small company of 400 employees, and interviewing prospective engineers with a booth at a jobs fair in the Red Lion hotel auditorium in San Jose in 1986. I made a little cardboard sign that said "no new hires" and put it on the counter. I was across from the Ford Aerospace booth that was much fancier, but a blonde news reporter [info babe] went to the crummiest booth and set up in front of my little sign and filmed a segment for the evening news. "It is still bad news for those without experience..." she said.

The goal isn’t to create educated citizens. The goal is to create Democrat voters. Another NEA success story.

Diversity is our strength.

An ignorant populace is easier to control than an intelligent populace.

The 3 or 4 of em outta 100 that are good people.
Dont make up for the rest at all.
Can't even put a dent into the problem just because a few are normal and break away from the rest of the primatoids....

Compound that nationwide...

Fugging world's most expensive pets basically...
And they have the right to vote....

Way back in the later 1700's & 1800's it has been sad on a certain continent the Smart Ones sold the dumb ones into the work program. This is looking like more and more of the truth all the time

Probably just a bad school lunch program skewing the numbers.

If I could go back to 9th grade....
I'd do things different...
Either I would drop Vo-tech and take academic courses,

Or,

Did everything exactly the same, except change schools.

In Baltimore, I could have been in the top 25%!

Demographics for $1000 Alex..

Yep.

17k per year spent per student in that chitthole. A charter school or private school would not be more then that.

The 5 largest ethnic groups in Baltimore, MD are Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (61.3%), White (Non-Hispanic) (27.7%), White (Hispanic) (2.76%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) (2.57%), and Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (2.5%).

They help them more by saving that money up and handing them the total figure on their eighteenth birthday.

They’d blow it all on Skittles, Blunts, and Dope. 😜

Maybe they should make their tests a little more real life for them, something they can relate to. For example, here is a general math question:

Quantavius loots a Flat Screen TV worth $500 during a mostly peaceful protest and decides to sell it for $500 for drugs. He wants to get as many $50 meth rocks as possible. Rapsheen, the local drug dealer, agrees to buy the TV for $500 and sell Quantavius as many $50 rocks as he wants. How many Rocks can Quantavius get?

A. 10
B. Rapsheen’s entire stash. He just robbed Rapsheen and took his stash and along with the TV.
C. Zero. Quantavius dropped and broke the TV when he tried to carry a box of liquor bottles he grabbed at the nearby ransacked liquor store as he was carrying the TV.
D. I don’t know. That is a tough one. Could be any of the above.

It's *always* 41% or more.

They're just tryin ta blame covid.

Although he was a year or two ahead of me, I shared some time with W. Williams when in school. I liked him a lot.