from Google AI:
The four-year graduation rate for Baltimore City Public Schools is 71.7%, while the average SAT score across the district is 867. These figures reflect ongoing challenges within the district, though the graduation rate recently hit its highest point since 2018. [1, 2]High School Performance BreakdownDistrict Academic Context
- Test Proficiencies: Only 12.6% of students test proficient in math, and 31% in reading. [1, 2, 3]
- School Variations: Averages vary significantly across different high schools. For example, magnet and specialized schools like the Baltimore School for the Arts boast much higher averages (e.g., a 1116 average SAT score). [1]
- State Averages: For comparison, the statewide average SAT score is 1001, and Maryland's statewide graduation rate sits higher, typically above 85%.
*PS - The 867 Average SAT Score represent the top ~60% of HS students who actually take the test
Teachers to Taxpayers... "SUCKERS!"
24 comments:
Via Copilot...
Based on available data:
Only about 10–15% of Baltimore teachers earn $100k+.
The rest of the $100k earners are administrators, who are paid more everywhere in the U.S.🛑
Teachers aren't laughing about taxpayers being suckers.
Your data is last year. Thanks to our corrupt Mayor and Governor, it's more than doubled since.
It's in the video. Watch it.
Those running the Baltimore educational system somehow increased their takes from their scam (according to you) by 100 percent in one year? That definitely sounds like BS.
Most likely is.
from Google AI:
In Baltimore City Public Schools, roughly 34% of the district's 12,836 employees earn a salary of $100,000 or more. This translates to about 4,400 employees, an increase from 19% just two years prior.
The significant spike in high-earning educators and administrative staff has sparked debate, as it coincides with the school system facing ongoing academic and performance challenges.
Key Salary & Spending Facts
Six-Figure Employees: 4,400 out of roughly 12,800 total district employees now make over $100,000.
Higher Echelons: Nearly 500 employees earn over $150,000, and 56 employees make $200,000 or more.
Starting Teacher Pay: The starting salary for educators in the district is over $50,000, with top educators on the Model Pathway able to earn over $90,000.
Per-Student Spending: Despite a $1.8 billion budget, the district spends $18,272 per student.
Related Academic Figures
Dropout Rates: The high school dropout rate reached 20.8%, hitting a 15-year high.
Leadership: The district's Chief Executive Officer leads the compensation list, with former CEO Sonja Santelises making $339,590. Jermaine Dawson was appointed to take over the CEO position.
You can review the full Baltimore City Public Schools database or view the Teach Baltimore City career and salary benefits to learn more about the district's pay structures.
BS is believing that teachers are underpaid.
So, to you, a 19 percent increase is really a 100 percent increase?
One of the MOST important jobs is educating, actually educating not conditioning, the youth of society. Those who actually educate, not condition, ARE underpaid.
But we know you'd rather invest in destructive power and conditioning everyone to the ignorant MAGA ideological bullshit.
19% to 34% Yes, that's nearly 100%. Aren't you numerate, or just illiterate?
Minus: Your data is last year. Thanks to our corrupt Mayor and Governor, it's more than doubled since.
Your own comment (g00gle AI quote) confirms the increase covers a 2 year period. "Your data is last year" and "it's more than doubled since" are two incorrect claims (time period and percent increase >>both WRONG).
Minus: 19% to 34% Yes, that's nearly 100%. Aren't you numerate, or just illiterate?
Via Copilot...
19% → 34% is a 79% increase over two years.
It refers to total compensation, not base salary.
It includes administrators, specialists, overtime, and benefits.
It does not mean 34% of teachers earn six figures.
⭐ The real reasons the percentage increased...
👉Inflation‑driven salary adjustments... Between 2021–2024, inflation was unusually high. Public‑sector salaries had to be adjusted upward to keep pace. Even modest raises (3–5% per year) push many employees over the $100k threshold. This alone explains a large part of the increase.
👉Union contract raises... Baltimore teachers and staff received negotiated raises -- step increases and cost‑of‑living adjustments.
👉Growth in specialized support staff. Baltimore has hired more... psychologists, social workers, special‑education specialists, behavioral interventionists, speech therapists. >>These positions often start near or above $100k because they require advanced degrees. So the composition of the workforce changed.
👉Administrative restructuring... Baltimore has consolidated and reorganized administrative roles. This often results in -- fewer positions, higher pay for the remaining ones, more responsibilities per administrator. >>This increases the number of six‑figure earners even if the total payroll doesn’t explode.
⭐ What did not cause the increase (This is important)... Not a sudden doubling of salaries, Not corruption, Not the mayor or governor handing out huge raises, Not teachers suddenly making six figures, Not mismanagement. >>The increase is structural, predictable, and consistent with national trends.🛑
By the way, the increase in spending did have measurable positive results.
Via Copilot...
🤖 Did the district show measurable benefits from hiring more support staff? Yes — but the benefits are incremental, not dramatic.
Baltimore documented improvements in... special‑education compliance, behavioral incident reduction, mental‑health access, attendance interventions, multilingual learner support. >>These are real, measurable, and reported — but they are not the kind of flashy, instant results that political commentators expect.🛑
Translating the average SAT to IQ, and adding in the 30% of stupidest students who didn't even take the test, I'd estimate the average IQ if Baltimore City students at 80.
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson frequently discusses general intelligence (g), arguing that:The 85 IQ Threshold: Peterson cites U.S. Army data suggesting that individuals with an IQ below 85 are essentially untrainable for modern military roles, concluding that there are very few occupational roles available for those below this cognitive benchmark.
The students are mostly uneducable. It's mostly daycare for morons and idiots. They are unemployable. And you think money will solve this problem?
The teachers are mostly of the same stock (DEI dontcha know?)
The PRAXIS teachers exam is structured to fail out the bottom 5% of test takers, ensuring that teachers will not be the dregs, but little more.
Maryland Requirements: The Maryland State Department of Education requires specific minimum scaled scores (typically between 100 and 200, with exact passing thresholds set per test).
Exactly 100% of Praxis exam takers get a score of 100 or higher, because 100 is the lowest possible score you can receive on the test.
A large percentage of teachers in Baltimore City enter the classroom through alternative certification routes like Baltimore City Teaching Residency (BCTR) or Teach For America (TFA). While these programs track their internal cohort pass rates to ensure their residents get certified, that data is proprietary and generally not published as a public city-wide metric.
Via Copilot...
🤖Claim: “Translating the average SAT to IQ… average IQ of Baltimore City students is 80.”
This claim is not supported by available data.
✔ What we do know.
Baltimore City Public Schools report an average SAT score of 1050 (520 Math, 530 Verbal) .
Using SAT→IQ conversion tables... A 1050 SAT corresponds to an estimated IQ of about 112–113 on one chart. Another chart places 1050 at about IQ 106 (national average). These conversions vary, but none place a 1050 SAT anywhere near IQ 80.
✔ Why Joe’s “IQ 80” estimate is invalid.
He claims:
Convert SAT to IQ.
Then “add in” the 30% of students who didn’t take the SAT.
Then lower the average to 80.
There is no statistical method that allows someone to “add in” non‑test‑takers and arbitrarily drop the average by 25–30 IQ points. This is not how psychometrics works.
Nothing in the data supports an average IQ of 80 for Baltimore students.
Joe’s method: Take SAT average. Convert it to IQ. “Add in” the 30% who didn’t take the SAT. Lower the average to 80. >>…is mathematically meaningless.🛑
You're eager to blame minority students because you're a racist.
You really don't understand how standardized tests are "normed", do you? What the numbers mean in terms of Standard Deviations and percentiles.
SAT Math Standard Deviation - Magoosh Blog | SATA total SAT score of 1000 sits around the 40th percentile of test-takers, meaning a student scores higher than roughly 40% of their peers. Historically and statistically, this score is very close to the national average, which normally hovers around 1000–1030.
The SAT scoring scale relies on normal distribution models. Understanding how the numbers work is straightforward:
The Mathematical Breakdown
Mean Score: Total scores average near 1000.
Section Breakdown: The total 400 to 1600 scale is made of two sections (Math and Reading/Writing), each scored from 200 to 800.
Standard Deviation (σ): Historically, each section is designed to have a standard deviation of 100 points, meaning the combined total has a standard deviation of roughly 200 points.
The 68-95-99.7 Rule
Because the SAT approximates a normal bell curve, test scores follow standard deviations to show where you stand:
± 1 Standard Deviation (800 to 1200): This range captures about 68% of all test-takers.
± 2 Standard Deviations (600 to 1400): This range captures about 95% of all test-takers.
± 3 Standard Deviations (400 to 1600): This range captures virtually all (99.7%) of all test-takers.
Besides, Baltimore City's low IQs have been well documented.
Okay brilliant one with all the answers, what's your solution?
I've yet to hear any positive thoughts on how you would improve the situation as you see it.
I'll wait your response.
Trade schools. Every man a journeyman. Every student an apprentice.
Those with IQs under 83 get 3 hots and a cot under direction of the VOA.
Sure, trade schools. Although since manufacturing was outsourced long ago by the capitalist class to secure cheap labor from folks they exploit the manufacturing infrastructure needs to be rebuilt.
We'd certainly have a lot of students and journeyman of information technology and AI.
America First should mean redirection of the billions upon billions spent on maintaining American hegemony and the MIC and investing in Americans of all stripes and colors. And paying them the wages that allow them to purchase high priced American produced goods. Bt that will never happen under the capitalist system that exploits to acheive greater obscene profits.
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