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2023-07-30 -Great Cultural Revolution

Not one student at LeBron's 'I Promise' school has passed the state's basic math test in over 3 years

[BLAZE] LeBron James established the "I Promise School" in 2018 to help educate "at-risk" students. However, not one of the students at the NBA star's school in Akron passed Ohio's state math test, according to a new report.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-30 04:39|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Neither dreaming of flight nor flapping of my arms has achieved liftoff. Shall I blame "systemic racism" for my failure?"

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-30 04:45|| 2023-07-30 04:45|| Front Page Top

#2 So you think the laws of physics are the reason?

No one is talking about the 'epidemic of fatherlessness': Larry Elder

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-30 06:13|| 2023-07-30 06:13|| Front Page Top

/\ So you think the laws of physics are the reason?

Yes, fatherhood and genetics as well. You may love the game of football but you will never be a good receiver if you cannot run, and run well.

Pablo Picasso is known as the father of Cubism, one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. Most art styles have a 'father' of some sort which others copy. Colton said "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" but it is much more. It is how we learn and grow.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-30 06:49|| 2023-07-30 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Although in principle I certainly approved of and supported Mr. James' efforts to teach Akron kids, there were a couple things wrong with the plan from the beginning.

I was a USAF Recruiter in Akron 89-93. One of my schools was St. Vincent - St. Mary's, which is where LeBron attended. His mother worked two jobs to be able to send him there, and SVSM was known THEN as someplace where you went to be the best. His knowledge of school is of a place where you had engaged, caring, and mostly married parents working together with motivated, well-trained, and capable teachers - the absolute opposite of 80% of the students in Akron Public Schools.

And then there's the Akron NAACP and Urban League. Instead of advocating for the kids marooned in those schools, they have NO, repeat NO interest in doing anything other than fundraising and - bluntly - influence peddling. To pull a single child out of that hole reduces their influence by that much, and they have no intention of letting that happen. Akron Public Schools are just as complicit - like most large public school systems anymore, they exist to funnel money to administrators, not teach kids.

The kids that IPS have to work with are mostly lost when they walk in the door. At least he tried, which is more than one can say about the institutions that were supposed to do the job in the first place.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-07-30 07:17|| 2023-07-30 07:17|| Front Page Top

#5 "Just throw money (and get a celebrity name associated with your cause) and everything will be great." is basically a cargo cult outlook.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-30 07:20|| 2023-07-30 07:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone needs to study why it is that "taxpayer dollars" never seem to help any effort as much as "private money does."

I think Milton Freidman had an idea on the matter.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-30 07:22|| 2023-07-30 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #4: Thanks for sharing Mike. Saving just one is perhaps worth the effort.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRS, FRSE, FRCS, was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. Had he not been born and gained an education, would we now have penicillin ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-30 07:23|| 2023-07-30 07:23|| Front Page Top

#8 And those state lotteries...LMAO...monies supposed to go to schools and....

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-30 08:21|| 2023-07-30 08:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I have not read up on the implementation or structuring of the 'I Promise School', but somewhere back in my mind I see a Public Teachers Union (and Public School Administration) that might have been severely offended about a system that might work and take pupils (and power) away from themselves. Why do I smell sabotage?

How many of this school's teachers and administration staff were selected from the existing local pool of 'experience'?

Keep in mind that 'power' is something so addictive that some folks might do anything to retain it. If it means scuttling the future of our young people, so be it.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-07-30 08:36|| 2023-07-30 08:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Randi Weingarten, any comment?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-30 08:38|| 2023-07-30 08:38|| Front Page Top

#11 My father worked with Akron and East Cleveland students as part of an Upward Bound program back in the day. When the kids escape those school systems, they perform at or better than grade level.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-30 10:38|| 2023-07-30 10:38|| Front Page Top

#12 ...not one of the students at the NBA star's school in Akron passed Ohio's state math test

Equity!!

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-30 14:43|| 2023-07-30 14:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Wanna bet the "NBA star" couldn't pass that test either?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-30 14:53|| 2023-07-30 14:53|| Front Page Top

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