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2115, 22 Jan 21

Kids Falling Behind

Once again, our government schools are leaving kids behind.

A study by McKinsey and Company found “students of color may have lost three to five months of learning in mathematics, while white students lost just one to three months.”

 

And when McKinsey looked ahead at what that loss could mean by June of 2021, the end of the school year, it found “students of color could be six to 12 months behind compared with four to eight months for white students.”

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2115, 22 January 2021

3 Comments

  1. Mar

    The new racist class: Teacher unions and teachers teaching in urban areas.

  2. Tuerqas

    It’s knda true, isn’t it Mar? A teacher sees this story and what is the reaction? Well in Chicago the response is: Shrug. ‘Colored schmolored, it is a small price to pay for me not to have to go back to school.’

  3. Tuerqas

    I suppose they could try and defend it as ‘apathy’ rather than racism, but that has not worked very well for conservatives on racism over the years. Imagine the rampant racist cries from lib media if Teachers were overwhelmingly Republicans…

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