Public school teachers need a raise.

Sure, why not? It’s a tough job, and if they can get most of their students to learn the basics it makes sense to pay them well.

But what if, say, not one of their students can perform basic tasks at grade level?

Not even one. Nada. Zip. Bupkus.

That’s the situation in Baltimore, where the city brags that they have some of the highest teacher salaries in the country.

Baltimore City’s math scores were the lowest in the state.https://t.co/nAXu2C43dz

— FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) February 10, 2023

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) — After FOX45’s Project Baltimore’s report uncovering 23 schools in Baltimore City had zero students who tested proficient in math, some leaders representing the city aren’t talking about the problem.

The Maryland State Department of Education recently released the 2022 state test results known as MCAP, Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program. Baltimore City’s math scores were the lowest in the state; 7% of third through eighth graders tested proficient in math, meaning 93% could not do math at grade level.

Project Baltimore analyzed the test results and found 23 schools – including elementary, middle and high schools – that didn’t have one student performing at grade level.

Baltimore schools as a whole did better than those 23 worst-performing schools: a whopping 7% of students in grades 3-8 were proficient at math.

So not everything is terrible. Just 93% of everything is terrible.

We often hear about low teacher salaries and insufficient education spending, but whenever people ask about how students are doing the topic changes to something else.

That’s because school districts no longer exist to educate students; they are money laundering operations to distribute jobs to mainly Democrat voters and political machines to funnel dollars into Democrat campaign coffers.

That may sound harsh, but all you have to do is look at the results. Students are getting shafted, and the only thing we hear about is funneling more money into a system that is failing miserably.

It is a travesty, and the victims of the system are primarily the children of the most disadvantaged in the country. Baltimore is famously a craphole of a city, corrupt to the core and in many neighborhoods simply unlivable.

We hear a lot of talk about equity–giving an extra helping hand to people coming from disadvantaged communities. Well, here is what a helping hand looks like. The city is run by some of the most progressive people in the country, was represented by progressive hero Elijah Cummings and now Kweisi Mfume, and hasn’t had a Republican Mayor since 1967.

In other words, Baltimore sucks because of Democrats, and Baltimore public school students are getting shafted by Democrats.

If you want to know what equity means in practice, go to Baltimore. In an armored car. Because the city is in the top 5 in crime rankings in the country.