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“Somebody needs to go to jail. Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn’t be the kids.”
Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, demanding jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.
TUDA stands for “The Utterly Depressing Assessment.” Coverage of yesterday’s math scores for urban school districts has edupundits bending over backwards to say “my scores are worse than your scores.” Football analogies abound. Cleveland’s scores “might be the only thing in that city more depressing than the Browns,” says Flypaper. At Class Struggle, Uncle Jay compares looking at Washington, DC math scores to rooting for the 3-9 Redskins: “We are heading in the right direction, but have a long way to go.” EducationNews Colorado says just like the Broncos “outshine both the Lions and the Browns,” Denver students probably have stronger math skills than kids in Detroit and Cleveland. But they’d like to see Denver join the 18 other cities that take part in TUDA just to make sure.
The woes keep piling up for Detroit. The Lions were winless last year and ABC News says TUDA makes it official: Detroit is “the worst school system in America.”
Michigan has the nation’s lowest graduation rate for black male students, while Detroit has the second-lowest rate for big-city school districts, according to a report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education. Other findings:
While Detroit graduates a mere 20% of its black male students, that’s actually higher than the 17% of white male students who graduate.
