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0 pointspmorici9y ago0 comments

Baltimore has hundreds of schools. Did that kid even go to one of these bad ones? It also has a hand full that are very good.

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daveFNbuck9y ago· 2 in thread

It would be incredibly bizarre and misleading to include an interview with a kid that didn't go to one of the failing schools the article is about. From the article:

> Warren is set to graduate this year from Frederick Douglass High School

A little later in the article Frederick Douglass High School is listed as one of the 6 failing schools.

pmoriciOP9y ago

Ah, I'm getting my Baltimore stories confused I was thinking we were talking about the chess champion from Baltimore. The kid in this article is successful at sports not academics. Those tests aren't testing their athletic ability.

daveFNbuck9y ago

He is successful at sports to such a degree that his upbringing is clearly not a complete barrier to success. Yet none of the students at his high school are proficient in english or math. This indicates that it's probably not the students' fault.

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