Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says schools all over America are failing the nation’s kids by passing them through high school in spite of failing grades. This is his message to parents.

Over a year ago, I read the news that 23 public schools in Baltimore reported that not a single one of their students was proficient in math at their grade level. That was exactly 2,000 students who were not proficient. It gets worse. An additional 20 schools had only one or two students who were at grade level in math. And not one high school student in the whole city of Baltimore scored a 4, the highest possible score.

Though this news may be old, the reality is not. If you think this is a problem that affects only certain kinds of Americans or certain neighborhoods, you’d be wrong. This is the future of America and Baltimore is just the worst-case scenario. Schools all over America are failing our kids and pumping functionally illiterate graduates into our cities.

The reason why I’ve been thinking about this Baltimore situation of late is that it shows how dysfunctional our society has become. Most of the news articles that I read showed citizens blaming the city, the local and state governments, and the educators. They are right to do so. But........

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