Several Baltimore schools have no students proficient in state tests
These are not schools. I don&#x27;t know what to call them, &quot;Public institutions for young people waiting to go into dysfunctional lifestyles&quot; comes to mind. There could be others.<p>Shut them down. Seriously. If you are failing this terribly, the very <i>least</i> you owe taxpayers and the poor kids and parents associated with those schools is honesty. Not spin. Not statistical bullshit. Honesty. Shut the damned schools down. The resources we are allocating there are actively working against the public interest.<p>I&#x27;m sure the cries will come out &quot;What to do with these at-risk kids?&quot;<p>That&#x27;s a great question, and folks can have a wonderful public discussion about that. Unfortunately, that discussion gets into winners and losers -- various interests have various goals that they want to achieve.<p>So let&#x27;s separate that out, put it aside for a few months. For now, close them down. Immediately. Try some brutal honesty and see if it doesn&#x27;t move the dial forward a little bit.