By Nicholas Stix
The St. Louis (City) public schools were so bad on the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) that they lost their accreditation. They needed to radically improve their test scores from 6 to 7 (a 16.7 percent improvement in one year), and… voila, they got just what they needed.
Countenance Blog smells a rat, but maybe he’s just being undiverse in his thinking. To paraphrase Afrocentrist professor of teacher education Janice E. Hale (aka Janice E. Hale-Benson), maybe school officials tested students in the most advanced subject in St. Louis public school scholarship, “Knockout King” (here and here).
You may think you're kidding about Knockout Martin Luther King, but you're not. There is one middle school very near the part of town where a lot of KMLK incidents occurred where a lot of the younger KMLKers attended, and the whole phenomenon germinated in the school. The cops led a special assembly at that school begging the kids to knock it off.
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