Cast for ADMISSIONS & WHEN MEN…
“Public Schools in Baltimore City Public Schools School District have an average math proficiency score of 8% (versus the Maryland public school average of 19%) and reading proficiency score of 16% (versus the 36% statewide average).”
The above was taken from the publication, PUBLIC SCHOOL REVIEW (2023).
What is going on? Hakeem is 16 and reading at a 4th grade level. Could he be accepted at any college?
A popular radio host in Baltimore with a Ph.D. degree tackled this subject. She talked about her father rewarding her at pre-k age for reading, and the reading scholarships her two sons won while attending private high schools.
Here was this African American woman holding up her pedigree, and saying “WHY IS IT THAT you CANNOT BE LIKE ME and my family?”
Hakeem knows about Cash App, and can count currency, better when it’s in one dollar bills. He wants to get off the streets and tried for college. Some of his friends got acceptance letters with only a 1.9 grade point average! But they were student
athletes, where their “B” (Brawn), was and is better than their other “B” (Brains).
The Arena Players theater in Baltimore Md., tackles this subject in the play, Open Admissions. It runs through April 1. 2023.
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