{"id":13775,"date":"2021-03-08T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:36:59","slug":"the-zman-explains-baltimores-0-13-grade-point-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/the-zman-explains-baltimores-0-13-grade-point-average\/","title":{"rendered":"The ZMan Explains Baltimore&#8217;s 0.13 Grade Point Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite bad thinker, the ZMan, is a native of Baltimore and in this incisive essay he looks at the root cause of why a major American city has a high school system where the average grade point index of 0.13.\u00a0 Putting aside any questions about differences of intellect across groups or individuals, the idea that this state of affairs is acceptable is ludicrous.\u00a0 Essentially you have a whole city of Americans who can&#8217;t read or write.\u00a0 Read it to see his take on why this is allowed to continue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"v9xo5HEoPY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab\/\">The Politics of Smash and Grab<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Politics of Smash and Grab&#8221; &#8212; Taki&#039;s Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab\/embed\/#?secret=v9xo5HEoPY\" data-secret=\"v9xo5HEoPY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite bad thinker, the ZMan, is a native of Baltimore and in this incisive essay he looks at the root cause of why a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[343,886],"class_list":["post-13775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-thezman-com","tag-zman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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