okay y'all so LeBron okay so first let me give you the positive background the attempt for the school and I did some digging okay so first of all uh Lebron James's I promised school so every so every eighth grader failed the math test and I think somewhere it said for the last three years this has happened I think I read that somewhere so first let me tell you the intent of the school okay and the benefits of the school too okay uh oh I don't know who that is okay it says unlike other schools connected to celebrities I promise is not a charter school run by a private operator but it's a public school operated by the district it's population its population is 60 black this was in 2019. 60 black 15 percent English language Learners so that could have been of course Hispanic they might have been of uh Indian descent and I mean like Hindu Indian descent possibly um uh that could have been of Asian descent because it says English language Learners so that could be you know a lot of things uh it could be other people from the continent of Africa that could have been they could have been Nigeria I don't know but it says English language Learners they separated that percentage so that's what I'm saying but you know they they group us together so that was probably they probably put us in a 60 black no matter what your native language was um and three quarters of his families had to meet the low income I'm sorry three quarters of his families meet the low income threshold to receive help from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services okay um it says the school is unusual in the resources and the attention it devotes to parents which Educators consider a key to its success this is why I'm hoping that you know that the school turns it around it says Mr James's Foundation covers the cost of all expenses in the school's Family Resource Center which provides parents with GED prep work advice health and legal services and even a quarterly barber shop I'm guessing visit is what they meant to say so and then on top of that it says the school has free tuition free uniforms it says a free bicycle and helmet this is what it says I don't know about if I don't know if every child is going to bicycle in him I don't know free Transportation within two miles free breakfast lunch and snacks food pantry for families like I said the GED and job placement for parents and a guaranteed tuition to the University of Akron for every student who graduates so I needed to point that out because some of the way these people are writing this story you just think it was all bad all bad so I needed to make sure y'all knew where he was coming from with even creating this school because a lot of times when you hear about celebrity creating the school you know how our minds go because we've seen it so many times but I've never heard of these type of things being offered for kids and thinking about the parents too like that's a lot um Shan says I'll start with saying I'm against standardized testing I am too Shan I don't think it shows the true aptitude of a of a person I think it's very one-sided on what is the standard I don't like them and I was one that did well on them and I still don't like them I don't like them so I agree with you Shan um what else was I gonna say oh what there was something else oh and then the kids that are going to the school were deemed as you know behaviorally challenged and all this other stuff so they're already um it's low income mostly then you're deemed as irredeemable and behaviorally challenged so you don't have the students that are like the favorite students in the school so let's start there with the numbers let's you know we're trying to get a well-rounded picture of this right okay so now uh one more thing I want to say we're going to look at let me see how I can do it I want to share it we're going to look at the overall Akron City School District okay for that zip code because that matters okay hold on let me see I'm about to ask for leave because I know I'm gonna go over my hour today I got some things to show y'all okay hold on I'm gonna stop sharing but I'll still be here you'll be able to hear me Gigi I'm also against standardized testing okay Linda the schools have too many clicks gotcha and I agree I agree okay let me take this down for a second so I can share the the stats with the district for y'all okay you just where's my all right let's move this tab on over so what I did is I pulled Akron stats and then I did also pull his school stats um his school stats don't look good for this year I'm not gonna lie I'm gonna show you the whole picture but I just want to say again y'all it ain't like he got the ones that were already in a stable environment and everything was peachy King so that's all I'm saying Gigi I am with you on the standard testing were they looking to shed that I think so because even okay first of all let me tell you who put me on this story Mr Trenton put me onto the story he don't even like LeBron James but he said the article that's published it that first published it was very biased because the way they wrote the title was something like what do you say like the king y'all said what'd it say yeah like the king doesn't have it all and blah blah blah like it was real biased on how they even presented the information 41 fit so I do think so I do I feel they teach to pass the test yeah GG yeah because that's what that's how they keep getting their funding and stuff I agree with you GG I really do Choice thank you for the five dollar super sticker I appreciate you I look I feel like I just got paid for my research right now thank you choice we know standardized testing is not standardized right because 4150 what's the other thing and Shannon and Gigi and everybody say they do not like standardized testing the other thing is if you have more resources you're more likely to pass so if you have a tutor that can teach you what you're not understanding in school that they don't have time to go over again you're more likely to pass you know there's all these things it's not standard it's not standard right yeah with the Emojis Choice with our trendy tribe lip emojis Linda gamble it's ridiculous right right right okay I think I'm ready to share so we're going to start with Akron overall school districts let me get that up oh it's already okay yeah let me let me share it okay all right now y'all might not be able to see it like that but I'm going to give you the the good stuff have you considered Lauryn Hill's lips oh I'll make a note of it 41 fit she has some pretty lips she really really does I didn't ever even think about it 4150 but I saw my radar now first he don't get a profit yes thank you Shan that's why I said let me start with saying this is a publicly funded school this is not a charter school right he does not get a profit like most Charter Schools he stands in the gap of this public school people don't realize that exactly basically what I'm reading is these kids were already given up on in the Normal public school system in that area so whatever he's doing is better than what was gonna be done with those children and I heard that the school is all year round which I know they do that for food what they call it food insecurity families where you don't kids mostly get meals when they're in school in excuse me they get meals when they're in school they don't really get meals at home so those all year round you got and your whole family has access to a pantry and then you know your kids are getting three meals a day like come on and then the parents can probably work more because it's less on them for babysitting it's less on them in so many ways so yeah yep it's really bad in Texas those tests that's why I take my choice in Texas that's where I take all my stuff if they can teach American history they also need to include black history yeah true Linda baby yes love Lauren whole vibe choices on yes it's bad here in Texas okay all right so let's get to Akron stats so let me start at the top hold on is this the right one let me see what is this okay Akron School District rates three out of ten they are in the bottom 50 already okay so they are three out of ten of all the school districts in um Ohio is how I'm reading this yeah it's a score of three out of ten indicates that student test scores for this school are in the bottom 50 among all Ohio schools and every kid does get a bike and Etc which is also paid for by his foundation thank you for the verification Shan thank you low-income kids have different books from rich neighborhoods and that's crazy because I remember seeing that on you know our history lessons that that's how it was and it's still like that that's what's crazy um okay now [Music] all right 2023 school year there are 47 Public Schools serving 20 000 students in Akron City School District the district's average testing ranking is three out of 10 which is in the bottom 50 percent of public schools in Ohio public schools in Akron city school district have an average math proficiency score of 22 so it's the whole District but they're singling out his school 22 percent versus the Ohio public school average of 50 so Akron City School District 22 pass rate is how I'm reading it or math proficiency and Ohio State or the state of Ohio overall is 50 so even if you're taking the whole state you're still getting 50 that's that's crazy and then the reading proficiency for the Akron school district is 30 versus the Statewide 57 um minority enrollment is 71 percent of the student body which is majority black um which is more than the Ohio public school average of 32 percent majority black yes I was bust way back in the day and I had different books from my friends that's crazy GG where you bust to the Richer schools or something GG that's crazy okay Akron School Akron city school district is ranked within the bottom 50 of all 897 school districts in Ohio and that's for the 2020 to 2021 school year um they're down the school district's graduation rate increased to 81 from 74 over the last five school years okay so now let's see here out of the 897 school districts Akron ranks number 690. I left the inner city because there is different books and different curriculums my kids were learning differently outside the urban areas and that's crazy Shands that's crazy um okay let me give okay so y'all got the district rank the city the city the school district 690 out of 897 and we know the lower the number the better not the higher the number so you're real close to the low 690 that's almost 700 okay and then Akron School District their math test scores proficiency is 22 percent compared to 50 for the state they're reading and language arts 30 compared to 57 for the state and then their graduation rate is 81 compared to 84 percent of the state which is not really far away that's really actually and that might be a No Child Left Behind thing too I was bus to a different neighborhood that didn't look like me I am from the bougie down Bronx ah oh boogie down bronze I'm sorry boogie down Bronx I love it I love it oh thank you GG um okay let's get to the next numbers that let me see that I see everything I want to see hold on let me make sure okay I just want to show you all a couple of these right just the first two top schools in accuracy this is the top two schools in Akron City okay it says so the the first the top school which is a nine out of ten uh ranking they're math proficiency is 60 to 64 percent and then their reading is greater than equal or greater than 95 okay so their math and math is what they focused on with LeBron James's school is a 60 to 64 proficiency and that's the top school and then the second school I'm like I won't read all of this is gonna go to the second School is a 50 math proficiency rate and their reading isn't 73 so from the first to the second it already dropped 14 in math and then 22 in Reading those are the top schools so okay so now we got a picture so now we'll go to LeBron's LeBron James's school where the the what do they call them air what'd they say irredeemable kids go right because y'all ain't gonna be doing this I had to move my kids out to A1 school district and my property taxes were 4 500 a year oh May May wow wow wow yes we do you do what you can for your children if you can't if you can do it thank God for having a mom like you Shin yep okay so Akron I'm sorry the I promise school which is in the Akron School District they are also ranked in the bottom 50 but just remember overall Akron is ranked in the bottom 50 as well okay um let me see and also this the I promise school is one of the most diverse schools out there uh it ranked in the top 20 of diversity for public schools they also have the lowest student teacher ratio they're the top five percent for having the lowest student teacher ratio so that the students actually can at least get more attention from the teachers okay um let me see if I want to say anything else let's see okay now the math test score because I said I'm gonna show it all so the math test score is really really bad it's two percent for the proficiency but again with the students they get I don't know like I mean and we already said we don't even like these standardized tests so y'all already know where we're at with those um and then the reading language in ours is three percent um okay the student teacher ratio is only 11 to 1 compared to Ohio 17 to 1 average and the school Representatives did answer back to that article they oh let me see what Shannon said Akron school district is a poor District LeBron didn't go to high school there so he knew the difference so he even said he wanted to help that's why he pardoned to start that school Chan Chan why can't they get that why can't they get that Shan um what was I gonna say I thought I said I just knew I was gonna remember I know I talked about the school the teacher to student ratio um I don't know what else I was gonna say but I know I want there is one more thing I want to say the only red flag for me and it could be a number of things is a turnover in principles um there's been three principles in the last three years I think it seems it's been three in the last three could have been three in the last five years that's the only thing that's like a a bit of a red flag flag to me I have to be honest that's why I tell my kids if you want the best for your kids you have to make a sacrifice like your dad and I did for y'all yep um I what oh he also said that the distance learning did put a big dent in their kids excuse me their kids is learning remote learning did not go well uh that that's uh part of what they were saying this well the school rep said because he didn't answer directly it's the school Representatives that answered um but yeah Shan and everybody what do y'all think about the turnover in principles that's the only thing how many years has he partnered on this school and is it all his money it's state-funded ADR it's an actual public school it's an actual public school and the overall school district is not great I don't know if you just got in ADR but we went over the stats for the whole Akron City School District they are in the bottom 50 as a school district we really um I think that they're singling him out in my opinion um I don't think it's a fair reporting and I know I'm over here I'll be reporting messy stuff so I ain't trying to be too much of a judge but I was like let me just go look at some numbers though but yeah ADR seems very biased he also ADR I do want to point out again because I need you to have heard this part he provide if they when they graduate they get a full ride basically to the Ohio what was the school name hold on hold on let me let me see here they get a full ride too the University of Akron if they graduate um the parents get GED and job placement Services the parents also get access to a pantry the kids also go to school year round so they don't have food insecurity because they get access to three meals a day um but yeah it stay funded ADR it's been it's been a partnership from the beginning he gives funds to this public school um yeah because many people were mad about their taxes going to the school like your taxes go to schools just be quiet you'll be all right um they get free uniforms and Shan verified they do get a free bicycle and helmet or they get Transportation within two miles for the school um yeah it's not and I said three meals but it's free breakfast lunch and snacks let me clarify the parents get GD in college as well paid for by his foundation come on come on [Music]