Maryland schools have been failing their students for years, and no one has done anything about it. Recent Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program results showed that most students couldn’t do basic English, science, and math. In English, less than half of Maryland’s elementary school students (45%) were proficient in their native language. Just 7% of the state’s eighth graders were proficient in math. It has been a recurring problem that has left thousands of students unprepared for their futures.

Unfortunately, such academic failures disproportionately affect black students and have been for years. Fox 45’s Baltimore Project reported that 93% of Baltimore City’s public school students between the third and eighth grades could not do math at the corresponding grade level. Also, it showed that 43 schools (including the 23 schools referenced above) in the district had just two or fewer students in each school that were mathematically proficient. Additionally, in 2021, it was reported that 41% of Baltimore City high school students had a grade point average below a 1.0. But despite these drastic problems, the NAACP didn’t feel compelled to issue any warnings about the black students struggling in Maryland’s schools.

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On issues that really matter, the group doesn’t seem to care. Everyone should be asking: Why not?

Earlier this month, the NAACP finally decided to pretend to do something about it. The Maryland State Conference NAACP called the education of the state’s black students “dreadful” and announced it was holding a conference on Thursday and Friday to address these systemic failures. But what took the group so long? Furthermore, why hasn’t the NAACP issued an education advisory warning for black students in Maryland the way it previously did for traveling to Florida?

“Although African American children have the potential to learn as others, the situation of African American students in public schools in Maryland continues to be intolerable. It has been a concern of the Maryland NAACP for some time,” the Maryland State Conference NAACP said in a press release. “Lagging academic achievement, students graduating without necessary proficiency, breakdown in school discipline, inappropriate treatment of special education students, and school to prison pipeline are among ongoing issues plaguing too many of these students as well as others.”

Maybe if the organization wasn’t more concerned with being the political pawns of the Democratic Party, it would have done something to help the people who needed it most. Schools failing to educate thousands of Maryland’s black students each year is much more of a pressing problem than an ideologically motivated, agenda-driven, political stunt about traveling to Florida and assisting Democrats with propaganda against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

Thousands of black lives were ruined annually because of these educational failures. These are real problems that negatively affect black people, but alleged social justice organizations such as the NAACP have been nowhere to be found. There has inexplicably been silence on these critical topics affecting black children and their futures. This impotence should reveal everything one needs to know about the organization’s actual goals.

The NAACP’s repeated history of systemic failures to acknowledge or take any meaningful, legitimate action to try to improve Maryland’s education system should raise major credibility concerns over the NAACP’s efforts on what it is genuinely doing to help black people. Prioritizing hyperbolic hysteria and fake outrage over bogus claims of racism does nothing to help prepare black students who can’t read or write to succeed in the real world.

If the NAACP is truly concerned about helping black people in this country, it can start by seriously looking in the mirror to audit its organizational ineffectiveness. If advisories are worth more than a cheap political stunt, and the organization is not a phony front that merely exists to do the Democrats’ political bidding, then the NAACP should issue one regarding Maryland’s education system. More importantly, people must ask why it hasn’t.

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