Welcome to the 3 Martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

3 Martinis coming up.

All crazy Martinis to close out your week.

So get ready for that.

Crazy, crazy, crazy across the board and Jim, it's just felt like a long week.

I feel like there's been about 19 days in this week, but apparently I'm told there's

only been the normal number around day six.

But let's go to our first crazy Martini, which is also a really bad one.

This is from your colleague Zachary Evans at National Review Online, 41% of Baltimore

public high school students held a grade point average of less than 1.0 during the first

three quarters of the 2020 2021 school year, Baltimore local Fox 45 news reported on

Monday.

This means that nearly half of Baltimore's 20,500 public high school students earned less

than a D average for most of the year.

Meanwhile 21% of high school students received a GPA above 3.0 according to a chart showing

grading averages obtained by the station's project Baltimore investigation.

The number of students earning less than a one point almost doubled from the previous school

year when 24% of high schoolers recorded a D average during the second quarter.

So Jim, you can chalk this up to a couple of different things.

Number one, inner city schools are often not very good.

And it would appear Baltimore is no exception.

...