Posted on 07/02/2017 10:34:01 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Grade-fixing is alive and well in NYC schools as administrators come up with tricky new ways to inflate their graduation rates — and few of the hundreds of cheating complaints ever get investigated.
The latest scandal erupted at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn when a student who had cut a required English class dozens of times and got the lowest failing grade, a 45, walked on stage in a white cap and gown to get his diploma — even after a whistle-blowing teacher cried foul.
Principal Marc Williams did not simply change the student’s grade in the class he had failed — a method used by other city administrators. Instead, he added an English course to the teen’s transcript, and let him sit at a computer for a few days to do an online program, teachers said. A whistle-blower claimed a classmate sat next to the teen and helped him take the tests to get a passing 65 grade. Told about the apparent cheating, the principal did nothing, sources told The Post.
“This was wrong,” said English teacher Kim Haynes, who protested the improper practices. “He knew it was wrong and he proceeded with it.”
Williams also let the teen “make up” work for an online Participation in Government class he had cut many times and failed with a 55, insiders said. He got help from the same friend, and received a passing 65, sources said.
Haynes sent an e-mail expressing shock and alarm about the teen’s online makeup course to Chancellor Carmen Fariña and other city and state education officials.
“We have a poster in our school that reads: ‘Integrity is what you do when no one is watching.’ I am appealing to someone to address this matter immediately,” Haynes wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I saw this story also this morning. I’ve been posting here to inform FReepers just how utterly corrupt the NYC school system is. It is NOT only this school where there is such blatant grade fixing and grade changing. Teachers are harassed and threatened unless they pass just about anyone these days, or they face disciplinary action on fabricated misdeeds.
Upon graduation these students get jobs writing climate change articles for yahoo news or the New York Times.
It isn’t just this school nor is it just NY City.
Is that the Principal’s very own Participation Trophy?
As Fauxcahontas would say, “He didn’t earn it all by himself, he had help!”
Nice banner on the wall (Not).
What kind of racist is teacher Kim Haynes for not wanting this poor black child to graduate?
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“It isn’t just this school nor is it just NY City.”
You are correct that is and has been happening widely. A minority dean forced me to change a grade to pass a minority student who had shown up to class less than a handful of times during the semester and had utterly failed the exams. The student knew virtually nothing. It was explained to me that I needed to understand the student’s personal situation. The concept of “Dean for Minority Students” became institutionalized as much as 50 years ago. These deans seem in practice to run interference for minority students who are not fulfilling the demands of the classes. Others of the students are behavior problems. All professions have been impacted by having to take students who would not have made the cut based on grades.
And we wonder why we have these idiots in high places to deal with today, conyers, maxine waters
Those two predate this type of fraud.
They are just stupid, period.
They were simply practicing for their careers with CNN, NYT, WaPo, etc.
Are you sure they were diplomas and not employment contracts?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this goes on everywhere. Didn’t some Atlanta school get caught a few years ago?
Just last week, the Miami media was cheering their favorite local Democrat, the school superintendent Alberto Carvalho, for the “no failing schools” achievement reached this year.
Maybe the schools are great...or maybe some shenanigans are going on. Should there be an investigation?
Sounds to me like an ideal way to turn out journalists for todays market.
I have personally been pressured to give passing grades to worthless students so that they could graduate or because the "team needed them".
Principals without principles.
Don't know what the trophy is about. Got the photo from this "Women's Council of Realtors -- Long Island" website...
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