nothing stopping the little twtt from taking the class over again is there?
Posted on 08/02/2015 6:03:28 PM PDT by SMGFan
Melissa Mejia, 18, was stunned and embarrassed when officials at William Cullen Bryant HS in Long Island City, Queens, told her she had met all the requirements to receive a diploma in June. She knew she hadn’t. Teachers say Melissa is just one of a number of students magically given credits for classes they failed in an effort by administrators to raise Bryant’s graduation rate. She told her story to The Post’s Susan Edelman.
I don’t like receiving what I would call a handout, but that’s what happened.
New York City gave me a diploma I didn’t deserve
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
High self esteem is worth so much more than actual knowledge.
If she was so concerned about receiving a unearned diploma, why did she not earn it while she was in school?
Basically you just need to show up at least half the time and you will get your diploma. The high schools, at least the public ones, just want to move you through and out.
nothing stopping the little twtt from taking the class over again is there?
She shouldn’t feel bad. I’ve met high school graduates who don’t know the difference between lose, and loose. Don’t know the difference between there, their, and they’re. And can’t do simple math in their heads.
Well, who let the editor who wrote the headline graduate FROM high school? Looks like he or she has grounds for complaint, as well.
Since she’s already had her diploma awarded, she probably wouldn’t be allowed to retake the class.
And that was here on FR. LOL
She’s more qualified than about 20-30 million other people here, so what the he!! Who cares?
Equal outcome doesn’t require equal effort.
She realizes she failed by her own actions (or lack of actions) but was passed for the convenience and rating of the school. That’s a good thing. Now she should go to correct her deficiencies and get the actual education she didn’t. The school is a worthless monstrosity sucking up tax dollars with imaginary results.
In these schools, a lot of teacher’s hands are tied and they have to pass these students, whether the students should be passed or not.
100%
I get it that the teachers pass them no matter what. But she could have studied and learned the material.
figures... now if it was a diversity class or some such she failed, she'd prolly have to retake it till she passed no matter how many times it took
No comment.
Worse than that. Much worse.
Many of the urban public schools have a policy of "social promotion". Even if they hardly ever show up; even if they never pass a test - they go to the next grade, the following year.
They will also get a diploma at the end of twelfth grade.
What's amazing about this story, is that the young lady not only knows that she didn't qualify; she admits that she didn't qualify.
I've been in many high schools on the South side of Chicago. The typical belief there is that if they gave you a diploma, you must be qualified!
Magic! Or osmosis. Or something.
Government educators don’t educate. They indoctrinate, intimidate and obfuscate.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism…
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
I can tell you from practical experience there are all sorts of reasons kids struggle in school and flunk classes. I myself barely graduated high school because I was suffering mental illness through out my high school years. If it was not for the work of a lot of good people in the school system I was in at the time I would not have a high school diploma. The fact that this 18 year old kid and probably her parents speaking out about the fact that she should not be graduating speaks highly of her and her parents. I don’t know the reasons that she did not pass the courses but you attacking her for speaking out about this is totally uncalled for and is like Hillary Clinton attacking the women that bill Clinton raped and molested.....there you got me comparing you to a democrat are you proud of yourself.
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