Well, to have 16-17 y/os in your sixth grade is a bit unnerving. The only good thing was, they left school every day at 1:00 to see their parole officers ...so we had them for only a half-day.
Oh the good times and ankle bracelets. I don’t miss them at all.
College is the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.It is a crime what they are doing. The utter “stupidity” of graduates is astounding. The bloated tuition and government grants are a racket. My best guess is it lasts for two more years . The main thing is to NEVER forgive these student loans. The whole thing was a fraud on taxpayers and a wind fall for lazy “ students’ that don’t have a clue about WWII. — NOT A DAMNED CLUE!!. I want that money paid back — every damned dime or we take it from your social security and every tax refund forever!! I want a lien on their houses!!
I’m in NY State but not NYC. I see this in our suburban school district. My daughter was in an honors curriculum and was never allowed to take reputable, respected online courses to graduate, but students that were considered âat riskâ or who had failed a class or several were put into a computer lab and said to be taking âcredit recoveryâ courses online which amounted to reading and taking multiple choice questions. When you passed a section you moved on. There is no way they could be receiving the required instruction or lab work required in a normal classroom. In the worst cases I saw (still see) those that are considered âtroubledâ or âat riskâ come in to school at 3:15 and leave by 5:00 only working on the computer. Some how this translates to the required courses needed and they graduate. I do not know how this is possible when some of these students failed most of 9th grade and NY State requires 4 years of Social Studies, 4 years of English, 3 of Math, 3 of Science, 1 of Art or Music and 1 of a foreign language plus electives to equal at least 18 full year course credits. Oh and 4 years of physical educationâ I do not know how that’s done on a computer. This is the minimal Regents level degree for NYS and required by all except the profoundly disabled to graduate from a NYS high school. It’s just not possible to accomplish from 3:15-5:00 on a computer when you couldn’t pass it in the normal class day. I have seen and heard students telling others it’s âso much easierâ and âyou can sleep almost all day and show up to school at 3:15â.