He didn’t fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn’t deserve that.”
He didn’t come to class, pay attention in class, turn in any assignments, pass any tests or impress anyone in charge by showing the slightest bit of intellectual curiosity or spark or mere effort of any kind.
The kids getting A’s and B’s in these schools are not like Johns Hopkins pre-meds. They just somewhat show up and somewhat play ball with the school by turning in the occasional assignment. Apparently about half or more of the students at this school do less than that.
Teachers have become the ultimate sluggards. They have little integrity and are focused on their pay, benefits and retirement. They only are tasked to “work” for about 7 months of each year (given all their vacays, holidays and so forth). I believe they also get “teacher training days” which mainly are luncheons to talk about how much they despise the children and how soon they can retire. Pathetic! And to think you are forced to pay property taxes to support this hot mess call “public education”.
If anybody, other than himself, failed him it would be his mother. Is a father around?
What is worse is that he is near the top half of students with a 0.13 GPA. So his grades are not atypical.
But then, it’s Baltimore.