Posted on 05/25/2023 9:32:31 PM PDT by Morgana
A high school located in Texas has been forced to postpone its commencement after just 15 percent of the senior class reached the requirements to graduate.
In a letter sent to parents and families, Marlin ISD Superintendent Darryl Henson said most seniors did not make the cut due to low grades and attendance records.
District officials have postponed the ceremony to June in order to give students the time to catch up and hopefully check the boxes needed to obtain their diplomas.
'As a school district, we really want to make sure we're making the best decision in the interest of all children,' Henson told KCEN News.
The postponement of the major ceremony comes after the district had already announced a four-day school week aimed at increasing attendance.
In 2020, Marlin ISD lost their official accreditation from Texas after the district received an 'F' grade for accountability in 2019.
The district initially said just 15 percent of the class was eligible initially but that after a first warning was sent out, several additional students have met the standards.
As of May 25, the number has increased to 17 out of 38, still less than half.
The superintendent said he hopes the rest of the class will be able to meet the requirements in time for the new June graduation date.
During a mandatory Wednesday meeting with parents of seniors at Marlin High School, Henson blamed failed courses and kids skipping classes for the low number.
Parents expressed outrage throughout the meeting, saying their children were told they were on track to graduate only to find out otherwise in the last week.
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These kids would have skipped home schooling too.
“ after the district had already announced a four-day school week aimed at increasing attendance.”
It sounds like the parents are real prize winners if this was done.
I learned most of what I know without the presence of teachers. It is the student who learns, or doesn’t learn. The teacher is a facilitator. Blaming teachers is foolish, and won’t solve any problems.
Yep, I told my kids, YOU are responsible for your education, not the school, the principals nor the teachers. They are there to help (or not help). And of course parents have to step up and accept their role as well.
I take it that you are a teacher, or support teachers and their union. A student can only go so far and be only so successful, in general, depending on their teacher, that the students are all failing, it’s not a reflection on the students, individually, may be on their families, but absolutely it is a reflection upon the teachers in the schools.
Anyone who actually wants to learn will learn. How much of what you know actually came from teachers? In my case, almost nothing I know can from formal education. The student is the only one in the process who actually has control over the “learn rate”.
People tend to overlook that because they want to blame the teachers and the schools. Their own lack of participation is the sole cause of ignorance.
No, I'm a retired hardware/software engineer that can credit absolutely none of my education to schools. I have a BS in Computer Science; however, most of what I learned in school came from the IBM CE (Campus IBM 360 and 1130) and my own self study.
Anyone who thinks teachers factor into the learning process in a significant manner are doomed to learn very little. I have a lot of books covering a lot of subjects. Nobody made me buy them or read them.
47.1% of Marlin, TX residents had an income below the poverty level in 2019.
45% black, 25% hispanic, 25% white.
Female, no husband present 65%
www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Marlin-Texas.html
https://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Marlin-Texas.html
Wonder why TEA hasn’t taken this school district over like they did HISD.
BINGO!!!
I bet those teachers get raises on a regular and GUARANTEED basis, no matter what they say about attendance or grades...(which was a pretty pathetic answer, anyway).
“Students are always busy doing school walkouts and protests these days when they’re not busy deciding whether they want to change their “designated” gonads that they were issued in the hospital when they were born. Trannyism is “wildly popular” these days. There is no time for educational stuff. Real sickos.
Who’s fault is it for lack of attendance? The teachers?
I do think I can see a few red flags here. From the school district web page:
“Marlin ISD serves 880 students in the Heart of Texas along the Brazos River. The focus of Marlin ISD, a community of unique, diverse people, is to provide an exceptional learning experience in a safe, nurturing environment, challenging our students to achieve academic excellence and to be responsible, productive, and ethical members of a changing society.”
If a professional coach only won 15% of their games…would they be working the next season?
The first success many kids have is spelling or own names. It must be brutal when there are a couple apostrophes and only one vowel. “Sounding it out” would be a nightmare.
I agree. Kids don’t develop the habit of blowing off school in the last semester of their senior year.
School isn’t always fun. But teachers need to make it worthwhile. That too doesn’t start in the senior year. Clearly, these students did not see enough value in their attendance.
They all aced CRT and Acceptance & Diversity.
To be fair, it was only math, reading, writing and science classes that they failed.
Show some compassion.
What they’ll do to quiet the raging is to hand out more cash for a “group” to study the situation. The “group” always employs friends, relatives and others to drag it out with no end in sight to cover their own asses.
It is critical for a teacher to make the subject appealing. It is rare that a teacher can demonstrate the relevance of a subject to real life.
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