2,000 grades raised at Chicago Public Schools' Hyde Park Academy

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 3/10/10 | Rosalind Rossi and Art Golab

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

Last school year at struggling Hyde Park Academy High, more than 2,000 grades were boosted at least one notch — including more than 870 F’s that were changed to passing marks, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows.

And this school year, blanket A’s were ordered issued to all students of five new Hyde Park teachers after the students suffered through a string of substitute teachers for most of the first quarter, a letter obtained by the Sun-Times shows.

(snip)

...complaints from dozens of teachers that their grades were changed last school year without their approval.(snip)...pressure to goose up grades is “part of the culture’’ at Hyde Park, a school on academic probation where the number of freshmen and senior F’s can help trigger federal sanctions or even closure.

[Cheryllynn]

ya ain’t Amerika gweat?

[This Just In]

“I see the government bail out now extends to grades in elementary school.”

It’s not a bail out. It’s how the public school system has worked; it’s funded by our tax dollars.

The government should never be involved in educating our kids. That should be left to the private sector.

[Shermy]

...and test cheating!

[TSgt]

By and large, publik skools are producing a generation of useful idiots.

You should really qualify that statement as URBAN public schools. I know of many great rural school districts, try painting with a thinner brush.