Posted on 03/05/2021 2:17:19 AM PST by Altura Ct.
A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.
As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days. But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened. No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.
“He's stressed and I am too. I told him I'm probably going to start crying. I don't know what to do for him,” France told Project Baltimore. “Why would he do three more years in school? 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.”
France’s son attends Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in west Baltimore. His transcripts show he’s passed just three classes in four years, earning 2.5 credits, placing him in ninth grade. But France says she didn’t know that until February. She has three children and works three jobs. She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted. His transcripts show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Spanish II and Algebra II. He also failed English II but was passed on to English III.
“I'm just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits,” said France.
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He didn’t fail, the school failed him.
Of note, 58 of 120 students in her son’s class ranked lower than 0.13.
If they kept promoting him to classes like Algebra II after he failed Algebra I, I don’t see why they don’t just give him the diploma. Sure he is at 9th grade level, but those fake promotions made him a senior. Since they didn’t keep him in the 9th grade for 4 years as he deserved, they may as well graduate him. Besides, they don’t need his ignorant ass sitting at a desk any longer.
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The school will get more funding by putting him through again. I doubt that he’ll be any more studious the second time around. Maybe he’ll stay on in high school for the rest of his life.
Dis es huge and series!
LOL! College—the best ten years of my life!
There’s your wonderful, Democrat-controlled and liberal run school system for you, Mrs. France!
Keep voting Democrat!
Seven years of college down the drain!
We’d better throw more of other people’s money at the problem with a higher percentage of Federal intervention. After running it by the NEA, of course. Yeah, that’s the ticket...
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