Posted on 09/19/2021 11:01:13 AM PDT by lowbridge
Let them work at Taco Bell.
Maspeth High School created fake classes, awarded bogus credits, and fixed grades to push students to graduate — “even if the diploma was not worth the paper on which it was printed,” an explosive investigative report charges.
Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir demanded that teachers pass students no matter how little they learned, says the 32-page report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, Anastasia Coleman.
“I don’t care if a kid shows up at 7:44 and you dismiss at 7:45 — it’s your job to give that kid credit,” the principal is quoted as telling a teacher.
Abdul-Mutakabbir told the teacher he would give the lagging student a diploma “not worth the paper on which it was printed” and let him “have fun working at Taco Bell,” the report says.
The teacher “felt threatened and changed each student’s failing grade to a passing one.”
The SCI report confirms a series of Post exposes in 2019 describing a culture of cheating in which students could skip classes and do little or no work, but still pass.
Kids nicknamed the no-fail rule “the Maspeth Minimum.”
Chancellor Meisha Porter, who received the SCI report on June 4, removed Abdul-Mutakabbir from the 1,200-student school and city payroll in July pending a termination hearing set for next month.
But she left Maspeth assistant principals Stefan Singh and Jesse Pachter — the principal’s chief lieutenants — on the job.
Singh and Pachter executed the principal’s orders, informants said, and helped create classes to grant credits to students who didn’t have to show up — because the classes weren’t even held, according to the report.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Same with college degrees and don’t start me on law school
Keep sending your kids and paying school taxes.
Wow. Let me guess who these administrators, “teachers” and the school boards voted for ....
Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir
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I think I see the problem........
“Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir”
Must be that very famous Scots Irish thespian and scholar?
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
I took the time and effort, about 15 seconds, to look up Maspeth HS. It bills itself as the “Classical School of New York City”
I invite any of you interested to view the school’s website: https://www.mhs.nyc
Certainly the website can’t be lying about this fine beacon of academic learning?
You will get nothing and like it.
As an employer in past years, I have had applicants for entry level jobs, requiring no particular skills, unable to complete a simple application for job form - quite a few of them. And the teachers say they are over worked and underpaid. Baloney!
Yup, These days you see people admitted to law school and medical school..etc that have no business being there...
affirmative destruction...
Imagine your wife is desperately ill and you rush her to the ER, describe the MD you want to be standing at the ready, waiting to see your wife....
Affirmative action causes people to wonder about professional competency in many fields... it is no favor to anyone :-/
It has gotten to the point that you only give the benefit of the doubt about a professional’s skills if they are from a group that receives no favoritism at all...
Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir
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I think I see the problem........
Yup, a problem with: voters, city, the media, and on and on. Of course, nothing will happen to anyone involved...because.
Oh, except for the person(s) reporting the problem.
rincipal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir
Lol
ditch diggers? - see post #10
I taught for decades at an urban public high school. The district’s grading policy was traditional for my first 20 years. Either the student did the work, or he failed.
Then a whole cadre of “woke” administrators were hired (blame the school board for that). 50% became the minimum grade possible. So if a kid didn’t even bother to take a test or turn in a report, you had to give him 50% on the assignment anyway.
EVERY teacher hated that. And many of us tried to ignore the new rule by putting the actual scores into our grading spreadsheets.
But the administrators were too smart for that. The grading software was set up to automatically change a score of less than 50 to 50.
Education is a universal right and every modern government, local/state/nation should provide the opportunity for its citizens to obtain enough to be literate, able to do some math and be hired for work.
This fake diploma is the worse type of racism and keeps a person a useless citizen to be fed in return for votes and submission. No society will last long and a rebellion may even make things worse during its early days.
Oregon students shouldn’t have to prove they can write or do math to get a diploma, lawmakers decide!
The Oregonian ^ | Jun 16, 2021 | Betsy Hammond
Posted on 6/21/2021, 4:16:01 PM by george76
Students in the class of 2021 did not have to prove they could write or do math at a basic level to earn their diplomas. A bill headed to Gov. Kate Brown would prohibit any such requirement at least until 2027.
A bill to prohibit Oregon schools from requiring students to show they can read, write and do math at a basic high school level is headed to Gov. Kate Brown after lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday.
The idea is to hit pause on the requirements, in place since 2009 but already suspended during the pandemic, at least until the class of 2024 gets their diplomas and for Oregon to thoughtfully reexamine its graduation requirements in the meantime. A report recommending what the new standards should be is due to the Legislature and Oregon Board of Education by September 2022.
But since Oregon has long insisted it would not impose new graduation requirements on students who have already begun high school, new requirements would not take effect until the class of 2027 at the very earliest. So at least five more classes could be expected to graduate without needing to demonstrate roughly 10th grade level proficiency in math and writing.
The decision to remove the skills requirement was largely but not entirely a party-line one, with Democrats staunchly opposing the proficiency rules and Republicans decrying what they see as a lowering of academic standards.
A spokesperson for Brown told The Oregonian/OregonLive Wednesday she has yet to decide whether she will sign the bill, veto it or allow it to become law without her signature.
Oregon, unlike other states, did not require students to pass a particular standardized test or any test at all. Students could show their ability to use English and do math via about five different tests or by completing an in-depth classroom project judged by their own teachers. In reality, most schools relied primarily on standardized tests and most students easily passed them.
But demonstrating proficiency proved most challenging for students who learned English as a second language, students with disabilities and students of color.
Officials on the Oregon Board of Education, when they enacted the “essential skills” graduation requirement more than a decade ago, said they hoped no student would be denied a diploma for lacking the skills but that schools would step up and help juniors and seniors who hadn’t mastered enough English or math to do so. Many high schools created special math and writing workshop classes for seniors who needed to demonstrate those skills to get their diplomas.
The bill calls on the diverse committee studying graduation requirements to come up with a recommendation “with the goal of ensuring that the processes and outcomes related to the requirements for high school diplomas are equitable, accessible and inclusive.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3969771/posts
Knowledge is racism.
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