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Student’s stunning plea: Why did NYC let me graduate high school?
New York Post ^ | August 2, 2015

Posted on 08/02/2015 6:03:28 PM PDT by SMGFan

Melissa Mejia, 18, was stunned and embarrassed when officials at William Cullen Bryant HS in Long Island City, Queens, told her she had met all the requirements to receive a diploma in June. She knew she hadn’t. Teachers say Melissa is just one of a number of students magically given credits for classes they failed in an effort by administrators to raise Bryant’s graduation rate. She told her story to The Post’s Susan Edelman.

I don’t like receiving what I would call a handout, but that’s what happened.

New York City gave me a ­diploma I didn’t deserve

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fraud; nyc
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To: SMGFan

Go to college, become a surgeon. They’ll give you that with just a little bit of effort.


21 posted on 08/02/2015 6:46:34 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Redcitizen
If she was so concerned about receiving a unearned diploma, why did she not earn it while she was in school?
Those three kids of hers aren't gonna raise themselves. Girl had priorities.
22 posted on 08/02/2015 6:48:25 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I love my dogs, but a .45 is man's best friend...)
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To: Chode
nothing stopping the little twtt from taking the class over again is there?

Perhaps there is. Schools just want to rubber-stamp kids and get them out of there.

When I was editorial director of a publishing company, I was looking for a junior copy editor. Got a hundred resumes. Interviewed a fellow who had just graduated from Journalism School at our state uni. Nice young fellow, but he only got a sore of 59% on our test. Didn't they grade you on spelling and grammar? Not really, he replied. "We were graded on political correctness." If he had been my son I would have sued the school for my tuition money back plus damages.

23 posted on 08/02/2015 7:00:41 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: SMGFan
Why did NYC let me graduate high school?

What an ingrate?

Will she also be as ungrateful when she gets a scholarship to attend a university of her choice? Will she be ungrateful when she is offered Food Stamps or subsidized housing or free transportation to and from work? Will she refuse the $15 an hour wage that she won't be deserving of, but which democrats will vote to get for her?

Dependency: it's what democrats do.

That girl will be permanently dependent on the largess of democrats. It's how democrats build a permanent base of voters.
24 posted on 08/02/2015 7:02:17 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: Chode

I dropped out in the ‘70’s (actually asked to leave). “The Mod Squad” was still on so I guess it was modern times.


25 posted on 08/02/2015 7:07:53 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: SMGFan

We used to call this FRAUD!!!

Wilfully and knowingly falsifying “Official Government Records” for profit or gain!


26 posted on 08/02/2015 7:21:56 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Veto!
but he only got a sore of 59% on our test. Didn't they grade you on spelling and grammar?"

That's sorta' funny.

27 posted on 08/02/2015 7:22:49 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Hillary is as believable as Sharknado 3. Oh Hell No!)
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To: BipolarBob

hysterical, actually. But I’m an old broad now without glasses on so you gotta forgive my lapse.


28 posted on 08/02/2015 7:39:15 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: BipolarBob; Veto!

[Mr Burns]Excellent.[/Mr Burns]


29 posted on 08/02/2015 7:52:01 PM PDT by The Grammarian
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To: SMGFan
“I don’t like receiving what I would call a handout, but that’s what happened.”

My guess is that this isn't the last handout.

30 posted on 08/02/2015 8:04:08 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Veto!
just damn
31 posted on 08/02/2015 8:05:36 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ebshumidors
i see it didn't do you any harm
32 posted on 08/02/2015 8:08:21 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: umgud
Go to college, become a surgeon. They’ll give you that with just a little bit of effort.

That explains what happened to a woman in the U.K. who went into surgery for a hysterectomy. She advised the surgical staff beforehand that she had a denture in the rear of her mouth that might need to be removed. When she awoke after the surgery, she found that her front teeth had been removed (her real teeth!). Just because someone says they're a surgeon it doesn't mean they were the brightest student in school!

33 posted on 08/02/2015 8:35:16 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: SMGFan
Hey...you got google...why worry?
34 posted on 08/02/2015 8:35:36 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: SMGFan

Show a little more cleavage and the NY Teachers would give you a college diploma.


35 posted on 08/02/2015 8:37:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Bookmark


36 posted on 08/02/2015 9:01:27 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: SMGFan

Our incompetent middle school principal tried to fire a teacher for failing students. Total joke. Told the teacher,”we don’t fail students in middle school”.


37 posted on 08/02/2015 9:34:15 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I have one better. A college graduate history major who was teaching history was asked the years of the American Civil War. He said, “1897?” This is a true answer.


38 posted on 08/02/2015 9:57:18 PM PDT by healy61
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To: PCPOET7

And that, PCPOET& is what is called projection. An A for you.


39 posted on 08/02/2015 9:59:43 PM PDT by healy61
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To: ChicagahAl

That “social promotion” nonsense has gone on for decades, and leads to a lot of the discontent among unassimilated minorities; they believe they actually received an education, and are upset that they have nothing to offer an employer - so it must be racism.

When I was in college it was sad how many “preferred minorities” dropped out early on; they realized how far behind the real students they were, and were quickly demoralized. Even “African Studies” majors had to take a minimal amount of “general education requirements”, and that is where they lost all interest. I could imagine the bitterness this breeds...


40 posted on 08/03/2015 4:11:16 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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