Another massive grade-fixing scandal hits NYC High Schools

[Picaro]

A lot of this is cultural. Blacks, especially black males, who do well academically are often berated for "acting white" by other blacks and may often be the targets of bullies..

In south Chicago it gets you shot to death at age 12 or 13 if you're a black kid.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

States need to pass a law that says to graduate from HS you must pass the GED.

http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/this-journalism-school-has-a-big-grade-fixing-problem/

july 1 2017 Grade-fixing is alive and well in NYC schools as administrators come up with tricky new ways to inflate their graduation rates — and few of the hundreds of cheating complaints ever get investigated.

The latest scandal erupted at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn when a student who had cut a required English class dozens of times and got the lowest failing grade, a 45, walked on stage in a white cap and gown to get his diploma — even after a whistle-blowing teacher cried foul.

Principal Marc Williams did not simply change the student’s grade in the class he had failed — a method used by other city administrators. Instead, he added an English course to the teen’s transcript, and let him sit at a computer for a few days to do an online program, teachers said. A whistle-blower claimed a classmate sat next to the teen and helped him take the tests to get a passing 65 grade. Told about the apparent cheating, the principal did nothing, sources told The Post.

These high-school principals were accused of various schemes to pass struggling students, according to investigators and whistleblowers:

Tyee Chin of Flushing HS put 254 kids in geometry classes but ordered them taught algebra so they could pass the Regents exam.
Namita Dwarka of William Cullen Bryant HS falsely labeled students English-learners to give them more time on Regents exams.
Kathleen Elvin of John Dewey HS programmed hundreds of sham classes to give students credits without instruction.
Howard Kwait of John Bowne HS coerced teachers to change grades to boost the graduation rate.
Richard Massel of Monroe Academy for Visual Arts & Design altered transcripts and gave students fake PE classes.

MORE standardized tests aren't going to solve your problem.
I prepare people for the equivalency exam. Not everyone is strong enough academically to pass it, but if a student is hard working, puts in the effort and achieves at his capacity throughout his school career, should he/she be denied a diploma? Some students can't do algebra. They take business math. There is no "business math" test on the GED. Students with dyslexia or other reading comprehension issues struggle with the tide of words flung at them in a GED test under a timer. If they are competent when presented with information in another way, should they not be allowed to graduate?

I know it's a problem graduating kids who aren't ready. Your article really only tells us of one kid in one school, since the rest are uninvestigated accusations. But the pressure schools are under to graduate kids is twofold. One, they know that without a hs diploma, the kid is basically doomed. Second, graduation rates are used as a performance indicator and that in turn directly impacts their funding and their functioning in the future. The more testing and statistics that are used to "measure" school performance, the worse it is going to get.

Then businessmen are supposed to be encouraged to pay these idiots, who probably can't run a mop or broom correctly, fifteen dollars an hour because they received a participation diploma from high school?

*****PALE SMILE*****

 

[frigidweirdo]

States need to pass a law that says to graduate from HS you must pass the GED.

http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/this-journalism-school-has-a-big-grade-fixing-problem/

july 1 2017 Grade-fixing is alive and well in NYC schools as administrators come up with tricky new ways to inflate their graduation rates — and few of the hundreds of cheating complaints ever get investigated.

The latest scandal erupted at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn when a student who had cut a required English class dozens of times and got the lowest failing grade, a 45, walked on stage in a white cap and gown to get his diploma — even after a whistle-blowing teacher cried foul.

Principal Marc Williams did not simply change the student’s grade in the class he had failed — a method used by other city administrators. Instead, he added an English course to the teen’s transcript, and let him sit at a computer for a few days to do an online program, teachers said. A whistle-blower claimed a classmate sat next to the teen and helped him take the tests to get a passing 65 grade. Told about the apparent cheating, the principal did nothing, sources told The Post.

These high-school principals were accused of various schemes to pass struggling students, according to investigators and whistleblowers:

Tyee Chin of Flushing HS put 254 kids in geometry classes but ordered them taught algebra so they could pass the Regents exam.
Namita Dwarka of William Cullen Bryant HS falsely labeled students English-learners to give them more time on Regents exams.
Kathleen Elvin of John Dewey HS programmed hundreds of sham classes to give students credits without instruction.
Howard Kwait of John Bowne HS coerced teachers to change grades to boost the graduation rate.
Richard Massel of Monroe Academy for Visual Arts & Design altered transcripts and gave students fake PE classes.

Or, maybe if the country fixed the problem of education, kids would pass high school because they actually learn enough.

 

[LuckyDuck]

States need to pass a law that says to graduate from HS you must pass the GED.

http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/this-journalism-school-has-a-big-grade-fixing-problem/

july 1 2017 Grade-fixing is alive and well in NYC schools as administrators come up with tricky new ways to inflate their graduation rates — and few of the hundreds of cheating complaints ever get investigated.

The latest scandal erupted at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn when a student who had cut a required English class dozens of times and got the lowest failing grade, a 45, walked on stage in a white cap and gown to get his diploma — even after a whistle-blowing teacher cried foul.

Principal Marc Williams did not simply change the student’s grade in the class he had failed — a method used by other city administrators. Instead, he added an English course to the teen’s transcript, and let him sit at a computer for a few days to do an online program, teachers said. A whistle-blower claimed a classmate sat next to the teen and helped him take the tests to get a passing 65 grade. Told about the apparent cheating, the principal did nothing, sources told The Post.

These high-school principals were accused of various schemes to pass struggling students, according to investigators and whistleblowers:

Tyee Chin of Flushing HS put 254 kids in geometry classes but ordered them taught algebra so they could pass the Regents exam.
Namita Dwarka of William Cullen Bryant HS falsely labeled students English-learners to give them more time on Regents exams.
Kathleen Elvin of John Dewey HS programmed hundreds of sham classes to give students credits without instruction.
Howard Kwait of John Bowne HS coerced teachers to change grades to boost the graduation rate.
Richard Massel of Monroe Academy for Visual Arts & Design altered transcripts and gave students fake PE classes.

The following will solve this issue:
1. Fire any and all those that falsely adjust scoring.
2. Make sure that the students have up to date materials.
3. Hire highly qualified and trustworthy instructors.
4. End "socially promoting" students to the next grade if they fail a class.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Black politicians screwed their own people as usual, by turning Affirmative Action into a quota system;

Yup - the original meaning of affirmative action was that companies should go out and actively search for QUALIFIED blacks to hire. Now it means giving jobs to blacks no matter how unqualified they are.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

The following will solve this issue:
1. Fire any and all those that falsely adjust scoring.
2. Make sure that the students have up to date materials.
3. Hire highly qualified and trustworthy instructors.
4. End "socially promoting" students to the next grade if they fail a class.

Too ambiguous and too complicated. You are wooly-brained.

The best solution is to require all seniors to pass the GED if they want to graduate.

 

[DGS49]

Of course the underlying problem is an unwillingness to accept reality.

Fact #1: Students' learning can be tested and accurately measured.

Fact #2: It would not be all that difficult to put together a compilation of what a student should learn in order to get a HS diploma.

Therefore, it should not be any problem at all for a school system the size of NYC to put together a good test, administer it, and determine which students should be given diplomas.

Unfortunate Fact A: "Minority" group members, if tested properly, will mainly fail. "The numbers," the "Optics," however you want to put it, they will be terrible. The average IQ of minorities is very sub-par; the relevant subculture mainly abhors learning; and Academe refuses to accept the fact of "academic/intellectual inequality."

So everyone in the system tries to blur the facts, compromise the tests and the results, and make excuses, to either avoid the manifestations of Fact #2, or pretend that testing is just impossible to do properly.

Everyone suffers.

Kudos to the minority group members who do succeed, properly, despite the headwinds they encounter.

 

[LuckyDuck]

The following will solve this issue:
1. Fire any and all those that falsely adjust scoring.
2. Make sure that the students have up to date materials.
3. Hire highly qualified and trustworthy instructors.
4. End "socially promoting" students to the next grade if they fail a class.

Too ambiguous and too complicated. You are wooly-brained.

The best solution is to require all seniors to pass the GED if they want to graduate.

Well, I'd like to see things from your perspective, however, I find it impossible to shove my head that far up my ass.