Baltimore City high school under fire after senior student with 0.13 GPA who ranks near the top half of class gets sent back to 9th grade

[1srelluc]

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Chris Papst of WBFF FOX45 Baltimore opened his Project Baltimore report with a detail that sounds impossible until you hear the paperwork behind it: a student who passed only three classes in four years still ranked near the top half of his class, and now – after thinking graduation was around the corner – he’s been pushed all the way back to ninth grade.

Papst’s reporting centers on a 17-year-old student at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in West Baltimore, and on the student’s mother, Tiffany France, who believed her son was on track for a diploma in June until she learned, late in the game, that he did not have the credits to graduate.

France’s reaction in Papst’s story is raw because she isn’t talking about a small setback; she’s talking about three more years of high school after her child already did four, which feels less like a reset button and more like falling through the floor.

“He’s stressed and I am too,” France told Project Baltimore, describing how close to tears she felt and how she didn’t know what to do for him as the situation hit them all at once.

Baltimore City spends approximately $18,272 to $21,606 per student

He didn't do nuffin......Literally.

At this point he'd be better off dropping out and taking a GED course.

But how about that mom?....She didn't even know how many credits her son had. Yeah lady, it was the school that failed your kid.

And just think, her vote counts the same as mine and so will her dumb son in a year. Disgusting.

 

[odanny]

A high school diploma has become virtually useless, a GED is no better, or worse. For many, college degrees carry little weight anymore, too. You better learn about something that people need, that is actually relevant, and then learn how to provide it.

My sister lives in the Inner Harbor, a nice little oasis where the riff raff and lowlifes are priced out of living nearby, but you don't have to drive far from there to see what Baltimore looks like.

 

[1srelluc]

A high school diploma has become virtually useless, a GED is no better, or worse. For many, college degrees carry little weight anymore, too. You better learn about something that people need, that is actually relevant, and then learn how to provide it.

My sister lives in the Inner Harbor, a nice little oasis where the riff raff and lowlifes are priced out of living nearby, but you don't have to drive far from there to see what Baltimore looks like.

We took a town sponsored bus trip to a O's game one year at the old Memorial Stadium....By the time the bus got out of Baltimore there were four .22 bullet holes in the side of it!

 

[Polishprince]

The fact that a kid fucked up high school to this degree isn't surprising. Kids have been ******* up in school since Hector was a pup.

And the fact that mum didn't know what was going on- still not that shocking, disinterested parents have been around for a long time too.

But the shocking part to me is that the young fellow is near the top of his class with his apparently stellar 0.13 GPA. Think how shitty the ordinary students at the Savage Institute must be doing if this is one of their brainiacs?

 

[1srelluc]

But the shocking part to me is that the young fellow is near the top of his class with his apparently stellar 0.13 GPA. Think how shitty the ordinary students at the Savage Institute must be doing if this is one of their brainiacs?

Aptly named.

 

[Zincwarrior]

AT least its not Mississippi.

 

[HikerGuy83]

The fact that a kid fucked up high school to this degree isn't surprising. Kids have been ******* up in school since Hector was a pup.

And just what was he doing during those four years?

 

[Polishprince]

Aptly named.

Probably have a top flight wrestling program, considering the name of the school.

 

[1srelluc]

Probably have a top flight wrestling program, considering the name of the school.
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[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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Chris Papst of WBFF FOX45 Baltimore opened his Project Baltimore report with a detail that sounds impossible until you hear the paperwork behind it: a student who passed only three classes in four years still ranked near the top half of his class, and now – after thinking graduation was around the corner – he’s been pushed all the way back to ninth grade.

Papst’s reporting centers on a 17-year-old student at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in West Baltimore, and on the student’s mother, Tiffany France, who believed her son was on track for a diploma in June until she learned, late in the game, that he did not have the credits to graduate.

France’s reaction in Papst’s story is raw because she isn’t talking about a small setback; she’s talking about three more years of high school after her child already did four, which feels less like a reset button and more like falling through the floor.

“He’s stressed and I am too,” France told Project Baltimore, describing how close to tears she felt and how she didn’t know what to do for him as the situation hit them all at once.

Baltimore City spends approximately $18,272 to $21,606 per student

He didn't do nuffin......Literally.

At this point he'd be better off dropping out and taking a GED course.

But how about that mom?....She didn't even know how many credits her son had. Yeah lady, it was the school that failed your kid.

And just think, her vote counts the same as mine and so will her dumb son in a year. Disgusting.

How is this in any way the fault of the school?

So we are to believe that Mom never got a report card and never inquired into her son's education when she didn't?

Totally unbelievable.

 

[Polishprince]

How is this in any way the fault of the school?

So we are to believe that Mom never got a report card and never inquired into her son's education when she didn't?

Totally unbelievable.

What makes it the fault of the school is that this young man just doesn't attend the school, but that he's one of the top students, the creme de la creme of the Baltimore City School system.

Granted, individual students do sometimes **** up and not every parent is up to date on their kid's studies.

But when this is the very best the school can do, there is a problem with the school.

 

[Mac-7]

Tiffany France

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What makes it the fault of the school is that this young man just doesn't attend the school, but that he's one of the top students, the creme de la creme of the Baltimore City School system.

Granted, individual students do sometimes **** up and not every parent is up to date on their kid's studies.

But when this is the very best the school can do, there is a problem with the school.

Ever lead a horse to water? What does a school do if a child consistently fails?

Want to hear my personal horror story?

I was an assistant principal of a school with over 3200 students in Florida. I had student in the 9th grade. He was 16 and in his second year at my school. The only credits he received were for PE classes. He skipped school whenever the mood struck him. All my attempts at contacting his parents were unsuccessful. I assigned him to in-school suspension for his infractions, and he would just skip school. I suspected he had been dealing drugs for a while, when one day I received a call that the police would be dropping him at the school. I met the police and took him from them after learning that they picked him up while he was skipping school and in the possession of drugs. They had arrested him and charged him, but no parents came to pick him up, so they released him. I proceeded to tell this student that if he ever set foot on my school property again, I would have hm arrested. I disenrolled him from the school that day on my authority and told him to never come back. I even walked him to the school gate. I logged the incident that he quit voluntarily and the parents were unreachable. The official reason I used was lack of attendance which we normally use when the students move without telling us.

My principal and I didn't get along because she had issues and I wouldn't stand for some of her actions. She didn't renew my contract that year and gave my job to her best friend. I left to teach in KY but maintained contact with my teacher friends. I learned from one of them the next year that my principal let him back into school where he continued the same activities. He was sexually harassing a young girl in the school, and he went to her apartment complex to harass her further. Her older brother had enough and took his hunting rifle to scare the guy off, but he didn't leave. The brother shot at the car out of anger and stuck and killed this waste of human flesh. The brother went to prison and since he was the custodian of the girl, she went into foster care. Three lives ruined because my principal let him back into the school because she felt sorry for this waste of oxygen.

What would you have done?

Those are the situation school administrators often face.

 

[Rawley]

How is this in any way the fault of the school?

That they promoted him from 9th to tenth grade?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That they promoted him from 9th to tenth grade?

How do you know this? I doubt they can promote them by grade without receiving sufficient credits. The Mom just assumed he was in those grades. What did the school say?

How about a little fun fact, when I attended school, at the end of my sophomore year, I voluntarily attended a summer school vocational education program for electronics. That gave me enough credits that on the first day of my junior year, the guidance counselor removed me from my junior home room and assigned me to a senior homeroom. I officially had two senior years in high school. I was class of 1977 and 1978 if you look at my yearbooks. My then girlfriend was in the senior homeroom, so I didn't care. At the end of 1977, I didn't have the required credits in English to graduate because I intentionally did not double up, so I was kept around for my real senior year. I could have graduated at age 16 and 7 months, but I chose to wait until I was 17 because I couldn't afford to go to college.

 

[Rawley]

How do you know this? I doubt they can promote them by grade without receiving sufficient credits. The Mom just assumed he was in those grades. What did the school say?

Watch the story, They kept promoting him.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Watch the story, They kept promoting him.

Thank you for the video.

That's criminal. The schools failed him because Mom didn't check up on him. The kids skipped class and she didn't know? The kid failed all of those classes and she didn't know? Did she even look at the classes he was taking from year to year?

The schools enabled his failure, but Mom is basically to blame. I am glad he is getting another chance in another school. The administrators responsible should be fired for gross incompetence.

Until the voters demand accountability in Baltimore, nothing will happen.

 

[Hellokitty]

What makes it the fault of the school is that this young man just doesn't attend the school, but that he's one of the top students, the creme de la creme of the Baltimore City School system.

Granted, individual students do sometimes **** up and not every parent is up to date on their kid's studies.

But when this is the very best the school can do, there is a problem with the school.

Right, if he's in the top % how many other students won't have the credits to graduate. What is the funding being spent on? close to $20,000 per student...

 

[Rawley]

Thank you for the video.

That's criminal. The schools failed him because Mom didn't check up on him. The kids skipped class and she didn't know? The kid failed all of those classes and she didn't know? Did she even look at the classes he was taking from year to year?

The schools enabled his failure, but Mom is basically to blame.

No, the school is basically to blame. They kept passing him and passing him and passing him for four years. Should mom have caught this? Absolutely. But fundamentally, the blame is on the school.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

No, the school is basically to blame. They kept passing him and passing him and passing him for four years. Should mom have caught this? Absolutely. But fundamentally, the blame is on the school.

What grade he was in really doesn't matter, but letting him advance to other subsequent classes is criminal. In my school I would have been held accountable because I approved the course requests as the assistant principal. So would the guidance counselor.