The majority of graduating students at a Washington, D.C. high school did not attend more than six weeks of high school, but still managed to get into college, an investigation into the students’ records found.
NPR and WAMU looked into the seniors who graduated from Ballou High School in 2017, a school located in a poverty stricken area of the nation’s capital, to see how much school the graduating students missed. Ballou High School was previously heavily praised for all students in its senior class getting into college.
Almost half of the graduates had unexcused absences that totaled to more than three months of missed school, documents obtained by NPR and WAMU reveal. About 20 percent of the high school graduates were absent more times than they were present for classes, emails and records also show.
The District of Columbia Public Schools system policy states that students who misses a class more than 30 times should fail that class, according to WAMU.
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I missed a third of a school year and still passed to the next grade after passing my exams. I wasn't learning much in school.
ReplyDeleteI would be willing to bet that most of the seniors were black and will soon be the next victims of affirmative action.
ReplyDeleteAnd we wonder why Johnny can't read, write, do math, get to work on time, etc., etc., etc.
ReplyDeleteMore illiterate college students. More millennial snowflake's that are dumb as a box of rocks. Way to go D.C.
ReplyDelete"...all of the 2017 seniors got into a college..."
ReplyDeleteWhat does this say about the quality of the college's admissions process?
They are doing the same thing at UMES, except they are marked there for the money.
ReplyDeleteHe should run for Congress. They do that EVERY year!
ReplyDelete5;21 hit it on the head. all these kids go to university on the public dole. why are we the taxpayer paying for this bs? massive fraud!
ReplyDeleteThey go to college for the parties, not the edumacation. Always telling us how many go to college, but never how many of them graduate and make it in life. Most just go home and straight to the sofa and then the street corner. The women to the welfare office. We are just paying for parties and fake diplomas. No way in hell they really graduate. Maybe they only have to get one third of the score whites do. Waste of our tax money. This has to stop. "President Trump, can I talk to you a minute?"
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