City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA
Fox 5 | 3/1/21A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.
As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days. But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened. No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.
“He’s stressed and I am too. I told him I’m probably going to start crying. I don’t know what to do for him,” France told Project Baltimore. “Why would he do three more years in school? He didn’t fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn’t deserve that.”
France’s son attends Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in west Baltimore. His transcripts show he’s passed just three classes in four years, earning 2.5 credits, placing him in ninth grade. But France says she didn’t know that until February. She has three children and works three jobs. She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted. His transcripts show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Spanish II and Algebra II. He also failed English II but was passed on to English III.
“I’m just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits,” said France.
Regarding the first sentence: please define “shocking.”
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That’s still better than Mr. Blutarsky who, as I remember, had a 0.0 grade point average. Yet still became a member of the senate.
I guess he’s counting on all those sweet, sweet reparation checks.
I have narrowed the three classes he passed to the following:
Gym, homeroom, study hall, free lunch.
Can we retro impeach LBJ for this one?
It has gone far into all American public school systems. My sons are in their 30s but went to middle school and high school in one of Northern VA best school systems and we had issues. The teachers taught wrong, and when me and my wife attempted with multiple teachers got nowhere. Then we got nowhere with admin and the school board. We ended up tutoring our sons to get them up to proper level. Education in America has been failing for many years and it will continue.