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Both sound like good ideas to me. Community college is generally better than ending your education in high school. And allowing people to graduate without pass
by surfmike 9y ago
Both sound like good ideas to me. Community college is generally better than ending your education in high school.
And allowing people to graduate without passing their grade level seems like a bad idea. (Unless you're saying they were changed to juniors but then no longer went to the high school).
- stickfigure 9y agoUnfortunately, it seems merely being accepted is the wrong metric. From the article: The school district won't know how many Ballou graduates enrolled in college overall until May, a spokesperson says. We know of 183 students accepted to the University of the District of Columbia, the local community college. But only 16 enrolled this fall.
- zaroth 9y agoIt seems to me, and the part of the story that’s missing, I would bet that the Administration applied on behalf of the “graduates” to the community college with a 100% acceptance rate. I think what’s most impressive is how they’ve convinced themselves their fraud is actually all in the best interest of the students.
- gmiller123456 9y agoI think you misunderstood what he was saying. The school claimed they had a 100% graduation rate by retroactively claiming students that failed their senior year were juniors. Nothing really wrong with making students repeat grades until they pass, but doing it in such a way that you advertise a 100% graduation rate when 100% didn't graduate is deceptive.