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> “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 probl

by pc86 6y ago

> “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.” I can't even begin to fathom the absolutely staggering level of entitlement required to say that your son with the 0.13 GPA didn't fail, but the school failed him. Certainly both are true but to accept no responsibility whatsoever is just amazing in the worst possible way. > 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. Maryland requires 180 days per year. So he was late or missed 272 out of 540 required days. That's more than half of the required days over a three year period. It's downright criminal what happened to this kid, and apparently at least half of his classmates, but pretending he or his mother didn't do anything wrong is a stretch.

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snakeboy 6y ago
To be fair, in an American high school it's unheard of that you would continue on to 10th grade if you failed any of the core classes in 9th grade, let alone 12th grade... I literally would not have believed it possible. Maybe there are other cases like this, but I wouldn't have believed it yesterday. So they're hit with an utterly unprecedented level of incompetence by the school, and she's a (single?) mother working 3 jobs. In that situation it's perhaps not surprising that the oldest has the least supervision among the three. I guess I'd just disagree that "staggering level of entitlement" is the correct description. I only see a depressing result and a family that's in a very complicated situation, and is rightfully angry at what just took place. Sure, teenagers should take some degree of personal responsibility, and parents for their children, but in a situation as complicated as this one, I personally wouldn't try to make that judgement from the outside.

by pc86 6y ago

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snakeboy 6y ago

To be fair, in an American high school it's unheard of that you would continue on to 10th grade if you failed any of the core classes in 9th grade, let alone 12th grade... I literally would not have believed it possible. Maybe there are other cases like this, but I wouldn't have believed it yesterday. So they're hit with an utterly unprecedented level of incompetence by the school, and she's a (single?) mother working 3 jobs. In that situation it's perhaps not surprising that the oldest has the least supervision among the three. I guess I'd just disagree that "staggering level of entitlement" is the correct description. I only see a depressing result and a family that's in a very complicated situation, and is rightfully angry at what just took place. Sure, teenagers should take some degree of personal responsibility, and parents for their children, but in a situation as complicated as this one, I personally wouldn't try to make that judgement from the outside.