Mega-Scandal: High School Graduates All Failing Students
From FreedomProject Media :
Despite many of them practically never showing up to class and failing in virtually every subject, every single student at Ballou High School in the nation’s capital graduated and received a diploma. Based on their fraudulent credentials, they all got accepted to college, too. But then, the school officials involved in the colossal scam got caught.
The mega-scandal surrounding the widely acclaimed government school in Washington, D.C., first uncovered by the far-left, taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio (NPR) , is in the process of erupting. One analyst, writing at TheFederalistPapers.org , has even labeled this the “Worst Public School Scandal of Modern Era.”
Basically, what appears to have happened is that officials decided every child would graduate — even if that meant cheating and ignoring the already-pathetic requirements. And so, even students who were failing literally every class got a diploma.
Indeed, most students at the school did not even attend more than six weeks out of the 36-week school year, according to the NPR/WAMU investigation. And yet, they all still got a diploma. Former teachers at the school, which in 2010 was lauded as a model, explained how administrators demanded that the kids be passed no matter what.
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