Daily Caller:
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.
Despite these absences, all of the 2017 seniors got into a college, a feat for which the school received high praise. One student said the class-wide acceptance was a repudiation of all those who said the school — where at one point only 3 percent of students met the reading standards — couldn’t do it.“Everybody just, they was betting on us failing, and we all came together and we graduated,” said student Me’Ashja Hamilton.
Some teachers who spoke to the outlet said they felt they had to graduate failing students due to pressure from the high school administration. Other teachers said the lack of expectations allowed students to do what they wanted and not show up for class.
It’s called disparate impact. Another failed policy of racist obama. Black kids have different experiences than whites so we’re required to look the other way, otherwise they may become dangerous unproductive members of society.
Kinda like calling out Islamic terrorists incites them to jihad.
Check yo’ Black Privlege an’ sheeit, gnome sayin’.
Up next: Graduating from college without showing up. You know, like the athletes do.
Futbal an bassetbal hasben bery gud t’ me.
what ? they all played basketball and football ?
Show of hands: How many of you believe that a “degree” proves your intelligence?
Now: Please slap yourselves.
Good luck in the job interviews!
I wonder what the failure rate is for these kids once they get into college. No amount of remedial education the college can provide will makeup for what they lost in high school in terms of knowledge and a work ethic. They’ll end up back home, maybe saddled with a student loan and a feeling they’ve been had. In a way they have because we haven’t done themany favours in passing them along because we’re afraid of them or for our jobs. We’ve spent years telling them their failure isn’t their fault, it’s the fault of the white society that holds them back and keeps them in chanins. We give them welfare, free housing, free not-education but not the tools of self-worth, self-confidence, work-ethic (they used to have that in abundance), a cure to the drug scourge (the death penalty for pushers) and any number of other things used to build up a persons confidence and ability to self-analyze themselves truthfully. Give them these and the problems within the black urban community will sort themselves out.
What a crappy article; no mention WHICH college(s) accepted these Dindu Nuffins.
And: WHO COVERED THE COSTS of their attendance?!?
THAT would have given the article substance.
Yet another triumph of self-esteem over self-respect.
How much money was doled out in college grants?
EDUCATIONAL WELFARE
They don’t have to work to get the benefit.
Dey all received da best public edjamacation dat public taxpayers money could buy. NOT! And it’s not the Republicans or conservatives fault for their lousy, substandard edjamacation. The fault lies with the democraps who have turned them into permanent dumbasses who will always vote for them just because.
Huked on ebonics werked fer me. I be’s vewy smaht, smaht enuf to know that I is a dummy. Anybody’s got any malt licka, some watamelon and some fryd chiken?
And some of dem menthol Kool cigareets.
Kool? Newport man!!
this is a direct result of the Left’s inbred racism. Sowell said it best by calling it “the soft bigotry of lowered expectations”