Text Drivers are Killers
Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Apparently the omni-present affirmative action grading all schools employ for minorities is not enough. A HS diploma is now meaningless, at least for non0-whites.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/08/some-...oversial-credit-recovery-to-boost-grad-rates/
dec 8 2018 ]More than 100 NYC high schools have enrolled students in “credit recovery” — a scheme increasingly criticized as a shoddy way to raise graduation rates, a new study reveals.
In a sample of 229 Department of Education high schools, 109 reported using such programs for students who had failed or never completed required classes, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found in a study titled “Gotta Give ‘Em Credit.”
And eight of the 109 schools enrolled more than 20 percent of students in credit-boosting programs, according to 2015-16 data, the latest reported to the US Education Department. The national average was 8.1 percent.
At the top of the NYC list, Validus Preparatory Academy — a Bronx high school with 372 students, 97 percent Hispanic and black — reported a stunning 40 percent of its students in credit-recovery.
“It’s like some bulls–t way to get kids to pass,” an 11th-grader at the Bathgate Educational Campus told The Post. “Students start those when they see they don’t have enough credits to graduate.”
The “classes” are commercial online programs students do before or after the regular school day, they said.
“It’s an online course with a teacher in the room, but honestly it’s really easy to pass it,” said senior Jose Castillo, who needed credits after failing a sophomore English class. He said kids eat and chat while sitting at computers.