re: What percent of students is fair and reasonable to fail a core high school course?

What a joke. So we just pass pilots, surgeons, lawyers, welders, electricians, etc rather they show up or not. Rather they do the work or not? Rather they can pass courses material? Incompetence at its finest.

A teacher has 90 total kids.

18 fail her class. 9 of those 18 are failing multiple classes, if not all of their classes.

So 9/90, or 10%, is failing just her class. And again, I’m really talking about core classes like chemistry, algebra 2, US History, biology, etc.

That doesn’t seem to me that the teacher should be fired. Some kids need to take the course again to learn the material better and there is nothing wrong with that. They can take it over the summer and still graduate in 4 years and the school still gets their points or whatever for their SPS Grad Rate or some bullshite.