re: Baltimore City student ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 GPA

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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 problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that.”

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Friend of mine taught at a public school. There was a project the students were supposed to complete over the course of a year or half a year. They had project updates every couple of weeks and he told the same students who weren't doing the work that they would fail if they didn't complete the project. He sent notices to the parents and repeatedly warned the kids yet they didn't complete the project and were told the kids couldn't graduate. Of course the parents came unglued. He told them all the opportunities, warnings, and freebies they were given but the parents didn't want to hear it. I think they ended up bitching to the principal enough that she let them all graduate without completing the project.

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A culture of complete lack of accountability.

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Bada bing...bada BOOM

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A culture of complete lack of accountability.

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How do we expect anyone to succeed when it's never their fault if they fail? If you are continuously told that your failures are not your fault, and not only are they not your fault, but there is nothing that you can do about it, you're going to create a group of people who will never succeed and will despise those who do succeed.