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2023-05-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Texas high school postpones graduation after 85% of class fails to earn diploma

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-28 04:21|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Nobody told the Superintendent they're all supposed to get the diploma anyway? Following the example of all the big cities...

Posted by Bobby 2023-05-28 07:53|| 2023-05-28 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 They had a free Covid year with “grades” and all the internet cheating tools available. The standard of excellence at the school must be a pretty low bar.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-28 09:14|| 2023-05-28 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Yet, the "Teachers" were all paid

Posted by Frank G 2023-05-28 09:17|| 2023-05-28 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 At least give them a Certificate of Being.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-05-28 10:58|| 2023-05-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Move those graduation party shootings closer to the next election.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-28 11:04|| 2023-05-28 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Those aren't bad students.

Those are bad teachers.

Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-05-28 11:28|| 2023-05-28 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 What, you mean Texas lottery proceeds aren't going to the schools?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-28 12:09|| 2023-05-28 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Good news and bad news. Good news is the 5 will get a decent job. Bad news they have to pay for the failures

Posted by Airandee 2023-05-28 12:25|| 2023-05-28 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 It's easy to blame the teachers and some probably do deserve it. I think it's more the parents and students themselves. If someone doesn't want to learn the best teachers in the world can't make them.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-05-28 17:18|| 2023-05-28 17:18|| Front Page Top

#10 105 A scores at three a.m.

Here's an uncomfortable thought: Marlin High teachers grade accurately instead of auto passing failing students like in New York.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-28 17:30|| 2023-05-28 17:30|| Front Page Top

#11 True. 85%??

Posted by Frank G 2023-05-28 17:58|| 2023-05-28 17:58|| Front Page Top

#12 According to the district, changes are coming to Marlin, as the school will convert to a four-day schedule next year in what the district's chief academic officer, Nikisha Edwards, says should reduce absentee rates.

Posted by Classer 2023-05-28 18:10|| 2023-05-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#13 It's said that the Hoover Dam or Golden Gate Bridge couldn't be built today because of all the regulatory lame-os involved.

I think public high school diplomas are on the tipping point to join that list.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-28 18:14|| 2023-05-28 18:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Doesn't work like that Nikisha.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-28 18:17|| 2023-05-28 18:17|| Front Page Top

#15 "They don't show up for a five day school week. If we make it a longer four-day week they don't show up for, then we can all get paid/credit and no prob, right?"

Posted by Frank G 2023-05-28 20:20|| 2023-05-28 20:20|| Front Page Top

#16 convert to a four-day schedule next year

I don't think Nikisha thought this through. Unless rules have changed recently, Texas state educational funding is based on school days attended per pupil.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-28 21:22|| 2023-05-28 21:22|| Front Page Top

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