"BALTIMORE (WBFF) – A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.
Point what?
“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.”
No. I assure you HE failed too.
His transcripts show he’s passed just three classes in four years, earning 2.5 credits, placing him in ninth grade. But France says she didn’t know that until February.In four years you never checked your kids homework? Never asked to see test results? Never?
Really?
You know there was a teacher's Zoom call where they spoke ill about parents....
She has three children and works three jobs. She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted.Yes. Bad on the school for the social promotion bullshit. Still though. If my child comes home with a paper full of Fs. After he gets his ass beat, I'm talking to someone at the school between jobs, heck, while I'm sitting on the porcelain throne. Who allows their child to move onto another grade when they are bringing home bag full of Fs?
“I'm just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits,” said France.
I'm assuming you are a damn fool.
As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days. But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened. No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.Soooo exactly what was your kid doing for 272 days that he was supposed to be in school? He's not all that innocent in this whole thing.
“I feel like they never gave my son an opportunity, like if there was an issue with him, not advancing or not progressing, that they should have contacted me first, three years ago,” said France.
Umm....they were open for classes. He had a seat waiting for him. He skipped out. He had an opportunity. He decided it wasn't worth his time. And 3 years ago YOU should have been asking to see homework and test results.
“He's a good kid. He didn't deserve that. Where's the mentors? Where is the help for him? I hate that this is happening to my child,” said an emotional France.
Your "good kid" skipped 272 days of classes 'cause he felt like it. You might want to think about that.
“He feels embarrassed, he feels like a failure,” France said of her son. “I'm like, you can't feel like that. And you have to be strong and you got to keep fighting. Life is about fighting. Things happen, but you got to keep fighting. And he's willing, he's trying, but who would he turn to when the people that's supposed to help him is not? Who do he turn to?”
No. No. And no. He IS a failure...at this point in time. HE decided to ditch 272 school days. That is HIS fault period. His only fight is with the man in the mirror. And the people supposed to help him out is YOU ma'am. YOU failed to do the basic things such as: Let me see your homework. Let me see your report card. Let me see your [fill in the blank] test. YOU failed your son miss.
You know, over the weekend I was going to post a video on these Masai children some of whom walk 12+ miles to go to school through the savanna where apparently elephants like to kill humans. To think that these children as relatively deprived as they are take going to school more serious than kids who are essentially living the Kings Life here in the US. So here it is as a stark contrast to Mr. I Skipped Class For 272 Days.