{"id":544329,"date":"2021-05-28T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544329"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:51:04","slug":"baltimore-city-schools-a-failing-grade-wont-stop-students-from-moving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baltimore-city-schools-a-failing-grade-wont-stop-students-from-moving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore City Schools: A Failing Grade Won\u2019t Stop Students From Moving Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaltimore-city-schools-a-failing-grade-wont-stop-students-from-moving-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544329&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-529687596-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, the Baltimore City Public Schools, attempting to avoid holding students back who have poor grades, announced a new grading policy that would enable students who failed one class to still proceed to the next grade.<\/p>\n<p>The school district said it was taking the new approach because of effects caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Academic Officer Joan Dabrowski said the new approach is meant to \u201cavoid the punitive approach of failing students,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/27\/us\/baltimore-schools-failing-grades\/index.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=2021-05-27T23%3A46%3A03&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_term=link\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about a failure, but it is about unfinished learning and giving multiple opportunities, multiple onramps for young people to complete that \u2026 learning,\u201d Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises added.<\/p>\n<p>A high school student who normally would receive an \u201cF\u201d for a course will now receive a \u201cNo Credit\u201d designation. For students in second through eighth grades, \u201cUnsatisfactory\u201d or \u201cFail\u201d will now be marked \u201cNot Completed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dabrowski explained, \u201cIn all of these instances, we want to emphasize the word \u2018yet.\u2019 Not completed yet, no credit yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixty-three percent of middle and high school students are failing at least one class according to Baltimore City Public Schools&nbsp;\u2014 that\u2019s nearly 25,000 students out of the nearly 40,000 sixth through twelfth graders in the district.&nbsp;Even more worrying, 51% of students in grades 2-5 and 37% of Kindergarten and first-graders failed at least one course during this school year,\u201d CNN noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s Ashe Schow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/more-than-1000-baltimore-school-officials-make-100000-a-year-as-students-continue-to-fail\">reported in March<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"44.583815028902\">\n<p><em>School officials in Baltimore are making more than $100,000 a year even though they\u2019re failing students in the district. The Washington Examiner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/baltimore-school-officials-making-100k-failing-test-scores\">reported<\/a> that 1,307 school employees are paid more than $100,000 a year, with the highest-paid teacher earning $156,601. Of the more than one thousand officials earning six-figures, 316 are teachers. This is double the number of teachers making more than $100,000 in 2018. The median teacher salary in Baltimore last year was $73,592, while the average income in the city was just $29,843.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Examiner noted that Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises was the district\u2019s highest-paid employee, making $339,000 a year, $22,000 more than she was making just three years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The news comes after Project Baltimore&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/project-baltimore\/city-student-passes-3-classes-in-four-years-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gpa\">reported<\/a> earlier this month that a high school student managed to rank near the top half of his class despite failing all but three classes over four years and obtaining a 0.13 grade point average. The unnamed student is Tiffany France\u2019s son, whom she thought was going to receive his diploma this year. She learned just this year, however, that he would not graduate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe\u2019s stressed and I am too. I told him I\u2019m probably going to start crying. I don\u2019t know what to do for him,\u201d France told the outlet. \u201cWhy would he do three more years in school? He didn\u2019t fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that\u2019s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn\u2019t deserve that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;\u2026France\u2019s son was not the only student at the school who kept moving up despite failing. Project Baltimore reported that hundreds of students were promoted while failing most of their classes and skipping school.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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