A Texas High School Has Moved Their Graduation Back A Month Because Only FIVE Students Were Eligible To Graduate
A high school in Marlin, Texas, postponed its graduation ceremony until June to allow students more time to reach graduation requirements.
According to CBS affiliate KWTX, 28 of 33 seniors at Marlin High School did not meet graduation requirements, and their attendance records and grades are to blame.
My goodness, I was looking forward to a summer of blogging about Cleveland sports, the upcoming Ohio State national championship season, and a variety of random topics that pop up in the news.....but all this is turning into is me getting pissed about the dumbass American Education System that I just signed off from until August. Earlier it was the idea of getting rid of chocolate milk in school lunches, and now it's the idea that pushing back graduation by one month is the way to solve the problem in a school district that has 85% of kids ineligible to graduate. 5 kids were good to walk???
I realize that not every single one of you spends (half of) your days each year working in a school, but this is truly outrageous to think that this will help them catch up. The time to 'catch up' was over the last ten years when they let these kids skate by doing nothing but moving them onto the next grade because they had a birthday. This world has already gone crazy, but I shutter to think about what it's going to look like 5, 10, 15 years from now when the classes that had their graduations pushed back are the ones calling the shots. Notice how I stopped at 15. This world is ending before 20.
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I need to cool off. I'm going to pass the mic to Superintendent Henson while I calm down.
Superintendent Darryl Henson said in a statement that the school's "commitment to excellence remains unshaken."
LMFAO WHAT? Your commitment to excellence remains unshaken? Buddy your commitment to excellence is quite possibly the most shaken thing on this planet. Like, your solution to having too many absences was to reduce the amount of school days...
The district said research has shown "regular school attendance is a powerful predictor of student success." They recently moved to a four-day week in an effort to increase instruction and student engagement on the days when school is in session, while decreasing absences, according to the district's Chief Academic Officer Nikisha Edwards.
Actually don't hate this idea. Moving to a 4-day week is definitely the solution to all schools' problems (wink, wink). Plus, absences will decrease when you don't have school.