Girl is not sure why NYC let her graduate HS....

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Cullen Bryant HS in Long Island City, Queens, told her she had met all the requirements to receive a diploma in June. She knew she hadn’t. Teachers say Melissa is just one of a number of students magically given credits for classes they failed in an effort by administrators to raise Bryant’s graduation rate. She told her story to The Post’s Susan Edelman.

I don’t like receiving what I would call a handout, but that’s what happened.

New York City gave me a ­diploma I didn’t deserve.

It may seem odd that I’m speaking up, but it’s only because I’m fully aware I didn’t deserve to pass a course that allowed me to graduate.

In my last semester at Bryant HS, I had Government for first period, which starts at 8 a.m.

I had a lot of trouble getting up in the morning. I didn’t really go at all. I think I showed up about five times in the first marking period. In the second marking period, my attendance was also poor. I got a 55 for both, an “F.”

My teacher saw me in the hall and pulled me aside. She told me, “In the third marking period, if you come in every day and do all your work, I will pass you.”

Student’s stunning plea: Why did NYC let me graduate high school?


Not sure why this girl is blowing the whistle on this...

First thing I thought of:
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meh guess it's good for her.

she'd probably do the same thing in college anyway.

and if she didnt do well in high school how would she do well in college.
 
meh guess it's good for her.

she'd probably do the same thing in college anyway.

and if she didnt do well in high school how would she do well in college.

There are plenty of people that do well in college that weren't great in hs. Not saying it's the standard but it's there
 
So what, if she cared for her education she would have made it to class.
The school no longer wants her to be a burden on them.

Go to college and take remedial classes and learn there.
Trust me they wont pass you just for the sake of passing
 
So what, if she cared for her education she would have made it to class.
The school no longer wants her to be a burden on them.

Go to college and take remedial classes and learn there.
Trust me they wont pass you just for the sake of passing
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Stupid ***** going to learn the hard way there are no hand outs in life and be happy if you happen to stumble on one.

Going to look back at this and wish she would've taken a hand out when she had the chance.
 
Shes gona fail, then she hs to go back to school, get laughed at cuz shes dumb for airing the school out and then drop out and get a GED.






I hope im wrong doe
 
Why does she care about education


Shiiiiid throw it back for me and I'll throw her rent












No I won't I'm tryna save chill out
 
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Man high school in NYC is ridiculously easy. Unless you have some serious circumstances, it's hard not to graduate.
 
This is what's wrong with our education system. High school is too easy. It's honestly more difficult for students to fail than to graduate. Decades ago, you only graduated if you were going on to college to do big things. Everybody else got a job out of high school. They "dumbed" down the education our kids receive and the effects are showing. I'll be the first to tell you, I shouldn't have graduated high school just off the fact that I slept through half of it. It was so easy I was able to still get decent grades.

Another thing that angers me is how it has so much to do with profit for the school. My senior year they were doing this thing where if you were late they locked you out of the class so you had to go to on campus suspension in a cold *** room with all the stoners and the gangbangers. Basically, instead of missing the first two minutes of class, you missed the whole class. I don't know if you guys know this, but the school gets money for you being in class, which is why they sent you to on campus suspension so they could still get money for you. I said screw this and would go to my truck and grab something to eat or listen to music. The assistant principal who was in charge of discipline spoke to me about being a truant and I told him how they could do what they want, but I have a right to an education so I wasn't going to allow them to make me miss my class and have them still get paid for me being there.
 
Our parents grew up in a time where getting your HS diploma was a big deal.

A HS diploma would get you a good blue collar career.

It was stressed to me so much.

There used to big a huge difference between a diploma and a GED.

A diploma ain't **** today.

And by the time our kids a grown a Bachelors won't be ****. 

Is the No Child Left Behind law still in effect?

That wasn't a very well thought out plan IMO
 
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She is young doesn't understand how the world works , just buy the text book and learn the material on your own time if you feel guilty .
 
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