“It’s Very Common”: Baltimore Teacher Admits To Passing Students That Never Showed For A Single Day Of Class

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Teaching can be a thankless job.  Talk to almost any educator in the public school system and you’re bound to get a earful about grueling hours, disrespectful kids, infuriating bureaucracy and minimal pay.  As such, it looks increasingly like the teachers in Baltimore’s public schools have decided to just stop teaching altogether and pass every student that walks through their doors.

In the latest installment of a growing scandal revealed by “Project Baltimore”, an investigative reporting initiative launched by Sinclair Broadcast group in March 2017 to examine Baltimore’s public school system, a teacher at Calverton Elementary/Middle in west Baltimore has come forward with proof that grade changing is not only common in his school district but explicitly encouraged by senior administrators.

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According to Fox45, below is the end of year text message that Calverton teachers received their principal, Martia Cooper, instructing them to “please double check end of the year averages and make sure they are 60 and above.”  The message went on to say that any “averages below 60” should be “corrected” so that failing students could be pushed through the system.

“Good Morning people! (Secretary) is printing report cards so finally you can get cumes finished. Please double check end of year averages and make sure they are 60 and above, except our four retention candidates (2 elem and 2 grade 7). If you find any grade averages below 60, pkesss (sic) have (secretary) correct and give me a copy of those student names. Thanks!”

Baltimore

The unidentified teacher who came forward to expose the text said it’s very clear what the intent of the message was.

A Calverton educator, who reached out to Fox45, claims to have received that text. “[It instructed me to] go into my grade book, make sure no students are failing, and essentially change the grade if they are failing so they will pass with a 60 percent,” said the teacher, whose identity we are concealing upon request.

 

“I was frustrated as a teacher. We’re public servants. And when we see things like grade changing, that’s self-serving. That’s not helping the kids.”

 

After watching Fox45’s recent investigations into allegations of grade changing at Calverton, the City Schools employee contacted Project Baltimore to say a couple things. First, according to the teacher, grade changing at Calverton is “very common.”

 

Second, the educator told Fox45, changing grades is the easiest and fastest way to pass more students, which makes the school and its administrators look better. But, it does a huge disservice to not just the kids, but our entire community.

 

“Teaching a whole generation of kids that they don’t have to be accountable for their actions, or that hard work isn’t valued or valuable when they are in school, is so discouraging and damaging.”

Adding insult to injury, the same teacher said that he even passed kids who had been on his roster all year but didn’t bother to show up for a single day of class.

But this teacher says grade changing at Calverton goes much further than just taking a failing grade and making it a 60. Some students who pass, according to this educator, don’t even have grades because they’ve never showed up to class.

 

“There were students on my roster all year that I had never met, had never seen. On paper they passed my class and passed onto the next year.”

 

“I love my job and I love my students,” concluded the teacher. “I want to see the students at Calverton and other schools across the city, get a fresh start. And it’s going to be hard because the students are used to this now. But the students deserve better and our city deserve better.”

Makes you wonder what those “four retention candidates (2 elem and 2 grade 7)” from the principals text above had to do to actually fail a grade.

 

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I wonder how many people will get fired over this. Actually I don’t. Zero.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I wonder how many people will get promoted over this. Actually I don’t. All.

jimmy
jimmy

Only one person will be fired, the teacher that reported the situation to the public

Wip
Wip

Who cares, education starts and ends at home. Some kids were fucked at birth. Actually I care but WTF do you want me to do about it?

Mel
Mel

This is institutional corruption, a kind of cultural cancer that slowly debilitates and ultimately destroys a civilization.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

Greetings,

This was already a common practice in the ’90’s so I do not understand why anyone is acting as if this is something new. I’ve shared many of my experiences as a teacher in an inner city school here at TBP . The ONLY difference between my version and what is happening in Baltimore is that I gave my students the F that they earned but I’m not the final arbiter of grades as I would so quickly learn. See, it didn’t matter what the students earned because someone somewhere above me in the endless maze of “administration”, would change that F to a passing grade.

What is actually happening is that these kids kinda hafta sorta show up at school so that their mothers continue to receive all the welfare that she has coming. The schools, therefore, have a thousand busy-bodies making sure that these kids occasionally appear so that they can get their taxpayer welfare too. Education is the furthest thing from anyone’s mind. It is there to fleece the taxpayer.

Two, if by sea. Thiree if from within,thee
Two, if by sea. Thiree if from within,thee

Since the nineties…
So there you have it. Flunked / passed students now old enough to have had multiple children imprisoned,murdered or impregnated to exponentially ratchet up the destructive conundrum.
Thank goodness the schools are safer for not letting the pestilent loiter around. HAH

Mossberg
Mossberg

Weell, we had a dude who didnt graduate, and was not kicked out until he was 22. When I asked him he he said, why would I want to graduate, I make my living here. Scotty belanka. Drug dealer. I wonder if he ever found his way to a jail cell. Sure he aint the only one. And that was a seriously good school. Prolly fifty guys like that in each baltimore school.

TampaRed-
TampaRed-

My wife teaches middle school math in a suburban school that only has about 10% black enrollment,so it’s not only blacks.Latin kids,especially Puerto Rican kids,and poor white kids are her biggest problems.
The teachers in her school have been told verbally that they do not want kids failing so my wife curves her tests but puts their actual score in the notes section on the computer.Johnny may pass the test w/a score of 50% but if somebody ever raises hell that he did not learn the material all the results are there so that she can defend herself.
Even with the curves lots of kids fail so what they do is score them in the computer with a high F(49.9 or 59.9,whichever is just below the level of a D) and the computer automatically rounds that up to a low D.

Zarathustra

The problem is that teachers aren’t being paid enough, right?

starfcker

GREAT comment, Zara. Haven’t we heard that before.

Zarathustra

Kinda like if we paid our soldiers and officers more, we’d start winning these wars, right?

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Maybe soldiers should only get paid if they win the war.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Congressmen.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

DC spends even more on students, and has the worst educational results on the planet. I’m noticing a correlation here…

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with race and IQ now could it ? Not just the students but the HNIC ( head niggers in charge ) are the real problem . The Baltimore School System was the top public school system in the country when it was run and populated by a white majority ! My WTF happened ? The city had a mayor that was so stupid she used gift cards donated for poor children to buy Christmas gifts for her dumb black ass . The the dip shit used the prissy defense , Iz don’t knows nothing about dem cards . She resigned to keep her 80 thousand a year pension , now there’s another pile of Baltimoron shit to wipe off your shoes

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

That is what you pretty much can expect when you willingly hand your children over to the worthless government bureaucracy and their gulag of day prisons.

Anonymous
Anonymous

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TJF
TJF

Every day we inch closer and closer to the abyss. The thing is, I am starting to wonder if there is a cliff that we will suddenly drop off and find ourselves in free fall, or if we are more of a gently sloping beach and just trudging out into the ocean a little at a time with cinder blocks on our collective feet.

If the entire collapse continues along this undramatically, some folks will not even notice it.

razzle
razzle

Collapses are always slow. They only seem fast in history books.

There are however, occasionally high waves and quick drops. Those tend to be condensed down into a view of chaos and madness in the streets, but pretty much every collapse has been a majority of people just trying to get by day to day in whatever way is possible with the current conditions.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Yes, we have a Potemkin public education system, as well as everything else. The US has become a largely fake society.

factual
factual

Where’s the great community organizer, Obama.
Too busy Partying with another billionaire buddy!

overthecliff
overthecliff

Not just Baltimore. I know of a kid who graduated in New Berlin Illinois who can hardly read and write. This stuff has been going on for years all over the country. The very best of public schools and teachers only try to educate those students who want an education. The rest are just cash cows. I think most states pay local school districts a bounty for each pupil day. How could that system possibly be corrupted?

javelin
javelin

College athletes graduate from Universities across the country and can’t even read or write–ever listen to a sideline reporter try and interview one of these “student-athletes” after a game? They need captions to discern what the hell they are saying.

TampaRed-
TampaRed-

actually cliffie,you’re partially correct-the bounty comes from the feds and is just funneled thru state capitols–

Hollow Man
Hollow Man

Makes me wonder about college. Then I wonder wonder about that overpass on the interstate ahead of me. I wonder if it is built properly. I wonder if the weapons systems the military uses will work. I wonder if I can trust those in power. Not really. It is coming apart at first slowly the exponentialy. I do wonder if we are past the slowly part.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I’m thinking that maybe Federal funding, passing grades, graduation rates and attendance are probably all tied together and as long as that Federal funding stays a part of it nothing else will change.

KaD
KaD

In my locality they have a vote for new school buildings on the ballot, funded by the homeowners of course. I voted no, homeowners have been raped enough already. I see no one talking about PARENTS and how single parenting has decimated the lives of children, no one talking about the hordes of beaners and their low IQ spawn. Fortunately we don’t have many negroes here.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Lucky you we have enough negros to spare if your count is short . Equal oppurtunity without equal responsibility or accountability , that would be racist you know !

Gubmint cheese
Gubmint cheese

Oh, the myth of the poor, underpaid, overworked teechur…. again.

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. But I fight it with facts.

My school district:
My annual property tax for school north of $8,000/yr.
Underpaid = middle school art teacher earning north of 100k/yr. Average income north of 90k.
Overworked = 180 days a year plus summers off
Overworked = pension and retirement at age 53
TENURE BABY!!
UNION PROTECTION!!

If the career sucks so bad, come join us in the real world for a big dose of reality and put that teachers college art degree to some “good use”.

TampaRed-
TampaRed-

where are you that they are making 100k?
is that an average or an aberration?
my wife is in her 15th year of teaching and makes about 41k plus healthcare for herself,not the family,plus pension contributions which may or may not be there–
what drives education spending are administrative costs and the various types of special ed,which in turn drives administrative spending–

DownDaTubes
DownDaTubes

I’m shocked the teachers don’t strike over being called public ‘servants’, and ask for even more money to soothe their hurt feelings.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Montgomery county married couple retired after 25 years as teachers who in their tenure both became principals . They cashed in at 50 with $150 K each per year in retirement payments . Their complaint was it was getting tough maintaining their private plane . They both like to fly their own plane around the country . Retired educators have it rough well as we were all told you know the deal when you took the job ! Anybody see my 30 and out steel workers pension with health benefits to the grave ? Just Saying !

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