Lack of qualified graduates postpones Texas high school commencement
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Graduation at Texas' Marlin High School has been postponed after only five of 33 seniors met attendance and academic requirements. KCEN's Nicole Shearin reports.
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#Texas #Graduation #HighSchool
Let those 5 qualified students graduate, they deserved it. 👍👌👍👌
Why should five white kids be able to have a ceremony excluding black and brown bootys of color? This kind of action would be promoting white supremacy the biggest threat to their democracy.
School and everything in them promotes heteronormativity, patriarchal colonial chauvinism whereby based on the genetic memory of the students who were not allowed to graduate due to the trauma of having to speak a European language and proximity to oppressive items such as; structures, books, indoor plumbing, electricity, computers and internet which are white supremacy.
White supremacy causes this genetic memory to re-emerge this being colonialism, slavery and white supremacy which causes them stress and victimizes them and perpetuating white supremacy causing white supremacy leading to promoting white supremacy.
White supremacy is the biggest threat to graduation and democracy while systematically impeding diversity, equity and inclusion unless it’s white supremacy which should always be excluded.
White supremacy.
I agreed, with you. If you do not participate in your classes, such as missing classes, or not completing your class work, you will not have credits to graduate. This always happens near graduating time. No work and you want your High school diploma, NOPE, it does not work that way. Trust me, I worked hard 3 years ago just to get my diploma, I participated even though I was tired. I received the diploma with flying colors.
I imagine they will be happier graduating with more of their classmates at slightly later date rather than in an empty auditorium where no one shows up.
So what the school did was they pushed back the deadline for credits now basically all of them are graduating because they are taking online classes
@@xathridtech727 Yes exactly, young people really need more abuse from older people that ruined the planet and economy for them and left them no future. Please; we are the ones that failed, not those kids
The 5 Seniors that bothered to show up deserve better!
5 Texans, 15 ex-Californians, and 12 undocumented. what do you do when they cant out run it. oh yeah cry and blame teachers.
Clearly those seniors are responsible adults that know how the real world works and are ready to contribute to society as the adults they are. F^
@Desanpiss 24 There are many military members with STEM degrees. Please dazzle us with your brilliance.
They didn't cancel it because only 5 showed up they only had 5 kids that knew how to read and do basic math. That's Texas
@Desanpiss 24 My cousin tried to join the Navy, they required college credits.
It’s not fair to the five kids who showed up and passed!
This!
I heard most were related to Greg Abbott
I don’t believe it’s right that online school has had such a significant effect on grades / qualification to graduate as returning to school in-person after the pandemic was incredibly difficult on students, with many still displaying extreme anxiety even now. I’ve heard about this occurring country-wide - elementary up to university - & there needs to be accountability on all ends- school, students, & parents. However, if only five students out of merely forty are “qualified” to graduate, I can’t help but believe there’s an issue with the school itself, not providing enough support with school online, nor preparing them to return, especially being that the graduating class is SO small. Many students who attended school online saw a significant decrease in their grades, & it was unfair to put much of the teaching on the parents’ backs as well as they’re not teachers & had enough going on already. I actually don’t think putting of graduation is that poor of a decision, as it allows students to catch up rather than failing them & not allowing them to graduate at all. It’s definitely the better decision, even if it’s painful for the students & means ongoing courses when they want to enjoy summer. This is an issue that needs to be addressed in schools country-wide, as it reaches far beyond just this school.
For real
It'll be the shortest ceremony ever, there are friend groups larger than 5 people
Don’t feel bad for the students. I was born in that town and moved to a school in the same district.
The parents don’t care for the kids and the kids don’t care either. It’s in writing on what you have to do to graduate. If you don’t do it it…you don’t graduate.
Quit feeling sorry for people who can’t do two things.
1. Show up.
2. Make an effort.
The greatest ability is dependability. 90% of life is just showing up. (Don't know if that's a good one,but you get my drift)
@Feather Fashion those are the basic requirements for adulting. If they can't manage that, then life will chew them up and spit them back out.
When you have , half of the class around 20 years old and only going to school for the free school breakfast and lunch . No need to learn , no knowledge needed …. Were getting a new splash pad , all good in Marlin,Tx bring on Hood Day !!!!
FRR
@@marcellotatallia2294 you can lead a horse to the water,but you can't make it drink.
You couldn't make these knuckleheads learn if you had a gun to their head.
Jer. 4:22
Have a small one for the ones who worked hard and deserve recognition.
Agreed!
It's not cancelled, simply postponed. What's the issue?
@@TilTheBreakADawn Sounds like they are being punished for the majority of their classmates are too ret@rded to open their schools' student portal email and see the report of the test.
@@LadyCoyKoi ok you realize they still get their diplomas, right?
The ceremony is being postponed for the summer, before they'd even go off to college anyway. It's a ceremony that they just have to wait one or two months for. Just a ceremony.
Even if one or two of them do start college in the summer, they STILL HAVE THEIR DIPLOMAS!
Yeah they do it all the time for the one's that graduate through summer school
good on the school to actually hold the students accountable.
🤣Yes
Exactly
Send them to summer school. They don't go....then they REPEAT the 12th grade. No mercy.
There is an old saying that if I am teaching and a couple of people fail a test it is the student's fault. If all of the class fails a test it is the teacher's fault. This is definitely an "all the class failed" situation and I am glad the district is stepping in to help the school's admin correct it. Graduation requirement tests are usually a hoop to jump through on George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" requirements and mostly used to check progress and growth versus stopping a student all by itself. It's definitely the school's fault for having a bad testing plan if a lot of students were held up all because of a test they failed to give the appropriate amount of times or if at all to the correct students. The seniors this year are the Freshman 2019-2020 COVID lockdown kids so they may be missing random stuff that was not their fault at all.
80% failure rate is too high. I can't give the answer because I don't have exposure to that school but that's more than "the kids are lazy." There needs to be a change. It could be teachers,new standards, or the leadership at the school. Don't get me wrong some blame falls on the kids but these situations can't be boiled down to 1 party at fault
You did not do your class work, and homework. How did you think you were going to graduate? Nobody flunks by accident. Take accountability, that is what the real lesson from school is.
...you would think they would have common sense
I didn't even finish my HS graduation requirements, and my HS still gave me my diploma. I just got my first college degree this month, too.
if that many students are not graduating then it's an administration problem.
@@markjackson1989 But, did you also meet the minimums for college work, degree? NOT blaming you but the myriad of failed administrative, political, whatever failures passed on to the kids.
@@joepappas4968 I agree.
I think it’s fundamentally a matter that both parties performance resulted towards their extremely low graduation rate.
Students are at the end of the day responsible for their own success and performance to be able to achieve the requirements for their graduation. As well as the school administrator’s and counselor’s duties to assist and support students towards their goal of graduating, by communicating and coordinating with each student’s specific prerequisites that would be needed in order to graduate.
Back when I was in high school, each individual student would meet with a school counselor at the end of each quarter to discuss and go over if we were essentially on track on completing that school year. Some students may have to meet with counselors more than once a quarter depending on their individual academic standing.
It's getting worse and worse. I've been teaching 20 years, and the "how could they let me do that?" mentality is getting out of control. Kids are getting dozens and dozens of second chances, and when all of those run out, they blame everyone else who didn't give them JUST ONE MORE CHANCE. Good grief. Every adult at my high school (counselors, teachers, principals, security, secretaries, librarians, etc) is running around like crazy trying to get failing seniors to passing. Yet the students are late, absent, procrastinating, and showing little to no interest or urgency in passing their classes. It's no wonder they think an adult has to be with them at all times forcing them to do everything. How could they possibly be responsible for their own responsibilities with no adult to tell them every single step to take? (100 years ago, 18 year olds were adults getting married, working farms, succeeding at huge responsibilities requiring 24 hour work ethics. Today kids can't even make it to school on time, if they make it at all.)
Exactly! I am glad to hear a teacher who is expressing wisdom. Schools mainly enable young men and women to be irresponsible, lazy, weak and unproductive. Why? Because of all the hand-holding and dispensations they offer. A happy medium should be aimed at, as most students are of good will and some of them need extra encouragement, however, never should the students be encouraged to miss work, not attend class or give up attending altogether, because of too lenient policies.
@@THEJET52yea, everything to do with the school and nothing to do with the parenting. 💀
You got the history wrong. 100 years ago at 18 you still most likely lived at home and would so until you were married and then you might even still live at home because you would either inherit your family farm or your spouses family farm. The idea of moving out of your parents house at the age of 18 has only been around for the last 60ish years. Generally after WWII is when is when it started. Even then didn’t really catch on till the late 70s/early 80s. So family has always been really close nit. We are living in vastly different times and that can have a huge effect on our culture as well as mental health. Kids are kids and even at 18 are still very green. Nothing wrong with getting guidance for your entire life. I mean how would you know to ask if you didn’t know about what it is to begin with. More specifically the kid probably didn’t know about the test so why ask if he missed something. He’s a kid and has so much on his mind already. Especially with schools these days being super unsafe. Bullies, politics, mass shooters. I can barely imagine what it’s like being in high school now. It has to be difficult. Still had bullies but politics in my high school went as far as Barak n’ Roll. No one talked about dem v rep. The idea of a mass shooter was far passed distant.
I think you should take it easy on these kids.
what do you expect? This is a direct result of Liberal Ideology.
Five years ago I taught for one year at a Dallas high school. Even though I worked my tail off for failing kids, coming in an hour early for them, staying after school with them, giving them every opportunity to make up work and pass. Did they? Most never showed up or bothered to turn in the missing work. And when they failed, administration made me change their F's into C's. Most were seniors! And the big kicker was, the kids knew this would happen. Oh, and this was a level one art class.
And somehow I feel like
People are trying to find a way to blame the district and school. Not the kids or the parents 🤷🏽♂️.🙄
They're all at fault
The school is at fault because how the heck do you only have 5 graduating students?
Teachers get blamed when reading scores are low schools get blamed when overall test scores are low but it’s not their fault when not even half the seniors don’t graduate?
How much more money do they need to steal from Joe public?
YEAH how about that Its the TEACHER"S JOB to teach .. Parents play a role but its the school that is RESPONSIBLE they get paid
Man, I busted my tail to make sure I was ready for graduation. That was the highlight of being in school! Finishing 12th grade to finally graduate. Parents and kids need to take responsibility for this one. I’m glad the school told them they couldn’t walk until they did the work. Also, interview the 5 students that were ready for graduation! Not fair they have to wait for their classmates to get their acts together in order to have a ceremony.
87% of the senior class did not graduate. Yes it is the students fault for not making their graduation requirements but it’s also the schools leadership fault, teachers , superintendents fault to have such a low graduation %.
That should have been recognized earlier that so many of the students were not meeting the standard requirements so earlier intervention could have taken place to make sure the students met graduation requirements.
1 Week before commencement is not fair and enough time at all.
Failure in leadership’s. Might need to get some better management in that school/
District.
I agree urahotmess
Man it's HS it legit wasn't hard, never understood how people can fail lol. Go in , listen, study, homework and thats it
@@otbs9967 well said
they get diplomas. the pomp and circumstance will happen
This is ridiculous. Teenagers be responsible. Parents be Parents. Stop making this harder than it is.
This is only going to get worse. Lack of parent accountability. His parents should have been on top of that. Can't be on your phone during class and expect to learn. This is exactly why teachers are quitting. Parents lack responsibility for their children, but also don't want anyone else to teach their children responsibility. Sometimes you gotta use tough love to push a child into being the best person they can be. Don't take the easy way out for anything in life. You'll always end up losing in the end.
And yet they want more "parental rights" to control and limit education.
So, you want to harm the kids out of spite towards the parents.
That, the very poor pay and the increasing school shootings are why I choose not to teach. Accounting pays better and is far less stressful. I was more than held accountable when I was in school.
Then we have states wanting to make it illegal to teach certain information about history and even in math. Our society through culture wars is getting dumber.
@@filmbuff000 fantasy situations? Kids are lazy, entitled, and ignorant. It is the worse it has ever been. Reality is what it is…facts that people want to ignore and keep making excuses for…but ok on that answer. Typical…
“I felt singled out.” Oh brother. Dude, you weren’t singled out. You are in the majority. Kids who don’t do their work don’t graduate. Adults who don’t do their work get fired. Take it as a good life lesson.
The military may not accept a slacker at this time?
One test oversight is not failure on the student. Furthermore, less than a third of the senior class graduating it’s enough blame to spread around to several adults.
@Desanpiss 24 did you graduate from Oprah Winfrey high School where you get a degree he gets a degree everybody gets a degree but no knowledge huh😂😂😂😂
@@colemanthevigneron1330 the military is desperate for anyone to apply now...they have a huge shortage of troops
@@colemanthevigneron1330 The marines could always use a new generation of metal detectors.
Students had ABSENCES and failed courses! Teachers cannot create grades out of nothing. When absent, students have the rsponsibility to check what was taught, and complete the work assigned, specially during the junior and senior years. I have a son who graduated from high school last year. He struggled with a few classes during his junior year, but I kept close contact with his teachers and counselor, besides helping him to finish and submit assignments on time. It is so important to keep up with their progress and teaching them to be self-advocate from early on, so they can also ask questions early to avoid this kind of surprise.
Didn't the school literally not give that kid a test and made him fail because he didn't take one test? He didn't even have the test.
Parents shouldn't been more involved as well
I got pregnant in 10th grade and it was high risk, so I dropped out for the year. I ended up doing summer school twice and night school my entire senior year to make up for it. I graduated on time with a 3.4 cumulative GPA. My mom couldn't make sure I was doing everything because she was helping with my daughter and raising my siblings. If I wanted to graduate, it was on me. These kids have every advantage in tech to keep track of this stuff. Teenagers are not babies. If it truly was a test that the families weren't aware of, then it is on the district to give the test in time.
AMEN 100%
Good for you! Really, that must have taken so much hard work and I’m glad your mom was there to help too. Hope y’all are doing well today.
No offense.. but you're not an isolated case.. in fact your generation will be known as the " I'm not responsible " generation..
@@theayatollahofrockandrolla I know I'm not an isolated case, and that further proves my point! Many teenagers have overcame obstacles and still graduated. I'm not sure which generation you're referring to though, I never said how old I am.
@@ReineDeLaSeine14 thank you. I was very fortunate to have the help that I did.
Lesson learned here… take responsibility for yourself. Blaming others gets you no where. Kudos to this superintendent!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽ACCOUNTABILITY 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
“How did let me do that?!” Parents don’t listen, students don’t come to school, they don’t do their work. What do these people expect?! I just retired today. I’m tired of these lazy students, and their whiney parents who don’t take any responsibility in their children’s education.
They all figured they would just receive diplomas, like participation trophies.
@desanpiss2494 If I had an army I wouldn't want idiots as soldiers. They might make good cannon fodder, but I need troops who know what they're doing.
@Desanpiss 24 lol you actually need a diploma to join the military. They’re only qualified to be democrat voters at this point.
@@yaboidre5672 Idiots are easier to program through being put through the PT of their life because their life depends on it. They'll learn or they will suffer in the military. Especially is they join the marines.
They're not lazy. They're trying as hard as they can. This school should be closed because it's failing their students, like half of the schools in this country. If I get married and have kids, they will go to school in this country. We'll move to Canada, which has one of the best educational systems in the world.
That kid saying "how did they let me do that" says it all. There is a generation of people who will be running our country for the next 50 years that feel entitled and have no sense of responsibility. Imagine what their kids are going to be like.
I am looking forward to us officially becoming a 3rd world country ahahahha.
No in 50 years... it's happening now
Not quite yet. We're still waiting for the ancient bigots who hate the environment to die off.
Slaves in the New World Order.
@Desanpiss 24 Even the military has a lower IQ limit
So the students who are elegible for graduation have to bend the knee for the ones that didn't do the work. How disrespectful
Welcome to the American workplace.
democracy buddy
That's how we ended up with Common Core curriculum. Lower the bar so we can all get everyone to pass.
His mom just kept saying...I thought I thought...did you bother checking to make sure? Stop putting all your childs needs off on school personnel! Simply ridiculous.
This is why you go to class, do the work and make the grade its that simple
I’m a substitute teacher, and some of the classrooms in this country are out of control! A lot of kids don’t appreciate being there. Very sad!
@@nancyanderson1621 bad parents
but some students did and there still being punished soo maybe no that simple
@@nancyanderson1621 I back you up on this, I graduated last week and I was beyond tired of the attitude of my peers. It’s crazy how disrespectful and how little they cared.
@@edwelndiobel1567no this are high school kid’s parents don’t know if there kids are skipping sometimes it’s called lazy entitled kids it’s this generation ! It’s being promoted everywhere tv etc ! The kids need to take responsibility for there own actions!
I remember sitting with my grandchild during lock downs and there was only about 4 or 5 students during online lessons. I was shocked at how parents/guardians were not concerned. If my grandchild had problems or missed a class the school had packets available for pick up and the teacher had scheduled a time for phone calls/FaceTime for extra help and questions. As for tests/exams there were daily reminders on for a week in advance. So don't understand.
Maybe they couldn’t afford a tablet or even iPad? When I lived with a friend and her two (now 3) little boys a couple of years ago, they had to use my decade-old iPad (I’m poor too, on welfare and disability and have two little ones) for his online lessons because they couldn’t afford one, could barely afford food and rent and clothes and stuff
@Cassandra Cassowary The schools gave the kids chromebooks in my district & in M-I-L's district in another state. They even gave them free internet hotspots so there is really no excuse.
@@Cassxowary exactly
@Cassandra Cassowary ridiculous excuse, in that case the responsible parent lets the school know of their situation, something could be done,, never just accept the situation and drop hands, there's always a way when one really wants to do something
I’m pretty sure the school lends you a device (laptop or tablet) that you have to return once classes are held in-person again. At least, that’s what mine did.
It's called responsibility. It falls on the student and parents to actually take responsibility for there own actions. Didn't take a required test, missed to many days, not enough credits is the students fault.
That's definitely how the world works as an adult. But these are minors. The school deserves some blame for not sounding the alarm for missing requirements before the last minute.
Sounds like teachers not paying attention
Legally the school has ownership of ensuring students know and are enabled to meet mandatory requirements to graduate. Pointing a finger only at students and their parents is ignorant and not remotely accurate. But it certainly does sound like a canned response that falls in line with certain political beliefs. I was a teacher before becoming an attorney, up to the year I went to law school and am more than familiar with the educational systems’ responsibilities. I’m also a 30 year military officer who firmly believes in personal accountability but people like you make it one sided and that ensures the underlying problem will never be solved
Soooo how can they log into the school system to see what they lack and what they need? Because I'm pretty sure only teachers and staff can look at that...
"their own actions" "missed too many days" I gradutaded hi skol meself!
Let this be a life lesson to you kids stay on top of your work . No one in life is going to hold your hand forever. Learn to take accountable for your actions and be more responsible for your own decisions and stay on top of things
Lol... You do realize they can't get into the school system to see what they lack? That would be up to teachers and staff to inform them ...
no
It's the schools fault lol. Only 5 people passed? really? Something is wrong here.
I agree, but they are not the ones who have a system to keep track of all this. Teachers and administrators, who are paid to keep kids on track, are responsible for this. Heck, even at my job, if there was something I failed to do, my manager informs me of it. They don't just keep quiet about and tell me I'm fired one day because of a bunch of requirements I didn't meet that they never brought up during our regularly scheduled meetings. I feel bad for the kid who just got the random call and was told he wasn't graduating because he didn't complete a test. It's apparent teachers and admins dropped the ball, since he didn't find out until it was too late.
Every student received a list of what was required of them. They failed to look at it so it’s on the kids and the parents. I knew exactly what credits my kids had and what they needed, but I was a caring parent.
this is Texas..where a kid can get a gun easier then a diploma
Best comment of the century😂
Hmm why are all the white schools in Texas some of the best public schools in the country? Seems more like a culture problem than anything
Sad and true.
Now, that's an interesting post.
And where are the parents??
Way back when, in the late sixties, I graduated with a girl who really couldn’t read or write. They just passed her from one class to another because it was easier. Several of her friends, me included, made it our goal to make sure that she could at least be able to read and write enough to fill out a job application.
You and those that helped are the epitome of “it takes a village to raise a child,”
You will always be blessed.
My ❤ to you.
My grandmother died an illiterate woman. When her older children learned she couldn’t read or write . They hired someone to help her but she couldn’t grasp. So they taught her to at least sign her name, write numbers.
She passed and we still have her old little phone book she kept. She had phone numbers with specific drawings by them to identify the person.
They need to close this school.
Returning to school in-person after the pandemic was incredibly difficult on students, with many still displaying extreme anxiety even now. I’ve heard about this occurring country-wide - elementary up to university - & there needs to be accountability on all ends- school, students, & parents. However, if only five students out of merely forty are “qualified” to graduate, I can’t help but believe there’s an issue with the school itself, not providing enough support with school online, nor preparing them to return, especially being that the graduating class is SO small. Many students who attended school online saw a significant decrease in their grades, & it was unfair to put much of the teaching on the parents’ backs as well as they’re not teachers & had enough going on already. I actually don’t think putting of graduation is that poor of a decision, as it allows students to catch up rather than failing them & not allowing them to graduate at all. It’s definitely the better decision, even if it’s painful for the students & means ongoing courses when they want to enjoy summer. This is an issue that needs to be addressed in schools country-wide, as it reaches far beyond just this school.
Then what? It's the only high school in this small rural town.
To close??? We need schools!!! The students need to study and teachers do their job!!!
@@a.evelyn5498My daughter graduated during the pandemic, with only 2 guests allowed to attend her ceremony and after having no senior trip, no prom, no yearbook...no nothing. At her graduation there were just short of 100 students who graduated with a diploma AND a 2 year college degree that they earned while stuck at home during the pandemic. More than any other year since the school started dual enrollment.
So excuse me if I my eyes roll ALL THE WAY to the back of my skull when you explain that these kids are somehow oppressed and unable to get back into the swing of things. Because it's utter crap. The kids who have parents that care about their educations and the kids themselves pulled up their big girl and boy panties and they busted their backsides to achieve excellence.
As one of those parents there is not A CHANCE I'm not going to speak up and say something to anybody that makes excuses for these kids. They had the same opportunities as everybody else and they took the easy road. They had choices and they chose WRONG.
@@Ontheroxxwithsalt wow that’s crazy not even a year book sounds like the school ur daughter attended was even more poor than my old one that was in a small rural town in Arkansas and they still had one
Four years of high school, these 33 students hadn't taken their high school exam 2 twice per year to see where they are at. It's laughable cause these group that failed to graduate is either cutting classes or taking the day off on an important school curriculum. You should be held responsible and accountability for your actions if you do not graduate at the end of your senior year cause you didn't show up or failed to pass the exam.
Only 5 of the 33 seniors meet the requirements to graduate. That's 15%. Is high school now that hard? Good work Texas!
as a recent high school grad -- no, high school is not that hard, especially if you aren't going for A's or even honors/AP classes. Personally, someone who can't pass (and I mean get a *D*) in an average non-honors/AP class really has no discipline and probably even worse parents. For those students who are working jobs and supporting their family that is maybe understandable, but not for *85%* of the graduating class. 🤨
@roachtoasties
Returning to school in-person after the pandemic was incredibly difficult on students, with many still displaying extreme anxiety even now. I’ve heard about this occurring country-wide - elementary up to university - & there needs to be accountability on all ends- school, students, & parents. However, if only five students out of merely forty are “qualified” to graduate, I can’t help but believe there’s an issue with the school itself, not providing enough support with school online, nor preparing them to return, especially being that the graduating class is SO small. Many students who attended school online saw a significant decrease in their grades, & it was unfair to put much of the teaching on the parents’ backs as well as they’re not teachers & had enough going on already. I actually don’t think putting of graduation is that poor of a decision, as it allows students to catch up rather than failing them & not allowing them to graduate at all. It’s definitely the better decision, even if it’s painful for the students & means ongoing courses when they want to enjoy summer. This is an issue that needs to be addressed in schools country-wide, as it reaches far beyond just this school.
So u didn't watch the video or didn't understand the stipulations that kept them from graduating 🤔 to quote u, comprehending this is not that hard
this happens when you take bible and mandatory prayer from schools !
Not a single white person was in this video. Speaks for itself…
Idiocracy was a documentary film. There was a study in the mid 2000s that 30 millions were illiterate in the US. Most had a high school "diploma" 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah...they just thought they would slide through....they should have to start school next fall and complete their course of study.
This isn't fair why should the five who are eligible for graduation be forced to wait because of stupidity of those who skipped school those who aren't graduating have no right to view themselves as victims the only victims I see are the ones who have completed their requirements for graduation and now have to wait they shouldn't reschedule the graduation ceremony because this can teach the students who skipped school a very important lesson about the real world and that is you need to face consequences for your actions
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 it’s 2023 and people still aren’t graduating from high school…I swear I know people who graduated just because they showed up
congress and trump, his sister did his work
If you've ever read read YT comments, it shouldn't be surprising that people are not graduating. I sometimes wonder if people ever went to school at all.
@@karmakazi219 that’s nuts a high school diploma is the barest of minimums
@@LouisWinthorpe3 Said for you. I was living on my own by my 3rd HS and I made some deals with teacher but you had to do some work. You needed so many credits and attendence was a big part. But you had to do the required assignments of others that were equal.
Over 50 years ago we were taught better. Couldn't pass 4th grade if you didn't know your multiplication tables. HS grads don't even know them, or how to read a tape measure. So sad.
This is shameful. The school sent out letters or phone calls 1 week before graduation! Ultimately it is students, parents and the school's responsibility to work towards as many student cross that stage, but leaving notifications to that late is shameful. BTW I was a teacher for 33 years.
Yeah wth how did no one check on requirements at different segments throughout the school year
@@Shyknit Exactly! We had grade level committees that met monthly and reviewed each students records and made adjustments continuously through the year, especially seniors. If students weren't keeping up in classes that were required for graduation, they had free periods, teacher aside classes and sometime electives taken away until they were keeping up. These were given back of they proved responsible. Parents were contacted no less than twice a quarter, most times more often. But a parents lack of response was not ever a reason to let the student fall through the cracks. Students in some ways had to work harder at failing. Yes it is their responsibility but they are still children, which is why they are supposed to have responsible adults in their lives. Our school mission was to get as many students graduated and college or career ready, not to sit back and let them fail. If their parents weren't stepping up, then we did.
I'm a high school teacher and my question(s) is, "did the parents ever bother to look at their child's report cards and see their failing grades or attend parent teacher conferences?" Parents need to be actively involved in their children academic lives instead of being clueless as to what their child is doing in school and quit making excuses and blaming everyone else except themselves when their child fail to graduate on time.
@@marinecorpswarrior915 I agree with you but in this case the school sending out “your kid is not graduating” messages a week before is just wrong. Understandably there is so much technology for parents to follow the kids progress now, but the fact that 5 out of 38 students (13%) are eligible shows a problem with the school. Specifically the parent in this video said her kid missed a mandatory history test his junior year, how did he get to pass and go to his senior year then? A year ago he should have been told he has not completed his junior year. She and her son are responsible for checking the queue for online schooling but the school is responsible for saying he has an incomplete. This seems like a mess caused by all parties…students, parents and faculty.
@@tbaby0307 in high school students are not held back it's all about state's requirements to graduate including the core classes they need to take and the number of units/credits they need. When all students start high school they're told all the core classes they have to take; number of units and by what grade they need tohave completed those classes (for example here in CA students should have their 20 units of PE completed by the end of 10th grade, high school here starts in 9th grade). That young man knew that test was mandatory and he chose not to take it; therefore, he chose to fail the class resulting in not getting all his required units for that class at the end of the semester resulting in him not graduating. Again, parents need to be actively involved and look at progress reports, report cards, and at the units/credits earned each semester as well as attend parent/teacher conferences. On the first day of school I tell my students, "in life your choices have consequences either good or bad and in most cases we actually get to decide. I also tell them that I don't "give" grades I only put on their report cards what they worked for, if you get an "A" that's the grade you worked for and the same if you get a "F" that's the grade you worked for, so that's the grade you earned."
Back in the day the parents, kids were responsible for keeping on track. Now kids need their hand held for everything. I even knew how to cross the road and use scissors in kindergarten without incident.
Next thing you're going to say is that you walked to school and back. Beause we did. Maybe if they make an app?
Watch yo' mouth there Jennifer. The very mention of scissors is literally violence and the act of crossing the street sends these soft kids into hyperventilation and assumption of the fetal position. Your comment smacks of privledge and exclusivity.
B.s, we are a community of people and these teachers failed to do their jobs, every body quick to blame parents n give this incredibly broken school system a pass
@@aaronrogers4533 bc parents don't parent anymore. They either want to be their child's friend, or neglect them and let the internet raise them. Wake tf up!
When the majority of your seniors don't graduate, the issue isn't with the students: it's with the people in charge. Similarly, when a professional football team has a losing streak, they replace the coach, not the entire team.
"I felt singled out"
Sir your the majority 😂
Pov: you graduate top 5 in your class
“How do you let me do that” give me a break! Good for the principal and school. Teach kids accountability and their life might turn out ok in the long run!
Sorry, senior year I knew what I needed to graduate 👨🏾🎓 from DAY 1. How do you go through an entire year and be surprised you’re not graduating or are you more surprised that you didn’t get something for nothing? Let that be your first, post high school life lesson.
This is what happens when teachers are LITERALLY FORCED to pass students, even if they don’t do a d*mn thing or learn anything- beyond filling out the right dots on national tests.
There’s literally NO CONSEQUENCES to students not even _trying_ to learn or do their schoolwork. This is why so many barely know how to read or do basic math.
TEACHERS LITERALLY GET FIRED FOR ACTUALLY TEACHING- or for not passing failing students, it was on the news. 😑
Unpopular opinion but after LISTENING to the whole report- I think most of this is on the school, they have to tell the kids what exams to take to graduate- like what happened here… I have more questions. 😅
If they showed up for class, they would know.
Yep
You were “singled out” because your absences were on test days. He says “How could *they* let me do that?”and there’s the problem.
The school has FAILED. The kids should sue this failing schools District and have the Principal fired and the Counselors fined and retrained. The Principal and Counselors are the failures.
Graduate the 5 kids, flunk the rest who didn't do the work.
Black Staff, black students, nobody knows what they’re doing
If you are senior, you need to be responsible for these things. Follow up, follow up! When you go to college, there ain't anyone to hold your hands and show you the path.
Sounds like the school actually cared about the education and the students being educated.
Some students and parents have a hard time holding "themselves" accountable.
It starts at home, parents..AT HOME. Right along with your child you should be able to share their progress throughout their school years. IMO. Idk though anything about the home lives these kids have. That’s sad how the ones who made it had it taken away. It’s hard being a student in today’s world. 😔
Much easier said than done when parents are having to work 2 jobs in order to sustain themselves and provide for their children. i wonder how many of these children are from single parent homes.
I graduated high school in 2000. It was easy to slip through the cracks sometimes. I knew what I was missing and what I needed to do to make it up. The times I let that happen. My mom was kept in the dark. She worked and unless the school called. She never knew. It isn't like today the advantage of being able to keep track of your kids' progress online. My kid graduated high school last year. I would always check his progress online. This is definitely the parents' fault and the student. Everything is online now. You can review it while sitting on the John.
@@subterraneanhomesickalien666 same year my dad graduated
It’s hard being a parent in today’s world.
You do your work to graduate. Please do not pity them.
Sorry but if that many people failed this is more on the school than the students. If that many students aren't showing up then stricter action should be taken (same on the parents end). As for the other kids like this one, he obviously tried everything to keep up with the chaos that covid lockdown threw into the education system (trust me, I've done a correspondence course in university so I know how hard it is to be productive without the proper prompts and direction) but they failed to communicate that students would be tested at different times or simply did so in a confusing way that failed to convey the point. In university they would not allow such an exam to be retaken but for high school (especially when someone is about to graduate) they tend to make exceptions for cases like this. I remember my grampy died during my high school exams so they said I could come in on the day dedicated to people retaking exams so I could attend the funeral (The exam unfortunately happened to be the exact day I found out he died, so I was very mentally distressed and did horrible on the exam.. I had a 98 in that course before the exam and my teacher was very confused why I did so bad). I think it dropped into the 70's range but that was a decade ago so I can't remember exactly, I just remember how it made me feel. I hope these kids can pick themselves up and try again because the school system is clearly not going to help. Maybe getting a GED would be a better option? Just a thought
Story is more on the parents lack of parental skills than anything
Parents need to be much more involved with the education of their children. If the school fails to keep parents apprised of their child’s progress and trouble areas, then the parent needs to go to the school and participate in the child’s education. Stop blaming the schools and expecting the schools to raise your children.
I'm 52 and I can tell you that up until the last decade you DID NOT EVER hear of this happening. When we grew up if you didn't complete your requirements there were no sit down meetings so the Superintendent could "talk about your feelings". And if this ever were to happen like this, the police would be at your door handcuffing your parents while you would be taken to juvenile hall until you got your tail inline.
I'm sorry, but if you are a senior in high school you are close enough to being a WHOLE ADULT and you shouldn't need Mommy or Daddy holding your hand for you. SMH American kids are weak and pitiful.
Handcuffing parents?! I'm also 52, and remember the age of mandatory school compliance was 16. Those that were older than 16 could just quit school, without any legal ramifications. You and I are Gen X, the first gen that had that requirement; baby boomers and earlier could even quit earlier than that. Back when the U.S. had manufacturing, there were a lot of people that worked at those factories with an 8th or 9th grade education (and still made enough to live comfortably with one parent working).
@@DistrustHumanz but you older gens set stricter requirements for the younger generations. I'm gen y, the only way I could see this happening is that the admins waited to the last minute to inform the students. I think also besides absences and grades.. standardized tests weren't being administered on certain years for that specific cohort. The STAAR exams in Texas is mandatory to even go on to the next grade, so why did this school allow some of these students who were missing a test to do this? Standardized tests have a lot of rules and regulations around them.. I'm wondering if this is a district issue rather than this specific high school.
Kids are also very uneducated nowadays. It's common for them to be below level in reading and math.
I'm 28, graduated 2012. It was rare when I was in school for kids to be below level. It wasn't something to be proud of, either.
Kids today seem happy to not be able to read like it makes them cool or something. It's crazy!
@@lordblazer the thing is, that's probably not the case.
I think these parents ignored their kids' report cards.
Remember? You can see all this information on your report card.
GPA, credit hours, grade year, projected graduation, etc...
Schools have never in the past been expected to tell a parent their specific kid isn't doing well. That's what a report card is for. If your kid isn't doing well, YOU the PARENT crack down on them. The school shouldn't have to crack down on you for ignoring your kid.
Teachers have enough to worry about with just the paperwork alone. I mean, have you ever graded papers? That stuff takes forever. They don't have time to parent your kid for you.
Unfortunately, this new generation has absolutely no responsibility to take care of their own issues. They blame the school. They blame the teacher. They blame the superintendent. Actually it's their own fault. I realized that us boomers had to work twice as hard as this new generation but it made us better adults. Can't wait to see these new adultsTry to make it in this world
i remember as a kid, the words " summer school " , was the worst thing you could ever hear . But you gotta do what's right for the remainder of your future . High School is such a tiny tiny bit of time in a life span. But more importantly .... by the time a child is in High School, they should have buckled down enough to pass with great grades on a whole or... t's writing on the wall as to the entire future the child will have before them ... The difference between making 30k and 230k a year as an adult
And, the parents should also buckle down to support their kids and make sure they're doing the best they can GIVEN support from teachers and schools/administrators as well.
I hated the idea of summer school until I actually took a summer class. It was better than I expected. I remember enjoying how the sun was up when i went to school and how short the class was. School is kinda nice when you leave at lunch time.
Great grades mean nothing in high school or anything below college level.
@@KnucklesWTD we know who here hasn't completed high school 😂
😂😂😂 I remember as well.
It's called growing up kids. You take on more responsibility and accountability. It's really on you. Just you. Others can offer help and guidance, but at the end of the day you have to get yourself over the finish line. If you don't there are consequences.
Congratulations to the 5
So 5 seniors showed up to take the exam and 33 students didn’t bother to ask themselves. What if I miss this exam and don’t graduate? Also, How come the administration didn’t call the parents when everyone missed it? the school & parents really failed these kids.
They still have books?
Burned for heat? Or offensiveness?
@@CarFreeSegnitz Thank you! As someone who read books during the 50s in elementary school and teachers would encourage it, I thank you for this! Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Salawasser, and .. above all .. Mrs. Hill, and the rest of them did a huge service to encourage us to read. But, that seems almost impossible now.
How could these parents... Not know their kids couldn't graduate?
I mean how disconnected can you be from your child's education??
american education system. how embarrassing
Nah homie, that's on you as a Super Intendant. You oversee this district. If only 14% of your students can graduate, that's on you and the district. Not the students and parents.
I am a teacher and I honestly believe that if THAT many students out of such a small class were not eligible, that is on the school. I have little more than the average baseline respect that I give everyone to most school councilors. I have never had a good experience with one. Not in grade school, not in college, and still not now that I teach. If it were the other way around and it were 5 students not meeting requirements, I would have a completely different tone, but a whole class??? Yeah, something is not adding up and it sounds like their councilors and teachers aren't communicating or something...
If I'm one of the 5 graduating seniors, I would just tell them to mail me the diploma and forget about the commencement. The other students didn't legitimately earn their graduation, they were giving extra time to make up work.
Everyone knows why but its wrong to say it
It helps a ton when Schools have after school programs, only problem is that schools and teachers aren't getting the funding they need to provide these things
🇺🇲 the students and parents are responsible!
I get parents work and may not be able to come in to meet with teachers, guidance counselors, etc but the administration didn’t bother reaching out to parents or guardians about failing grades or concerns over constant absences before it even got to this point?
Stop blaming the schools and the test requirements and start taking accountability as a student and parent . I never had nobody too push me when I was in middle school and high school I pushed myself so I would graduate . 🐦🐤🐦🐤🐦🐤🐦🐤
I knew exactly what I needed to graduate when I was in school. You have to make the effort yourself. It’s your responsibility. You are not a child anymore. No blame games anymore.
Judging from the kids T-shirt with Spider-Man riding a unicorn on top of a 🌈 rainbow; leads me to believe there are other distractions going on.
@Ben Hunter - Yeah; i’m sure Websters dictionary is familiar with him.
maybe if they put down their cell phones and video games they would graduate
“How do you let me do that?” Come on bro…lol how did you let yourself skip all those classes? 0:53
How many of these kids have failed a class before? I understand they need to have standards and accountability, but in the interest of doing less damage, teachers need to start applying that accountability before second semester of senior year, and stop having "you don't graduate" be the very first hard line in the sand a child ever encounters in their school career.
The question isn't 'how the school let them do that,' but how they all passed each subject in 9th, 10th, 11th grade if their work is that bad.
If they would have spent more time on education and less on rainbows and unicorns maybe they wouldn't be in the shape they are in?
It's not about graduating folks. It's about TEACHING. Even when students are allowed to graduate these days, they still haven't been taught. The public education system in this country needs a major overhaul.
Hold parents and kids accountable this is crazy you can’t be babied you’re entire life! Parents actually care for your kids and be stricter on them kids starting acting like an adult and get your things together! This generation knows nothing of discipline and hard work yet we have every form of technology so sad go job for those 5 who want more in life!
Take personal responsibility sir. It is no one’s excuse but your own. It should never the teacher’s fault, but you’re own. You knew the requirements AND did not , meet them. Get real AMERICA! Get real sir!
No offense, but how much money does a school with only 33 seniors *have* to enact every testing standard. How many teachers are double-tripled up on subjects? We had 400 seniors in my school. Chances are this is another small town with no resources being expected to play along side the big districts.
rural outskirts of Austin/Waco
Such a small class too.
Those students were absolutely given every opportunity to complete their courses during the spring semester. Funny how parents and students want to blame the school for failing to do the required work. How about the five students who were responsible and held themselves accountable to pass their senior year? They absolutely deserve a graduation ceremony! The rest should go to summer school and get their passing certificate in the mail.
It's refreshing to see a school not just pass kids along whether they meet the requirements or not. However, it is upsetting to find out right before graduation that you won't be graduating. As the Superintendent said, there should've been dialog throughout the year. I hope the kids and their parents take this opportunity to catch up seriously.
Equity is Preventing the 5 Students from Graduating.. They did the Work and Deserve To walk the stage and Graduate..Schools will Lower the Bar so Low because they Don't want to hurt anyone's Feelings and Just Pass and Push these kids to avoid the Embarrassment this already is..This is a Crisis..
They should require every graduating student to read aloud their diploma to the attendees.
Few could comply.😢
Expectations even lower when one looks at the printing rendered by high school pupils. Cursive is nonexistent. I resented private schooling when engaged. Now I thank God for my good fortune.
My parents were both teachers and I heard so many stories of when the parents would blame them and the school because their child failed or was held back for incomplete work. My parents answer was always the same, "we didnt fail your child or hold your child back, we gave them the grade they earned for the work they completed. We provided the necessary assignments and lecture for direction and it is up to the student and their parents to complete the assignment on time and to retain the information for test giving."
No, wrong, this was before special needs and this also didn’t help and left kids behind in life as well. Education is not black and white.
My parents didn’t even speak or write English, yet I still managed to focus on my schoolwork. Nobody is going to hold your hand in life.
Public school in the United States has become a joke.
This is the sad problem with schools / generation of students :( Seems like every year it gets worse. I almost think that if you took HS seniors today they would know less than 5th graders from 20 years ago.
So those 5 should have their graduation. Tired that those bad apples spoil for others
Majority Hispanic school. Welcome to the new America.
I see this a lot as a tutor. Its weirdly common to see school systems absolutely failing their students. Lack of qualified staff/funding mismanagement is a real problem.
As someone who really wanted to be a teacher, but chose otherwise, they don’t pay enough for that bs.
America circa 2023 is 360-degree Idiocracy.
5 out of 38. Incredible. Lack of proper parenting.
Another Democrat school district! Anyone surprised in the schools leadership?
source?
@@blueciffer1653 Independent School Districts of America! Do your own research next time dufus!
Education isn’t for everyone. We used to be able to be honest about this.
What did you expect from Texas?
Not turning in work, being absent , missing a test and that young man respond is “how could they let this happen” 😂 wow!!
Complete failure by students, parents and the school
How do they let it get this bad? Why couldn't they let the 5 that passed graduate? The principal should be fired!
School needs closing
Then what? It's the only high school in this small, rural town.
Apparently they (the Legislature and Governor) haven't done enough. They should BAN more books! (Says NO ONE) What's sad is that this amplified how much attention (and pay) teachers are given.
I had all my requirements met at the end of my jr yr and started attending college when I was 17 while I still took 1 class in HS because they said I had to. This was 1977. Why cant kids accept any responsibility or be able to accomplish simple things like graduating from HS these days?
Most play victim mentality now a- days and think they are entitled to demand good grades and graduation from doing the bare minimum or not even doing the bare minimum and skipping classes purposely. I see it at my school too. It’s usually the younger grades at least at my school so freshman, sophomores and juniors some seniors that think entitlement is theirs.
That mother looks like she's in "lala" land...son too....