200 Graduating Seniors at Friendship - ALL COLLEGE ACCEPTED

[Anonymous]

I saw Fox-5 news report about Friendship Public Charter High School football team seniors; I think 17 of players are receiving full scholarships to their colleges. That speaks volumes as it shows they have the grades and SAT scores as well. But when the reporter stated that all 200 seniors are accepted into college, I was extremely pleased.

I know being accepted does not mean "attending" but I hope it makes you smile.

[Anonymous]

How many of those football players at DC residents?

[Anonymous]

My smile quickly turned into a frown when my godson who graduated from there (and played football there) quickly floundered then failed the first semester of his freshman year. Like seriously could not write a paragraph. Yes, Friendship had gotten him accepted into at least 5 colleges. Guess what? He never filled out a single application, wrote and essay, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of those football players at DC residents?

12:28 here: that's the other thing. He hadn't been a DC resident since preschool!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My smile quickly turned into a frown when my godson who graduated from there (and played football there) quickly floundered then failed the first semester of his freshman year. Like seriously could not write a paragraph. Yes, Friendship had gotten him accepted into at least 5 colleges. Guess what? He never filled out a single application, wrote and essay, etc.

Wait, WHAT? How...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My smile quickly turned into a frown when my godson who graduated from there (and played football there) quickly floundered then failed the first semester of his freshman year. Like seriously could not write a paragraph. Yes, Friendship had gotten him accepted into at least 5 colleges. Guess what? He never filled out a single application, wrote and essay, etc.

Wait, WHAT? How...?

When the acceptance letters came in, he didn't even know he'd applied to two of the colleges!

[Anonymous]

Everyone knows what happens there. It s a better news story that they have 17 football scholarships than the fraud on DC residents.

[Anonymous]

I find it interesting:
11% of the students score a "proficient or above" for PARCC exam for ELA
3% scored a "proficient or above" for math

100% have been accepted to college

[Anonymous]

They're likely counting acceptances to community college and UDC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're likely counting acceptances to community college and UDC.

they should be counting those

but the question is why is Friendship not educating these students? They are able to get these Maryland kids on the football field .....

[Anonymous]

So Fox spun this to be some great charter school story without disclosing all the fraud? Shocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're likely counting acceptances to community college and UDC.

they should be counting those

but the question is why is Friendship not educating these students? They are able to get these Maryland kids on the football field .....

Kind of. UDC has an appalling completion rate, as do some other low end colleges (especially the predatory for-profit ones). I'm not sure I'd use that as a measure of success, especially if the kids are being pushed into college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone knows what happens there. It s a better news story that they have 17 football scholarships than the fraud on DC residents.

I don't. Tell me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone knows what happens there. It s a better news story that they have 17 football scholarships than the fraud on DC residents.

I don't. Tell me.

I am confident if you were at signing day earlier this week, you did not see any DC license plates in the parking lot

[Anonymous]

DC as a city has a pretty high college-going rate. College graduation is a different story.