Faking the Grade -- Columbia Heights Education Campus

[Anonymous]

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Thousands of individual student transcripts and attendance records obtained by the ABC7 I-Team reveal high school students passing required courses despite being marked “unexcused” absent two-thirds of the school days in a semester. The records, similar in scope and size as the records previously reported by the I-Team about Ballou High School, focus on Columbia Heights Education Campus.

http://wjla.com/features/faking-the-grade/faking-the-grade-records-show-columbia-heights-education-campus-appears-to-inflate-grades

[Anonymous]

It’s hardly news that a diploma from DCPS means nothing. Whether it’s Ballou, CHEC, or Wilson, it just means a student spent some indeterminate amount of time in a teenage day care center.

[Anonymous]

Hey at least they only inflate the grades instead of steeply deflating the grades given by teachers, the way Charter schools do to get rid of undesirable students.

[Anonymous]

They removed the principal at Ballou for this. Let's see if they do that to DCPS' darling Maria Tukeva.

[Anonymous]

Shouldn't Tukeva retire? She is in her mid 60's.

[Anonymous]

Comments like this are why we have a law called the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Comments like this are why we have a law called the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Comments like this are why we have a law called the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

+1000

It's not discriminatory to fire for incompetence. Regardless of age.

[Anonymous]

This is likely happening at every comprehensive high school. A response to pressure to show improved graduation rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Comments like this are why we have a law called the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

+1000

It's not discriminatory to fire for incompetence. Regardless of age.

23:44 said nothing about competence.

[Anonymous]

If these keep making news during college application season, do you think it will affect the acceptances for students at these schools? What about other DCPS high schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If these keep making news during college application season, do you think it will affect the acceptances for students at these schools? What about other DCPS high schools?

This is why colleges also use SATs / ACTs in admissions decisions.

But colleges that are essentially open enrollment, and offer remedial classes (e.g. UDC) already know about the preparedness of some students coming from DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If these keep making news during college application season, do you think it will affect the acceptances for students at these schools? What about other DCPS high schools?

This is why colleges also use SATs / ACTs in admissions decisions.

But colleges that are essentially open enrollment, and offer remedial classes (e.g. UDC) already know about the preparedness of some students coming from DCPS.

True, but when a school employs a teacher or teachers who also work for CollegeBoard at any capacity, SAT or AP results can be cooked too. It is not a conspiracy theory. It is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Comments like this are why we have a law called the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

+1000

It's not discriminatory to fire for incompetence. Regardless of age.

23:44 said nothing about competence.

This thread is about competence.

Is it better to retire gracefully or to be transferred/fired?

[Anonymous]

I have no doubt this is happening at ALL schools.