Student passes 3 classes in 4 years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

Re:Student passes 3 classes in 4 years, ranks near top half ... by prepend on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:54PM (#26363297)

> He's a kid. He made bad decisions. He needs support, role models and being gently but firmly held accountable for his decisions in a way that ramps up gradually.

This is not exclusive to failure. He failed AND he needs help.

I think the issue here is that missing 270 days of school requires some detailed explanation. There’s a reason, but having once been a teenager the most reasonable is that he skipped a lot of school.

Blaming “the system” for this level of just plain missingness is not telling the whole story.

Unless you want to go deeper in that the underlying condition that made it hard for the parent to not check grades in 4 years and the kid to skip that much school without anyone noticing.

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Re:Student passes 3 classes in 4 years, ranks near top half ... by phlakaton on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:47PM (#26363777)

1. I maintain there is a big distinction in language between "the kid failed" and "the kid is a failure." 2. You don't blame the system if it's one failure – you blame "the system" for this being _the median outcome_ for this school. That is way more trouble than one kid, or parent, or school, or heck probably even _school district,_ can take the blame for. That is an "all of Baltimore," or "all of Maryland" size problem, maybe even bigger.

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